Loose guns;
dashed hopes;
a litany of good hints;
juvenile homicide;
to lash out;
to salvage self-esteem;
to suffer a setback;
to relieve pain by lashing out;
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to mow sb. down;
kid-on-kid murders;
a single remedy;
to teach sb. right from wrong;
a single remedy;
to re-enact /simulate an atrocity.
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III. What is meant by:
a) The tube, inner city, urban ghetto, an individual hit, moral poverty,
criminal adults, juvenile/adult homicide, caretaker;
b) Harlem, Ky., Miss., Wash.;
c) Leonardo DiCaprio.
IV. State the idea behind:
1. There is no one reason kids kill, but there are warning signs.
2. Kids become less sensitive to violence.
3. Violence is still mercifully rare in the nations schools.
4. Many seem driven by feelings of powerlessness.
5. They can draw on past successes to salvage self-esteem.
6. Passing slights can be devastating.
7. One feels omnipotent.
8. But on October 2, he shed that image.
9. Girls tend to internalize their pain.
10. Murder is not weak and slow-witted, murder is gutsy and daring.
11. Urban poverty fosters powerlessness and the rage that goes with it.
12. Short of banishing guns, can we hope to prevent such tragedies in the
future?
13. Many kids give clear indications, says University of Virginia
psychologist.
14. When I ask kids how their dispute started, they tell me somebody dissed
them.
15. I get them to see the disrespect as being less about them and more about
the guy showing it.
V. Do you agree that:
1) when children have ready access to firearms the odds of a tragedy
rise?
2) Violence can be a transcending experience?
3) Murder is gutsy and daring?
4) Urban poverty fosters powerlessness and rage?
5) Moral poverty isnt confined to urban ghettos?
6) Straight talk a simple step toward solving a complex problem?
VI. Comment on the following lines:
1) The real curse of life in the inner city is growing up without loving, capable, responsible adults who teach you right from wrong.
2) Its possible that young boys have always nurtured bizarre revenge fantasies but lacked the means to carry them out.
3) a constant diet of mass entertainment can warp childrens sense of the world.
VII. Say if kids really grow up surrounded by violence on the street, in
