as "groups of youths and young adults who have engaged in a sufficient amount of antisocial activity to warrant attention by the criminal justice system." however to add on to that definition‚ the law enforcement uses the definition " an ongoing‚ organized association of three or more persons‚ whether formal or informal‚ who have a common name or common signs‚ colors‚ or symbols‚ and members or associates who individually or collectively engage in or have engaged in criminal activity." However when
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today but filled with rooms for the patients to live in so they could get help.The Asylums weren’t meant to hurt people they were meant to cure the mental patients. One of the “treatment” was shocking it was to cure schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. One other “treatment” was to stick metal rod through their head and scrape their brain they thought it was cleaning all the diseas off. Which was just damaging the brain. Before they started to have asylums they just gave drugs to try and help them
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Thurber (1894-1961) Funny how people despise platitudes‚ when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879-1944) Integrity needs no rules. — Albert Camus (1913-1960) The price one pays for pursuing any profession‚ or calling‚ is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. — James Baldwin (1924-1987) Freedom breeds freedom. Nothing else does. — Anne Roe (1904-1991) The people who think they are happy should
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communities. The question that remains is‚ “Why would anyone want to join a gang?” People join gangs for many reasons. Some of these reason include‚ a sense of “family”‚ protection‚ family tradition‚ or simply to look cool‚ but there are four primary reasons that describe most gang members: Poverty- Most gangs exist because of one reason‚ money. By committing countless crimes of theft and drugs‚ gangs can make large amounts of money. Some people with money problems may turn to crime if they
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To most people the Holocaust is one of the darkest periods of time in history. The Holocaust began in 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. It ended in 1945 when Allied forces defeated the Nazis. During this time a genocide occurred that slaughtered 6 million people of the Jewish faith. Throughout this era of darkness many people risked their lives to do what is best. Although‚ with all of the bad things people do‚ it may be easier to think that there is evil in everyone’s heart. I strongly
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To what extent should people embrace nationalism and how acceptable should it be until it becomes destructive? These two questions may have come in many minds of philosophers including the great Albert Einstein who once quoted‚ “Nationalism is an infantile disease‚ it is the measles of mankind.” He strongly believed that nationalism should not be embraced for it is infamous for the destruction it has caused on the society and is responsible for the childish idiosyncrasy embedded in the human
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Stereotypes are the way people use to identify and shape others’ characterizations. In today’s society‚ people like to use stereotypes to identify others because they are unable or unwilling to get along with others and then know them. They often get information from others or historical experiences. As the social psychologist Claude Steele states‚ “ Stereotypes are one way by which history affects present life.” He states people often use stereotypes‚ but they don’t know the effects about using
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Why do countries trade with each other? Show‚ using examples‚ why this may be to do with principle of comparative advantage. Introduction In 1776 Adam Smith stated‚ "If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it‚ better buy it of them with some part of the produce of our own industry‚ employed in a way in which we have some advantage." This sentence shows basic principle on which the world trade is based. Countries buy and sell goods abroad to achieve
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Response Reading For “Good Country People” by Flannery O’Connor One thing that I’ve learned for sure is that most of the famous writers (so far‚ that is) have died at an early age. I see in her bio that O’Connor was one of them. Ok here we go; I see that I am in for a bizarre climax. [1] Well now‚ Mrs. Freeman‚ she sounds like a stubborn person to me‚ one who hates to admit when she’s wrong. She sounds just like my mother-in-law. I wonder what was considered “important business?”[6]
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Why do people fall in love? A question many of us find us asking ourselves in today’s society. Many of us have been hurt by love and therefore have refused to neither use nor believe that there is such a word or feeling that exists in the universe. People fall in love for many reasons; some don’t even know why they end up in love. I believe people fall in love for three life-based reasons‚ to expand the self and to increase our abilities and our effectiveness in other words self-expansion‚ lack
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