illegal drug trade is worth more than $320 billion. As of right now the only people who are truly benefiting from this revenue of drug dealing is your local gangs. Some 33‚000 violent street gangs‚ motorcycle gangs‚ and prison gangs with about 1.4 million members are criminally active in the U.S. and Puerto Rico today. These are gangs in your city even you backyards. Many are sophisticated and well organized; all use violence to control neighborhoods and boost their illegal money-making activities
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Homegirls by Norma Mendoza-Denton. Through this book she was able to show us the linguistic ethnography of the Sor Juana High School Latina girls in a neighborhood in Northern California. Many of the girls she documents in the book are part of the gangs Norte or Sur. Sor Juana High School is located in Santa Clara California and has a Hispanic population of 403‚000 which is 24% of the population in the county. With the Homegirls book Mendoza-Denton shows us concepts of the Latina girl’s language and
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Informative Essay Gangs “Crip Nation” “Crippin’ is a choice‚ but it’s forever. You may slow down‚ but you will always be down forever.” (Washington 1969). Founded in Los Angeles‚ California in 1969 by Raymond Washington and Stanley Tookie Williams III; the Crips are now a loosely connected network of individual sets. Through the years the gang has grown to be one of the largest and most powerful gangs in the United States‚ currently with over 30‚000 gang members. Members of the are known
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Build top of the line consumers’ awareness. · Creating a personality of the brand. Besides having these general objectives‚ the advertising objectives are set avoiding to the advertising strategy for each product‚ e.g. Sunsilk advertising objectives since it was being re-launched were: · To increase the usage. · Conditioning benefits. · Makes the hair appear clean and shiny. · Imparts a feeling of freshness-due to fragrance. · Easy to manage‚ silky‚ soft hair. · Unique shampoo for every
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Screeching Halt. These boys were involved in a gang and considered to be the most dangerous and violent individuals in the metro area. I sat down and talked to a officer that I know that works in the area where they were arrested. I had asked him what the gang was involved in and how old where the boys that were arrested. He replied and said that the gang members were involved in drugs‚ weapons‚ dealing of illegal substances‚ and committing crimes of the gang and a aggrevated robbery. The drugs that the
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Tre’Voris Word 28 February 2014 Coach Young Economics Freakonomics Freakonomics is a book about provocative analysis of human motivation and modern living. It reveals to the reader a common world through a totally different pair of lens. The author uses the raw data of economics to ask imaginative questions while it forces the reader to think cleverly and divertingly of the answers. The author’s approach to economics was done in a very unconventional way- as a smart‚ curious explorer parallel to
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Cited: Herbert Packer. “Which Model? Crime Control or Due Process.” 22 April 2011 Petersen‚ Rebecca D‚ “Understanding Contemporary Gangs In America.” New Jersey: Prentice Hall‚ 2004. Senna‚ Joseph J. Siegel‚ Larry J. Welsh‚ Brandon C. “Juvenile Delinquency” Thomson Wadsworth. 2003. WWW.SECULARHUMANISM.ORG WWW.JDBAR.COM/ARTICLES/CHILD-NEGLECT
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! Gang Representation in Sons of Anarchy Sons of Anarchy is an American television drama created by Kurt Sutter that airs on FX network. The drama series‚ also known by its acronym SOA or SAMCRO‚ is centered around the culture of motorcycle gangs and includes multiple gangs with differentiated racial makeups. The series is set in current-day California in a fictional town called Charming. The town is modeled as a small-town community which has limited government interference normally and lenient
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than men FALSE Hispanics are more likely than whites and blacks to have ever used drugs FALSE Children who smoke marijuana are 85 percent more likely to use cocaine than peers who have never tried marijuana TRUE OPPORTUNITY THEORY: Street gangs train youths for adult criminality Anomie: the goal of success becomes more important than the means CULTURAL TRANSMISSION: crime occurs in decaying transitional areas Victimless crimes: because people choose the activity‚ no crime has been committed
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done to get rid of gangs. The elements that create gangs are social‚ political‚ psychological‚ economic‚ and spiritual and without confronting this issiues cannot be fixed. The governors‚ school officials‚ politicians and many others who are in charge of protecting the community and make it a better place are not approaching the problem in the best way. “Thousands are hacking at the branches of the problem; few are working at the roots.”( Thoreau); Many who wish to eliminate gang violence are not
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