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Everyday many people are killed by a vicous cyclehat shows no mercy or no remorse for anyone. What cycle could I possibly be talking about? Why of course the cycle of violence. Now what is this cycle of violence I'm talking about? The cycle of violence is a senseless cycle of violence that promotes mode violence to happen.

The cycle of violence starts with one act of violence which then makes the place for another act of violence to take place. An example of the cycle of violence could be when two neighborhood kids have a fist fight and one loses. The one that lost would then want revenge on the one he lost to so he retaliates with his friends and jumps the first boy who won the initial fight between them. The boy who just got jumped then would want to retaliate with an act of violence and this usually goes one until someone gets seriously hurt. This can usually be referred to the saying; An eye for an eye.

In Shakespeare 's masterpiece "Macbeth" the cycle of violence makes the story as terrible, thrilling, and as tragic as it is. I think Shakespeare looks at the cycle of violence as tragic but also something that is inevitable that is caused by fate. The cycle if violence also repeats itself in the story "Macbeth".

One example of why I think that Shakespeare looks at the cycle of violence as tragic but also inevitable is because once the first act of violence was done on a character in the story it was as if the character who had an act of violence done on them had no other choice but to retaliate with violence. For example when Macbeth killed Macduff 's family in one of the later chapters in the book, it was as if Macduff had no choice but to retaliate with violence because he and Macbeth eventually met face to face both with their weapons and armor. If Shakespeare wanted to make it as though Macduff didn't have to kill Macbeth he could have made them meet face to face in a market or local place with no weapons.

Although the cycle of violence was tragic in the story, it appeared a few times. One time when the cycle of violence showed itself was of course when Macduff had got revenge on Macbeth for killing his family. The quote that shows me that this actually happened was when Macduff said in Act five scene 7 "Hail, King! for so thou art. Behold where stands Th'usurper's cursed head : the time is free: I see thee compassed with thy kingdom's pearl, that speak my salutation in their minds; whose voice i desire aloud with mine: Hail king of Scotland !". This quote lets me know that Macduff killed Macbeth because he first enters with Macbeth's head then he was saying "hail king of Scotland" which must of meant he killed the previous king which was Macbeth. When he said "Hail king of Scotland" he was talking about Malcolm who became the new king.

There were other incidents in the book where their was the cycle of violence. There were parts in the story where Macbeth killed a thane, a king, and The king's men. The murder of King Duncan can also be associated with the cycle of violence because Macbeth killed Duncan then he was eventually killed by someone else. I know that Macbeth killed King Duncan because in Act 2 Scene 1 he says "I go, and it is done. The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell. That summons thee to heaven or to hell." When he says this he is basically saying that he hust did the deed of killing the king and he is talking about Duncan's afterlife.

In conclusion the cycle of violence is a senseless cycle that promotes more violence to come. Although this cycle of violence can be terrible and tragic, William Shakespeare was able to use this cycle in his story of an ambitious warrior(Macbeth) to add suspicion to the plot and to keep the reader on the edge of their seats. William Shakespeare thought of this cycle as inevitable, something that must happen by fate. __//**Media and The Cycle of Violence**//__

=13-year-old Falls Victim To Neighborhood Gang Violence= [|August 31, 1989] | By Robert Blau.
 * //On Wednesday, two young friends of 13-year-old Jose Centeno stood next to the black letters ``RIP`` spray-painted on the sidewalk where the boy fell after gunshots rang out two days ago.//**
 * //``He wasn`t looking for any trouble,`` said Carl, 13.//**
 * //``He wasn`t a punk or anything,`` said Lisa, 12, who said she was once his girlfriend.//**
 * //Jose Centeno was gunned down on Monday night by suspected gang members as he stood with two other friends near Maplewood Avenue and Hirsch Street, police and relatives said.//**

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 * //The assailants drove by in a car that had been stolen from west suburban Hanover Park on Sunday. One occupant fired five or six shots, striking the Centeno boy in the head and wounding two other neighborhood teens, police said.//**
 * //He died the following day at Cook County Hospital. The two other victims, Luis Martinez, 17, of 1345 N. Maplewood Ave., and Anthony Ocasio, 15, of 1648 N. Campbell Ave., were listed in good condition at area hospitals, police said.//**
 * //``We used to ride our bikes together. We used to go to my house and play video games,`` Carl said. ``Now I want to move because I might get shot next and there`s nothing I did.``//**
 * //Jose Centeno, one of five children, lived at 1321 N. Maplewood Ave. with his family. He attended nearby Humboldt Elementary School and was known in the neighborhood as a quiet, responsible boy.//**
 * //Police and relatives said he was not a gang member, though gangs frequent the area.//**
 * //``He was the kind of person who wanted to learn,`` said Michael Humphreys, an independent filmmaker who once lived in the same house as the Centenos. ``He tried to avoid the gangs, but he couldn`t lead a normal life because of where he lived.//**
 * //``He tried to get into sports, but he couldn`t go to the parks because they were too dangerous,`` Humphreys said. ``He was sort of stuck on his block and in his house.``//**
 * //``Out of nowhere things just happen,`` said a neighbor, Peter Sosa, 24.//**
 * //``You never know when things are going to happen around here.``//**
 * //According to relatives, Jose Centano was in his home on Monday night having a snack before some of his friends stopped by about 9:30 p.m.//**
 * //Evelyn Centeno, 20, Jose`s sister, said she and her brother ate a piece of pie and then his friends stopped by.//**
 * //``They called him outside and I went to bed,`` she said. ``I heard shots.`` Minutes later they learned what had happened.//**
 * //Police say the assailants flashed gang signs at some people on Hirsch Street and then drove to Maplewood Avenue where the shooting occurred, according to Detective Richard Curley of the Grand Central Area violent crimes unit.//**
 * //``They probably figured the victims walking in the area were rival gang members,`` Curley said.//**
 * //No suspects have been charged with the shooting, police said.//**
 * //``It`s pitiful,`` Evelyn Centeno said. ``He was 13 years old. He was just a kid. . . . Why him? He was just walking in the wrong place at the wrong time.``//**
 * //``It shouldn`t have happened,`` Sosa said. ``Jose never did anything wrong to anyone. But when somebody does something wrong, someone innocent has to pay.``//**

This article shows the cycle of violence because the 13 year old boy was gunned down due to gang violence. The nieghborhood gangs had been doing acts of violence against each other. That would be the cycle of violence. Then unfortunately a innocent boy got caught up in something he was never really a part of.