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and disrespect me and my parents. He even went as far as to disreuguard alldisregardltural making fun of and not participating in anything my family tried doing to keep our cultural alive in our home. The worse "problem child issue" came with the new gang he decided to become a part of. Vandalizing street signs, skipping class, and sometimes not coming home for days. My families goal was to give me and my brother a better life, but he was ruining this for him all on his own. My brother decided…

Chicago Chicago, nicknamed the “Windy City” and “Second City”, is one of the most loved cities in the United States of America and now home to hundreds of thousands of people, making it the 3rd most populated city in the U.S.(“Wikipedia”). Chicago is called the “Windy City” because of the cold gusts of wind that blow from Lake Michigan, it’s called the “Second City” because that’s what it was often called during the battle with New York. Chicago is an adored location because it is a major city…

Both Scarface films are gangster films which makes pinpointing the theme of both films fairly easy. They are both filled with guns and violence so the theme stands out in both films. The overall theme in both movies is the rise and fall of crime kingpins through lies and deceit corruption, and murder. In Scarface 1983 it is about the rise of Tony Montana drug-empire and how he let money take over his life and eventually be the cause of his death in the end. In Shame of a nation it is about Tony…

creation of the Slauson gang formed. The police and everyone else believed they were gang members but the people in the group believed they were a group. They believed they were a group because hey weren’t allowed to be in boy scouts or any other group. After the Slauson gang was created different little group of the Slauson gang started forming their won little groups. This is were the Crips and the Bloods came out. Crips were the gangs who wore blue while Bloods were the gangs that wore red.…

basic humanity can be found within all people in the face of hardship. S.E. Hinton, the author of The Outsiders, displays evidence supporting this idea through the characters within the wealthy East-side gang known as the “Socials” and the self-described “hoodlums” within the far poorer West-side gang known as the “Greasers.” The Greasers and Socials, like all other people, are more alike than different, their economic statuses notwithstanding. Throughout the novel, Johnny Cade, a Greaser who…

The author of “Rise of Crime” tries to deal with the issue of the rising crime rate in Malaysia. Even worse, its can affects our country’s economic growth and democracy. The author argues that he supports the idea between Malaysia’s rising crime levels based on the crime statistics that have been conducted in Malaysia. The author begins his arguments by stating the research studies of which studies have shown that the poor economic condition of a country such as high rates of unemployment, low…

Gangs, such as MS-13 have a negative impact in our society, effects communities through America, and family orientated homes. Did you know over the past decade, annual estimates of the number of gangs have averaged around 27,000 nationally? (National Gang Center, website.) MS-13 is perhaps the most notorious street gang in the Western Hemisphere. While it has its origins in the poor, refugee-laden neighborhoods of 1980s Los Angeles, the gang 's reach now extends from Central American nations…

Gangs and gang behaviour has become a general debate. However, when asked to describe a “gang” and its characteristic, most people would struggle to give an agreed definition on what constitutes a gang. In spite of this, the beginning of this book gave us a history of the “new” gangs of London. This book refers to them as the “New” gangs because as we have seen gangs are not a new phenomenon, but are deep rooted in our history. In establishing a definition, of who should be referred to…

One of the most interesting aspects of the involvement of youth gangs in drug trafficking relates to the role of culture in reshaping narco-trafficking as a socially tolerable activity. In Mexico, for example, as noted by Bailey, the drug-trafficking organizations recruit young men and women in part through their influence on music, popular entertainment, and other aspects of culture that appeals to youth. Youth are particularly vulnerable to the influence of popular entertainment and music,…

antisocial behaviors through the access to gangs and other organizations that make these young women feel apart of something bigger than life. A study conducted at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign concluded that adolescent female involvement in gangs is significantly more present in homes where the children were subjected to greater levels of aggressive physical and verbal abuse, delinquency, family gang involvement, and house ejection. Female gang members reported having experienced…