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The problems of American street life: Life living on the streets.

Learning to understand street life in American cities is to know that life living on the streets is different from any other way of life to live in America. Life on big city streets is a fight to survive daily from morning through each night. Life is a fight to avoid being in the middle of many gang wars where killings of children occur daily.

Just to survive street life one must be aware of all that is going on in the streets and neighborhood lived in. Drugs addictions are just a part of the daily horror of city street life to live one must fight to stay free of drug addiction that dull the senses

Most street addicts fight daily just to fill the need for the drug addiction that becomes more of a daily life ritual for street people. Street life bring people of all races to live in America`s streets every day of street life. Too many young people are swallowed up by street life after leaving an abusive home where the parents are drug addicts them selves or alcoholics.

For young people the streets become a battle to survive with some abandoned building to sleep in at night to keep the chill out of your bones. Street gangs make most city streets as dangerous as a war zone in Iraq. Living in street life to survive you learns not to trust anybody in the streets.

On the streets are hookers as young as fifteen and younger these girls end up being sold for drugs by pimps to street walking to pay for drug addiction. Rape abuse even worse comes from street life where people beaten and battered daily.

People from all ages and walks of life live on the streets of big cities where people must always avoid getting close to any one. Most street people are always fighting to avoid the man street gangs that are always trying to control they`re territory.

Most young men being initiated into gangs are beaten by every gang member to prove they belong to the gang for life where death is usually the only way out of a gang. For young girls joining gangs the initiation is even worse. Street life in America brings hunger homelessness life just to eat is a struggle as stealing is a daily process of street life especially for drug addicts need money to have they`re fix.

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  1. TL

    On May 27, 2008 at 9:55 am


    it is cool

  2. Lurdes Perez

    On November 19, 2008 at 2:59 pm


    Thank you for such interesting piece. I’m a college student in Puerto Rico and we are having to see this problem in praticullar were im from and I am doing a proyect on this matter to help my community and I appreciate the source Thank you. Lurdes Peres

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