Helps children from violent homes identify their feelings, learn to see their options and open up to caring people, helping children to break the cycle of domestic violence.
Discusses various ways to stay safe at school, including getting to school safely, avoiding trouble, dealing with peer pressure, doing the right thing, and asking for help.
Presents opposing viewpoints on the increasing problem of inner-city violence, discussing such aspects as drugs, violence against women, gays, and the elderly, and gangs.
Explores the role that media violence plays in the lives of people who are exposed to it on television, in reading materials, and on the radio, discussing whether there is a correlation between violence in the media and in society, and what can be done about the problem.
DeShawn lives with his poor family in the Frederick Douglass Project. He knows he should stay in school and stay out of the gang life, but that's the only route to money for his family that seems available.
Ambitious high school senior and honor student Efrain Rodriguez makes some questionable choices in pursuit of his dream to escape the South Bronx and attend an Ivy League college.
