The Rivals

you should help them even if they are not that good of a person. In the story in “The Sidewalk Bleeding” if someone would have helped Andy he might have survived. Andy was stabbed because of his jacket, the jacket was a gang jacket so someone in a rival gang stabbed him. If Andy didn't have the jacket on he wouldn't have been stabbed and would've stayed alive. In this story "On The Sidewalk Bleeding" I think the author is trying to teach you about violence and how it's not always the…

brought about the most destructive weapons ever seen by humanity. These nuclear weapons greatly changed the face of warfare. Nuclear arms would play a vital role in the following Cold War. They were a cause of the cold war. They were a tool to threaten rival nations. And finally, they served as the deterrent that prevented the Cold War from becoming World War 3. Nuclear arms served as a cause of the Cold War. The Second World War created alliances of convenience. In spite of most members of the…

Mustang, unlike cars of the past this car was smaller but it was fairly sporty. The Mustang looked the part too. Ford dominated the industry for about two years, but the Mustang’s rival was born. In 1967, Chevrolet released its own version of Ford’s Mustang, the Chevrolet Camaro. The Camaro and the Mustang will forever be rivals, but in all reality the first generations of the two iconic cars aren’t that different. These cars have similar stories of origin, similar specifications and performance…

Be that as it may, the last theory that contributes to prism of violence is the general theory of crime. This theory has portions that are very important to the prism, because they take an individual perspective. This theory was developed in 1990 by Michael Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi and has been given mix reviews from other sociologist. According to the two sociologists the source of violating the law ranges on an impulsive trait and absence of self-control. They even attributed…

Introduction While companies endeavor to gain a competitive advantage over their industry and market rivals, the general business environment is becoming more challenging and uncertain. Unlike in the last few decades ago, today’s global business environment is very challenging than ever before. Technology is changing at an alarming speed, competition in the marketplace is steepening, and the general economic environment is becoming tighter. These and other trends make strategies that companies…

In two towns in Mexico there is a bitter rival. The two towns are Hildalgo and San Juan Iglesias. They are rivals because a famous man died in San Juan iglesias but was born in Hildalgo and San Juan has the remains of his body. A couple of Hildalgo men try to steal the bones from the man's grave and fail. There leader is named Pepe Gonzalez. Not long after this event a stranger came to San Juan Iglesias for a birthday party of a girl named Sarita. She is turning 18. The stranger brings a package…

Often, a drive-by shooting or other act of violence occurs following an event which has been perceived as a “dis.” If a gang member is confronted by a rival gang when he is alone, he will leave and return later with his “homies” either immediately afterwards or after they have had time to plan and equip themselves for retaliation. He needs to retaliate in order to keep his reputation intact. Many times…

go to war with the country that attacked. Alliance system contains economic agreements between countries such as loans and contains supplying weapons and materials. The system of alliances in Europe was a new concept because European nations were rivals the whole time. In 1914, Europe was divided into two combinations of great powers: the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria, and Italy, and the Triple Entente of France, Russia, and Britain. Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck,…

People during World War II were very afraid and propagandists used this fear to their advantage. The producers of propaganda typically did not portray rival nations as human but rather as brute monsters tearing apart civilizations. This technique was effective in dehumanizing rival nations. Citizens were not thinking about all the innocent people being affected by this war, but rather of the terrible monster of a nation that needed to be stopped. The written rhetoric…

One of the main security threats in American’s correctional facilities today is gang violence. Correctional facilities are faced with emerging problems related to gang violence such as drugs, murder, extortion, gambling, abuse of religious freedom by spreading hate in the name of religion, “racial enmity” and “racial extremism which is the number one factor of the ongoing problem of racial conflict in the facilities. Some of the security threat groups/gangs contributing to these problems are:…