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    Gang Violence: Gang Violence among youth has become a serious issue in the United States. The gang violence mainly takes place in schools and neighborhoods. The Community and parents need to ensure that this epidemic is decreased. There are many reasons that youth joins gangs. Our Citizens that see most youth that need encouragement from joining a gang should be generous and useful to talk to our youth. Citizens just don’t understand the teenagers in out century are under the influence to join

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    anything. The movie Freedom Writers has a powerful and emotional message. The message of this movie is that we are all the same under the surface‚ this is most relevant to gangs and gang violence. The movie Freedom writers is set in a bad neighborhood in California. In the movie‚ the focus is on racial differences and gang violence. There is a white teacher who comes from a rich family. She wants to make a difference in the lives of students‚ so she decides to teach at a poor school in a rough part

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    GANG IS EVEVIDENT AS ONE OF THE BAD INFLUENCED ON TEENAGERS LIVES. Growing up and knowing who I am‚ my values‚ my culture and where I fit in‚ in this world and the societies that I interact with were all the things that made me who I am today. As a teenage of course its all about fun and living wild but the big question is why do young people join gangs ? As a result from gang is evident as one of the bad influenced on young peoples lives the statistics that I found online From most of the

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    brutal military-oligarchy alliance‚ created the gang in the 1980s as a form of self-protection. U.S. deportations of members helped to internationalize the gang‚ which now has a strong presence in many Central American countries‚ and in southern Mexico. Given the focus of the film‚ it is perhaps far too much to expect Sin Nombre to address such matters. But it begs the question of what the filmmaker is trying to accomplish by focusing on gang violence and its intersection with the Central American

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    wouldn’t understand the high crime rate nor the gang activities that exist. I’ve only seen movies that reflect different gang images. Movies such as Colors‚ Fresh‚ Boyz N Tha Hood‚ Menace II Society‚ and Original Gangstaz explain the life of crips‚ bloods‚ and other gangs. When children view these movies‚ they think they are cool. Their minds are too young and immature to witness such graphic images. These images include distribution of drugs‚ gun violence‚ sex‚ and profanity. Children often imitate

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    a group of hoodlums who tote guns‚ sell drugs‚ and ruin neighborhoods as thugs‚ and gang members. These are things not tolerated or seen as good in society so it’s considered a violation of social norms. A street gang is group of people that form an allegiance based on various social needs and engage in acts that can cause harm to public health and safety. Members of street gangs engage in‚ or have engaged in gang-focused criminal activity either individually or as a group‚ they create and fear and

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    MLK and Gang Violence Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a very powerful and kind man. His life was one that was devoted completely to his one and only life goal- ending segregation and violence. He attempted to accomplish this through making a series of speeches throughout the nation. He never solved anything with physical contact‚ but with his mind and with his voice. Thinking about Dr. King’s methods of approaching violence‚ we may ask ourselves‚ “What would Martin Luther King do about modern-day

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    These three articles were specific in trying to understand the relationship between ethnicity/race‚ violence‚ and the culture of gangs. Most of them focused on adolescence and creating a way to view how violence‚ defining of ethnicity‚ and other environmental forces cause the gang culture. In the journal Ethnic Identity and Offending Trajectories Among Mexican American Juvenile Offenders: Gang Membership and Psychological Maturity‚ George P. Knight et al. constructed a way to identify and be able

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    of all time. He won the Presidential election of 1920 which made him officially the President in January of 1921. Once he became president‚ he immediately made up his cabinet. Three members of his cabinet included his attorney general Harry Daugherty‚ his secretary of the navy Edwin Denby‚ and his secretary of the interior Albert Fall. These three men along with Charles Forbes‚ Thomas Miller and Jess Smith were coined ‘The Ohio Gang’. ‘The Ohio Gang’ was a group of men either in Harding’s cabinet

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    A gang is “an association of three or more individuals‚ whose purpose in part is to engage in criminal activity and which uses violence or intimidation to further its criminal objectives” (National Institute of Justice). Gangs are organized as structured social groups‚ being more complex than they might first seem. When criminals come together as a group‚ trouble is bound to occur‚ and these gangs become a powerful force that must be combated. Gangs are well known‚ but how do gangs operate? Why do

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