investigate gang culture. Item A: Venkatesh was a student at the University of Chicago in 1989 when he became interested in the housing projects surrounding the university where 27‚000 people lived. He approached a group of Black youths hanging around a stairwell in one of the project buildings but instead of answering his carefully prepared questions he found himself held hostage overnight by members of the Black Kings‚ a crack-dealing gang who thought he might be a member of a rival Mexican gang (Venkatesh
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Given the increasing interrelationships between countries‚ globalization necessitates a shift in the framework of poverty analysis so that poverty at the household‚ community‚ and national level is analysed in a global context. By all standards‚ poverty qualifies as a global issue‚ which has the capacity of engendering conflict if not seriously addressed. Furthermore‚ poverty has never been an isolated problem manifesting in a particular pocket‚ region‚ nation or continent. Poverty is of global
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Why did the nations of Europe gang up against revolutionary France? How were the revolutionary leaders able to withstand this onslaught? A system of alliances between the ‘Great Powers’ of Europe had survived the wars of the Spanish and Austrian succession in the first half of the eighteenth century‚ but the French-Indian War forced a change. In the old system Britain was allied with Austria‚ who was allied with Russia‚ while France was allied with Prussia. However‚ Austria was chaffing at this
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issues that cause inner city youth to join gangs and become delinquent? Discuss whether the New Labour Government’s policies have been effective in solving these issues? 2010 Project by: Alice Mutumba Student No: 05038460 CONTENTS PAGE 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Summary The perception that gang culture in relation to youth crime is growing in the UK is intensified by the media‚ it is very rare to read a daily paper these days without coming across some mention of gang related crime. In order to understand
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Eveline SHE sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue. Her head was leaned against the window curtains and in her nostrils was the odour of dusty cretonne. She was tired. Few people passed. The man out of the last house passed on his way home; she heard his footsteps clacking along the concrete pavement and afterwards crunching on the cinder path before the new red houses. One time there used to be a field there in which they used to play every evening with other people’s children
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RESEARCH BRIEF Publication #2009-44 4301 Connecticut Avenue‚ NW‚ Suite 350‚ Washington‚ DC 20008 Phone 202-572-6000 Fax 202-362-8420 www.childtrends.org Telling It Like It Is: Teen Perspectives on Romantic Relationships By Lina Guzman‚ Ph.D.‚ Erum Ikramullah‚ B.A./B.S.‚ Jennifer Manlove‚ Ph.D.‚ Kristen Peterson‚ B.A.‚ and Harriet J. Scarupa‚ M.S. October 2009 Overview. Teen romantic relationships have become a pervasive part of popular culture‚ from TV shows‚ movies‚ and books to blogs and
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The situation that is being focused on in this paper is the fighting street crime‚ specifically a street gang that has been operating in Redondo Beach‚ California. While trying to fight this negative force in the community‚ the criminal justice had to come up with innovative ideas‚ they realize that focusing on a specific trouble area is one that is not new to most law enforcement officers. It is believed that the “shifting the focus of policing from responding to incidents to proactive crime prevention
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TO: Dr. Jian Cao‚ ACG Professor FROM: Andre Smith‚ MBA Candidate DATE: November 17‚ 2014 SUBJECT: BuyGasCo Case Analysis Introduction The BuyGasCo Corporation (BuyGasCo) case calls into question which costing approach is appropriate in determining whether or not BuyGasCo is guilty of predatory pricing. In determining BuyGasCo’s guilt‚ it should be noted that they have been historically known to provide low prices to its customers. BuyGasCo is a retail fuel and service chain center that has
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I. Background Information In 2000‚ telephone giant Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. filed a lawsuit against “pldt.com”‚ a website dedicated for free speech‚ for P 1.35 M in damages for use of domain name. The telecommunication company charged Gerry Kaimo‚ webmaster and registered owner of the domain name‚ and Philippines League for Democratic Telecommunications Inc. (PLDTI) for trademark infringement and engaging in unfair competition. The telecommunication giant claimed that the said website
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Diaz‚ 25‚ was killed on Anna Drive. Diaz was unarmed and was shot once in the back of the head and once in the buttocks. Officers believed he was armed with a gun and was going to shoot. They also reported that he was a member of the Eastside Anaheim gang. Tension immediately rose between the community’s residents and the police. Interim Police Chief Raul Quezada said‚ “Maybe where we thought we had a really solid relationship with the community‚ maybe those relationships weren’t as solid as we thought
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