American Teens Against Crime

Southern Railroad freight run from Chattanooga to Memphis (Kinding).This crime occurred on March 25,1931.The Salem Witch Trial occurred in 1692 and 1693 200 people were accused of witchcraft,witchcraft was very hysteria.It was started by a group of young girls,innocent people lives were taken.During,the Salem Witch Trial,people were excuted of being witches,Scottsboro Trial,9 innocent black teenagers were accused of rape upon 2 white teen girls. The Salem Witch Trial, young girls were accused of…

anything wrong and they have been killed or injured because of something they did not do mainly the victims being blacks. Police brutality has been going on for the past 20 years it has been showed that there has been an increase of police brutality against blacks for the past 10 years(Chaney, Cassandra, and Ray Robertson). The way that black people are seeing in the eyes of the law is that…

Acceptance: Do American colleges and universities have a rape culture? A quick Google search of “college acceptance videos” turns up 4.79 million results in 4.7 seconds. One can find multiple shaky home videos of teens screaming and crying with the joy of being accepted into their top choice. Yet, the dark truth behind modern college acceptances lies in what else teens across the country are accepting. According to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, one in five women and one in 16…

Guns can be used for self-protection, hunting, target shooting, competition, etc. Taking away guns would eliminate all these activities and forms of protection from these law-abiding citizens: “… studies have found that Americans use guns defensively between 830,000 and 2.45 million times per year,” (Burrus). Guns are not only ever used for harm; many people use their guns to defend their family and themselves. If these people did not have guns to protect themselves, the…

about lowering it again to age 18. Advocates who are for reducing the drinking age from 21 to 18 again usually use common weak arguments. Some experts even believe that not lowering the drinking age does not stop teens from drinking; it may increase the extreme drinking or would drive teens to still drink underground or behind closed doors. However, most of those arguments or explanations are still being short-sighted. Accordingly, since teenagers are not fully responsible for regulating their…

especially African Americans and Latinos. Since I 'm a Latino I have experienced hatred throughout my life, and it hurts. Who their discriminating words pierce through my skin(Personification), affecting me and my family . Moreover, in my opinion, I think African Americans are treated and discriminated against worse than Latinos. My reason is that African Americans have been in the U.S since colonial times, and Latinos have only been in the U.S for about thirty years. African Americans were…

childhood and violent crime in adulthood. To prove this point, Pennell and Browne (2008) examined a study by Huesmann and colleagues which was carried out on a group of people…

ineffective are a major cause of violent crime in America, the best way to resolve the problem is to change and strength the laws. We are reaching the end of 2016, and there have been reports of at least 44,427 gun related incidents. In 2015 there was a total of 53,379. In 2014 it was reported that there was 51,848 gun related incidents. (Gun Violence archive, 2016)The gun violence does not have any signs of slowing down. Every day, 48 children and teens are shot in murders, assaults, suicides…

Solving LGBT Discrimination There are an estimated 700,000 people in the United States that identify as being transgender ("Transgender Facts”). The Civil Rights of this section of American citizens is being fundamentally violated by the states and local government for religious reasons, which should not be allowed under constitutional separation of church and state. In comparison to the over three million citizens that occupy this country, this seemingly small group of individuals along with…

Deemed “provocative” by the Denver Post (Ostrow) and a “Confident, Controlled Artistic Achievement” by New York Magazine (Seitz), the second season of American Crime is an intricate and thought-inducing TV series. The 10-episode anthology created by John Ridley tells the tale of a high school rape in Steubenville, Indiana. The psychological action begins from the very first episode and if the viewer was hoping for a cut and dry mystery, she will not see one. Ridley takes a left turn; the…