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    From my experience the most effective prevention approach for dissuading youths from getting involved in gang activity is early intervention. Law enforcement and other positive organizations are competing with the glorification of the gang lifestyle. Movies‚ music‚ clothing‚ and social media promote and may appeal to youths that are already high risk into entering the gang lifestyle. Individuals may be pushed into gangs because of negative outside factors‚ barriers‚ and conditions in their social

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    Gun Violence Gun violence‚ in the United States especially‚ is a growing concern and highly debated topic when the discussion of gun control is brought up. Here are several facts that I found to be troubling‚ and even disturbing. * The average of guns deaths in the annual is less than 50 in Japan compared to more than 10‚000 in the United States. (http://www.heedinggodscall.org/content/pfctoolkit-10) The number of gun related deaths in the United States dwarfs that of Japan annually‚ perhaps

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    The title of the book I selected is “Gang Leader for a Day”. In this story‚ Sudhir Venkatesh decides to pay a visit to a low poverty-stricken project in hopes of getting people to complete a survey poll on urban poverty. Venkatesh portrays himself in the book as an inexperienced and unaware graduate student looking to gain inside information on living life in the projects of Chicago. Sudhir Venkatesh was determine to gather information that would explain what life was like for people living in these

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    An important theme from the film “Freedom Writers” directed by Richard LaGravenese is the theme of understanding‚ respect and tolerance. “Freedom Writers” is an amazing and inspiring film set after the Rodney King Riots in L.A. the film is based on a true story about the experiences that the students from room 203 at Woodrow Wilson High School went through. The variety of camera work used throughout the film helped portray how the characters demonstrated the importance of showing tolerance‚ understanding

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    Portrayal of the Truth in Hollywood Films Most people are likely to relate Hollywood with money. If a person lives in the Hollywood area‚ people assume she or he is probably rich. If she or he is a Hollywood movie star‚ the person probably makes a lot of money. Therefore‚ to follow that line of thought‚ when Hollywood producers make a movie‚ they make it just for money. And some filmmakers do seem to make films only for the money the movies will earn. The action movie "Die Hard"‚ the

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    Drive - Analytical Review

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    Drive When I saw the trailer to Drive‚ I wasn’t to thrilled to see it. The night it came out‚ my friends asked me to see it. I said yes but my decision was based on the fact that Bryan Cranston had a roll in it. I had pretty low expectations walking in but when I walked out I remember telling myself “that is one of the best movies I have ever seen”. I couldn’t pinpoint exactly what about the movie I really liked. It wasn’t until a second viewing‚ through seeing the movie from within‚ that

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    Introduction This proposal presents a request for funding from the West Vancouver Recreation Commission to assist students in the Job Preparation Program at west Vancouver Community College to operate a summer day camp for school children‚ aged 8 to 12. Included in the proposal is a discussion of four factors related to the development of the summer day camp: Scope of the Project‚ Day Camp Activities‚ Estimated Cost and Estimated revenue. If approved‚ the student worker involved in

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    Eddie Cavelli Professor Cooper English 304 30 April 2013 The artifact I chose is the 2009 film‚ “Sin Nombre‚” directed by Cary Fukunaga. In Spanish‚ the title translates to nameless‚ or without a name. The film revolves around the struggle of Honduran immigrants attempting to escape the hardships of everyday life to start fresh in ‘El Norte‚’ the United States. The film revolves around two main characters‚ MS 13 gang member‚ Willy (aka El Casper)‚ and Sayra‚ a Honduran girl who is traveling

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    City of God Essay City of God takes place in Rio de Janeiro‚ Brazil. More specifically in a sprawling slum‚ or favella referred to as the City of God. This is a derisive name‚ as the audience learns‚ in that this is a place certainly devoid of anything to do with religion‚ peace‚ or tranquility. The main story revolves around Rocket‚ a well meaning young man who grows up in this chaotic world. Rocket has plans to escape the city by becoming a photographer‚ even though he has normal teenage problems

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    Analysis of a scene in La Haine (homework) The scene I am going to analyse is the ending scene of the film La Haine (Mathieu Kassowitz‚ 1995). In the beginning of the scene‚ the camera gives us a longshot of the protagonists pulling the gang members body into the room‚ this shows the audience a view of what is going on in the distance. The scene then progresses further‚ and we see that the gangmember the protagonists have pulled into the room has been thrown onto the bed‚ Vinz‚ one of the protagonists

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