Gangs in the United States

The best countries in the world thrive because of their uniquely successful systems. However, those who fall on the opposite side of the scale can not be overlooked. In some countries, education is minuscule due to reasons such as poverty and violence, among others. The call for better education is a responsibility that lies not only on the shoulders of parents, but also teachers, administrators, and the government. Critics may say that schools are successful because they follow strict plans,…

Growing Up in the People’s Republic Weili, Ye, and Xiaodong, Ma. 2005. Growing up in The People's Republic. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. Growing up in the People’s Republic is a detailed account of two individual women’s generational struggle during the controversial periods of The Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and the Cultural Fever of the 1980’s. Their case study tries to define their individual identity growing up in Communist China. Ma Xiaodong and Ye Weili’s lives allow the…

The hotly contested issue of Central American migrants seeking to cross the United States border is one directly attributed to State failure, the desire for increased capabilities and the need for a stronger political economy. The United States’ obligation to enhance the region’s state capability, political economy, and political legitimacy stems from it’s position as the neighbor having been forever intertwined due to the interconnected political, social and economic world. The article begins…

Since the nineteenth century, there have been many Central American immigrants coming into the United States. Many of the early Central American immigrants came because of job opportunities that were limited back home, and many for example during the 1970s and 1980s, came because they were trying to escape revolutionary wars in their respective country. The hardest thing for a Central American immigrant is not only trying to get to the “promised land”, however it is also difficult learning and…

violence. Many of these children are coming from Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico, and Guatemala, which has the highest death rate. In these countries, there is a serious amount of gang association and drug abuse. According to an August 2014 article, McClatchy-Tribune News Service says," We found children fleeing domestic abuse, gang violence, and drugs. Some were raped and mistreated in other US holding centers." Not only are these children facing harsh conditions back…

resources you have found, but now that you are practically starving, you decide it is time to smuggle drugs. In the back of your mind you know filling out the VISA application to work here would be a smarter idea than trying to smuggle drugs into the United States illegally but you know it would only be a miracle if you ever got the opportunity to use a laptop. Either way, you know that making a few thousand in one trip is going to last your family a few months,…

The Wretched of The Earth. By Frantz Fanon. United States of America: Grove Press, New York. 35-316 pp. paper. The Wretched of The Earth by Frantz Fanon was first published by "Francois Maspero Editeur", Paris, France, under the title "Les damnes de la Terre", in the year of 1961. Later in 1963, "Presence Africaine" published The Wretched of The Earth. From then it published simultaneously in Canada and printed in America. Before I proceed I would like to point the spotlight on the name of the…

America and Mexico trying to illegally enter the United States. Due to their social location or, the group memberships that people have because of their location in history and society, they are subjected to conditions here in America we would never experience. Ana’s father could no longer afford to pay for tuition for her schooling so she had to be pulled from the 7th grade. In the US, school up through high school is free because with federal and state taxes we can afford to pay for free and…

Historically, the United States has been wrought with discrimination and segregation. In the past decades we have become a population without segregation, but did we end discrimination? The answer is no. Media shapes our understanding and view of individuals and crime. Media is our main source of information and our news stations and papers have the power to change the minds of readers. From these outlets we get our information of crime and who they deem “criminal”. The way these are presented…

All over the United States, Immigrant detention locks up hundreds of thousands of immigrants every year. Like prison mates, each wall carefully designed to hold one back from their freedom. These immigrant detention is where thousands of illegal individuals awaits a ruling of deportation or not. These includes the thousands of Central Americans families seeking asylum. Asylum is the legal protection afforded by the United States government to a person who can demonstrate a fear of persecution…