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    such as plantation or farms. Depending on their master’s ownership‚ the slaves might work along with their master calling it as task labor or largely with other slaves often watched by an overseer refer to as gang labor (Foner 416-417). Southern Louisiana cultivate largely of sugar field‚ gang laborers are always on their feet monitoring the field before it starts to rotten; abuse from an overseer if they’re not working harder enough. Though both labors are extremely exhausting jobs‚ but the task workers

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    Gang Violence Case Study In a city where gang violence wreaks havoc and calamity occurs often‚ one neighborhood has the fortunate ability to end gang violence all together. By making the decision to close down a single house among many‚ the city of Sunnyside‚ WA along with its police department‚ have (Courtney)achieved their duty as Act Utilitarian’s. Their actions resulted in substantial consequences that have been shown to maximize the greater good of the entire community. The issue of

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    Why People Join Gangs

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    Gangs are very problematic in every society. Gangs are a group of people who believe in the same cause. However‚ every gang has their own different cause. For example‚ majority of gangs wants to make money while others a based upon race. In order for gangs to make money they have to use intimidation‚ violence‚ extortion‚ kidnapping‚ sell drugs and many more illegal activities. Every gang wants to make money. However‚ in order to make money you have to own a territory‚ where you can do these illegal

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    Gangs are portrayed on TV and in the movies as if they are totally evil‚ but in reality there are more positive aspects that are not shown. The media only shows gangs involved with drugs and the violence‚ and as a result the media has scared many people into believing that gangs will take over our cities if we do not stop them. The movie Colors and the TV show American Justice overwhelmingly portrays gangs as bad. The movie Colors displays the bad things in gangs like how easy it could be to join

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    Crash, Anomie, La Gangs

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    framework of society. In the movie L.A. Gangs it gave a great background on what gang life is about and the movie gave a background on what gangs are capable of doing to their community. A gang is look to as a replacement of family and a form of survival. Being a gang member means getting respect. Gang members start off young‚ around the age of 10-11 yrs of age. Graffiti marks the limits where a gang member can go‚ it can also show a gangs power. Gangs are better armed then the police. Police do

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    Arushi Gupta Mrs. Cook Honors Freshman Comp/Lit 20 October 2014 Financial Strains of the Great Depression During the Great Depression‚ the people in the urban areas coped with the challenge of the loss of their businesses and the people living in rural areas dealt with the problem of losing their land and their source of money. For example‚ the people living in the urban areas lost their jobs as the businesses closed‚ and therefore‚ they weren’t able to earn enough “money to heat their houses in

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    Why People Join Gangs

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    More and more teens join gangs to feel that sense of family that might be absent in their life. Most teens tend to lack the attention that they feel that is needed and deserve but don’t always get from the preserved family environment that is seen regularly on television. Therefore causes the teen to feel like the parent is not being given the love and attention that is shown on the television. As these feelings keep getting increasingly worse the teen starts to indulge‚ get involved with illegal

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    Insane in the Gucci Gang Gucci Gang Gucci Gang Gucci Gang Gucci Gang Gucci Gang Gucci Gang Gucci Gang. Gets annoying right? Of course it is‚ just like many modern songs‚ especially Gucci Gang. My biggest pet peeve is modern music. Many things factor into this. They all follow the same cookie cutter formula‚ starting with an annoying into‚ into the chorus. The chorus is usually followed by a girl singing the second paragraph of lyrics‚ and then the chorus plays. That is the followed by the final paragraph

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    Productive or Destructive As far as we know‚ there are more than a half-a-million criminally active street gang members in the U.S. today. There are many different gangs; some are street gangs‚ prison gangs‚ motorcycle gangs‚ and so forth. But‚ right now‚ I am pointing specifically at street gangs. Street gangs have changed my life growing up from a child to adult. “Gang violence” and “social disorder” seems to go hand-in-hand or is synonymous in the United States. They have spread across the country

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    The Outlaws MC: “God forgives‚ Outlaws Don’t” is the motto for one of America’s oldest and more notorious biker clubs‚ the Outlaws. The gang began it root in Matilda’s Bar on Route 66 in McCook‚ ILL in 1935. Since the start of the club chapters or local gang have spread widely across the United Stated and have established themselves in other countries such as Australia‚ Europe and South America. History: The Outlaws first began in 1935 prior to World War Two in McCook‚ Illinois just outside

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