In 1848‚ in Seneca Falls‚ New York‚ the fight for women’s voting rights began when two women‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony wanted to expand women’s rights and opportunities. They wanted to make women self-sufficient and equal with men. They were unaware that an organized meeting by wives and mothers about the rights of women would make history. This would be the beginning of a long hard struggle for the rights of women and the battle would span over a time of 70 years. Elizabeth
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When the word “gang” is mentioned the first thought that comes to mind is a person wearing baggy clothes‚ a bandana across the forehead and tattoos all over the body. That is a stereotype. Obviously back when gangs were first initiated in the 1800’s they did not dress like that. Not all gangs are associated with colors‚ signs or names. A gang is defined as a group of criminals or a number of people forming a group (www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary). In fact the word “gang” actually originated from
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Argument and Persuasion‚ Essay #6 Technology and Children This technology revolution sparked a debate on children’s use of technology. Children are constantly using iPads‚ iPhones‚ tablets‚ and other computerized devices. By over exposing children to technology‚ they are being robbed of the mental stimulation that comes from doing real‚ non computerized‚ activities. It has gotten to the point where one can see a two-year-old navigate an iPhone with ease but struggle to speak. Sixty-nine percent
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Gang Violence in Schools 2 I cannot imagine any of my children coming home from school and informing me that while at school there was a gang “beat out”. Gang violence in school is a nationwide problem and unfortunately it has become very common throughout our country. In my paper I will extensively discuss the problems with gang violence in schools along with the massive amounts of debilitating affects they can have. I will also discuss what can surely curb and resolve such problems
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‘Greaser’ gangs and gang violence with the ‘Socs’ groups‚ in small town America‚ in the 1950’s. The novel explores the concepts of gang membership and the need for many young people to belong to gangs or groups in order for them to feel accepted in society. Through the novel‚ Hinton strongly portrays the need for the young to be part of a gang to gain acceptance‚ security and a warmth of belonging. She does this more specifically for the Greaser gang and to a lesser extent through the Socs gangs. This
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come to be the contemporary understanding and depiction of the word “gang” has a historical context set in the roots of psychology. For starters the term “gang” is where a group or collectivity of persons with a common identity who interact in cliques or sometimes as a whole group on a fairly regular basis and where their activities are similar from legitimate to criminal or even more (Sheldon 24). I point this out first because gangs socially control themselves right off the back by just having a common
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Chris “Gang Leader for a Day” This book is about a Sociologist named Sudhir Venkatesh who is a graduate student at the University of Chicago and was interested in the poor black neighborhoods that surrounded the university and he wanted to study them. He wanted to explore how the black folks lived in the projects‚ he wanted to know how life was like the challenges it took for those folks to live in there. The sacrifices it takes to move forward and how poverty affects the way of living
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Gang violence is a major problem in many places in many places‚ and if the Interrupters keep up and expand their work‚ it could be lessened. According to the US legal website‚ "Gang violence means criminal and non political acts of violence committed by a group of people who regularly engage in criminal activity against innocent people." (UsLegal.com) In the movie The Interrupters‚ by Steve James and Alex Kotlowitz‚ there is a group of violence interrupters that are working on interrupting and stopping
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‘Crips’ are an L.A. based street gang that surfaced in 1969‚ this gang is said to be started by Stanley “Tookie” Williams and Raymond Washington‚ they chose the collective name of “Crip” because it appealed to the younger age of the members they were recruiting. This gang has been labeled as one of America’s most violent street gangs. Violence within this gang is used indiscriminately between rival gang members‚ to maintain order within the hierarchy of the gang‚ to initiate new members‚ and to
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the idea of a possible correlation between youth organized sports and youth crime rates. Sports are able to teach youth discipline‚ honesty‚ character building and social skills. Since there are not many variables in the data being researched most data will be taken from case studies and examples. Although there are a lot of variables regarding youth crime it would take too much time and effort to try and pinpoint all the different factors affecting youth crime (socio-economic‚ cultural influences
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