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AgentBisonMaster822  . 1. In a paragraph or two, draw conclusions about whether…Image transcription text1. In a paragraph or two, draw conclusions about whetherCeaseFire is the type of organization that could work in manydifferent communities confronting the problem of viol… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textAlex Kotlowitz wrote one of the most important books of thetwentieth century, according to the New York Public Library. Thatbook, entitled There Are No Children Here, tells the st… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textlodged there. On his chest, he has tattooed a tombstone with thename 20 “Buff ” at its center, a tribute to a friend whowas killed on his 18th birthday. Torres was the head of … Show more… Show moreImage transcription textZale Hoddenbach, a CeaseFire interrupter think of: Look around,do you see any old guys here? I never seen so many young kids at afuneral Look at these kids, what does the future hold f… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textis violence interrupter, a term that while not artful seems bluntlyself- explanatory. Newspaper accounts usually refer to theorganization as a gang-intervention program, and Hod… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textFor violence, we’re trying to interrupt the next event, the nexttransmission, the next violent activity.” school. They thentold him what was happening off the radar in 130 their… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textWhen Slutkin finally spoke, he first praised the interrupters fortheir work. “Everybody’s overreacting, and you’re trying tocool them down,” he told them. He then asked if … Show more… Show moreImage transcription textmade little difference. “Punishment doesn’t drivebehavior,” he told me. “Copying and modeling and thesocial expectations of your peers is what drives your b… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textor emphysema. So the best way to deal with the diseasesassociated with smoking is to get people to stop smoking. InUganda, Slutkin and his colleagues tried to change beh… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textGary Slutkin, founder of CeaseFire behind them. It is, of course,their street savvy and reputations that 300 make them effectivefor CeaseFire. (One supporter of the program admirin… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textRecently I went out to lunch with Hoddenbach and Torres. It hadbeen four months since Torres buried his nephew. Torres, wholooked worn and agitated (he would get up periodicall… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textThe interrupters have to deal with how to get someone to saveface.55 “and got to know more about who these peoplewere and what they were doing, I became far less skep… Show more… Show moreImage transcription textSlutkin says that it makes sense to purify the water supply if-and400 only if-you acknowledge and treat the epidemic at hand. Inother words, antipoverty measures will work only if yo… Show more… Show more Arts & HumanitiesEnglish