Shawty Lo

Cycle of Violence in City of God City of God is a film by Fernaldo Mereilles and Katia Lund. The film is narrated by a young boy named Rocket and focused on the stories of the local gang leaders in Rio de Janeiro. Rocket observes countless acts of violence to and from the people of the City of God. Although the plot is driven by numerous individual acts of violence, the film illustrates a cycle of violence throughout the generations. Violence causes death, which incites revenge. Almost…

There are many different views on how gangs are perceived in today’s society. During recent years, the rise in technology, especially the internet, has made it easier to access information about gangs. Which leads to popular culture and mass media in today’s society to have major influences on gangs and gang members. Today’s youth also has a crucial connection to the popular culture and mass media in that they are the biggest targets when it comes to gangs and its influence on youth. With…

There are two cities who have had a profound impact in my life. Those cities are San Bernardino and Angelus Oaks. Both cities are located in the Inland Empire of Southern California.Both of these cities contribute different feelings and present a separate kind of home to me. When the two cities are compared they seem like completely different places, however they do share some similarities. Although Angelus Oaks and San Bernardino are completely different in weather, scenery, and the sounds one…

Are civil gang injunctions an effective deterrent? Gangs have been in existence as long as Law has been, dating as far back as the 1500’s, when Shakespeare wrote about "gangs" of sailors. Then in the 1600 's- 1900 's with the Chinese triads, the Italian mafia, and the KKK. . (Gangs before thrasher) the glorification of Jesse James, and Capone kind of set the stage for the gangs of today. Poverty, lack of parental involvement, and the "need" to feel important, combined with the promises of…

The Prevention of Gang Violence In Chicago In the last 20 years Chicago has been ridden with gangs, crimes, homicide, fatal shootings, and devastation due to the loss of innocent lives. Our streets are no longer safe to walk in, children can not experience the comfort of playing in their own back yards, or walking to school. Police enforcement are turning their back to certain areas of the city because ¨they are far too dangerous.¨ The Wall Street Journal, an international newspaper based in…

Twilight Los Angeles there were many interview that where documented from the Los Angeles Riots. Hearing these different perspectives really got me thinking that maybe this books purpose was to cause the reader to see what difference they could make in there society. There are many pieces of art such as movies, TV shows, books, paintings and music that all have this same challenge. But more specifically they deal with the topics of race, class and economic status, such dose the book Twilight Los…

Final Essay When most people hear racial tension, when talking about American history, they automatically jump to the south and the civil war. Many people do not take in to account the effect that rapid westward expansion had on the American peoples views of other races. In the Essay Reconstructing race, author Elliot West try’s to illustrates those effects to us. He describes to us the events that took place and how the civil war and reconstruction after the civil war was effect by both the…

gangs into neighborhood clubs, and mediating and intervening in conflicts between gangs.(1)” Prevention programs that integrate school curriculums with afterschool activities tend to show the most for preventing gang activity. “In larger areas like Los Angeles, prevention and intervention strategies combined with long-term, proactive investigations of entire gangs work better than reactive, short-term investigations and prosecutions of individual gang…

Ah the movies, the smell of butter and popcorn. Finding the perfect seat with a giant tub of popcorn, a soda, and maybe even some candy. Maybe it’s a scifi movie, romantic love story, a true story, or just a movie about everyday life. Going to the movies is always a fun experience, even though it may be expensive at times. It is usually very easy to relate to a character in a movie or just the story in general. The struggles the characters go through are often very relatable to most people and…

communities that share common characteristic. Generally, individuals who live within these neighborhoods come from a low socioeconomic background with broken family ties and little education. A couple of examples from several studies would be “Chicago and Los Angeles, arguably the most gang-populated cities in the United States—over half of the combined nearly 1,000 homicides reported in 2004 were attributed to gangs” (NYGC1996; Howell, Egley and Major, 2003; Egley and Ritz, 2006). Gangs and…