... in. First you have your level 4's. They are pretty much the worst of the worst murderers and rapists. Then you have level 3's and they are almost as bad as level 4's except they did not intentionally kill anyone. This is what I fall under. Then there are your level 2's which are drug dealers, drunk drivers ... are your level 1's, first time offenders. The only reason I don't qualify as a level 1 is because I used a gun so I get to play with the really bad guys. Great! So here I am being escorted to West Block. We walk up through what I am now being told is Blood Alley, which is an extreme...

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... . Ruth's mother was crippled on her left side and her father would tell her that she disgust him and he didn't want to see her. She felt bad for her mother because despite the abuse she got from her husband and the fact that he was cheating on her, "She kept the religious traditions of a ... her." (McBride, 41) Ruth would rather die than have an arranged marriage. Ruth's father hated black people more than gentiles. He treated them horribly by selling them bad food at inflated prices in his store. He would see them walking to church on sunday and remark, "They don't have a dime in their p...

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• Grade Level: High School

... . Ruth's mother was crippled on her left side and her father would tell her that she disgust him and he didn't want to see her. She felt bad for her mother because despite the abuse she got from her husband and the fact that he was cheating on her, "She kept the religious traditions of a ... her." (McBride, 41) Ruth would rather die than have an arranged marriage. Ruth's father hated black people more than gentiles. He treated them horribly by selling them bad food at inflated prices in his store. He would see them walking to church on sunday and remark, "They don't have a dime in their p...

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• Grade Level: High School

... would have to go out of their way just to go to school. The African Americans were getting a second class education. They had books that were in bad conditions and schools that were in bad conditions too. The government or state wouldn't do anything about the colored schools. They did not care about it. Another act of segregation was the bus lines ... services as a typist, bookkeeper, etc." (Griffin, 42). For the six weeks that John is a black man in the South, he tries to find a job everywhere but does not get any luck. He never finds a job, because everyone tells him no because no whi...

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• Grade Level: High School