Nineteenth century England brought in its wake not only industrialization but also social degradation. Dickens attacked the social evils of his times such as poor houses‚ unjust courts‚ greedy management and the underworld. The Themes in "Oliver Twist" reflect these evils. With the rise in the level of poverty‚ poor houses run by parishes sprung up all over England to give relief to the poor. However‚ the conditions prevailing in the work houses were dismal and the management were insensitive to
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In “Always Running”‚ a former gang member named Luis J. Rodriguez writes about his rough past. He joined his first gang when he was eleven years old‚ and saw many of his friends die one-by-one as a result of the dangers of being in a gang in east L.A. This broke him down and made him weak‚ but he had no one to share his emotions with which resulted in his joining of a gang. He killed an innocent man for the sake of being in a gang‚ spent several months in prison‚ and participated in numerous shootings
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help and gunshots. Now gang members roam the streets and control most of the cities of El Salvador. Children are prevented from going to school if their school site is on a rival gang’s territory. Along with territory problems‚ many children are afraid of leaving their homes in fear of being abducted by gang members and forced to join. Salvadoran women are dyeing their hair black and dark brown in attempt to stay alive from gang violence. There have been rumors that only gang members’ girlfriends
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certain‚ many scholars believe that youth gangs originated from either Europe or Mexico and appeared in the United States shortly after the American Revolutionary war. Some believe they were formed from simple cultural similarities or religious beliefs amongst certain groups who shared those same connections. Others believe gangs came from the Mexican Migration to the southwest United States after the Mexican Revolution in 1813. Whenever gangs were first introduced to America is irrelevant
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of two different high school gangs‚ finds variations in social responses to deviance that attest to the power and consequences of social reputation. Reputation is made up of one’s past of alleged performance‚ social responses‚ and expectations for future performance. Although both of the gangs studied engaged in the same frequency of deviance‚ one gang received considerable official social control attention while the other one did not. In time‚ members of the two gangs lived up to the community’s
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years old and as being a member of a gang "THE ROYALS" "The Royals had chosen him" this quotation shows how Andy had made the decision joining a gang. The consequence to this decision is when Andy is stabbed by a rival gang member from the "Guardians" as Andy is stabbed the rival gang member shouts " that’s for you Royal" this shows how Andy as an individual is not targeted but his gang "THE ROYALS" is stereotypically targeted. Andy’s decision to join the gang has caused Andy to be attacked and the
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|Related Text Overview: Novel | |Title of novel |The Outsiders | |Author |S.E. Hinton | |Date published
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Moreover‚ according to the article‚ “ The Projects” Diego Vigil explains his study on East Los Angeles gangs and insinuates that “social disorganization theory rests on the fact that cities function in a way that are similar to their environments found in nature”(2).In addition‚ during his study he explains the assumptions made by both McKay and Shaw‚ and suggests that the demographics of the communities like the projects‚ in particular‚ have lack of resources like: high unemployment‚ lack of financial
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Foxx tells the story of reputed gang leader Stan “Tookie” Williams who while incarcerated experience an epiphany and dedicates his life to making up for mistakesof his youth and redeems himself. Recognized as the founder of the notorious street gang the Crips in South Central Los Angles at the age of 17. Williams hadn’t intended on the Crips to become a gang of crime and violence: he wanted them to do something positive to protect his neighborhood from the street gangs. In a few years the Crips had
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down crime rates‚ gangs‚ improve the schools over all academic achievement‚ and level out social discriminations among students. Although this theory may become true to someone who wants it to be true‚ other skeptics looking into this are finding that these positive influences from uniforms are merely misconceptions. Schools’ academic achievements are not influenced by the clothes that students have on their backs. Neither is the crime rate in that school. There were theories that gang members could
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