Capstone CheckPoint PSY/265 Friday‚ August 24‚ 2012 Axia College I will be discussing the media’s portrayal of sexuality in various ways which are as follows; I the positive and negative effects that the media involvement has played in adolescent’s lives as well as how all this has affected my own personal life also. The effects of media portrayal of sexuality on adolescent’s sexual lives are enormous because‚ media in our society today portrays acts of sexuality as routine
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Our community is not the only community currently having gang problems. Many small towns and rural areas are experiencing gang problems for the first time. In small communities‚ citizens jump to the mistaken conclusion that gangs are present. This occurs because small groups of delinquents are common‚ even in the smallest rural communities. Juveniles enjoy hanging out together‚ and the reality is that juvenile delinquency is often committed in groups. The visibility of these groups‚ hanging out in
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Checkpoint: Money Unit of account: This function of money means that money is used as the common foundation to determinate the prices of goods traded throughout the economy. Unit of account‚ or measure of value‚ means money is functioning as the measuring units for prices. In other words‚ prices of goods are claimed in terms of a common monetary unit. Unit of account lends meaning to losses and profitability. Currencies are usually used as a unit of account but objects can also be used‚ such
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A gang is “an association of three or more individuals‚ whose purpose in part is to engage in criminal activity and which uses violence or intimidation to further its criminal objectives” (National Institute of Justice). Gangs are organized as structured social groups‚ being more complex than they might first seem. When criminals come together as a group‚ trouble is bound to occur‚ and these gangs become a powerful force that must be combated. Gangs are well known‚ but how do gangs operate? Why do
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CheckPoint: Forecasting Exercise 9.1 The following data represent total personnel expenses for the Palmdale Human Service Agency for past four fiscal years: 20X1 $5‚250‚000 20X2 $5‚500‚000 20X3 $6‚000‚000 20X4 $6‚750‚000 For moving averages and weighted moving averages‚ use only the data for the past three fiscal years. For weighted moving averages‚ assign a value of 1 to the data for 20X2‚ a value of 2 to the data for 20X3‚ and a value of 3 to the data for 20X4. Forecast personnel
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articles were specific in trying to understand the relationship between ethnicity/race‚ violence‚ and the culture of gangs. Most of them focused on adolescence and creating a way to view how violence‚ defining of ethnicity‚ and other environmental forces cause the gang culture. In the journal Ethnic Identity and Offending Trajectories Among Mexican American Juvenile Offenders: Gang Membership and Psychological Maturity‚ George P. Knight et al. constructed a way to identify and be able to measure the
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Gang Violence Gangs are becoming a growing problem in American society. More young people are turning to gangs to solve problems in there lives. When youths join gangs they drop social activities with family‚ friends and school. Members fall behind their classmates in school and do not try. A study shows that less than 1% of gang bangers is literate1. Gangs destroy teenager lives and destroy their chances for a good education and happy life. Gangs are now a haven for rats. Teenagers
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History of Gangs Gangs are composed of young individuals who are from distinct groups who commit organized criminal acts. Gangs in America by the mid-19th‚ is when threat to city and their communities first arose. Being huge threats and concern on city leaders‚ such as mayors‚ police officers and the city council. Gangs are more likely to be found in “disorganized communities.” (organized gangs‚ 2016). Many members of gangs are formed from minority population‚ poor‚ or some might call “not well off”
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Gangs A gang is a group of recurrently associating individuals or close friends with identifiable leadership and internal organization‚ identifying with or claiming control over territory in a community‚ and engaging either individually or collectively in violent or other forms of illegal behavior. When a new member joins the gang he or she must go through an initiation‚ the most common initiation is “jumping in” or getting beaten by all the gang members and/or committing acts of theft or violence
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Youth gangs : Self identify as a group: they do this by creating a name‚ initiation rituals‚ tattoos‚ gang signs Are recognized by society as a gang- people acknowledge the existence of the gang whether it be law enforcement or the community Participate in illegal activity- this could include things such as prostitution‚ drug dealing‚ stealing‚ murder A Select Territory Have a collective goal- often times the goal is financial gain or intimidation At risk youth in latin America The youth that are
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