Gang Violence 12/02/13 Here in the United States alone has about 1.4 million active gangs and this includes the gangs in the prisons which comprising of more than 33‚000 members. From what I have read the researchers are saying that there is an increase in gang members every year. They are saying 48%of the violent crime is up to 90% in other states. In the suburban areas you are seeing the top gangs with more experience with the violence. The most aggressive gang members are the
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Toledo War and it took place during the year of 1835. The first move that was made during the “War” was the passage of the Pains and Penalties Act‚ which “made it illegal for Ohioans to carry out any official governmental activities in the Toledo Strip upon “Pain and Penalty” of a $1‚000 and five-year imprisonment.” (Rosentreter‚ pp. 92). Afraid of rising tensions President Jackson sent two commissioners to the Strip to investigate the situation. They arrived in Toledo to see the first hostilities of
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this Cabell makes the assumption that Hopkins received a religious upbringing. It is also known that his companion‚ John Stearn‚ was a very religious man therefore we can confidently assume that Hopkins was influenced by religion to some extent. It should also be considered that he would have studied or been aware of the King James I Bible in which it clearly states that “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” .This is an important quote as it encompasses the convictions of James I and shows how anti-witch
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in the third century A.D. Before the fall of Rome it was one of the largest empires in the world. At its height it spanned from England to Egypt. The fall of Rome was caused by political decay‚ a failing economy and military upheaval. The first cause was political decay. People lost money holding a political office as well “The basic trouble was that very few inhabitants … believed that the old civilization was worth saving …. [T] he overwhelming majority of the population had been systematically
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During the 1940’s there was genocide in Germany. The genocide is known as the Holocaust and over 6 million people were killed during this time. Adolf Hitler‚ the man who led the Nazi party in Germany‚ utilized multiple different tools to carry out the genocide. He used methods like gas chambers‚ gas trucks‚ death marches‚ and many more to exterminate anybody that the Nazi party considered impure but the most deadly place to be during the Holocaust was a concentration camp. Concentration camps
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4. The Causes of Major Revolutions: Latin American Revolutions: 1. People from all classes are discontented. Mexico had political and economic stability‚ but at expense of farmers and laborers (only select few had wealth). 2. People feel restless and held down by unacceptable restrictions in society‚ religion‚ the economy‚ or government. Since 1876‚ President Porfirio Díaz/the dictatorship severely restricted the prospects of Mexico’s middle classes for political and economic advancement
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What cause emotions to arise in the work place and what are the effects? Emotions are the overt reactions that express feelings about events. In an organization‚ emotions were traditionally seen as irrational which should be avoided to maximise overall performances. However‚ recent studies have shown that with the right trigger‚ interpretation and use‚ emotions can be a mechanism to improve job performances. In this essay‚ I am going to discuss the causes of emotions in the work place by using
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Great Depression The early 1920’s was first known as the roaring twenties. Everything in America seemed to be going great. There was new inventions‚ more factories and industrialization! People were using credit‚ stock prices were rising it seemed as if nothing could go wrong. That was until the late 1920’s and everything started to slowly fall apart and then the economy all fell all at once. Americans all had smiles on their faces except for farmers. Farmers had purchased land when the war was
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five major extinctions that have happened in the past were due to natural causes. The first started with severe and sudden global cooling and lost 25% of families. The second happened near the end of the Devonian Period and may or may not have been the result of a global climate change of which 19% of families were lost. Evidence suggests that a bolide impact similar to the end-Cretaceous event may have been the cause of 54% of families lost in the third major extinction. Shortly after dinosaurs
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“Forgive your enemies‚ but never forget their names.” After John F. Kennedy managed to prevent nuclear armageddon‚ implement peace corps‚ urge public service‚ and ignite man’s first journey to the moon‚ one would think the best we could do to repay him in any way possible would be to find justice in his assassination. On November 22‚ 1963 in Dallas‚ Texas‚ President Kennedy‚ Texas Governor John Connally‚ and their wives rode through Dallas in an open‚ slow motorcade when three shots echoed leaving
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