Boys of Baraka

Boys of Baraka
      In the film Boys of Baraka it was taken place in the city of Baltimore and focused on boys name Remesh , Richard, Montrey   and Devon. The boy’s environment was full of violence, drugs abandon buildings that were broken down, many parts of the neighborhood was rundown and constant fighting.   Throughout these boys lives they have experienced and lived through the violence day in and day out they believed that because of what they been through this was their perspective of reality.   What they had experienced had influenced their behavior because whenever they had gone   through something in their life , that experience was placed in their subconscious and played back in their conscious mind which changed their paradigm of life. Social paradigm is the when an experience changes your view in the present and changes your behavior in future events all from what you have been through in the past. In the film Boys of Baraka the environment had impacted the individual and allowed them to change their view of education and not being conscious of what reality.
    In the film the boys Montrey, Richard, Remesh and Devon have been living in Baltimore all their lives and become a custom to violence. Devon mother is a drug addict and is in and out of jail but yet he desires to become a preacher in the church and create peace however he is always angry and starts fights. Montrey he desires to become a scientist and wants to go to college for 6yrs to accomplish his goal but yet he is a troublemaker and is suspended from school 8 times in a school year. Richard’s father is in prison because he shot his mother in the leg and decides he does not want to be like his father in prison for 13 years but to be like his hero Fredrick Douglass.   In Baltimore schools they have a hostile educational environment and believe that it is not possible to actually achieve and from this the kids don’t bother to listen.   The environment they are exposed to on a regular basic has...