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| 9ae6993 | The older guys in the neighborhood were our father figures. Even though they were doing foolishness we looked up to them, and they looked out for us. When we would be out playing and it was getting dark, they would tell us now don't be out here too late, because you know that freaks does come out at night. Anthony 'Ada' Allen, one of the former leaders and founders of the Rebellion Raiders | at-risk-communities at-risk-youth bad-boys father-figures fatherless-homes gang-intervention gang-leaders gang-members look-out rebellion-raiders rough-neighborhoods single-mothers social-ills | Drexel Deal | |
| 265fd9a | How do you defend against a person who is ready to die? How do you defend against a person who don't fear being sent to prison for life? How do you defend against a person who has nothing to lose? It's like trying to defend against a suicide bomber, who has no problem going out in a glorified bang. | Drexel Deal | ||
| 006cb1b | The majority of us were from single parent family homes. You could have counted the fellas on your fingers that had a mummy and a daddy at home. Anthony 'Ada' Allen, one of the former leaders and founders of the Rebellion Raiders | at-risk-communities at-risk-youth dead-beat-dads fatherless-homes gang-intervention gang-members gang-prevention gangsters law-enforcement rebellion-raiders single-mothers single-parents social-ills youth-outreach youth-programs | Drexel Deal | |
| c9f6087 | I will always respect Mr. Charles chuck Mackey for the way he dealt with me. His approach was not hostile, rather his approach was one, "Look here, I'm working with you, so I need you to work with me." He showed me first that he had my back, and it was easy for me to do the same for him. Mr. Mackey was well known in the entire school as a no-nonsense but fair person. There are some school administrators that aren't intimidating at all, but.. | coaching influence reaching-students resolving-conflicts respect school-administrators school-rules school-uniform trouble-youth youth-leaders youth-ministries | Drexel Deal | |
| 89b373a | Everyone who I called my friends, persons who I used to hang out with, these were the individuals who formed and made up the gang known as the Rebellion Raiders. So when the gang was formed I was automatically a part of it, because it was formed by my friends. I didn't have to go out and join the gang. Troit Lynes, former death row inmate of Her Majesty Prison in the Bahamas | death-row-inmates friends gang-members hanging-out joining-a-gang misguided-youth rebellion-raiders wanting-to-be-apart wanting-to-belong | Drexel Deal | |
| bc42f5c | However, if he really wanted to bust me, all he had to do was ask to see my schoolbooks. The front and back covers are the first place graffiti artists start to draw. | busted crime-detection drawing-books graffiti graffiti-artists graffiti-in-schools police-work school-books school-teachers small-beginnings solving-crime solving-matters turf-war wall-markings writing-on-walls | Drexel Deal | |
| dfe88dc | I would hear them say on the radio, that we need to hang them once they have been convicted for murder. I don't think that some of them should have ever reached that stage. If we had prevented them from going on death row, it would not be a discussion about hanging them. Supt. Allerdyce Strachan, the first female officer to rise to the rank of superintendent on the Royal Bahamas Police Force. Hanging, death-row-inmates, crime prevention, ga.. | at-risk-youth community-outreach community-policing convicted-for-murder convicted-murderers crime-prevention death-row-inmates gang-intervention gang-prevention hanging law-enforcement police-officers rebellion-raiders talk-shows trouble-youth youth-outreach youth-programs | Drexel Deal | |
| f3245dc | Everything started to move in slow motion. A vehicle was coming up the hill in the opposite direction, facing us but in its own lane. With vehicles parked on both sides of the road, this meant that there was just a narrow passage area for both vehicles to pass through. However, he had yet to reduce his speed, and now I knew which car he was going to hit. I was frozen stiff with fear in the front passenger seat, as I helplessly watched him s.. | car-accident car-crash drunk-driving fear reckless-driving seat-belts sensing-danger slow-motion unconscious | Drexel Deal | |
| 6d1c907 | I would hear them say on the radio, that we need to hang them once they have been convicted for murder. I don't think that some of them should have ever reached that stage. If we had prevented them from going on death row, it would not be a discussion about hanging them. Supt. Allerdyce Strachan, the first female officer to rise to the rank of superintendent on the Royal Bahamas Police Force. | at-risk-youth community-outreach community-policing convicted-for-murder convicted-murderers crime-prevention death-row-inmates gang-intervention gang-prevention hanging law-enforcement police-officers rebellion-raiders talk-shows youth-outreach youth-programs | Drexel Deal | |
| b056571 | My thoughts were interrupted when I heard someone got slapped. By the sound alone, one could tell that it was a hard one. I figured whoever got slapped had to be close by, so I spun around in search of this person who had just gotten the daylights slapped out of them, only to discover that the person was me. | disbelief fight in-shock insulted interrupted mistaking slapped surprised thoughts | Drexel Deal | |
