Brent Staples' A Brother's Murder
Beginning of paper
A belief I feel very strongly about proposes that all problems faced by
our society have solutions. If this belief is true, why do problems still face
us today? The answer could be a result of either laziness by the people in our
society in finding these solutions or just the fact that there are ....
Middle of paper
.... the streets to protect their territory, making
gunplay an everyday task. The smell of fear, death, and misguided souls reek to
the nose of the onlooker. Brent Staples does an outstanding job of describing
the severity of these problems. His brother, Blake, leads a life molded by this
street life. His official cause of death was murder. However, at the young age
of twenty-two years old, they should have noted his death as a casualty of war.
He played a part in the war of gangs and guns. ....
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Word count: 735
Page count: 3 (approximately 250 words per page)
