The Gangs In Our Communities By: Adam Taylor What set do you claim? Isn’t that a question we all hear at some point in our school years and maybe sometimes even after. Well I remember being in elementary school and not having to worry about nothing but recess. Those were the days of no worries and no stress. Then came middle school and that’s when things begin to change. Middle school is more about who you hang out with and how you dress. That’s where most of it starts. At the level of middle
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Analysis of a scene in La Haine (homework) The scene I am going to analyse is the ending scene of the film La Haine (Mathieu Kassowitz‚ 1995). In the beginning of the scene‚ the camera gives us a longshot of the protagonists pulling the gang members body into the room‚ this shows the audience a view of what is going on in the distance. The scene then progresses further‚ and we see that the gangmember the protagonists have pulled into the room has been thrown onto the bed‚ Vinz‚ one of the protagonists
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eyes for the last time. This crime is one of many merciless slaughterings done by the infamous gang‚ Mara Salvatuchra‚ or otherwise known as MS-13. This crime stemmed from one man aboard the bus who had ties with the gang. According to the Seattle Times‚ “The suspected mastermind of the bus attack is Lester Rivera-Paz‚ who is tied to an original MS-13 cell in Los Angeles” (Kraul‚ Lopez‚ Connell). The gang is known for their heartless actions of violence and moral codes of revenge and cruel retributions
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In the book Paul Street Boys one of the main characters‚ Nemecsek‚ who is a member of the Paul Street gang‚ could definitely be considered a Christ-figure‚ despite his status as an underdog. A Christ figure is a literary device‚ a particular way of shaping an important character in a novel. He (or she) may not match in every instance to the biblical image of Jesus‚ but bears enough of the characteristics to suggest the relationship. They go through suffering and in the end sacrifice themselves for
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ex-gangster get gangs of our streets? Ex-gangster‚ Nicky Cruz had a hard time as a teenagers as his parents would abuse him and called him the ‘Son Of Satan’ when in reality he practised what the ‘Son Of God’ asked us on Earth to do. From the age of 15‚ he moved out of his family home in Puerto Rico and went to live with his married brother in New York‚ unfortunately after two weeks of living with his brother and his family he decided to leave along with live on the streets‚ the home of gangs. After
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between the two gangs‚ as differences are common. Unlike the Socs‚ “Greasers are almost like hoods; we steal things and drive old souped-up cars... and have a gang fight once in a while.” Ponyboy Curtis lives with his two older brothers‚ Sodapop and Darry. One night‚ Ponyboy and Johnny (a sixteen year old‚ who is a friend to all the Greasers) meet two girls from the Socs and get on well‚ sharing the same thoughts about sunsets and how they wished things were different between the gangs. The two boys
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(“Prohibition”). Many gangs were formed and created due to absence of alcohol. “In chicago‚ gang battles resulted in deaths of 8oo gangsters between 1920 to 1933.” A lot people were killed from illegally trying to transport and make alcohol. When a gang transported the illegal alcohol to another gang others would try to take it for there own use. Since prohibition took away jobs people started making their own. One group will produce and sell‚ then another would transport it. Each gang would have relations
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Gangs in the United States have always been a major problem for both society and law enforcement‚ but for El Paso‚ Texas it seems to be more of a struggle due to close proximity to the Mexico border. As of 2009‚ El Paso had 539 reported gangs and 5‚665 documented gang members‚ (Borunda‚ 21Oct2011). The gangs in El Paso are not only largely populated but law enforcement has noticed the Mexican drug cartel has strengthened its ties with the U.S. gangs. According to the
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BICOL UNIVERSITY BUCSSP Legazpi City A Research Paper Presented To BUCAL Faculty in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in Writing 10 the Discipline By: AB PHILO - I‚ MARCH 2012 Chapter I The Problem and its Background PROBLEM Reasons why students violate school rules and regulations INTRODUCTION The researcher was an alumnus from a private secondary school in Legazpi City‚ he has been observing student violators facing real problems in the school. This give way to decide in this type of
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became targets of local gang violence (known Gangs‚ n.d.). As a result‚ a group of refugees created a new gang to protect themselves. This gang became known as Mara Salvatrucha. The name is believed to have been derived from combining the word "Mara‚" which is the Spanish word for "army ant‚" with the word "Salvatrucha‚" which is slang for Salvadorian (Wikipedia‚ n.d.) When Mara Salvatrucha initially formed‚ their goal was to protect themselves from other Los Angeles gangs. Many initial members of
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