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    Chicago Blackhawks

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    best team in the NHL is as old as the league itself. Everyone has a favourite team‚ but just because they are your favourite team does not mean they are the best! There are lots of excellent teams in the NHL but none are superior as the Chicago Blackhawks. The Chicago Blackhawks are simply the best team in the NHL. First off they are first place in the NHL as of right now with only 4 games left (www.nhl.com) in the regular season. One of the reasons they are in first is because the kicked off the shortened

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    Youth Gangs

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    argue that gang activity and youth involvement has grown exponentially through the years‚ it has been an ongoing epidemic for decades. Methods‚ levels of violence‚ rules‚ and motivations may have changed over the years‚ but the basic infrastructure has remained the same. The earliest accounts of youth involvement in gangs first appeared in Europe or Mexico‚ while the earliest record of youth gangs appearing in the United States are recorded as early as 1783. In the early 1800’s youth gangs appeared

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    Chicago Bulls

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    officially became a part of Chicago sports in 1925. Originally‚ there were two club basketball teams that were put together by George “Papa Bear” Halas in Chicago. They were both named the Chicago Bruins. Another team known as the Harlem Globetrotter originated in Chicago in the 1920’s too‚ but were forced to play road games once the skating rink they played in closed down. The first NBA basketball team however to be a part of Chicago was a team called the Chicago Stags. This basketball team

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    Chicago Museums

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    Chicago has world class museums that make the city one of a kind. Some of the museum are listed on the top of the world‚ for example‚ the art museums of Chicago has several famous artworks from all over the world. And the other museums are famous for their artwork and sculptures. One of the most famous and exalting museum is the cultural center‚ which is located on Michigan Ave and Randolph. The location of this museum played a big role in making this museum one of the most visited museums in Chicago

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    Chicago Tribune

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    212-547-7029 www.ite.poly.edu October 2000 Copyright © 2001‚ Institute for Technology and Enterprise‚ Polytechnic University. I. Background As he sat in his office in The Tribune Tower in downtown Chicago on a sunny morning in August‚ 1999‚ Owen Youngman‚ Director of Interactive Media for The Chicago Tribune‚ reflected on what it was like to manage the Chicagotribune.com: The big deal is that you get up in the morning and come to work and you are on the bus and you know you’ll make a mistake today

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    Street Gangs

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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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    I’ve never resided nor visited California. Therefore‚ I wouldn’t understand the high crime rate nor the gang activities that exist. I’ve only seen movies that reflect different gang images. Movies such as Colors‚ Fresh‚ Boyz N Tha Hood‚ Menace II Society‚ and Original Gangstaz explain the life of crips‚ bloods‚ and other gangs. When children view these movies‚ they think they are cool. Their minds are too young and immature to witness such graphic images. These images include distribution of drugs

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    Olympics In Chicago

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    the horrible luck Chicago‚ Illinois‚ has had regarding the hosting rights. Three years prior‚ the International Olympic Committee (IOC) awarded the city the right to host the third Olympics. Be that as it may‚ the 1904 games did not take place in Chicago as planned. Instead‚ Saint Louis‚ Missouri‚ captured the rights to host by threatening to host a similar

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    gangs

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    Albert Medina Mrs. Hill English 101 22 March 2014 The Location Standing around waiting under the blazing hot sun my group of friends Brad a tall meathead‚ Jake a tall snake‚ Brandon a average white boy and there is me a small light skinned Mexican. Waiting patiently in line‚ one by one thousand of fans are trying to go in to this big salmon and aqua green color building. Before we can go in we have to pass-by security first‚ taking off my hat and everything out of my pockets. This gigantic

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    Gang Leader

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    Gang Leader For A Day Social imagination‚ “individual problems are to social problems‚ what is happening outside of one’s personal control. This relationship between individual experiences and public issues is the sociological imagination” (Our Social World Pg9). The book that we read “Gang Leader for a Day” by Sudhir Vankatesh clearly illustrates the sociological imagination. In the early part of the book we see Vankatesh trying to give surveys to a gang to try to understand how they feel about

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