... of a way to be associated with others like you. Almost like a second family for some. This is partially the reason the violence started. If another gang would encroach on your turf or another member of your gang than something would have to be done. Then the other gang would have to retaliate for what you did to their member. And so a long chain of successive events ... . Funds have been slowly decreasing in programs all around the country. This means that the police have no where to send a potential gang member for rehabilitation. So the youth goes back out on the street and finds frien...

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... of a way to be associated with others like you. Almost like a second family for some. This is partially the reason the violence started. If another gang would encroach on your turf or another member of your gang than something would have to be done. Then the other gang would have to retaliate for what you did to their member. And so a long chain of successive events ... . Funds have been slowly decreasing in programs all around the country. This means that the police have no where to send a potential gang member for rehabilitation. So the youth goes back out on the street and finds frien...

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... the dangerous world that they live. As Berry's says culture rap is a vehicle for self expression. Rap opponents argue that the violent and sexually explicit lyrics of rap music cause the young black culture to act out in criminal ways and exploit their women. This group of people believe that the monkey see monkey ... do idea comes into play and that the African American youth watch the violence in music videos and repeatedly hear they violet lyrics in rap songs and this causes them to become ... lyrical story line present a message of anger and frustration from urban existence."(613) ...

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... of "hype" news. My best friend was murdered over the Thanksgiving break while visiting with some friends. Through investigation it was found out that the triple shooting was gang related. Although, my friend was a victim, she was hardly involved in a gang. The media took the gang lead and ran with it. They made up the rest of the story with the little facts they had acquired, so they could print ... the story the next day. They came up with a flashy title and put a picture ... of my best friend right in the middle of the article, which they stole from her obituary. What kind ... ...

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... usage. Gun control is also wrapped in a series of social issues such as crime and drugs. Guns have become closely linked to drugs and murder in the public mind. Drug dealing and high tech weaponry have increased the bloodshed in cities between long established gangs. Gang members predominantly use guns of crime. Many police officers are killed every year due to drug and ... gang related incidents involving guns. Drugs may be illegal, yet we are still having a problem with controlling them. If guns are made illegal, then we will probably end ... up in the same way. I believe that the so...

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... just a little bit harder if you catch my drift This family didn't seem to have any trouble doing what they had to do, so let me tell you the story. It all stars out with a young girl named Maria Agusta Kutschera. She was born on a train enroute to Vienna just before midnight on January 26, ... they finally came up with a conclusion that the reason Maria was so sick was from the lack of fresh air and exercise. This was what she did most before she came to the abbey, and to have it just taken away so fast made her system go crazy. The nuns in the convent all came to a decision that Maria ...

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... American citizen is a simple health test. European immigrants flocked to New York, Chicago, and Boston, and Asian immigrants settled up and down the West Coast. The rapid growth of these cities caused major problems, such as lack of jobs for all people. Tenements were extremely small rooms that were rented out ... would start out with the fact that babies were one of biggest hindrances for a family. Children as young as four had to go into work, so no one could watch the baby. If it managed to get to the age of five, then it would probably be sent to a factory as a "monkey". "Monkeys" we...

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... , they have given their freedom." These words demonstrate the acknowledgement only felt by Colonel Shaw towards the blacks, he understood and realized that the blacks should be honored in just attempting to defend the lives of Americans. "They"re little monkey children that don't know how to control themselves!" Almost every major in the regiment viewed the black soldiers in a lowery manner, not treating them ... equally as how white individuals were treated. Another example that demonstrated how these men were very cruel with the colored men was the occurrence when Trip got ... colore...

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... bills were introduced that were aimed at resolving or aleviating the problems encountered by health care consumers in America. The two bills are very similar with the exception being the difference in a patients right to file lawsuit, and the amount one can sue for. The senate bill (S1052) was sponsored by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA) , and Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) and was approved ... - with modification - by a vote of 59 to 36 on June 29, 2001. The House bill (HR2563 ... allow patients to sue health plans in state or federal courts with unlimited state punitive...

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... only give small fines to pay, while others giver worse punishments, as well as imprisonment. If we legalize marijuana, we reduce the black market and the violence associated with the sale of marijuana. If it were legal, no one would have to sneak around trying to sell and or get it. People ... would not fight over it or kill over it if it was as available as cigarettes or alcohol. I believe gang fights would ... decrease and there would be less deaths in more urban areas. This would weaken organized crime a lot. The government could tax the sale of marijuana and use this income to lower...

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... enough to defend their privileges against unruly masses. The Consensus, also known as Neo-Conservatives, was dominant from 1945 until 1980. Consensus historians asserted the unity and homogeneity of America's past, the stability of basic institutions, and the existence of a homogeneous national character. Famous historians of the Consensus include: Hal Bridges, Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Harold Livesay, H.W. Brands, Edward A. Purcell, Jr., Albro Martin, Louis Galambos, and Hugh ... G.J. Aitken. Consensus historians, like the Progressive historians, were anti-businessmen. Consensus histori...

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... so focused around computer games and television that reality is no longer easy to distinguish from fantasy and abnormality. Professor Fukaya of the New York Times says "They haven't been growing up with real feelings, living with real friends, or with real nature." ... four British children has their own VCR and uses it to record s-rated films late at night. X-rated films are not the problem. The problem is that the films are x-rated for a reason and this reason is that they are not designed for children's ever believing eyes. Figures ... much more violent and dangerous place than it...

