conform to the white supremacy being taught in schools. Tupac refuses to turn the other cheek because of his thug like nature. He fights back. He begins to talk about drugs and the escape weed gives him. He’s seen his brothers smashed due to the crack epidemic started by Reagan and he’s trying to figure out when it will fade and give the poor more money. Until then he wants the youth to fight oppression and not give up while they’re still alive. Last line he basically is saying that he knows the odds
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involving not only prostitutes‚ but also pimps and crack house owners and managers. “One of my scariest experience occurred before I knew to work through pimps‚ and one such man had some of his friends follow me on my way home one night” ”I fortunately was able to escape with only a few bruises”. Additionally‚ Sterk shares many of her experiences during her research‚ for example‚ when she became overwhelmed with pressure‚ such as when pimps from a certain crack house will ask her to
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cousins agreed Grainier has come on a train. How he lost his original parents? Nobody ever told him” (25). Robert worked with the Simpson Company getting timber out of the forest. One of his co-workers‚ Arn Peeples‚ an old man who was formerly a jim-crack sawyer always said‚ “The trees themselves were killers” (14).”Peeples real use was occasional” (16). He would set charges into tunnels‚ blasting his way through the mountains. One day Peeples set a charge and nothing happened. Arn new that a dud had
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department adjusted to fit the requirements made by the Broken Windows Theory‚ the only aspect people took notice of was the decline in crime. However‚ other factors‚ such as the 1990s crack-cocaine epidemic‚ were completely ignored. In the midst of this epidemic‚ the crime rates soared‚ as would be expected. However as the epidemic ebbed‚ so did the crime rate. This occurred shortly after new policing methods were installed. Many people credited the new methods of policing with the decline in crime
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Whether it be for medicinal purposes or recreational use‚ across America in states such as Alaska‚ Colorado‚ and Oregon‚ the negative stigmas surrounding marijuana are beginning to become much more positive and liberal. We are entering an era where considerably more reserved states are decriminalizing the use of the once unanimously illegal cannabis drug. This new mentality however‚ which can be seen in many parts of the United States and Europe‚ is not uniform across the globe. In countries across
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Just The Right Amount Of Homework Did you ever think that the pressure from too much homework can cause health problems such as anxiety‚ and uneasy sleeping? Or that homework fuels the cheating epidemic? Well it does. Homework was originally meant to be a review of what was learned earlier that day in class. But‚ now at days students are coming home with more and more unnecessary busy work. Some of the down sides of too much homework is that it destroys family life and social structure‚ because
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George covers much familiar ground: how B-beats became hip hop; how technology changed popular music‚ which helped to create new technologies; how professional basketball was influenced by hip hop styles; how gangsta rap emerged out of the crack epidemic of the 1980s; how many elements of hip hop culture managed to celebrate‚ and/or condemn black-on-black violence; how that black-on-black violence was somewhat encouraged by white people scheming on black males to show their foolishness‚ which
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industry continues to succeed in its marketing strategy to hook youth on their products‚ its market success will trigger bigger avalanches of academic warning letters every December -- unless college leaders take action to address this worsening epidemic. For the past six years as an administrator at a large community college‚ I’ve focused on developing workforce education programs that have helped hundreds of at-risk students succeed in college programs. However‚ as a parent of a game-addicted
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only plant-based psychoactive substance that is still used. C. All plants that yield psychoactive substances are illegal today. D. About 4‚000 plants yield psychoactive substances‚ and the vast majority are not illegal. 2. The Gin Epidemic… E. is a myth F. was brought under control through high taxes and the strict regulation of the sale of gin G. devastated the Middle East H. is a current problem 3. The British encouraged the planting of hemp in the new
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city but also to my very own neighborhood. I wanted to understand how this phenomenon has occurred‚ when did it occur‚ why it is occurring‚ and what can be done to combat it. I understand there are many unexplainable factors contributing to this epidemic. I want to find real answers to put an end finally to the continuous cycle. While nobody knows for certain‚ many scholars believe that youth gangs originated from either Europe or Mexico and appeared in the United States shortly after the American
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