Homegirls by Norma Mendoza-Denton. Through this book she was able to show us the linguistic ethnography of the Sor Juana High School Latina girls in a neighborhood in Northern California. Many of the girls she documents in the book are part of the gangs Norte or Sur. Sor Juana High School is located in Santa Clara California and has a Hispanic population of 403‚000 which is 24% of the population in the county. With the Homegirls book Mendoza-Denton shows us concepts of the Latina girl’s language and
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their scalps. In Cormac McCarthy’s western American classic‚ Blood Meridian‚ the author uses violence to exemplify the brutality of men and how inhumane westerners in this period behaved. Throughout the novel‚ Blood Meridian‚ members of the Glanton Gang kill Indians and take their scalps in exchange for money from the Mexican government which shows how corrupt not only the people are‚ but even the government during this time period. “Adopted from an actual episode dating from the late 1840’s‚ when
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Informative Essay Gangs “Crip Nation” “Crippin’ is a choice‚ but it’s forever. You may slow down‚ but you will always be down forever.” (Washington 1969). Founded in Los Angeles‚ California in 1969 by Raymond Washington and Stanley Tookie Williams III; the Crips are now a loosely connected network of individual sets. Through the years the gang has grown to be one of the largest and most powerful gangs in the United States‚ currently with over 30‚000 gang members. Members of the are known
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uniforms support them for several reasons cited in a US Government manual on school uniforms: • decrease in violence and theft—even life threatening situations—among students over designer clothing or expensive sneakers; • prevention of gang members wearing gang colors and insignias at school; • instilling students with discipline; • helping parents and students resist peer pressure to buy expensive clothing; • helping students concentrate on their school work; and helping school officials
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incarceration‚ fines‚ injuries‚ and in some cases death to paint a wall. A graffiti artist can have the simple desire to become recognized‚ or to create a piece that speaks to their audience as a form of self expression. Because graffiti is associated with gangs and acts of destruction to some many cannot see the history and importance graffiti can have on a worldwide scale. Due to the fact that graffiti is usually produced illegally‚ meaning it is on private property without permission‚ means that it is vandalism
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Cited: Herbert Packer. “Which Model? Crime Control or Due Process.” 22 April 2011 Petersen‚ Rebecca D‚ “Understanding Contemporary Gangs In America.” New Jersey: Prentice Hall‚ 2004. Senna‚ Joseph J. Siegel‚ Larry J. Welsh‚ Brandon C. “Juvenile Delinquency” Thomson Wadsworth. 2003. WWW.SECULARHUMANISM.ORG WWW.JDBAR.COM/ARTICLES/CHILD-NEGLECT
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all necessary. Students should be given the liberty to wear their choice of clothing to school because it interferes with their self-expression‚ uniforms are harmful to the transition to adulthood‚ and they only act as a ’band-aid’ towards bullying‚ gang activities‚ and cliques. School uniforms in public schools conflict with a student’s freedom of speech as well as their freedom of self-expression. People have been known to express their identities as well as how they are feeling through
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! Gang Representation in Sons of Anarchy Sons of Anarchy is an American television drama created by Kurt Sutter that airs on FX network. The drama series‚ also known by its acronym SOA or SAMCRO‚ is centered around the culture of motorcycle gangs and includes multiple gangs with differentiated racial makeups. The series is set in current-day California in a fictional town called Charming. The town is modeled as a small-town community which has limited government interference normally and lenient
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Analysis of a scene in La Haine (homework) The scene I am going to analyse is the ending scene of the film La Haine (Mathieu Kassowitz‚ 1995). In the beginning of the scene‚ the camera gives us a longshot of the protagonists pulling the gang members body into the room‚ this shows the audience a view of what is going on in the distance. The scene then progresses further‚ and we see that the gangmember the protagonists have pulled into the room has been thrown onto the bed‚ Vinz‚ one of the protagonists
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done to get rid of gangs. The elements that create gangs are social‚ political‚ psychological‚ economic‚ and spiritual and without confronting this issiues cannot be fixed. The governors‚ school officials‚ politicians and many others who are in charge of protecting the community and make it a better place are not approaching the problem in the best way. “Thousands are hacking at the branches of the problem; few are working at the roots.”( Thoreau); Many who wish to eliminate gang violence are not
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