North Side Gang

These gangs are Hispanic based and have been linked to the Mexican Mafia with charges of racketeering, extorting money from drug sales, and conspiring to kill rivals. We know these organizations exist and operate because of the ever increasing crime rates and death tolls. These gangs operate widely in low income Latino neighborhoods, which raises the opinion that maybe if we supplied these neighborhood…

on the streets alone without having the feeling your going to get jumped. This book is called the outsiders and this is a young adult fiction. There is a gang called the greasers and they are like family to each other, there is seven people in there gang, Ponyboy Curtis, Soda-pop, Darrel, Dallas, Johnny, Two-bit, and Steve. There is also and gang called the socs and they have a rivalry with the greasers. I have three main points that I feel was important in this book, the first point is the…

taxpayers, the CIA is guilty of drug trafficking and murder. A well known case involving CIA criminality involved Barry Seal, Oliver North, and illegal drugs. In this case Barry Seal was running drugs for the CIA and was later murdered. Moreover, the case of Oliver North of the Iran-Contra fame involved drug running, the DEA and the CIA. These nefarious activities involving these agencies have been covered up and demonstrate the face of the true nature…

“But I’m sixteen now, and I know the only important things about my pop are his fists. They’re big and they hurt. But I’d never tell him that.” Page 5 Bull used to think that his pop was important because of the name he had but as time went on he learned the truth about his pop. Bull learned that his pop’s fists were the only thing important about him. This implies that Bull has been beaten since he was a child and that if he told his pop that it hurt he would just punch him harder. This…

This movie, The Tribe, is a brutal but brilliant story about a deaf teenager, Sergey, struggling to fit into his new, specialized boarding school for the deaf in Ukraine. There is no dialogue, subtitles, or background music. However, this affects every other small sound such as footsteps, heavy breathing, and car engines intensifying the mood. Also, the bleak settings and surroundings of the characters create the dreary landscape and exaggerate the bitterness and feeling of an amoral environment…

“We know what we are, but not what we may be.” William Shakespeare. What Shakespeare is saying is that identity never stops changing. We do know that the second time we will change with the different people you met will affect your identity. Were you live and many and the knowledge we gain. In the film “when you hands are tied” showed how many people of different lifestyles live in a society where everyone is different. A lot of them shared stories of when they were a child for example a…

On Tuesday night the viewers of “NCIS:New Orleans” were on the edge of their seats as the investigative unit reviewed what appeared to be an accidental death on the race track. Anything but accidental and a story full of plots and twists, the clues of this case revealed a big surprise at the end. Opening up with the fatal accident of a Navy driver at a local New Orleans race track, the team looks at the possibilities of it being an accident. WHile the witnesses aren’t talking, the victim…

In the book the contender Alfred Brooks strives to be someone in his dim lit world. Being somebody seems next to impossible for Alfred but he still would like the chance. Alfred doesn't want to be the best there ever was he doesn’t wanna be a superstar or a celebrity he just wants to be known. Alfred wants to achieve this dream and live his life but there is a bunch of things getting in his way. One of these is Alfred's run down sad neighborhood. This is a poor community filled with jobless…

desperate for money so he can buy food to survive, but he has to deal with the gangs. The other main character of this story is Robert Locke, a sergeant. He is scarred by his thoughts and mind. He just drinks all his problems away. Manny and Robert agree to help each other and they try to survive together. The conflict of this story is 1 man vs an army. Manny has to survive all by himself while dealing with the street gangs.…

Gangs would like nothing more than to have no involvement with outside authority, however, because many gang members come from that neighborhood they have a connection within it. Many gang members are children of residents to the surrounding community and provide protection for residents. The residents of the community also identify with gangs because of their own family member’s prior involvement within gangs. Even though gangs would like to exclude themselves from the community a…