Los Angeles Pierce College

Class Facilitation Assessment • What steps did you take, and when, to prepare for the class session? What additional steps if any, do you in retrospect wish you’d taken? To prepare for my facilitation, I carefully assigned readings I thought would be useful/helpful to students who had and had not seen a lot of Disney movies. Throughout the semester, I set aside time to watch a few Disney movies I hadn’t seen, as well as re-watched movies I hadn’t seen since I was a kid. I felt it was important…

of humanity. The decay of morals and values eventually leads to the destruction of society and the world of Hollywood. Tod Hackett, a young aspiring artist, paints a picture of Hollywood under fire, entitled The Burning of Los Angeles. The painting is described to be Los Angeles in the center of a massacre, representing…

According to Moral Panics and Folk Devils, moral panic defined as an episode, often triggered by alarming media stories reinforced by reactive laws and public policy, of exaggerated or misdirected public concern, anxiety, fear, or anger over a perceived threat to social order (Stanley Cohen, 2002). This book originally distributed in 1972. In general, any behaviour that does not fit in to social norms is moral panic; that is behaviour criticized of by a large number of people and posture…

Gangs are considered a group of people who are cliqued up together. They are also known for committing crimes selling drugs and for the title the most powerful gang in the streets. The gang that I will be doing my research on are called bloods, I chose to do my paper on them because I have a lot of close friends that are a part of this gang and there things that cannot tell me because I’m not a part of the gang and I want to find out somethings that they cannot share with me. The black gang…

Strain theory helps explain why individuals join gangs and how their affiliation to a gang can ultimately lead to these members committing a variety of crimes. Society plays a very important role in how people see themselves in relation to others (Winterdyk, 2016, 177). Individuals believe they are aware with the goals that must achieve and attain in order to be seen as successful by others. For some individuals these important goals could be identified as the house they live in, the car they…

In today’s society, there is a lack of support among those that we esteem to be near and dear to us, leading to a search outside of our normal comfort zone. Family or gangs can be considered to be a group of people who have an on-going relationship with each other and support one another individually or collectively. A network of people who provide an individual with practical or emotional support. Both definitions are similar in meaning but one of them are connected to a word with a negative…

As a commander of the gang unit, If I was responsible for intervening in a cycle of escalating violence among five prevalent youth gangs in my jurisdiction. What can I do to stop the escalation of inter-gang violence? First, I would set up a meeting with all the top members one on one so that I can get a feel for what type of feelings they are having among others in the community and how it is affecting them. According to pg. 153 "traditional organized crime was nationality based; today's…

The Death of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe died mysteriously on October 7, 1849 after being found on the streets in a delirious state four days earlier. While he was in the hospital, he was so confused that he could not tell anyone what had happened to him. Because of this, there is no confirmed cause of death. Since Baltimore was known for its violent elections, a practice started called “cooping.” Although many theories have circulated about how Edgar Allan Poe died, the most logical cause…

My stomping grounds is in California, more specifically Monterey Park which is a 30 minute drive from downtown L.A. Being a Californian always bring pre assumed types of people, either you're a southern or northern Californians. People always assume that southern Californians are very laid back or the party type and that northern Californians are very tech savvy because of Silicon Valley. We are always being compared between northern and southern Californians. Being from Monterey Park…

Angel Hernandez another youth member of the Azteca Program said “the benefits that I get from the Azteca Program is incredible in many different perspectives. First, they keep us out of the streets. Second, the program gives us the tools and the knowledge to become a better person to society. Third, is they help us to improve our grades and soccer talent and last, this is not only a simple program, it a big family where we all have something in common soccer.” The attendance rate is 75 percent…