American Teens Against Crime

commonly practiced until its legality in 1970, millions of babies’ deaths have resulted from it solely in our nation since then. As well as being a popular debate topic in today’s world, abortion is also widely practiced in the lives of thousands of American women every month. There are various reasons why abortion is so common and popular ranging from the baby being an inconvenience or distraction in the mother’s life to the more tragic rape case. Although there are many heartrending reasons…

Looking Into the Mind of a Criminal Why do human beings commit crime? Criminality has been around for as long as people have. It has been an object of study for a very long time and there are so many new advances being made relating to criminal behavior. But what exactly is the explanation for it? What causes someone to be driven to the point of hurting someone or something, or even to the extent of murder? A common, accepted stereotype is the idea that criminals simply have low morals and…

that work within the school environment are SROs or school resource officers. The overall duties they carry are to “provide law enforcement-type services to a school to encourage everyone to follow all of the school regulations” (Guerra) , prevent crime, and provide safety and security for the school. After the terrible incidents of school shootings such as the Columbine shooting and the Sandy Hook shooting, police officers within schools…

Henry’s mother would also beat him if he didn’t do what she asked him to do. Henry lost his eye at the age of 7 because his brother stabbed him. As a child Henry admitted to like cutting up animals. He also spent time in and out of jail as a teen for crimes that included burglary and theft. As he got older, he grew more distant and became angry. When Henry was 23 he moved into his sister's house to get away from his mother. One day his…

through. During these events, Huck Finn encounters internal struggles to go against southern societal views and he decides to listen to his own morals. These actions give Huckleberry Finn the title of being the hero throughout the story. In the fiction novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written by Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn transforms and goes with his own morals, making him the archetypal hero. From a pre-teen age, Huck has no choice but to mature quickly and stand up for…

BAM! on an average day, 91 people die of gun violence, according to EverytownResearch.org. There are over 12,000 gun murders in an average year in the United States. Also, a black man is 10 times more likely to be shot with a gun than a white man (“Gun Violence”). But what does race, age, or ethnicity have anything to do with murders with a firearm? For a person to better understand gun control, they would have to look at what gun control is, what are the causes of gun violence, people who agree…

This track has a prominent and fairly consistent funky bass groove that features blue notes of the R&B tradition that act as a warning against xenophobia- just because the notes sound different or unsettling, doesn 't mean they are ‘bad’ or ‘wrong’. This track is also laced with an eerie and suspenseful riff during Eazy-E’s arrest to highlight the daunting racial tensions being displayed…

into a visual. Every 26 seconds a student in the United States drops out of high school. That is about two dropouts every minute and over 3,300 dropouts every day. Of those 3,300 drop-outs, the preponderance will be of Hispanic descent, African Americans…

but he soon found out that the computers were never purchased due to budget constraints so he would be teaching math instead. After school, he finds that his car had been broken into and his stereo stolen. The schools in these types of areas are crime ridden and lacking in all levels of academics due to the sparsity of good teachers willing to work in them, this is evident in the movie from the apathy expressed by the administrator named Raquel Ortega who has little confidence in the student’s…

mistreated every day. I did this to show society ‘push us and we will push back!’ throughout my life I was ridiculed. Always beaten, always hated. Can you, society, truly blame me for what I do?” Those are the word of Luke Woodham, who is a convicted American murderer Luke Woodham born on February 5, 1981, was only 16 years old when he murdered three people, including his mother in 1997. Luke Woodham describes his childhood as one where he was neglected by his mother. During his confession Luke…