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    programs that they can join. I know this because the refugees don 't feel like they fit in here and can get into trouble when they don 't have something to do in our society. Refugees that don 't have things to do in our society can cause trouble, join gangs and become criminals. If we don 't help them out with refugee programs and let them do these things, they will corrupt our society and split our towns in half. These programs can be a variety of things. Sports, classes, video…

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    the student to strive for (Banks, 2014). With that being said, there is a force that has begun to interfere with the link between teacher and student, as well as the goals set by teachers to provide an appropriate education. This force, identified as gang affiliation, provides…

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    for the heinous nature of the crimes if convicted. Lopez is considered a known gang member with a prior record. Due to his gang membership, Lopez’s family banned him from returning unless his lifestyle changed. The Reynoso’s family was amiable and let Lopez live under their roof for the time being. As time went on, Reynoso’s father became worrisome of Lopez’s influence on his son and his involvement within gangs which brought the father to ban Lopez from his home. After being abandoned on…

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    eyewitnesses said nothing and Capone was not proven guilty. There are also many other times he has done illegal things and not been caught. His business was one of those things. Because his business was gambling, prostitution, bootlegging, and killing other gangs, he was almost always doing something illegal. Although most people would tell you that Capone was a gangster and a racketeer, he would call himself a businessman. The Capone mob was the most notorious mob at the time. They were built…

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    Being affiliated with gangs is certainly a criminal opportunity, because it has been proven that gang members carry weapons more often than their peers who are not in gangs. Skinheads have shown traits of low self-control, because they have explosive anger when they see minorities walking in the streets of Moscow. This has resulted in vicious beat downs in crowd streets, buses, and restaurants. Another, tragic example…

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    Five Points is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan notoriously known for its gangs, crime, and poverty. This neighborhood was mostly recognized as an Irish neighborhood in the mid-1800s. The reputation of the Irish was that they were criminal by nature, and the horrible conditions of the Five Points helped affirm that reputation. Initially a reservoir in the 1700s, Collect Pond was located just north of today’s City Hall. This pond was the root of spring water for Dutch inhabitants of downtown…

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    In Gran Torino, there are many occasions that the Hmong community experience in the Michigan. Gang activity and violence is one the major conflicts that the Hmong community experience. The Hmong gang harasses and promotes violence and theft towards the community. The Hmong also experience an absence of masculine figures. The absence of masculine figures contributes to the Hmong community being helpless and juvenile. Walt Kowalski becomes the outlet masculine figure of the Hmong Lor family. The…

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    Delinquents over night. The decision of becoming a delinquent or even joining motorcycle gangs is issued upon events that take place during childhood. For instance, Child neglect, maltreatment, and sexual abuse are all events that could trigger this need for freedom and rebellion. This need isn’t satisfied until kids start living the lifestyle of danger, desire, love, death, and sex which is all surrounded by the Gang Mentality that they all relate to. Finally, Once the need is satisfied, a…

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    responsible guardian. It is the loss of her mother or the positive stimuli that places an emotional strain on the young eleven year old child. She lost the stimuli that was of a positive asset to her life and sought to replace. When Cupcake joined the gang she immersed herself in deviant behavior, because she sought to replace the positive stimuli that was taken from her. Second form of strain is when an individual is constantly subjected to a negative stimuli. For Cupcake this came right after…

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    on the street to drug trafficking from Mexico. You could say Chicago has it all. Most gangs that are around nowadays are all pretty much new to Chicago. Most of the ones that had first appeared had either slowly disappeared, or just been wiped out by other gangs or the police. What most of the first more major gangs did were small things compared to what gangs today do now. For example back in the 1980’s gangs were small and mostly trafficking cocaine throughout the state. As the years passed…

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