Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/01/24/Sudhir_Venkatesh_Gang_Leader_For_a _Day
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/01/24/Sudhir_Venkatesh_Gang_Leader_For_a _Day
Author Sudhir Venkatesh discusses the background for his book, "Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets."
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Sudhir Venkatesh became Gang Leader for a Day. First introduced in Freakonomics, here is the full story of Sudhir Venkatesh, the sociology grad student who infiltrated one of Chicago's most notorious gangs, studying a crack-dealing gang from the insider. Subtitled A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets, Venkatesh's book describes how he managed to gain entree into the gang, what he learned, and how his method revolutionized the academic establishment.
Initially looking for people within a notorious housing project to take a multiple-choice survey on urban poverty, Venkatesh never imagined that as a result of that graduate assignment he would befriend a gang leader and spend the better part of a decade inside the projects under JT's protection, documenting what he saw there. His report is a brazen, page-turning, and fundamentally honest view into the morally ambiguous, highly intricate, often corrupt struggle to survive in what is tantamount to an urban war zone. And it's also the story of a complicated friendship between Sudhir and JT - two young and ambitious men a universe apart - Cody's Books
Sudhir Venkatesh's research is rooted in ethnographic investigation of urban neighborhoods in the United States (New York, Chicago) and Paris, France. His most recent book, Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor (Harvard University Press, 2006), an ethnographic study of illegal economies in Chicago, received the C. Wright Mills Award (2007) and a Best Book Award from Slate.com (2006). His first book, American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto (2000), explored the social organization, moral universe, and history of a Chicago housing development, The Robert Taylor Homes.
His forthcoming book, Gang Leader for a Day, is a reported memoir (Penguin Press, 2008). He is also the co-editor of Youth, Globalization and the Law (Stanford University Press 2006) and Director of the Youth and Globalization Collaborative Research Network at the Social Science Research Council. He is currently completing a long-term project on sex work in New York and Chicago with the economist Steven Levitt.
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This is a parody of Miley Cryus' Song 7 Things about the things I do not like about cardbo
This is a parody of Miley Cryus' Song 7 Things about the things I do not like about cardboard! Hah... I had to do it!
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Lyrics: I probably shouldn't say this. Because my friends think that I'm weird. Everytime I say I love you they remind me you can't hear. It's because you're cardboard. I'm always ignored. But you feel so real to me why can't they see. And you're still standing in the same way. Just how i left you yesterday, against the wall. Don't fall.
The 7 things I hate about you. You're fake, you break, you are not real. If only I had something to feel. You are 2D with no back side. You cost me quite a lot to buy. My friends are jerks they make fun of us. Just know it hurts. I want to be with the real Miley. And the 7th thing I hate the most about you You make cardboard look cute ;-)
It's awkward and silent because cardboard cannot speak. I wonder what you think about when you smile and stare at me. Dood are you serious?! You're delirious? She is cardboard she can't hear us. YES I CAN. (lyke WTF) Dood zomg did she just talk?! She's been real all along! Say something again!
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The 7 things I like about you. You're hair, your eye, cardboard Levis. When we kiss you're hypnotized. You let me do whatever I want. I can't wait till Chris is gone! ;-) We never fight when I hold you tight Ow! Splinter! Ohhh it's alright! I wanna be with the real Miley. And the 7th thing I like the most about you.
You make cardboard look cute.
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Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008) gave his last lectu
Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008) gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving presentation, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals. For more, visit www.cmu.edu/randyslecture.
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small goat shot at close range with ballistic tips...
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Kinders goin at it if you know what im sayzzing!!!!
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