Gangs A gang is a group of recurrently associating individuals or close friends with identifiable leadership and internal organization‚ identifying with or claiming control over territory in a community‚ and engaging either individually or collectively in violent or other forms of illegal behavior. When a new member joins the gang he or she must go through an initiation‚ the most common initiation is “jumping in” or getting beaten by all the gang members and/or committing acts of theft or violence
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telecommuter Smith‚ or hog butcher Smith? Chicago‚ by Carl Sandburg‚ gives ordinary jobs‚ such as a hog butcher‚ the honor of titles. Sandburg opens the poem with well worded apostrophe by giving the city of Chicago these honored jobs. Chicago does not symbolize these jobs‚ or contain people who have these jobs; Chicago actually has those jobs. After Sandburg establishes Chicago’s different jobs‚ he goes on to talk about what other people say about Chicago. Although these things are phrased as accusations
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officially became a part of Chicago sports in 1925. Originally‚ there were two club basketball teams that were put together by George “Papa Bear” Halas in Chicago. They were both named the Chicago Bruins. Another team known as the Harlem Globetrotter originated in Chicago in the 1920’s too‚ but were forced to play road games once the skating rink they played in closed down. The first NBA basketball team however to be a part of Chicago was a team called the Chicago Stags. This basketball team
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A gang is an organized group of criminals. There are many justifications as to why people join gangs. These reasons derive from having a sense of “family”‚ need for money‚ desire for protection‚ tradition‚ peer pressure‚ and to be seen as cool. Joining a gang fulfills the basic human need to belong to an organization. When people join gangs due to wanting a sense of family it may be caused by not receiving enough attention at home; and that is with a negative or positive home life. Most people in
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Chicago has world class museums that make the city one of a kind. Some of the museum are listed on the top of the world‚ for example‚ the art museums of Chicago has several famous artworks from all over the world. And the other museums are famous for their artwork and sculptures. One of the most famous and exalting museum is the cultural center‚ which is located on Michigan Ave and Randolph. The location of this museum played a big role in making this museum one of the most visited museums in Chicago
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212-547-7029 www.ite.poly.edu October 2000 Copyright © 2001‚ Institute for Technology and Enterprise‚ Polytechnic University. I. Background As he sat in his office in The Tribune Tower in downtown Chicago on a sunny morning in August‚ 1999‚ Owen Youngman‚ Director of Interactive Media for The Chicago Tribune‚ reflected on what it was like to manage the Chicagotribune.com: The big deal is that you get up in the morning and come to work and you are on the bus and you know you’ll make a mistake today
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------------------------------------------------- Gangs in the Prison System By Jinja Jones ------------------------------------------------- Gangs in the Prison System By Jinja Jones INF 103 Computer Literacy Instructor: Lambert Fooks March 4‚ 2013 INF 103 Computer Literacy Instructor: Lambert Fooks March 4‚ 2013 Table of Contents 1. What are Gangs? When did gangs come into existence? 2. How do gangs finance/support their groups? 3. Different types of Gangs in the Prison system
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More Black Children Die in Chicago from Gun Violence than Soldiers from Chicago Die in Iraq By Phillip Jackson Recently in Chicago‚ teen gunman boarded a crowded public bus near a high school and opened fire with a handgun. I imagined this scene must have been similar to the bus bombings that are so common in war-torn Iraq. As I researched this analogy‚ I found striking similarities between what is happening in Black communities across the United States and what is happening in a full-fledged
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| Dante ’s Satan and the Medieval Thought | Sympathy for the Devil | | Maria Roberta Vella (374890M) | 2/6/2013 | | Dante ’s Satan and the Medieval thought When reading the Divine Comedy‚ one realizes that the Middle Ages‚ as far as they may be‚ they preserve a reality so close to us that one remains amazed. The question that arises naturally is whether it is Dante‚ that looks forward and is therefore able to make us conscious of our past and consequently relate the
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a group of hoodlums who tote guns‚ sell drugs‚ and ruin neighborhoods as thugs‚ and gang members. These are things not tolerated or seen as good in society so it’s considered a violation of social norms. A street gang is group of people that form an allegiance based on various social needs and engage in acts that can cause harm to public health and safety. Members of street gangs engage in‚ or have engaged in gang-focused criminal activity either individually or as a group‚ they create and fear and
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