the Church. I was eleven years old and back home in my hometown of Detroit‚ Michigan when my salvation had taken a detour per say. In 1997‚ I got sucked into the life of fast money‚ drugs‚ and even gangs. I became a member of the street gang‚ The Crips. I was making a lot of money and had totally lost sight of everything I had worked so hard to establish within my life as a Christian. I literally had made a turn for worse in my life and was getting dangerous and worse by the minute. Fast forward
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pinnacle of gang member status and achievement. The urge to become an O.G. seems to be paramount in Scott’s eyes‚ and he outlines his plan: first he must build his reputation‚ then his influence as part of his set‚ and finally as a “promoter” of the Crips (Shakur‚ 1993‚ pp. 14-15). By age eleven Scott’s sole desire is to become a gang member of his local set‚ the Eight Trays. He disregards education‚ at one point stating how he paid no attention to his middle school teacher‚ focusing only on the streets
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each other most of the time but when the riots start the violence between the two gangs start to slow down. The decided to put their differences aside because they see a bigger problem going on that affects and harms everyone including them. So‚ the Crips and bloods calla truce between them while these riots were going and that not the only thing. Also‚ this was a big moment in time where police brutality was talked about in hip hop by artist such as Tupac‚ N.W.A‚ and KRS1 who involved their music highly
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the Crips. Raymond and Tookie created gangs to defend themselves against other gangs who were committing countless crimes in their neighborhoods. Crips originated in high school campuses across South Central Los Angeles. Freemont high-school was home for the “East-Side” Crips and the “West-Side Crips”. The gangs organized on the opposite side of the 110 Harbor Freeway. Addition to that a faction of the Crips was established in Compton authority of Los Angeles now known as the Compton Crips. Through
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American History X The setting takes place in Venice‚ a little beach town in the Southern California. Derek‚ the leader of the neighborhood skinhead gang gets arrested and put to jail for killing two members of a Crip gang that tried to steal his car. His little fourteen year old brother has seen everything and testified for Derek‚ for only that reason he did not get life sentence‚ and just three years in a prison. In jail Derek learns the truth behind “white power” gangs and what he believed
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listener that people often seek aid from a higher power during a time of need. The use of repetition magnifies the need for help. Another allusion is the reference “But we still got terrorists here livin’/In the USA‚ the big CIA/The Bloods and the Crips and the KKK.” This refers to gangs that are in the USA that are not benefiting their own country. The song’s structure includes internal‚ slant‚ and irregular end rhymes. The rhymes are used to make the poem more interesting for the listeners
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around their city area. Some would join just because of anger issues and would want to emphasize violence. Gangs are also formed because some of the people have the same race or ethnic group. The 2nd article that I read over gangs described how the “Crips” gang was formed. Onto that‚ it goes on to say how gangs would expand throughout jails. They would start up by claiming turf‚ and any kids who lived near would be persuaded to join for “protection”. Some gangs would also start as an offshoot from another
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Introduction 1) How can a uniform define your life? 2) Catholic school uniform‚ job uniform‚ and performance uniform 3) Uniforms have and will define my life in many ways through a Catholic school uniform‚ a job uniform‚ and a performance uniform Body 1) Catholic school uniform A. Was not in my choosing B. Transition to job uniform by saying that it is time to move up a step from school life to working life. 2) Job uniform A. One of my choosing B. Transition to performance
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NGARUIYA4 Mary Ngaruiya John Zamparelli English comp Problem solution essay Final Draft. GANG VIOLENCE IN AMERICAN SCHOOLS There are approximately 27‚900 gangs‚ with 774‚000 members‚ impacting towns‚ cities‚ and communities across the United States. According to a recent bulletin released by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention‚ 23 percent of students aged 12 through 18 years reported presence of street gangs in their schools. Almost half (46%) of students in public
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Neitling/Per.4 Kody Scott grew up in South Central L.A. during the nineteen-sixties and seventies‚ soon after the creation of the Crips. Raised in poverty without a father‚ and a full family raised solely by his mother‚ Kody Scott led the stereotypical "ghetto" life‚ a poor and broken home. However he does not blame this on his own personal decision to join the Crips while only eleven year’s old. The allure of the respect and "glory" that "bangers" got‚ along with the unity of the "set"(name for
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