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    What Is Mass Genocide?

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    Think about the population of Washington D.C, around 650,000 people. That is approximately how many refugees has helped since 2006. In 2015 alone the United States has helped around 70,000. Genocide or mass killings are a big reason for refugees. On April 6th, 1994, the Hutu ethnic group began mass killing Tutsis. In just 100 days around 800,000 lay dead. That is about seven people dying a minute. After that ended, there were approximately 550,000 Tutsi refugees. What is mass genocide? Genocide…

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    Columbine And Stereotypes

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    Many believed that the reason for Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went rouge was because of what they saw or heard on tv or the radio. The music topic goes hand-in-hand with stereotypes because pop culture is often what brings cliques together. Having the same taste in music or movies can do wonders to friendships, and the two killers were best friends after all. Along with playing violent video games, both Harris and Klebold enjoyed listening to “dark-music bands”. This was another…

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    master status. Originally it was not thought there were higher-ranking officers in MS-13. Brenda Paz’s testimony confirmed bigger players controlled the gang, and that they will become more structured and organized. In the local gangs of MS-13 each clique has a spokesmen. That member has responsibilities that include assigning members to recruitment, making money for the gang, and defending their territory. As long as that spokesman makes the decisions to grow the gang they are safe from gang…

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    schools, these groups are now more commonly known as cliques. These peer groups and cliques were the groups of friends that would mainly hang out and party together on the weekends. Before the majority of youths went to high school, people would be judged and classified by the family’s social class, with schooling the judgements were based off of the different emerging cliques. These cliques have become the main tell of what class a teen was. These cliques have also taken over the social aspect…

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    in the movie is Cady Heron. Viewers can easily relate to her because she is a fish out of water in her new high school, compared to her previous home schooling experience in Africa. As Cady isn’t aware of the rules that revolve around high school cliques and the dynamics of American teenage society, viewers are able to relate to her because people know what its like to feel like they don’t belong. This applies especially when a child is first entering high school, even if they have a friend…

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    Clueless Film Analysis

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    based on her assumptions of proper social associations. Cher believes that her and Dionne are the most reasonable people to be around and the popular boys are the only acceptable boys in high school to date. She steers Tai away from stereotypical cliques that she believes isn’t acceptable or respectable. For example, Tai develops a crush for Travis who belong to the “loadies”. However, as described by Cher, the “loadies” are people who are “fried” all day, say “bonehead things”, and sometimes…

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    opportunity to get to know other people who could be considered: nerdy, loser, ugly, or other characteristics we view as negative because it may be different than what we are used to. By teaching diversity and emphasizing it we would be able to break up cliques, give students the opportunity to get to know all of their classmates better, it would decrease bullying rates; which also ties into depression, anxiety, and low self esteem, and hate crimes. When you look up the definition of important…

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    Fat Pig Essay Questions

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    In today’s society everybody is put into cliques that we aren’t supposed to wander out of. In Fat Pig they used Helen’s weight to put her in a different category from Tom, but beyond that we use religion, political affiliation, career, and social class to group people. It is incredibly difficult to have a relationship or even a friendship with someone who does not fit into our box. When we pursue these friendships and relationships we are confronted with a lot of difficult decisions. I…

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    characters take the viewer along an interpersonal journey that explores the depths of teenage emotion and the barriers of cliques that prevent their development. This spectacular film was produced and directed by John Hughes and is considered to be one of the greatest high school movies…

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    include the following such as a very high crime rate, which depends on the neighborhood that the minor resides in, drugs, firearms, and youth gangs. Gangs or cliques are very easy to find in an inferior neighborhood. Adolescents join since they have no other choice, either they do it voluntarily or the elders make them. Many young men join these cliques because of the lack of not having a male role model in their family. Parents should always keep up with their children’s companions. If this…

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