Rodriguez offers a loosely organized but thoroughly wrenching account of his experience growing up in and around Watts and the Las Lomas barrio‚ just east of Los Angeles. Rodriguez‚ a poet and journalist who now resides in Chicago‚ was born in 1954 in El Paso‚ Texas. His parents‚ recent immigrants from Mexico‚ soon migrated to the Los Angeles area. There‚ Rodriguez experienced the indignities of poverty‚ prejudice‚ and nearly unchecked police brutality. Joining a gang and living “la vida loca” (the
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which is located in the Watts part of Los Angeles. This group was originated within a little housing project that consisted majority of African Americans. This gang is considered to be one of the biggest Crip groups in the local area. There crimes include drug trafficking‚ murder‚ and theft. They have been in a violent war with the Bounty Hunter Bloods‚ which is another local gang. Main Street Mafia Crips is another street gang located on the east side of Los Angeles. This group does have a couple of
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The Bloods where founded in Los Angeles‚ California during the summer of 1972 by the gangs Pirus‚ Lueders Park Hustlers‚ Brims‚ Denver Lanes‚ and Bishops. They have some where between 30‚000-35‚000 members most members are African-Americans. Bloods" was a term that African-American fighting men called each other in the Vietnam War. The Pirus later changed their name to Bloods. Starting in late 1971‚ the Avalon Garden Crips‚ Inglewood Crips and various other Crip sets joined forces. They began to
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his mother having trouble in school. He lacks respect‚ maturity with his classmates and adults his teacher say‚ therefore his mother‚ frightened of her son future‚ sends him off to live with his father in Crenshaw neighborhood of South Central Los Angeles. The story about three friends growing up in the hood tragically. They’re trying to figure out how to survive in the violent‚ crime filled Crenshaw neighborhood. Each one has their own individual struggle and goals in life. Doughboy (Ice Cube)
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The film‚ Freedom Writers‚ directed by Richard LaGravenese captured the lives of underrepresented and at risk students whom lived in Long Beach‚ California‚ that were born into gang life and didn’t see their lives past than age eighteen. Erin Gruwell was a passionate young teacher keen on social change. Wanting to make a difference‚ she decided to teach at the newly voluntarily integrated Woodrow Wilson High School. The movie’s portrayal of stereotypes was emphasized through its technical aspects
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Informative Essay Gangs “Crip Nation” “Crippin’ is a choice‚ but it’s forever. You may slow down‚ but you will always be down forever.” (Washington 1969). Founded in Los Angeles‚ California in 1969 by Raymond Washington and Stanley Tookie Williams III; the Crips are now a loosely connected network of individual sets. Through the years the gang has grown to be one of the largest and most powerful gangs in the United States‚ currently with over 30‚000 gang members. Members of the are known
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by LAPD Chief Daryl Gates to combat the rising problem of gangs in Los Angeles‚ California. Each of the LAPD’s 18 divisions had a CRASH unit assigned to it‚ whose primary goal was to suppress the influx of gang related crimes in Los Angeles‚ which came about primarily from the increase in the drug trade. Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums (CRASH) was an elite but controversial special operations unit of the Los Angeles Police Department tasked with combating gang related crime. CRASH
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the same ethnic background‚ unfortunately crime was a way for these groups of people to even the odds. One of the first gangs recorded was in 1820 in New York and through time gangs have become most predominant in four areas; New York‚ Chicago‚ Los Angeles and Mexico. Forty Thieves Gang and their leader‚ Edward Coleman‚ as long as met your quota on stolen goods you remained in the gang. Edward led this gang from 1820 to 1838 where he was hung after being convicted of killing his wife. The gang
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Writing Skills Webb 05 November 2011 My Inspirations The Golden State is the central idea of my collage essay‚ and my collage itself. California inspires me in so many ways and I feel I have represented that throughout my collage. Style‚ fashion‚ meeting amazing people‚ and the individualism that comes with being a Californian has given me such a broader outlook on the uniqueness of the state that I live in and has being my inspiration. I honestly think that living in California has given students
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a heated debate over the moral and economic benefits of outsourcing American Jobs. One side may contend that the lowered wages in China would aid in revamping the economy while the other would claim that jobs should be brought back to America. Los Angeles Times journalist Tony Barboza’s assertion that outsourcing of United States labor to China is equally as detrimental to the country as it is beneficial is effective in that the level of pollution carried across the Pacific Ocean from China ultimately
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