a lot of slang without regards to the origin of the word. Ghetto happens to be one of the words we use out of context. The word ghetto has always described the impoverish part of the city. The word actually originated from the Jews. According to the Teacher’s guide of the Holocaust‚ the Jewish people that stayed in the ghettos had faced prosecution and were forced to live there. When the Holocaust occurred‚ Adolf Hitler used the ghettos for concentration camps. The Nazi’s ran the concentration camps
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The Vicious Cycle | Born Into Poverty | Based on the song “In the Ghetto” Composed by: Mac DavisRecorded by: Elvis Presley‚ 1969 | Renee Jayne 12/1/2010 | When Mac Davis wrote the song “In the Ghetto‚” later recorded by Elvis Presley in 1969‚ he personified an inequality that he felt and experienced firsthand as a child. Growing up in Lubbock‚ Texas‚ Davis’ father‚ a small building contractor‚ employed an African American by the name of Alan Smith. Alan Smith had a son that was the same age
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1. What is meant by the “ghetto defense”? Define it in your own words. 2. Reread paragraph 8. Define what Shellow means by the “ ’cultural psychosis “ or “psychosocial history’ strategy.” What does it have to do with the ghetto defense? 3. What is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? What causes it? 4. Why do leagal experts worry about the ghetto defense being used and accepted in court cases? What would be the implications? How would it protect the poor instead of the powerful? 5. What
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quotes from “The Job Ghetto‚” by Katherine Newman and Chauncy Lennon‚ suggest that the student who made the statement is a naive observer. The student suggested‚ “If people want to bad enough‚ they can get a job and make something of themselves. It might not be a great job‚ but at least‚ it’s a job. No one has to be poor in this society” (Newman and Lennon‚ 1995‚ 347). The student doesn’t quite understand the factors and variables that come into play when one goes out and searches for a job. Some social
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On April 19‚1943 Jewish People lives changed forever. German troops marched into the Ghettos. They planned to desttoy the Jews a present for Hitler’s birthday There were 56‚000 Jews caputered and 7‚000 were shot and sent to camps. The Warsaw ghetto was the largest Jewish occupied ghetto in the Nazi catrolled Europe. The summer of 1942 300‚000 Jews were deported from Warsaw to Trblinka. There were mass murders were traced back to Warsaw. January of 1943 Warsaw fired upon German troops. The Germans
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How did people in the ghettos live? The people in the ghetto‚ live in rundown neighborhoods. Ghettos were where jews were kept. Later on they were taken to concentration camps. This paper will talk about “What were they”‚ and “How did people in the ghettos live”. The purpose of this paper is to get the reader to understand that the ghettos were not treated fairly. This is important to me because not all races are still treated equally today. First I am going to talk about what were they? When the
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Ghettos There were many ghettos that were filled with hundreds of thousands of jews in the biggest ghettos and their life was not easy. They had barely any food and most of them didn’t have jobs. They sold their clothes for food. They were just trying to survive with basically nothing. In this paper i will tell you about what all the Jewish people had to go threw. Ther ghettos were first a place that separated jews from the rest of the town. “The idea of separating the jews from the christians began
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and most recently‚ the German Nazi party created their own ghettos similar to the living spaces Blacks were systematically pushed into after being freed from slavery. This isn’t to say that Nazi germany looked into America‚ saw how they were treating their undesirables and went “Hey! We should do that too!” but the ideology and structure of the Jewish and Black ghetto are very similar‚ while not exactly the same. Clearly‚ both of the ghettos were the result of systematic
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in the Ghetto In 1939‚ Hitler was unsure of what he was going to do with the Jews; the Nazis were tossing around options and ideas with the goal of removing Jews from the population. The German invasion into Poland‚ allowed for the first ghetto‚ regarded as a provisional measure to control and segregate Jews. Ghettos were enclosed‚ isolated urban areas designated for Jews. Living under strict regulations‚ with unthinkable living conditions‚ and crammed into small areas‚ the ghettos destroyed
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Imagine waking up everyday in fear that you might be stolen away from your home; away from the people you loved‚ away from the only scarce bit of hope you held on to. That’s how the residents in the Warsaw ghetto lived. Always in fear‚ always fighting for freedom‚ but never giving up. Their homes became rooms packed with other Jewish families. Three course meals got reduced to mere bread crumbs a day. Clothes were tarnished‚ living conditions were harsh‚ and yet the Warsaw residents never gave up
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