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Culture has been defined as the source of ties that attach members of societies through religion/morals, tradition, food, routines, symbols, values, norms, and way of life, goals, constitutive, perception institutions, your social environment, and fashion. Culture is a powerful human tool for survival and it is constantly changing and easily lost because it exists only in our minds. Everybody have their own culture even gangs. First I will explain the background of gang culture. Second I use…

Gang violence has been around for decades, and studies show that juveniles are joining gangs at an early age for a variety of reasons. The youth gang problem has been stubbornly persistent over the past decade, resulting in an estimated 29,900 gangs and 782,500 gang members, according to a 2011 National Youth Gang Survey. Law enforcement agencies regularly report a witnessed overlap of gangs and drugs, especially on street-level sales. Law enforcement agencies has a difficult task to address…

Compared to the last few years, 2015 provided a slew of eye-popping, entertaining movies. Obviously, Star Wars has completely overshadowed anything and everything else that’s out there at the moment – but from the big budget summer spectaculars to the lesser-appreciated indie flicks, there was a lot to love throughout the year. And, a lot to hate, as well… First things first, plenty of hard-hitting records were set – possibly none more impressive than the those established by Jurassic World.…

Gangs should be handled with extreme caution, because they are known for their violent tendencies. Being a member of a gang is not illegal, but I do believe they cannot be compare to juvenile delinquents or status offenders. I will discuss this matter in depth and support my argument with logical evidence. “A gang is an ongoing group of people that have a common name or common identifying sign or symbol, form an allegiance for a common purpose and engage in unlawful or criminal activity” (Hess,…

Tone and mood can be instrumental in a story and it can be shown easily through the setting. There are many parts of setting that can impact the mood and tone. The mood can be set up by the setting through things like weather, time, and location. Just like in the “The Lady with the Dog” when Yalta feels very sinful and happy, Moscow feels very gloomy and sad, and Anna’s house feels constricting. First of all, Yalta feels sinful for the reason that it is a vacation town and that it has a…

When winter cloaks the mountains with snow or rain, many Californians break out parkas and skis and head for the high country. Others opt for local walks or the gym to keep in shape for spring. A relative few extend their hiking season by heading to that least-visited region of California: its deserts. Deserts cover over a third of the state, mostly inland areas in the south, with a finger extending north between the eastern Sierra Nevada and the state boundary. Too often considered monotonous…

In Zabriskie Point (1970), the California desert serves as a mystic source of freedom: freedom from social pressure, freedom from the laws of man, and freedom from the anxiety of the urban world. The long swathes of flat, dry, dusty desert punctuated by gnarled valleys and mountains calls to those seeking to evade the building tension and unease of American culture centers in 1970. In “The Western, or the American Film, par excellence," Andre Bazin states that the myth of this landscape in the…

To understand the Watts Riot, one has to understand there were many causes for Negros to seek change. Many Negros in the south were subject to physical and emotional violence for many years. Negros' had decided change needed to happen in order for them to have equal treatment. Turmoil within the Negros' communities divided them; because some Negros believed the answer was to protest peacefully while many other Negros believed violence was the answer for change to happen. The Watts Riot began…

Today I would like to talk about my point of view on what I think gang relations can really do. I choose this topic to show you all how gangs will affect you and the people around you. Love for the streets is where they think it’s at but when you stop to think about it, where does the streets really get you. Ya they encourage you but what they are encouraging you to do never gets you where you should be. Statistics show that most gang involvement ends you up in prison or dead. There is a story I…

The Western Migration After the Civil War, people migrated west giving up all that they had for many different reasons, and to do many different things; one reason in particular was to gain a better life. The Civil War caused economic problems in the south, for this reason people migrated west to gain economically. Moving west meant better job opportunities, land ownership, and agriculture. Different groups of people picked up and moved west and in doing so, they encountered major barriers.…