2011there we around 29‚900 known gangs and roughly 782‚500 members. “Gangs are responsible for an average of 48 percent of violent crime in most jurisdictions and up to 90 percent in several others‚ according to NGIC analysis” (FBI‚ 2011‚ p.9). Gang violence explained by the following articles by Bellair and McNulty‚ Horowitz‚ and Shirazi show that gang violence plays a role in negating the positive neighborhood activities. While also bringing extremely violent gang members inside their neighborhood
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Sometimes I believe that we as people‚ specifically college students‚ forget how lucky we actually are. My eyes were opened up to this upon reading Sudhir Venkatesh’s remarkable story entitled Gang Leader for a Day. Through this novel‚ which I really enjoyed‚ I found myself going through an array of emotions. If I could pick one word to best describe the novel it would be a rollercoaster. At points I would laugh hysterically‚ while at other times I felt sorry for people‚ constantly my feelings
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characters in the story do not show much emotions and through the elements we see the characters emotions. McCarthy’s literary element that has the greatest magnitude in Blood Meridian is symbolism. Through symbolism we see connections between the characters and the philosophical world (IC 3). This symbolism is a key part of Blood Meridian. McCarthy uses the Judge and devil symbol to put the Judge’s power in our perspective. Without this symbol and the symbolism used throughout the book one would
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Gang life is brutal‚ harsh‚ and overwhelming. It is a terrible life to live but yet as we saw in the video‚ so many individuals choose to take that path of living. I will never understand why MS13 has grown so big‚ the members who join know the way the gang operates. I would never think that this life would sound appealing to anyone because it is definitely not a life you want to be stuck in forever. I feel bad for the MS13 members that may want to change their lives around but cannot because once
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Background Chiquita Brands International is one of the world’s largest banana producers that were founded in 1899. Founded as United Fruit Company‚ Chiquita has grown to be one of the top three companies in the banana business with a combined control of 60% market share. Chiquita had annual revenues of $4.7 billion and operating plants worldwide with its main business coming out of Colombia. In this case study‚ it tells the story of the Chiquita business and how they faced many problems in the past
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Gang Resistance Education and Training Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T) is a national program that educates elementary and middle school children how to avoid becoming a gang member. The program is instructed by police officers and is part classroom instruction and other learning activities. “The goal of the GREAT program is to teach youth how to set goals for themselves‚ how to resist peer pressure‚ how to resolve conflicts‚ and how gangs can affect the quality of their lives
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Gangs‚ which are usually groups of criminal or youth delinquents‚ are said to be able to be dated back to the times of the Greeks. It is theorized that some of America’s present-day gangs are stemmed from these ancient formations. However‚ today’s gangs are more serious‚ violent‚ and spiraling out of control. The indications of a gang can be identified by certain graffiti tags‚ tattoos‚ gang colors‚ and the self-identification by youths. When departmental crime officials are asked to tell how they
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motorcycle gang (OMG). The work a prospects must do‚ in order to receive entrance into the gang‚ is portrayed in William Queen’s Under and Alone. “After Queen spent twenty eight month as Billy St. John‚ a bearded beer swinging‚ Harley-riding gangbanger‚ the truth of his identity became blurry‚ even to himself” (cover). Billy St. John is known as the undercover cop with desires to enter and then expose one of the rowdiest motorcycle gangs called the Mongols. The Mongols were a motorcycle gang‚ small
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can it ever be claimed that the person of Ned Kelly can be understood in the truest sense? Peter Carey‚ an author who won The Booker Prize in 2001 for his book‚ sought to give Ned Kelly a voice of his own‚ through writing True History of the Kelly Gang. This tale is told through the supposed eyes of Mr Kelly‚ whose desire was to inform his unborn daughter of his real story‚ which could not be tainted‚ for he would not be alive to tell her as his end was near. However‚ the question still burns:
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A 29 years old woman had been raped by a bus driver‚ a bus conductor and 5 other men in the north India State of Punjab‚ in an incident that recalls the recent attack in Delhi of a student on a moving vehicle and thrown bleeding onto the street that has caused widespread outrage. The woman boarded a bus on fridaybound for gurdaspur‚ to visit her in-laws‚the police chief ‚ Raj Jit Singh‚ said in a telephone interview. Whenshe got off the bus‚ the driver offered her a ride
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