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    Gang Violence

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    Gang Violence Gangs are becoming a growing problem in American society. More young people are turning to gangs to solve problems in there lives. When youths join gangs they drop social activities with family‚ friends and school. Members fall behind their classmates in school and do not try. A study shows that less than 1% of gang bangers is literate1. Gangs destroy teenager lives and destroy their chances for a good education and happy life. Gangs are now a haven for rats. Teenagers

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    Topic: Why should we attend university? For people who have already finished high school‚ one of the choices they will have to make is whether to continue to higher education‚ which means going to college or university‚ or to start working and planning their life right away. Different people will have different choices of their own‚ but for me‚ I think there are two main reasons why we should attend college or university. The first thing that perhaps anyone would think about going to college

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    Gang Prevention

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    The Gangs All Here A gang is defined in the dictionary as a group of youngsters or adolescents who associate closely‚ often exclusively‚ for social reasons‚ especially such a group engaging in delinquent behavior. According to the 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation‚ there are over “1.4 million active street‚ prison‚ and OMG (Outlaw Motorcycle Gang) members comprising more than 33‚000 gangs in the United States” ("Fbi.gov"). These gangs

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    Gang

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    during the summer of 1972 by the gangs Pirus‚ Lueders Park Hustlers‚ Brims‚ Denver Lanes‚ and Bishops. They have some where between 30‚000-35‚000 members most members are African-Americans. Bloods" was a term that African-American fighting men called each other in the Vietnam War. The Pirus later changed their name to Bloods. Starting in late 1971‚ the Avalon Garden Crips‚ Inglewood Crips and various other Crip sets joined forces. They began to expand to non-Crip gang territories such as those controlled

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    Street Gangs

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    Gangs A gang is a group of recurrently associating individuals or close friends with identifiable leadership and internal organization‚ identifying with or claiming control over territory in a community‚ and engaging either individually or collectively in violent or other forms of illegal behavior. When a new member joins the gang he or she must go through an initiation‚ the most common initiation is “jumping in” or getting beaten by all the gang members and/or committing acts of theft or violence

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    Gang Involvement

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    Factors Underlying Their Gang Involvement: A Comparative Study in Three Chinese Metropolitan Cities* Ngan-pun Ngai‚ Ph.D.‚ Chau-kiu Cheung‚ Ph.D. ABSTRACT Marginal youth tend to form stronger subcultural values when they engage more frequently in gang activity‚ which also make a difference in their delinquent involvement. The subculture would in turn bolster their subsequent gang participation. Different subcultural values appear to arise differently from gang involvement in Hong Kong

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    Triad Gangs

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    Criminology 21 26/11/12 Andrew Quejano Prof. Crystal Rodriguez Title: The Origin of Asian and Chinese Gangs in Chicago ’s Chinatown Attention Getter: “I shall walk into a path with no return‚ with full of rules to die”‚ 我將走入道路沒有回歸以充分規則死 * Reveal Topic: I will tell you some important factors about the Triads‚ I would explain what are they? Brief history about Chicago’s Chinatown‚ types of crimes committed

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    Why Youth Leave the Church

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    Introduction “With such an army of workers as our youth‚ rightly trained‚ might furnish‚ how soon the message of a crucified‚ risen‚ and soon-coming Savior might be carried to the whole world!” (Education‚ p. 271). Wow‚ what a statement. This is probably the most well known statement by Sister Ellen White concerning the youth. These words are so powerful and motivating‚ that they inspire the imagination to look forward to it’s fulfillment‚ to the day when this army of dedicated Christian

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    Gangs in Toronto

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    GANGS IN TORONTO Mr. De Sanctis CLU 3M November 11‚ 2013 There are a variety of gangs in the city of Toronto including the bloods (whose color is red)‚ crips (whose color is blue)‚ Punjabi mafia‚ ms-13‚ etc. These gangs can be usually found where the government provides public housing to the community. Places like Rexdale‚ Jane and Finch‚ Scarborough‚ Malvern‚ Region Park are the hosts to many of Toronto deadliest gangs‚ coincidentally these areas are the areas where most of the immigrants

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    P. Salvo Mr. Richard Aguilar English 02 04 December 2012 Education: Why the Youth Needs It? To a lot of people‚ obtaining an education has always been a very important goal. But why? Did you ever wonder why your parents always keep on telling you most of the time to keep on striving and keep on pursuing your studies? Why they keep on reminding you almost every day that it is the key for a brighter future? And why do sometimes they push their selves off the limits just to make you get a higher

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