American Teens Against Crime

Rights Movement gained momentum, activists protested across the deep South, and tensions rose between black demonstrators and the police. During this time, John Ball wrote his first book. It was a murder mystery set in a small Carolina town. The crime-solving detective of Ball’s novel was Virgil Tibbs, an famed homicide detective from Pasadena, California, who happened to be passing through the area on the night of the killing, having visited his mother downstate. Although local cops initially…

body is not strong enough to fight off certain things. Although there are many misconceptions about the negative effects of Cannabis, marijuana, the fact is that marijuana should be legalized because it has the potential to benefit thousands of Americans. For example, marijuana can be used for medical use and it can become a profit for positive reasoning. There are other ways to intake THC, tetrahydrocannabinol, the chemical that causes marijuana’s effects. Some may feel that smoking in…

the creation of gangs but it is a part of survival in their region. Street gangs, which pull peers into gangs for protection and social status, assemble to protect their neighborhood, family and friends from other street gangs thus causing rising crime rate and innocent people dying because of this. First off, there are a few definitions for gangs because authorities had a hard time explaining what a gang even is. “Walter Miller (1982:313) contrasts gangs with law violating youth groups, which…

spend most of his time helping his parents with the farm they owned. After losing his father at the age of 15 he became the father figure receiving a whole new role of protecting his family. At only 16 years of age Pancho Villa committed his first crime. In attempt to protect his sister, Villa shot a man who was abusing and…

job opportunity due to the industrializing city, caused the Artist such as Dj Herc who learned specific trades and vocational skills to develop the means for artistic defiance and ingenuity. Hip hop became a means of expression for African Americans, from teens to adults, as a way to the cope with the hardships of the living in the United States America, instead of participating in gang culture and violence. In this current era, Hip Hop is a tool for the same reasons; an outlet to battle the…

The well known words “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal" were once said by the beloved Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. These words have sent chills down the spines of many generations. As the years passed, Dr. King’s dream had become a reality but there were still ways to go. The fact that decades after Dr. King’s times, one’s skin color or ethnicity is still an issue…

impact a community is the increase crime. “At least half of the individuals arrested for major crimes, including homicide, theft, and assault were under the influence of illicit drugs” (Magnitude). This increase violence results from both teenagers and adults being addicted to drugs and who have no income to pay their habit. This results in them stealing. Also, there is no telling what a person would…

marijuana at one point in their lives. This debate over legalizing marijuana has been going on for quite some time, but it is recently more intense than ever. In 1969, only 12% of our population supported legalizing marijuana. Today, a majority of Americans support the legalization for recreational use. Meanwhile a majority of states in the U.S. have legalized cannabis for medicinal purposes. Marijuana has already been decriminalized for recreational use in Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Alaska,…

into societies dangers.Although the societal “unimaginably nasty, mindless and mind-hating”acts are slashings, robberies, raping with the hoodlum gangs, the pack hunting, wanton killings violence he sees with “eloquence and joy”(Hyman 79) Allowing teens to isolate themselves further from their actions and closer to a fantasy world creates his own language with his friends almost untranslatable to anyone outside the group. Many critics like Keith M. Booker share my claim that you can not hide…

Erotophobes have started the war against sex because they not only want to deny themselves but they also want to force the erotophiles to live their lives according to the erotophobes lifestyles. The erotophobes are so frightened by the thought of people seeing sex on the television that…