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A belief I feel very strongly about proposes that all problems faced by our society have solutions. If this belief is true, why do problems still face us today? The answer could be a result of either laziness by the people in our society in finding these soluti ....

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.... an everyday task. The smell of fear, death, and misguided souls reek to the nose of the onlooker. Brent Staples does an outstanding job of describing the severity of these problems. His brother, Blake, leads a life molded by this street life. His official cause of death was murder. However, at the young age of twenty-two years old, they should have noted his death as a casualty of war. He played a part in the war of gangs and guns. If he did not live in the inner streets of Roanoke, Va., he would probably be alive today. In most other parts of the country, you can have an argument with one of your best friends and not get killed over i ....