was born and raised in Southie‚ what he calls “the greatest place to live.” While he may have been able to look towards the bright side and find the good in Southie‚ this is not something that many people can do. Southie is the area with the highest concentration of impoverished whites in the United States‚ with eighty five percent of its residents living in extreme poverty. With sky-high crime rates and the fact that there is nowhere that will be completely safe‚ Southie seems a terrible place to
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All Souls: A Family Story From Southie By Micheal Patrick MacDonald. (Ballentine Books under The Random House Publishing Corporation‚ 1999‚ 266pp. $14.00) Michael Patrick MacDonald saw hatred animated on a Friday in the early days of October. Some people were reading the newspaper in brightly lit kitchens. Some children were coloring with brightly hued crayons. Some fathers were getting into cars in front of their beautiful homes. But there were no crayons‚ bright kitchens‚ or fathers in
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silence to protect them‚ but it also hurts them. Southie experiences horrible losses; just about every family lost someone. The majority of the people living in South Boston thought that Whitey was a hero‚ but they did not see the truth. All Souls shows the reader that ignoring issues does not get rid of them‚ family is important‚ and there are no black and white truths. Standing idle to an injustice is the same as allowing it to happen. No one in Southie wanted to go against Whitey’s code of silence
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Kya Wolf Prof. Ranta May/05/2014 Lab 6 My opinion about the code of silence is that it was in their blood to keep silent. In Southie they felt a sense of security and that was a feeling that you didn’t get in too many communities those days. For good or bad they always had that sense of neighborhood‚ they shared struggle‚ they shared identity. That’s something that most people don’t have or appreciate. Yet it was also a world that inspired fierce loyalty and a rock-solid sense
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was very young and in grade school‚ the Boston busing crisis began. The Boston government began busing kids to schools in different neighborhoods‚ in an attempt to desegregate schools. This caused mass outrage in many areas‚ especially Southie. Outside of Southie and the projects‚ society expected people accept these changes and to accept the desegregation. But in Michael’s community‚ everybody was against this‚ and took violent actions against it. By both his family and his community‚ Michael
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he was murdered. After so many death Michael is taking it hard but hes not showing it “i went to bed numb i wasn’t going to feel this one”. All these death impacted Michael greatly and I guess it wanted Michael to do really good and get out of Southie and make something out of himself. Another thing that impacted Michael is when Kathy jumped off the roof trying to kill herself. It was a couple years after Davey’s death and Michael herd all the sirens “ I knew right away from the fast knocks and
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Good Will Hunting proves the old adage of you cannot judge a book by its cover. Will Hunting seems to be a stereotypical Southie‚ as those who come from South Boston are called. Will Hunting seemed to have all the Boston toughness‚ and he had friends however‚ he did not give of himself in any gift of friendship. The only relation Will Hunting has to the stereotypical Southie is that he distrusts outsiders‚ he really does not have any hope or wish to leave South Boston‚ and he has the habits of
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Good Will Hunting follows the story of a gifted young man from the ghettos of south Boston and his story of finding a mentor‚ love‚ and finding his purpose in life. This young man‚ Will Hunting‚ searches for his role in the world whether it be a long winded monologue telling off a high ranking office in the NSA while he’s being offered a job there or helping Skylar with her organic chemistry homework. Will is not only the most intelligent person portrayed in this film but also the wittiest. Will
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friendship develops and Sean tries to guide him to break his fear of intimacy. Chuckie Sullivan is a character in the movie that Will refers to as his brother. Chuckie is a nice guy with an aggressive attitude from being brought up in the rough side of Southie‚ Boston. Then there is a girl named Skylar‚ cute with a British accent and goes to Harvard University. She gets involved with Will Hunting and soon asks him to move with her to California where she will be attending at Stanford’s medical school program
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Horseshoe pitching has existed as a sport for over a thousand years. The origins of this sport are most likely based in athletic competitions that involved throwing a heavy discus (imagine a stone Frisbee®). It is believed that fans of the Greek discus competitions created their own game by using discarded horseshoes and throwing them towards a stake in the ground. In 1869‚ the British devised the first actual rules for the game of “horse-hardware” pitching. There were limitations to the size of
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