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    GRIDIRON GANG Gridiron Gang is a 2006 American film starring Dwayne Johnson‚ Xzibit‚ L. Scott Caldwell‚ and Kevin Dunn. Sean Porter (Dwayne Johnson) works at Kilpatrick Detention Center in Los Angeles. Frustrated at not being able to help the kids get away from their problems in life‚ such as street gangs and drug dealings‚ he decides to create a football team so the kids can feel like they’re part of something. Porter believes that football will teach the teenage inmates what it

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    as the film implies? When did the actual events in the movie Gridiron Gang take place? Was the movie Gridiron Gang filmed at the real juvenile detention camp? Was it just as difficult in real life for Sean to find other schools to play against? Did the kids on the Camp Kilpatrick team really cry after losing their first football game? Did the real Sean Porter expect his team to lose the first game? Did the movie Gridiron Gang carry over a lot of the same speeches and lines from the documentary

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    wherein a scene would turn out the whole film up-side-down or the protagonist were losing and suddenly a confident-giving speech were thrown and the protagonist gain confidence over him/herself then turn the game on his/her side but in this film‚ “Gridiron Gang”‚ it is realistic and life changing film. Not the normal way of showing respect to the film but it is truly a masterpiece of what’s really going on to the streets nowadays and not only to the streets but also a film of self-realizing and life encounters

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    The film ’gridiron gang’ is based on a true story of a juvenile detention centre‚ the film includes the theme of tragedy and rivalry. This film displays the rivalry by revealing the hate between the two gangs the 88s and 95s. In this film it is shown how some teenagers make mistakes and end up in a detention centre where the officers try their best to fix them. The theme tragedy is represented in this film in many ways An example is when ‘Will Weathers’ loses his best friend during a shooting with

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    shown by Sean Porter the results would have more than likely been insignificant and there would have been minimal impact in the lives of the players. A quote from the real Sean Porter captures this ideology‚ “On the Gridiron‚ we do it my way‚ not your way. Your way got you here. Whatever gang you claim‚

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    what both of these actors have in common. The Rock and Vin Diesel are both huge names in the movie industry and have many big movies that made millions in the box office. Some hit movies that “The Rock” starred in are: Fast Five‚ Doom‚ Snitch‚ Gridiron Gang‚ and Tooth Fairy. Some hit movies Vin Diesel starred in are: Fast Five‚ Chronicles of Riddick‚ The Pacifier‚ Babylon A.D.‚ and XXX. They both play in movies that portray them as men you do not want to mess with. They also are big buff men who happen

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    opinion on youth gangs is the same as I view planting a seed. If you plant a seed in bad soil most likely you’ll grow a defected or bad plant. I say that to say this “if a child is raised in an unstructured household most of the time that child will take his home training outside the home. Then we also have our young kids joining gangs that come from good homes‚ but can’t escape their negative environments once they walk outside their front door. Also some of the youths get involved in gangs looking for

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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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    Critically evaluate this statement in relation to the emergence of gang cultures and communities. How should the British education system respond to these rapid societal changes? In the past 10 years the British education system has began to suffer under the reign of ever growing ‘gang culture’ (CITE). The streets of the UK have been subjected to increased gun culture‚ knife crimes and gang related violence. We have also seen the age of gang ‘members’ lowering and the impact it has on our schools increasing

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    The article entitled‚ “Bahamas tackles gang problem” was taken from the Daily Express dated Wednesday 26th September 2012. The article highlights the area of crime and violence. The article addresses participants at a workshop held at the police headquarters on the issue of gang violence in the Bahamas as the pool ideas to alleviate the problem. The Minister of National Security of Bahamas‚ Dr Bernard J Nottage speaks out against the increasing rate of gang violence. The National Security Minister

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