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This 5-page paper discusses the problems facing the Fairhill neighborhood in Philadelphia, also known as the Badlands because of its problems with gangs and drugs. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Philadelphia, better known as the "Badlands." The reasons why these "lands" are so "bad" are because of gangs, drugs and murders. Lopez, in his depictions, paints the Badlands as a
place of no hope, one in which young boys have no choice but to join gangs or die. The book itself centers around Gabriel and the "will-he, wont-he" question of
whether he joins a drug gang or stands on his own two feet. Incidentally, he ends up joining the gang, despite the fact he is likely an artistic genius. But
peer pressure and popularity are a powerful lure, and Gabriel falls victim to them. The question is, in a scenario such as
the Badlands, do young boys like Gabriel actually have a chance? Or is there literally no hope for young people who live in poverty-stricken, blighted areas such as Fairhill and
other similar locations? Although critics have accused Lopez of overdramatizing a good deal of the Badlands, the sad fact of the matter
is that Fairhill is a lot like other urban areas classified as "Ground Zero" - places among urban America where "the most hard-core aspects of poverty converge in the post-industrial
city" (Duke, 2000, 3). Most people became familiar with such locations during the 1960s and 1970s when the so-called "white flight" to the suburbs meant inner city neighborhoods were left
abandoned and allowed to rot and decay. But what most people are not aware of these days is the degree to which the decay and rot have spread in these
areas. As of the year 2000 - the same year, ironically enough, as the Republican National Convention, the Badlands were a run-down
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