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... a form of music; it helped create a whole culture called Hip-Hop. Hip-Hop originated from the ghettos of the Bronx in New York City. Break-dancers, graffiti artists, djs, and emcees are all apart of the hip-hop culture. A song called "Rapper's Delight" by the Sugar hill Gang was the first rap song to go mainstream. There were rap songs before this (1979), but "Rapper's Delight ... " started the takeover. Many rappers today claim that song is the reason they rap. Rap has come a long way from the days of Run-DMC and N.W.A. Yet these ... groups help start the crazy popularity of rap music....

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... animals for medical experimentation has been one of the most controversial issues in our world since the seventeenth century. Edward Augustus Freeman stated, "The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, faithful animal race form the blackest chapter in the whole world's history." In the United States, it is estimated that twenty to seventy million animals including cats, dogs, primates, rabbits, rats, and mice suffer and die ... in the name of research. At least thirty-three animals ... ...

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... resisted the Reconstruction, and if they cooperated the Reconstruction would not have been killed. The North on the other hand was not effected as much as the South after the Civil War. The North neglected the South, by practically forgetting about them, and not putting effort towards the Reconstruction of the South. After the Civil War the North put the South under the rule of the US Army, causing anger and aggression from the South. The North ... the South was soon lost. But, the North did put effort into the Reconstruction but South quickly resisted. Racism, the hatred or intolerance o...

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... by association, and allows us to assume Tom's investigation that Gatsby made his money through bootlegging is true. This can further be related to gangsters of the time such as Al Capone, who became the era's most notorious gang lord by establishing a bootlegging empire in Chicago that reputedly grossed more than $60 million in a single year. Many white, urban Americans in ... youth rebellion against past moral restrictions led to a new culture . Even though Gatsby is corrupt he still shares or holds higher moral values then other characters in the novel. Exemplifying the loose social mo...

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... say that these "stereotypes" paint an untrue picture of Asian Americans in this country and forget to tell the country about the many Asian Americans that have hardly assimilated at all. They do not recognize the many families on welfare, those who are gang affiliated, the drug users and those that live in run-down, crowded tenements who suffer from tuberculosis and depression. It forgets ... the many who are forced to work in sweatshops and live below poverty level. Secondly, the Model Minority Myth is a dangerous concept because Asian Americans ... are alienated from the majority rac...

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... behavior is only bullying. This way it is easier to intimidate a country and make them do what you want. The traditional alliances of the United States are afraid because the countries on the list of evil that America has produced are close to them. For example, South- Korea is scared that America ... used to create more of a world peace. Most of the people from every corner and religion of this world disagreed with what happened that day in America. Al Qaeda was described as a sick gang of terrorists and even in the Islam world it was not accepted what he had done. ... This could have...

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... others they wore guano bags with holes punched in them for the head and arms. Children were never issued shoes until they were sent to the fields, usually at the age of six or seven. Young workers were broken in as water boys or in the "trash gang." At the age of ten or twelve, children were given a regular ... field routine. A former slave recalls, "Children had to go to the fiel' at six on out place. ... Maybe they don't do nothin' but pick up stones or tote water, but thy got to get used to bein' there." Cooking on the plantation ... John Tubman and took his last name. She also chan...

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... were anxious not to alienate America and not bring them into the war; therefore they abandoned the U-boat campaign. "Wilson contented himself with securing German assurances that such atrocities would never be repeated" (Paul Johnson). Wilson's aspiration for peace was evident; he proposed a peace conference to Edward Grey, the British Foreign Secretary and implied that if the allies accepted to partake in peace talks whilst ... the Germans would not then the U.S would be more inclined to join the war on the side of the Allies. However, neither the Allies nor the Germans seriously belie...

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... profiling. Now when state troopers arrest a person for drunk driving, no matter who they are, where they are from, or the color of their skin, they will be sentenced the same way. They will both go through the criminal justice the same way. The only difference exists now when dealing with more serious crimes such as murder in all degrees as well as rape. Many ... department as well. These rights protect citizens as individuals from the government and limit the power that the hierarchy of justice has. If it were not for these two amendments, the individual's rights would not be as useful...

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... to take on these extra responsibilities in order for the family to survive. The United States of America played a huge role in the war in Laos. "The Hmong had a four-thousand year reputation as scrappy fighters"(127). It is for this reason that the American CIA asked the Hmong to take part in the War. The CIA inherited a highly trained gang of Hmong guerrillas to help aid America in ... the War in Vietnam. The Hmong agreed to help for fear that after the War their opium trade would be taken over by the Vietnamese. Also the Hmong believed they were likely to gain status if ... they came...

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... America (Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, Florida). The Diaspora gives birth to a new human being: the African American, who links together the African and the American culture. The Crossing of the Ocean The crossing of the Atlantic Ocean is a very important phase of the Middle Passage. It includes a vast number of aspects and elements: the slave ship, the sense of community, the function of the sea, the horrible treatment and condition of life in ... different, something "new". The line is taken from the poem ".....", where it is repeated several times, at the beginning a...

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... over. To me there are many advantages and disadvantages for Englanders that move over there. The disadvantages would be the long trip over on a boat, which today we would use an airplane to get over the sea in a quicker way. Not knowing if you are going to land on the right island or land, but one with sane people that won't kill or eat ... wouldn't have a place to live or know what food is good to eat. You would be subject to many deadly diseases that were very contagious like the Bubonic Plague. The advantage to moving there would be the many opportunities for people that didn't have ...

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... stress on your life, or if your children are beginning to be to much for you, and mabye even school is putting your life into overload mode. The best medicine to treat these kind of problems in your life is to take a vacation to somewhere where you can get a little rest and relaxation. There ... vacation spots you can go to put a little ease into your life. For instance, take a Caribbean cruise where you can enjoy the heavenly waters and bathe in the warm sun. Another great place would be the mountains, if you like sitting in a comfy cabin in from of a nice fire and drink hot cocoa. New...

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