American Teens Against Crime

The movement campaigns against police brutality involving African Americans; it began in the wake of the July 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman in the Florida Shooting death of African American teen Trayvon Martin. However there are number of African Americans who are pushing that the Black Lives Matter movement will also campaign against “Black on Black” crime that is rapidly destroying lives in their own neighborhoods. Our race has always…

The film, The Central Park Five (Burns, 2012) talks about a true story of a group of innocent teens who gave false confessions that led to getting falsely convicted for the assault, rape, and sodomy of a young female jogger named Trisha Meili. On April 19th, 1989 in Central Park around 9:20pm, Trisha had been attacked. Her body was found barely alive at 1:30am the next morning; suffered from hypothermia, brain damage, and deep stab wounds. The police took this as the perfect opportunity to…

the criminal codes"(Beck).The man who started Lynching was Charles Lynch, He was the leader of the mob called The Patriot Zealots, the mob would accuse loyalist of treason or plotting against the mob and would hang them. Lynching had major social conflicts on local…

alcohol and legal and illegal substances. Substance abuse affects people worldwide, and alcohol-related motor accidents are the second leading cause of teen death in the United States (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). It is one of the most obvious problems facing the nation, costing over $275 billion in debt each year through health care costs, crime, loss of productivity, and causes more than 130,000 deaths each year. Substance abuse not only effects the user, but also friends and…

“Eighteen year olds can vote and die for there country so there throats should be able to feel the burn of jack daniels. If you can toss a hand grenades you should be able to toss back a shot of tequilla” (Levine). In the United States the legal drinking age is twenty-one, while other countries have theirs lower and are having less underage drinking problems. This shows why the legal drinking age should be lowered from twenty-one to eighteen. At the age of eighteen kids get many new…

changes in manner, values and style among teenagers of the 50s was not a passing fad but was here to stay as a growing expression of youth rebellion against the conservative ideals. In the 1950s, parents blamed rock ‘n’ roll for causing juvenile delinquency as it contained sexual connotation. The vulgarism and suggestive choice of words compelled the teens to listen to it repeatedly because their parents restricted it. They really felt that ultimately they had something to cling on…

Gun control is used all around the world but it is used the most in America. American citizens own about 270 million of the world’s 875 million firearms. The reason why Americans own so many guns is because the second amendment gives them the right to bear arms. But this amendment interprets is so unclear to certain people where they will use it to argue for lenient gun laws. Gun control is one of the big topics in American politics on whether or not to adjust the laws, and I agree with creating…

differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. Although it may seem that racism in America has come a long way from its unsettling past, Michael Omi argues that racism in American culture has a pervasive feature in our lives. One that is both overt and inferential (Omi 538). Nowadays, American culture uses race on how to judge a person’s character. Racism is now common in music, television, and social media, it is almost impossible not to be affected by heavy implanted…

severity of the crime committed. There are several theories about the root causes of young people committing crime but there isn’t one correct answer. Many factors contribute to juvenile delinquency and can vary from family issues to simply not doing well in school. Juvenile delinquency is rising more and more every year and researchers are avidly trying to find out why. One theory about why juveniles commit crimes is the influence of family. How a child is…

For the many American citizens that don’t fit the cis-gendered, straight, white, male body; the pursuit of Happiness can be difficult and the American Dream even harder to fulfill. It is a journey filled with many obstacles, such as discrimination and oppression, to reach that state of ‘Happiness’. For many non-white Americans, hate crimes are a particularly common issue that puts the lives of many people of color at risk. According to the 2015 U.S. census, about 22.9% of Americans are non-white…