RESEARCH FROM THE FIRST MEETING:

Here are the following links that i found on the first three areas of research:
VIOLENCE:
the following link is from the guardian and has some true stories about the violence that is happening in britain, news stories which mainly include gun crimes, crime statistics which will be really useful for our studies. the quote used in this article is "The rise of knife and gun culture is about boys", this is related to both of our studies because it is about crimes and violence of boys.
the other link which is also related to violence is about parents complaining about the violence that is shown in movies and how children are affected by these movies, and that these movies are mainly watched by younger audiences, and also talks about how directors are using younger characters in order to appeal to younger audiences so they will watch those violent movies.
this link is about the differnt types of violence that is used in movies and againn relating to real life and how it is affecting other children and also includes some statistics.
this website is about violence and realism adn is investigating on a novel but explaining the issues of the violence genre.

PRIDE
the other issue that we decided to research on is Pride because both of our texts use this type of issue and how the characters are refusing to be humilated or bullied by other people, such as n my text 50Cent tries to do anything in order to revenge from the murder of his mother.
Definition of pride.

YOUTH CULTURE
The following article is about anti social behaviour( youth crime and gang culture) that is happening in Britain.
“ We have got to analyse what is going wrong here. Is it a general state of British society?The night London gangs brought murder to a club And I think it isn’t. It is about a specific problem within a specific criminal culture to do with guns and gangs."
Tony Blair
“ Surely no one imagines we can stop crimes like this simply with better policing or better gun control? The problem lies within families and communities — and so does the solution."
David Cameron
The other link is about what is causing the youth crime and what is the government doing against it.