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    Gangs: Ms13

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    Dangerous Gang: MS 13 Imagine a scared little boy wanting to be accepted by a gang. Scared to death‚ he walks up to a group of other boys from a rival gang‚ closes his eyes‚ and starts to shoot. When he opens his eyes he realizes that one of the rival gang members has been hit. Then imagine having to walk away‚ not run‚ because in this gang a member does not run away. All of this is just to be accepted into a very violent‚ dangerous gang. The Mara Salvatrucha gang‚ normally referred

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    Prison Gangs

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    Prison Gangs Michael Dooley Aiken Tech CRJ 242.013 Prison Gangs Prison gangs are flourishing across the country. Organized‚ stealthy and deadly‚ they are reaching out from their cells to organize and control crime in America’s streets. Law enforcement personal began to systematically monitor gang activities in the 1970’s. Working together‚ their initial attempts were to identify only gangs which had some semblance of formal structure‚ a constitution‚ bylaws‚ mission statement‚ or some identifiable

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    Youth Gangs

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    Abstract Youth gangs pose a considerable problem to contemporary society; a notion which is substantiated by the government who have invested £4m from 2011-2013 in an attempt to tackle the issue. Research into why young people engage and desist from gang activity has been sparse‚ suggesting that further research into the topic is necessary in order to prevent and deter young people from engaging in gang activity. The main aim of this research is to examine the central research question: „Why do young

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    Windows Xp vs. Windows 7

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    COMPARING OF WinXP‚ Win7 and WinVista ON PERFORMANCE: (using an ordinary pc with the specs of consisting of an Intel dual-core E5200 CPU‚ 2GB of RAM and an ATI Radeon HD4550 graphics card. We installed XP‚ Vista and Windows 7 in that order (all 32-bit versions) on the machine’s 500GB hard drive) #Boot time: 1. Win7 2. WinXP 3. WinVista #File transfer (small file capacity): 1. Win7 2. WinXP 3. WinVista #File transfer (1gb file capacity): 1. Win7 2. WinVista 3. WinXP

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    Juvenile Gangs

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    In America‚ the rise in violent crimes over the years can be attributed to Juvenile Gangs. In a March‚ 1996 study‚ DR .James Alan Fox‚ Dean of the College of Criminal Justice at Northeastern University reported that from 1985 to 1994‚ the rate of murder committed by teens‚ ages 14-17 increased 172 percent. So why do teenagers join gangs and become involved in risky behavior that can ultimately lead to incarceration‚ great bodily harm‚ or even death? What can they possibly gain from such a risky endeavor

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    Broken Heart

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    *A BROKEN HEART is when you actually refuse to get out of bed in the morning because you are afraid of the reality that awaits you. *A BROKEN HEART is when you think about the individual that broke your heart constantly. You reminisce the "Good Times" almost as if the "Bad Times" never existed. *A BROKEN HEART is when you are crying yourself to sleep every night & yet crying more & more each morning. *A BROKEN HEART is the unforgettable smell of his shirt that sits in that empty box;

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    Gangs And Crime

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    were Gangs and Social Change by Martin Sanchez-Jankowski and The Economic of Crime by Gary S. Becker. Furthermore‚ after reading the article by Jankowski I learned that many researchers had trouble defining or being able to distinguish gang related associations to groups or individuals that were not in a “gang.” Many individuals have the belief that a a gang is having two or more individuals in a group. If the group exceeds to two or more people‚ than supposedly that would be considered a gang. Now

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    Broken Family

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    do about it? When parents split up‚ there can be many emotions that a youth may have to deal with. These feelings‚ internalized or expressed‚ will result in certain behavior that will possibly affect to the youth’s outlook in life. Being a broken hurts! It is the collapse of a God intended design. Children can get robbed of a special experience and protection called "Family". They move on in their lives as individuals without the understanding of what familial security and bond is. They look

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    Broken Gourd

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    The story “Broken Gourd” is narrated by a young girl called Eunju Namkung‚ whose parents this is a broken gourd.gourd. Eunju starts to talk about how her father tells a story‚ but just one story. Eunju starts to explains the circumstances that led to her family in calling her a “broken gourd”. Eunju was described as sweet little kindergarten who was make fun of because she was smaller than others. She begins by telling a story about a fight she gets in with Ian Park a second grader. Her father-daughter

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    Broken Family

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    hardships and misunderstandings that will come along the way. It is just part of any relationship anyway. But‚ the sad part is when one of the family members gave up and the others have no choice but to accept and let go. Thus‚ the family starts to be broken. Broken Family is a family with children involved where parents are legally or illegally separated...whose parents have decided to go and live their lives separately for several reasons/problems. Too many arguments that might lead to divorce and

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