Walter’s remark about Spike’s being "reformed" was viewed as an insult because Spike still was not accepting the fact that he changed for the better and wasn’t a trouble maker like them anymore. What Walter meant was that Spike wasn’t part of them [the gang] anymore because he improved his conduct and was not ready to sacrifice his life again to be a Tsotsi. b. I think what the principal meant by saying that Spike was "going forward to being a man" was that he was adopting a better way of life. He
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of the school year‚ Mr. Escalante told Angel‚ a gang member‚ to "fill the hole". Not only was he referring to the hole as an illustration‚ but also to the hole in the students lives as a result of lack of education‚ the gangs‚ and in many cases‚ a poor upbringing. Mr. Escalante must have seen some potential in Angel and was trying desperately to fill the hole caused by a lack of education in his life. However‚ Angel‚ tied very deeply to his gang "family"‚ would have none of it. Jaime wants Angel
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Aysegul Torun Mr. Swiencicki Soc 2 Apr. 29th‚ 2013 Social Biography In this paper I’m going to write about a sociological biography of a person who I interviewed and I’m going to analyze some of the social problems such as “drug war and race”‚ race discrimination‚ drug abuse‚ and importance of a well structured family based on my interviewee’s answers. I like to talk about family because I think family is where everything starts. If we want to define what the social problem actually means
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Summary ©2014 eNotes.com‚ Inc. or its Licensors. Please see copyright information at the end of this document. Summary directup Summary (Magill’s Survey of American Literature‚ Revised Edition) Heart of Aztlán is the second novel in a trilogy begun with Bless Me‚ Ultima and concluded with Tortuga. Each of the novels involves a seer‚ a spiritual guide to help the characters deal with the problems they face and to help structure the spiritual wholeness‚ peace‚ and harmony that bring them
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Criminal justice practitioners are necessary for a civilized society. Without those who form boundaries to our freedom‚ and the ones that reinforce those laws‚ our community would be chaos. Some of the main social issues our society faces are drug abuse‚ gang violence‚ child abuse‚ and terrorism. The criminal justice practitioners face these types of issues daily. These professionals must act on the morals and laws stated by society rather than their own opinions‚ sometimes facing hard decisions. The criminal
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are also gangs. This book‚ “The Outsiders” written by S.E.Hinton is about a gang called Greasers and the narrator‚ “Ponyboy” tells us about what happened the year before telling us the story of everyday life as a Greaser. In this book‚the author uses different types of techniques to contradict the characters to their gang. However‚ the author also does not connect the characters to the gang. I have three different techniques that the author uses to contradict the characters to their gang. Ponyboy
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characters as well. The book was set in the 1960’s in Tulsa‚ Oklahoma‚ America. This book is about a boy named Ponyboy Curtis and his brothers and his gang. Ponyboy is from a gang called the greasers. The greasers are enemies with the socs who are the rich kids. Ponyboy is good friends with Johnny Cade‚ who is also part of the gang. They get involved in a fight with the socs and murder one of them. Dally helps them to run away. They go to a place called Windrixville and hide in an abandoned church. When
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times that the prison population is joined together by gang affiliation. Special Operations Response Teams (SORT) and Special Response Teams (SRT’s) were created in order to manage inmates who get into fights‚ assault staff members‚ or refuse to follow orders. Prison staff does everything they can in order to isolate gang leaders‚ label the gang members within general population for security and intelligence purposes‚ and deprogramming of the gang members. Upon entry into prison‚ inmates are classified
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months‚ and their has been complaints that he has been acting up with the gang which from my point of view he is doing fine. Ponyboy is at the age 14‚ lives with his 2 brothers‚ Darrel Curtis‚ who goes by the name of Darry‚ and is at the age of 20 and Sodapop Curtis who is 16 and happens to be a high school drop out. He lives in a environment where his brothers smoke and so does the rest of the gang. He faces a lot of fights with The Socs; due to that he is a greaser. On the half of Ponyboy’s words;
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and give me an answer to anything. His motto was “never give up without trying” He grew up poor in the country side of South Korea‚ and according to him was fueled with anger and jealousy at the fact that he was raised with nothing that he joined a gang at the age of 15. I guess that’s where all the tattoos came from. The last time I spoke to him‚ he was telling me the story of his younger days. To me‚ it sounded too crazy and he explained to me how he got that eye. I’ll never forget the way it
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