... gangs have been a major part of the urban cultural landscape here in America since at least the 1830s. This information I acquired when in English class reading Charles Dickens, and his description of Fagin's pack of young boys roaming the streets of London in Oliver Twist. This then ... carried over to the second coming of the English migration and these groups settled in New York. In the late twentieth century United States, gangs have taken on a different character and ... rapidly becoming centers of gang activities, functioning particularly as sites for recruitment and socializing ...

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... over people's lives. Because of the social climate being disciplined, there were no major wars or social unrest during the Renaissance, which left people free to focus on other important things, such as humanity, individual thinking, and art. I think that the Renaissance was the most important time of ... people to become individual thinkers, because they no longer felt restrained by the confines of the Middle Ages. Many Humanists took great interest in the study of Latin classical thinking, and Humanism became known as the "new thinking". Secular thinking influenced many people to live t...

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