The films Romero‚ El Norte‚ and Sin Nombre show the audience in justice within a gang and countries such as‚ El Salvador‚ Mexico and Guatemala. The films also shows how the lower class or the indigenous organize and fight for fairness and dual rights. In the film ’Sin Nombre’ gangs are seen as the power and guiding source in people lives and try to control members. We also see in the films how the ruling class seek to take control of the lower class and violence is often times the end solution to
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The situation that is being focused on in this paper is the fighting street crime‚ specifically a street gang that has been operating in Redondo Beach‚ California. While trying to fight this negative force in the community‚ the criminal justice had to come up with innovative ideas‚ they realize that focusing on a specific trouble area is one that is not new to most law enforcement officers. It is believed that the “shifting the focus of policing from responding to incidents to proactive crime prevention
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younger adults) join gangs for a spectrum of reasons. Furthermore‚ some may join because they have limited life options or they may join because they want to. Whatever the reason is‚ no matter what‚ it is an illogical decision to join a gang. People in‚” The Outsiders‚” joined for a few different reasons. One example is‚a partly main character‚ Steve‚ joined from peer-pressure. On page nine‚ it states that‚”He was cocky‚ smart‚ and Soda’s best friend.” If Soda was in the gang before Steve was‚ Steve
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Screeching Halt. These boys were involved in a gang and considered to be the most dangerous and violent individuals in the metro area. I sat down and talked to a officer that I know that works in the area where they were arrested. I had asked him what the gang was involved in and how old where the boys that were arrested. He replied and said that the gang members were involved in drugs‚ weapons‚ dealing of illegal substances‚ and committing crimes of the gang and a aggrevated robbery. The drugs that the
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into responsible‚ young adults. This was definitely the case for the two gangs within the town of Hanibal‚ the Saints and the Roughnecks. Most members of the two gangs are now respectable men who have achieved college degrees and started their own families‚ although their teachers from back in high school may tell you a different story. The gangs’ mischievous actions led to the different labelling of the two groups. The two gangs received treatment from opposite ends of the spectrum‚ the Saints were
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Tre’Voris Word 28 February 2014 Coach Young Economics Freakonomics Freakonomics is a book about provocative analysis of human motivation and modern living. It reveals to the reader a common world through a totally different pair of lens. The author uses the raw data of economics to ask imaginative questions while it forces the reader to think cleverly and divertingly of the answers. The author’s approach to economics was done in a very unconventional way- as a smart‚ curious explorer parallel to
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In “Always Running”‚ a former gang member named Luis J. Rodriguez writes about his rough past. He joined his first gang when he was eleven years old‚ and saw many of his friends die one-by-one as a result of the dangers of being in a gang in east L.A. This broke him down and made him weak‚ but he had no one to share his emotions with which resulted in his joining of a gang. He killed an innocent man for the sake of being in a gang‚ spent several months in prison‚ and participated in numerous shootings
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Nineteenth century England brought in its wake not only industrialization but also social degradation. Dickens attacked the social evils of his times such as poor houses‚ unjust courts‚ greedy management and the underworld. The Themes in "Oliver Twist" reflect these evils. With the rise in the level of poverty‚ poor houses run by parishes sprung up all over England to give relief to the poor. However‚ the conditions prevailing in the work houses were dismal and the management were insensitive to
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help and gunshots. Now gang members roam the streets and control most of the cities of El Salvador. Children are prevented from going to school if their school site is on a rival gang’s territory. Along with territory problems‚ many children are afraid of leaving their homes in fear of being abducted by gang members and forced to join. Salvadoran women are dyeing their hair black and dark brown in attempt to stay alive from gang violence. There have been rumors that only gang members’ girlfriends
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certain‚ many scholars believe that youth gangs originated from either Europe or Mexico and appeared in the United States shortly after the American Revolutionary war. Some believe they were formed from simple cultural similarities or religious beliefs amongst certain groups who shared those same connections. Others believe gangs came from the Mexican Migration to the southwest United States after the Mexican Revolution in 1813. Whenever gangs were first introduced to America is irrelevant
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