Crips

Throughout the past few years gun violence activity has dramatically increased. In 2012 alone, there has been a lot of deaths due to gang activities. Many innocent people have lost their lives. Gang shootings are beginning to exceed to the fullest due to gang violence in our communities. Innocent people are losing their lives, gang members tearing down our communities, and family members of victims grieving because of their loss. We as a community need to help each and make a change within each…

By creating more jobs, the government can keep the people occupied with a reason to get through the day without getting involved with MS 13. El Salvador is one of the many countries in poverty. Creating more jobs will be difficult, but it can be done with the collaboration of the country’s people. Elaine Denny, from the New York Times says, “A business cannot grow in a place where gangs require monthly or even weekly fees” (Denny, 2015). In many ways she could be right, that is why the violence…

Service Learning Project Essay: Graffiti Graffiti is the act of writing or drawings illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place. Graffiti is a problem often overlooked by many member of a community whether it is the everyday onlookers, the youth, or local law enforcement. Many people see graffiti as a victimless crime in which no one really is effected and this mindset has caused many people to perceive the problem of unlawfully vandalizing property as a harmless nuisance that can…

The Homewood Trilogy by John Edgar Wideman questions the effects of his first true influences, the Academy and the Street. “My university training had both thwarted and prepared this understanding, and the tension of multiple traditions, European and Afro-American, the Academy and the Street, animates these texts,” Wideman acknowledges. The essence of Wideman’s argument is that the life he lived at the academy and in the street influenced him to become the person he is today. I agree with author…

encouraged to participate so other inmates do not ridicule him. One of Santos characters is Crip Tank, shot caller the Crips, who once he enters the prison life is respected by the other inmates and must maintain his status by organizing crimes and imposing fear with the prison. Crip Tank describes how he was moved to landscape once the guard discovered his winemaking business. This shift did not discourage Crip Tank from stopping…

A 16-year-old girl is rushed to the hospital on a Friday night in February, instead of her enjoying an evening with friends after a basketball game at school she is being rushed to a nearby hospital where later she would be pronounced dead. According to the MCSO they shooter was aiming towards a vehicle that the victim was in due to another person inside of the vehicle yelling gang slang out the window towards the shooter. It was later discovered this tragic incident was caused by rival “party…

It is evident, that prison gangs are tied to the street gang. And there are also some examples about the gang operated from the prisons (Gang Disciples), which explain the strong influence of the prison gangs on their little brother street gangs. What I found interesting that once incarcerated the member of the gang doesn 't stop or suspends his activity, in contrary of what I was used to thinking before, their gang career continues during the detention and even might be more prominent than…

Gangs Nowadays, the significant problem of the gang increases dramatically in all societies Moreover, everyday a young child becomes a gang member for a better life. It is believed that there are 31,000 gangs in the USA, with members over of 850,000. More specifically, there are many causes for gang formation which have not only social impact but also psychological on individual members. On the one hand, there are several causes which assist in the formation of a gang group. The first…

Gangs are nothing new. At the turn of the century (the early 1900s), many large police departments on the east coast had gang units to monitor the immigrant gangs who got together to protect their neighborhoods and to gather for social reasons. Gangs as most people think of them today were probably first recognized by the public with the inception of the Los Angeles gangs in the early seventies. Why do kids join gangs? The stereotype that comes to many people’s minds is that kids who join…

The Cramps are a unique blend of rockabilly, garage rock, classic horror movies, and teenage angst. The Cramps celebrate all that is dirty and perverse and draw in listeners with their unique sound. This unique blend led to the creation of the psychobilly genre. Punk and psychobilly culture would be completely unthinkable without them, and their presence helped to influence the revival of rockabilly and later rock movements The creation of the Cramps began in 1972 in Sacramento, CA, when Erick…