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    Gangs In Our Society

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    Gangs In Our Society By Emmanuel Moorer Gangs are becoming prevalent in today’s society and within our schools. More and more young people are turning to gangs in an attempt to escape their everyday lives and the future‚ which they perceive as dismal and bleak. They are initially attracted to the prestige and cash flow‚ which is glamorized by the street gang. Many gangs are actively involved in criminal misbehavior‚ such as drug and gun trafficking‚ burglaries and homicides

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    Why Do People Conform

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    against the Las Angeles Dodgers‚ both having followers‚ both resembling the ideology that one is better than the other. Granted that one is only a baseball team that will often time be noted as America’s greatest pastime. The other is a rivalry between a gang that has lead to hundreds of deaths that has been sweeping the nation in low income communities. The two in comparison are extremely different‚ but both have had followers that have had conformed with the idea that one is better than the

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    On Teenagers and Tattoos

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    such as authoritative figures‚ parents‚ and their peers. This article (On Teenagers and Tattoos‚ by Andres Martin‚ MD.) provides examples of how society views adolescents with tattoos. Tattoos are something we see on people on an everyday basis‚ but on adolescents‚ it is not very common. Many adults believe that those in the younger generation sometimes get tattoos to enrage affronts to their authority. Parents in general do not approve of their children decorating their bodies with modifications

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    2012 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing and 9th International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing A New Generation Children Tracking System Using Bluetooth MANET Composed of Android Mobile Terminals Koki MORII‚ Koji TAKETA‚ Yuichiro MORI‚ Hideharu KOJIMA† ‚ Eitaro KOHNO‚ Shinji INOUE‚ Tomoyuki OHTA‚ Yoshiaki KAKUDA Graduate School of Information Sciences‚ Hiroshima City University‚ Hiroshima‚ Japan {cohki@nsw.info.‚taketa@nsw.info.‚mori@nsw.info.‚kouno@nsw

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    serve my nation‚ follow in my father’s footsteps and to help alleviate some college debt. That is the biggest motivator for me to do what I do. College has always been a goal and aspiration of mine ever since I could remember. With the career choice I have decided for myself a degree is required in order to do it. I would literally be wasting my time in the marines if I do not work on my degree at all. Earning my degree is important to me and I like having something to show all my hard work. Joining

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    bullied. Do you think of gangs when you hear the words guns‚ crimes‚ and violence? Two out every five teenagers are affiliated with gangs. I am one of the three out of five teenagers that are not involved with gangs. However‚ not everyone gets to say that they are not bullied or involved with gangs. Many students today resort to violence and associate themselves with gangs to seek vengeance. However‚ they are not aware of the dangers of vengeance‚ coercion‚ bullying‚ or gang behavior.

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    Youth Gangs In Canada

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    Youth gangs in Canada is becoming more and more of issue. Adolescents across Canada resort to joining youth gangs for many different reasons. A youth gang is a group of young adolescents who use intimidation and violence to gain prestige among other gangs and control certain areas of unlawful activities. For all the reasons an adolescent would join a youth gang‚ police and the Government have come up with programs to prevent youth from joining and to get them to leave the gangs. With programs involving

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    What are your overall reactions to the article? Choose one part that resonated with you with most and discuss it. Why are teens gradually destroying their generation? Based on from the article by Jean Twenge‚ she shows an tremendous change from Generation X and Generation Z. I really thought her idea of calling my generation iGen was very innovative because it really describes the generation in one word and it is very precise. I am amazed by the changes from Generation X to Generation Z like

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    Gang Violence

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    Gang violence is a major problem in our society today. Gang violence could take place in our neighborhoods and corrupt the young children easily influenced by the violent behavior as well. In the two poems‚ Leather-Jackets‚ Bikes and Birds? By Robert Davies and? Street Gang? By H. Webster‚ the two poets write about gang related issues discussing the ill-mannered bikers who cause these problems to other around them. These poems discuss the violence‚ death and illegal activity in which a number of

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    Gangs Characteristics

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    characteristics and motivations of gangs. Where‚ when‚ and why they became dominant? What characterizes successful gangs and how have they evolved over centuries? Give some examples of successful gangs throughout the history‚ and explain why they succeeded. Most gangs are established and motivated due to the need of protection; this protection can be for protecting the areas and street‚ which they live in or neighborhoods‚ with individuals of their culture or ethnic group. Also‚ gangs are known to branch out

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