Gangs in the United States

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    increase of immigrants due to war and extremist groups taking root in the Middle East, many countries have been squeezing past international laws that allow basic human rights for immigrants. Powerful leaders including European countries and the United States have been looked to for support but have mostly responded with hostility, no involvement whatsoever, or unproductive xenophobia. Slow admission processes, detainment without solid evidence, and the prevention of immigrants reaching…

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    In his book, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain tackles the issues of Slavery in the United States (specifically the South). Twain does so by telling the story of a thirteen year old white boy named Huck Finn and his adventures with Jim, a black slave. It is important to note that Mark Twain wrote this book two decades after the Emancipation Proclamation, and while this abolished Slavery, racism was still a real problem of the South. Moreover, Twain establishes the significance of…

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    1960s Youth Culture

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    How did advances in technology and the development of the market contribute to new varieties of youth culture? Affluence combined with other crucial demographic, technological, ideological and institutional factors led to new varieties of youth culture. The youth of the 1960s were generally conformist and apolitical. Young people were at a stage in their life where they were most motivated to construct identities, to forge new social groupings and to negotiate alternatives. They had chosen…

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    Immigration Illegal immigration is when a person migrates to a foreign country to permanently reside without the consent of the foreign country. This growing epidemic has caused many issues in our economy and has affected many Americans in the United States. It’s negative impacts overall effect American society as a whole. Jobs are already scarce in America and with more and more people immigrating everyday, they will only become more restricted and harder to come by. These immigrants are not…

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    a time period of economic recession, war, and agricultural disaster. The 1930s was a also a period of high crime. The murder rate was at 9.7, the highest in American history and burglaries were also at an all time high (“Crime 1920-1940”). The United States crime rate spiked in the 1930s mostly due to Prohibition, and led to the rise of the Mafia and other famous gangsters because of lack of respect towards law enforcement and the government, and triggered rise of the FBI (“Crime 1920-1940”).…

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    time joining dangerous gangs. Finally, illegal immigrants are stealing American citizens jobs. First of all, Illegal immigrants are taking away america’s job. There were one million Americans that applied for Mcdonald's, which is how badly Americans need jobs. Illegal immigrants are taking American jobs which are putting Americans in the dirt without a job. Since the year 2000 because of…

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    by the strictures of Japanese etiquette,” Ulchida does not have many white friends in college she only dates Asian men. Similarly In, America is in the Heart, Carlos only had Filipino friends. Carlos described his relationship with his friends as a gangs or herds of men because there were few Filipino women who immigrated to the U.S before the 1924 immigration act made it virtually impossible for females to get work in on the 50 person quote a year ear man. The federal government wanted Filipino…

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    They all have different visions on what they are going to do and how they are going to live in the United States of America, to live the “American Dream”. The “American Dream” is different for people. It has to do with hope- hoping to find a better life than they had from where they had came from. Opportunities is what people come for; jobs, freedom, dreams. People also want to come to the United States for escape, escaping war, genocide, violence. In the South the biggest problem is cartels.…

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    Dumpster Diving Summary

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    Introduction At the tender age of 13, a teenager named Kevin Mitnick used the art of Social engineering- manipulating people to give up confidential information- and Dumpster Diving - the practice of looting dumpsters to find discarded items that have value – to bypass a punch card information system that was used in the Los Angeles public transport system. He convinced one of the many drivers of a bus to tell him where he could purchase his own ticket for what he claimed was a school project.…

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    government lacked control in just about every aspect during this time. Meaning the system was out of control because there was a lack of control. The first indication that the government was loosing control during this time was found in the view of the United States citizens. People no longer had any trust in or showed any loyalty towards the government. In fact, people were probably the most skeptical towards the system now than ever before. The public was soured towards the government largely…

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