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    reasons why a person joins the military. Many people join for the wrong reasons instead of the right ones. More people should carefully consider what they are joining for. Myself and many people I know all joined for the right reason. People need to know the risks of joining before they sign there papers. The military is not something you need to jump right into. Myself joined the army in March of 1999. The main reason I joined was to serve my country. Many people were telling me not to join‚ but I

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    On the 14th September The CDI organised a youth conference on ‘Gangs and Guns’. Half the delegates were young people - from this area and a youth project in Birmingham and the others community workers connected in some way with youth work. Half and hour after the conference was due to start‚ the youths were rather thin on the ground and frantic phone calls were being made‚ possibly to get them out of bed. However it was well worth the wait when the first speaker started speaking. Beth and

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    Kathleen Buddle An Aboriginal Youth Gang Narconomy Kathleen Buddle | University of Manitoba Abstract: Native gangs in Winnipeg may function as one of the few avenues for entrepreneurship‚ authority‚ and for the production of non-hegemonic gender identities available to groups barred by race and class from other forms of capitalism or political and cultural power. Native gang narconomies‚ however‚ are entangled with the destabilizing effects of state-legitimated political economies. Attending to

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    a strange thought that people could just walk away from their regular lives to put trust in something so foreign to them‚ but promises a great return or will save them from something that may cause harm. There are many reasons somebody may turn to join a cult‚ because they are very promising‚ and may be the only option remaining for some people because of a tragic event occurring in their life or a mental state they are currently going through. Cults are communities of worship that so often include

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    joining may be of any race‚ gender‚ economic class‚ level of education‚ or former religion. Those who join cults centered around religions‚ are usually previously affiliated with a similar religion. Yet‚ because there is such a large variety of cults‚ there is no specific type of person. Most cults are made up of similar people‚ whether it is a same economic class‚ their culture‚ or race. People who join usually face some sort of recruitment by already members of the cult. Large amounts of cult members

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    Is this how you expect us to join the website? Well then‚ I’m just looking for some notes to help me with an internal assessment. As a common teenager‚ I don’t really expect to have to fill in a 250 word essay and submit it just so I can join a website I will probably only spend 5 minutes on. Hence why this informal essay is on why I shouldn’t do a proper essay for the sake of joining your website. As it turns out‚ I am studying year 12 classics. I am investigating the differences between the movie

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    GANG IS EVEVIDENT AS ONE OF THE BAD INFLUENCED ON TEENAGERS LIVES. Growing up and knowing who I am‚ my values‚ my culture and where I fit in‚ in this world and the societies that I interact with were all the things that made me who I am today. As a teenage of course its all about fun and living wild but the big question is why do young people join gangs ? As a result from gang is evident as one of the bad influenced on young peoples lives the statistics that I found online From most of the

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    defend my country and the freedoms of others. It has been said that the Germans are killing many people just because they are Jewish and that is not right (Johnson‚ 2012). What the Japanese did at Pearl Harbor must be avenged and the sooner I can join the Army the better. The government had passed the draft and young men were signing up by the hundreds. Our family time had started to change since mom had gotten a job at a factory making clothes for soldiers going to war. Mom had never had a job

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    opinion on youth gangs is the same as I view planting a seed. If you plant a seed in bad soil most likely you’ll grow a defected or bad plant. I say that to say this “if a child is raised in an unstructured household most of the time that child will take his home training outside the home. Then we also have our young kids joining gangs that come from good homes‚ but can’t escape their negative environments once they walk outside their front door. Also some of the youths get involved in gangs looking

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    the picture about the media perception of gangs in our society. According to the author the term gang is usually associated with crime and violence by the media which has made not only youth male‚ but also working class individuals victims of media stereotyping. He is trying to point out the fact that the media is actually painting a bad picture and only covers the bad side of the gangs. He is also trying to attack the press and convince the reader that gangs are not all that bad and they are necessary

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