World War I initially started because of the assassination of Austria’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie. He was the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary. The U.S got involved in World War I as a result in economic trade binding America to the Allies (Brower). World War I or as many people like to call it The Great War was from 1914 all the way to 1919. It was one of the most brutal and destructive wars in European history. “Of the 65 million men‚ who were mobilized‚ more than 10 million
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Iraq is an very rich country underneath the war ridden wasteland it is commonly viewed as today. The land is plentiful with natural resources and fertile soil‚ but war is destroying the country and its population. Not only is the Iraq war extremely devastating to the individual country‚ but the opposing terrorist groups‚ (especially ISIS)‚ have created a new type of psychological warfare for the world in the form of extreme and constant terror in other countries. Iraq’s intense foreign influence
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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 to measure the
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The first law of Ecology states‚ “everything is connected.” Meaning each species depends on another species for survival. Humans for instance‚ depend on the survival of animals and plants to literally feed our ever growing population. Our diet comes down to small‚ overlooked organisms such as the honeybee. Without honeybees‚ the majority of fruits and vegetables would be diminished. Albert Einstein supposedly once said‚ "If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth‚ man would have no more
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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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Parkinson’s disease Parkinson’s disease‚ also known as idiopathic or primary Parkinsonism‚ hypokinetic rigid syndrome/HRS‚ or paralysis agitans is a problem in the nerve cells. According to the Parkinson’s disease Foundation the nerve cells start to break down and die‚ which leads to the loss of neurons that produce a chemical messenger in the brain called dopamine. When the dopamine is gone it causes abnormal brain activity‚ which leads to Parkinson’s. Dopamine sends signals
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Factors Underlying Their Gang Involvement: A Comparative Study in Three Chinese Metropolitan Cities* Ngan-pun Ngai‚ Ph.D.‚ Chau-kiu Cheung‚ Ph.D. ABSTRACT Marginal youth tend to form stronger subcultural values when they engage more frequently in gang activity‚ which also make a difference in their delinquent involvement. The subculture would in turn bolster their subsequent gang participation. Different subcultural values appear to arise differently from gang involvement in Hong Kong
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Effectiveness and Constitutionality of Gang Injunctions Ryan Jacobsen* TABLE OF CONTENTS I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................ 1 GENERAL STANDARD FOR ISSUING AN INJUNCTION .................................... 3 WHAT IS A CIVIL GANG INJUNCTION? ............................................................... 4 HISTORY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF GANG INJUNCTIONS ..................
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Capital Punishment is Bad For Society " To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge‚ not justice" ( qtd. in Anti-Death Penalty). Capital punishment‚ or the death penalty‚ has been around in some sort of variation for centuries. It is enforced upon criminals who have been convicted of the most heinous crimes‚ such as homicide. There have been debates throughout time as whether or not the death penalty is appropriate punishment. Valid arguments of support and contradiction of capital
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argue that gang activity and youth involvement has grown exponentially through the years‚ it has been an ongoing epidemic for decades. Methods‚ levels of violence‚ rules‚ and motivations may have changed over the years‚ but the basic infrastructure has remained the same. The earliest accounts of youth involvement in gangs first appeared in Europe or Mexico‚ while the earliest record of youth gangs appearing in the United States are recorded as early as 1783. In the early 1800’s youth gangs appeared
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