C.J. Krakeel's essay, "A Mark Mission (On, In and Around the Skin Sub-Culture)"

"I will always remember the way he said that[:] his mouth was bleeding a bit but he didn't wipe it off he just sat and drank his drink."

I think this scene, along with the scene which describes "The Compound," is the most powerful in the essay. This is largely because of the strong characterization and the attention to detail. Here, we see a "Skin" who has just beaten up on some Neo-Nazis, who are part of a movement which is attempting to commandeer the skin culture. His lip is bleeding, but he just sits down at the bar and drinks a beer. I think more of this type of characterization would be much more successful rather than using the long-winded, encyclopedia-like descriptions of the movement which the essay currently employs. Show us the people, rather than set up a defensive argument about whether skin-heads are good or bad.