| 185b04b | My volcano of compress anger was about to erupt in school, and it would take more than five years for my molten lava to be brought under control, which was through the loss of my sight. However, shouldn't there be a way of detecting and reaching out to kids like me before there is a massive problem? Why wait until there is a devastating eruption before we intervene? | at-risk-students blindness compress-anger detecting devastating eruption intervention massive-problems molten-lava school-fights volcano | Drexel Deal | |
| 7c63227 | There were times in meeting I was called a baby sitter, a social worker by my colleagues. Now that we have a different leader, he looks at it the way I look at it, and he supported me in what I was doing. There were times he saw me crying, and he would comfort me and say that's okay. Commissioner Paul Farquharson was one of my biggest supporters. It used to hurt me, because I was trying to help somebody and they say I was babysitting. Don't.. | at-risk-communities at-risk-youth baby-sitting big-offenses biggest-supporters broken-window-theory caring-cops caring-police-officers colleagues commissioner-of-police community-policing crime-detection crime-prevention criminal-investigation crying end-result finish gang-intervention gang-members good-cops good-police-officers help-somebody helping-people hurt law-enforcement my-job other-people-s-property police-community police-intervention police-outreach police-superintendent reach-someone rebellion-raiders social-worker working-with-children | Drexel Deal | |
| b1dafa9 | From the age of nine, I was on the streets. This came about because I was being rude with my parents and I was moving things without their permission, like money. So my stepfather didn't like what I was doing and he didn't like me, so he eventually put me out on the streets. My mother was always sick, and my father--I never met him. While I was on the streets, I used to sleep in old abandoned vehicles. Galen 'Ninja' Nordelus former leader o.. | at-risk-child being-put-out dead-beat-dads dysfunctional-families fast-hands home-condition light-hands on-the-streets stealing step-father sticky-fingers the-making-of-gangsters | Drexel Deal | |
| 94920fc | your life is what you make of it, with God's grace, the good and the bad. | Lisa Carey | ||
| 6e69914 | St. Brigid's Island perched like a jagged accident above the water, all grass and rock, no beach to ease the passage of a boat, no harbor to shelter it once there. Twelve miles west of Ireland, at times nearly impossible to get to and just as deadly to try to leave. It was the whim of the wind and the swelling sea that determined who landed there and who was let go. | Lisa Carey | ||
| 4979a0e | Mothers' bodies are not their own. The happiest ones seem to have forgotten what it is like to want themselves back at all. | Lisa Carey | ||
| b10371e | returns to the warmth of the bed, the resented comfort of sleep. | Lisa Carey | ||
| ae84e72 | The gang that I'm a part of was best known for its unity. But right now, it was quickly disintegrating, not from forces without, but from within. We were turning our guns on each other. I had already survived two such encounters that could've been fatal. Instead, both times I just limped away with a shot to my left leg. I wonder how unlucky can one leg be, to be hit twice with a .357 magnum. But who's complaining? My left leg is as good as .. | being-shot close-call close-encounters fire-arms friend-enemies gang-life gang-members gang-wars gangs gunshot hand-guns internal-fighting unlucky war-within | Drexel Deal | |
| 9c3f746 | It was not the money that was my main motive; it was the challenge and the thrill where I got my kicks. Armed robbery to me was like a sport. To take on an armored vehicle with two armed security guards--it was like an athlete attending the Olympic Games. | athlete cheap-thrills harden-criminals motive olympic-games repeat-offenders street-crimes violence-addiction | Drexel Deal | |
| c64da67 | I asked, "When the Rebellions were at its peak doing nonsense, everyone was trying to keep away from the area, yet you were going in, why were you going into that area? Supt. Strachan answered quite frankly, Because I was not afraid. I felt like they are my people, they are my color. I don't know of anyone born after me that I should be afraid of, that was how I felt. I knew I could've walk through Strachan's Corner, sit down and felt at .. | at-risk-communities at-risk-youth attention caring-cops caring-person clubs community-policing crime-prevention doing-good feeling-at-home feeling-wanted gang-intervention gang-members good-cops helping-people law-enforcement love-in-action love-of-country my-color my-kind my-people no-child-left-behind nonsense not-afraid not-giving-up parents-acceptance police-intervention police-outreach police-programs police-relations police-superintendent reaching-gang-members rebellion-raiders sense-of-belonging showing-love touching-lives wanting-to-belong woman-police youth youth-programs | Drexel Deal | |
| 4b09a45 | I knew a lot of fellas who live in Lizzy and never got involved in some of the stuff that we were getting into. This was because they had a strong father figure at home, so they couldn't have gotten involved. The few of those who did end up in the gang even though their father was in the home, their father was just there as a provider, but he was not directly involved in their lives. Shelton 'Apples' Burrows reform gang leader | father-figure fatherhood fatherless-homes fathers gang-members gang-prevention home-but-absent involved-fathers rebellion-raiders | Drexel Deal | |
