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    Father Boyle Sparknotes

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    Father Boyle not only blessed those ex-gang members by his love and mentorship‚ but also provides them proper jobs. In his career as a pastor serving over eight hundred gang members‚ something that was clear for father Boyle was that what the gang members needed the most was work. He create Homeboy Industries and started to hire and trained gang members. To illustrate‚ Elias who was eighteen years old‚ that he had changed his gang‚ for fatherhood and to work in Homeboy Silk Screen. Elias was chosen

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    Physical Education

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    1.) Latest definition of Physical education Physical Education - is the process by which changes in the individual are bought about through movements experiences. Physical Education aims not only at physical development but is also concerned with education of the whole person through physical activities. -instruction in the development and care of the body ranging from simple calisthenic exercises to a course of study providing training in hygiene‚ gymnastics‚ and the performance and management

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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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    Discussion: The discussion was a comparison between a gang and a business. Sudhir Venkatesh is William B. Ransford’s Professor of Sociology and author of “American Project” and “Gang Leader for a Day”. Sudhir risked his life to study a gang in a housing project in Chicago where he was held hostage for a night and went back the next day and was then allowed full access to their lives and financial records. Based on the data collected Steven compared the gang to McDonald’s because their orc charts are similar

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    City of God Analysis

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    * Cidade De Deus‚ more commonly known as the City of God‚ was directed by Fernando Meirelles. This is a Brazilian film that represents and portrays the violence and horrors of living within the Brazilian Slums‚ known as favelas. * With over 500 slums‚ the favelas existed within the regions of Rio de Janeiro‚ containing more than a third of the city’s population. The word favela refers to a community of people who neither own nor have formal permission to occupy land. Rio De Janerio’s favelas

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    #1: Using Hagedorn’s analysis of the Hamburgs‚ and the Conservative Vice Lords in Chicago‚ and the Crips and Bloods video’s analysis of gangs in LA‚ discuss how Hagedorn’s concept of demoralization‚ and Cornell West’s concept of nihilism‚ have an objective basis in the historical structure of Chicago’s and LA’s racism. In John M. Hagedorn’s book A World of Gangs he states‚ “An increasingly frustrated and demoralized population will reluctantly turn to armed non-state actors who can provide security

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    Civic Engagement

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    bury their sons and daughters because of gang violence. Mourning relatives at funerals and candlelight community vigils fill our television screens and newspaper front pages. Gang violence in America is once again on the rise. Nationwide gang homicides are up an alarming 50 percent since 1999. Serious violent criminals need to be arrested‚ convicted and locked up. But in order to curb gang violence we must find ways to intervene and offer alternatives to the gang lifestyle in order to save at-risk children

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    The title of the book I selected is “Gang Leader for a Day”. In this story‚ Sudhir Venkatesh decides to pay a visit to a low poverty-stricken project in hopes of getting people to complete a survey poll on urban poverty. Venkatesh portrays himself in the book as an inexperienced and unaware graduate student looking to gain inside information on living life in the projects of Chicago. Sudhir Venkatesh was determine to gather information that would explain what life was like for people living in these

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    Introduction The Virtual Police have set up a Departmental Task Force it has been established to combat the juvenile gangs that plagues our city. This juvenile gang has a violent tendency known to have committed murder‚ sexual assault and robbery. This task force is set up to increase the ability of the VCPD to better serve the people of Virtual. This composed of many police and non-police units‚ which allows for many different approaches to the problem we face. This task force has 6 units and

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    Street Crimes

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    IS STREET CRIME MORE HARMFUL THAN WHITE COLLAR CRIME? Is Street Crime More Harmful than White Collar Crime? By general definition‚ a crime is a wronging‚ proclaimed by law against society. All acts of disobeying the law are crimes. Be it an assault or embezzlement one has committed a wrong. Yet we have learned values and morals from our surroundings which gave us concepts of the degree of harm pertaining to a particular crime. From our being submerged in a culture‚ our concept of crime is usually

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