| 98e49ea | The leaders at that time believed so much in protecting the name and the reputation of the gang, that I along with one or two other individuals who were still in school who were trusted, responsible, and ready were given weapons to take to school to make sure that if anything arises, the matter would be dealt with properly. They made sure that even if their presence were not there during a fight, we were in a position to properly defend our.. | brand-name carrying-weapons community-policing forward-thinking gang-addiction gang-intervention gang-leaders gang-members gang-pride position-to-win protecting-your-name protection ready ready-for-action rebellion-raiders reliable reputation school-gangs strategy strong support trust turf-wars violence-addiction | Drexel Deal | |
| 5bfdff8 | 90% of us came from single-parent homes who were in the gang. There was just a small 10% who had a mother and a father in the home. For a lot of us, we did not had that father or authority figure who could have intervened on our behalf. Where we could have said, 'You know, daddy, Johnny tried to rob me or Johnny just slapped me', and our father could have either taken us to the police station, or went to school with us to address the issue... | at-risk-communities at-risk-youth authority-figure crime-prevention father-figure fatherless-homes gang-intervention gang-members police-station rebellion-raiders self-defense single-mothers single-parents | Drexel Deal | |
| 51127bf | Before I was born my father disowned me. You know those ones who get the females pregnant, and then say the baby is not theirs? He rejected me, told my mother that I am not his child, so I never had a relationship with my father. Shelton 'Apples' Burrows reform gang leader | broken-families broken-lives dead-beat-dads disown father-hunger fatherhood fatherless-homes hurting-children hurting-people not-wanted rejection relationship single-mothers | Drexel Deal | |
| 99b55f1 | When I hear and see young men like you and Troit, who have turned their lives around, it makes me feel good. We need to learn to love one another; there is just too much hate in this world. Supt. Allerdyce Strachan, the first female officer to rise to the rank of superintendent on the Royal Bahamas Police Force. | change community-policing feel-good feeling-good former-gang-members-good-feeling hate hatred love loving-one-another reform-gangsters turn-around youth-clubs youth-programs | Drexel Deal | |
| 62c3a02 | I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and The greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody [to no one]". --Mother Teresa" | Drexel Deal | ||
| 60a72fe | two illustrations that are reproduced as part of this ebook are the work of J.R.R. Tolkien. Beneath the painting of the dragon on the front cover he wrote these words from Beowulf, line 2561, (da waes) hringbogan heorte gefysed, which he translated as '(now was) the heart of the coiling beast stirred (to come out to fight)' (2153-4). The drawing on the back cover of the printed dustjacket is of Grendel's mere: the words wudu wyrtum faest th.. | Unknown | ||
| 23070af | The consequences of committing high treason, if you were a man of the extreme Right, were not unduly heavy, despite the law, and a good many antirepublicans took notice of it. | William L. Shirer | ||
| 7da7730 | Despite all the terror and intimidation, the majority of them rejected Hitler. | William L. Shirer | ||
| 151bedc | No other party in Germany came near to attracting so many shady characters. As we have seen, a conglomeration of pimps, murderers, homosexuals, alcoholics and blackmailers flocked to the party as if to a natural haven. Hitler did not care, as long as they were useful to him. | William L. Shirer | ||
| 7a2e24e | Since Kemal's death, Turkey has been ruled by small minds, unsteady, weak men. | William L. Shirer | ||
| 3d01c81 | The Court's opinion serves up a freedom-destroying cocktail consisting of two parts patent falsity. | Antonin Scalia | ||
| 7043e83 | irregularly as though it were farm land. | William L. Shirer | ||
| 84b7a60 | broadcast, | William L. Shirer | ||
| 591224e | The wounded Goering was given first aid by the Jewish proprietor of a nearby bank | William L. Shirer | ||
| 82e8013 | reached | Michael Connelly | ||
| 7d4c22e | Berlusconi's politics as [...] Fede is information. | Antonio Di Pietro | ||
| 1f9fafc | moment of declaration of war, if there | William L. Shirer | ||
| ad43dae | Henderson, Hitler lapsed into a typical display of sentimental hogwash, though | William L. Shirer | ||
| 284cf0d | demonstrated that the more you owed a country the more business you did with it. | William L. Shirer | ||
| 85236fd | Some time after dinner a newsboy rushed into the lobby of the Ambassador with extra editions of a German-language paper, the only one I can read since I do not know Czech. The headlines said: Chamberlain to fly to Berchtesgaden tomorrow to see Hitler! The Czechs are dumbfounded. They suspect a sell-out and I'm afraid they're right. | William L. Shirer | ||
| 6a5a6a5 | The National Socialist Movement will in the future ruthlessly prevent--if necessary by force--all meetings or lectures that are likely to distract the minds of our fellow countrymen."19" | William L. Shirer | ||
| 66f8386 | story of the Nazi plot to kidnap the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and induce the former King of England to work with Hitler for a peace settlement with Great Britain. | William L. Shirer | ||
| 62b3e16 | Every morning the editors of the Berlin daily newspapers and the correspondents of those published elsewhere in the Reich gathered at the Propaganda Ministry to be told by Dr. Goebbels or by one of his aides what news to print and suppress, how to write the news and headline it, what campaigns to call off or institute and what editorials were desired for the day. In | William L. Shirer |