... her nose. Daisy and Gatsby ran over Myrtle and they killed her. At the end George, Myrtle's husband, killed Gatsby (F. Scott FitzGerald). The corruption in the book The Great Gatsby is similar to the corruption now. The gangsters in the 20's use to bootleg (sell alcoholic drinks) which was illegal. The gangsters now slang (sell drugs) which is illegal. The gangsters from back then and the gangsters from now have a ... use other weapons. In the book The Great Gatsby, Daisy and Gatsby killed Myrtle for no reason and gangsters now kill people with no reason. The Great Gatsby characters life...

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... Illinois, where gang violence, unemployment, and drug use is part of everyday life, it becomes extremely difficult for a young person to overcome the obstacles that they face. In Alex Kotlowitz's book, There Are No Children Here, two young men, Terrence Rivers and Craig Davis are portrayed ... and, inevitably, jail. Craig Davis, a young man close in age to Terrence, becomes somewhat of a neighborhood hero. The community loved him, his peers respected him, and younger children in the neighborhood looked up to him. Craig flourished in a community of drugs, gangs and murder, out-letting his...

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... to ensure that weapons or other harmful material is not available on campus. This doesn't mean we have to go to the extreme scenario of doing random locker checks and bag checks like they do in some schools in the states, just having security cameras is a start. Racial discrimination ... of hate that builds animosity and tension, this type of violence in our schools is growing and has become a cause for concern. Part of the reason for this, is that some believe that schools don't pay enough attention to those students that have a problem, pretty much pushing them away ... the school, even...

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... many prisoners? There is a simple answer to this question, there are too many criminals committing to many crimes. This causes over population in prisons all across the country. Which is dangerous for the inmates as well as the corrections officers. This is not a modern problem it has been going for centuries, same problem different day as they would say. Sometimes they would ignore ... crimes are a disease and just like a physical disease it spreads not through the body but through the society which we live . it is incurable but can be slowed down like Aids but we will never win we wil...

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... despair. Through his love he has betrayed her and led her even more deeply into sin. And so her love turns to hatred of the betrayer. Love has little chance of surviving against the intensity of her concern for her own purity and clarity of conscience. For her there can be none of ... doing, that she was led into it, that it was not really her fault. If Bertrande wants to cleanse herself of sin, she must cease to accept the role of wife. At first she tries to deal with this by begging her "husband" to leave her, but when he refuses, saying that it would confirm ... is her madness, she be...

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... wish they were more grey, because I hate most guys that have green eyes." Ponyboy is a smart, bright boy living in the wrong side of town and consequently a member of a gang called the "Greasers". Living with Ponyboy is his two older brothers, Sodapop and Darry. Their parents had died months earlier in a car accident ... have a better life. "Me and Darry just didn't dig each other. I could never please him." Though he is a member of the gang, he dislike the fights or "rumbles" with the rival gang, the soc's but he is still loyal to them because they are a quite close knitted gang. "When ...

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... people starving; even in the US, people are homeless. The structure of society mainly chooses who is poor and who is rich; it also depends on the person. A person can be guaranteed rich if they are born into one of the few "right" families, which means they get the privilege of getting an education. This quote, from The Great Gatsby accurately describes the state of the poor people in 19th century ... France as well as around the world: "One things sure and nothings surer, the rich get rich! er and the poor get---children ... ...

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... offenders and violent offenders are both the same and different from one another. The experiment also wants to find out what types of factors contribute to the crimes the offenders commit like the uses of alcohol and the relationship of the victim to the offender. The crime committed, the age of the victim, the age of the offender, and the social skills of the offenders will compare a sample ... to be known but of no relationship. In his study he also found that those were molested were also subjected to violent threats and extreme physical force. In the study conducted by McKay, Chapma...

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... no such system set up to handle such problems, which brings us to the introduction of the philosophes. The philosophes were a group of intellectual individuals who hung out in taverns, or salons, to discuss the world's issues, diets, sciences, religions, and politics. They believed in a deist view of god as the creator of this great machine, but not of god in a personal nature. In a time ... when the locals were more interested in just being intoxicated and playing games of chance ... , these "philosophes" took on the task of discussing, analyzing, and dissecting their problems, searchin...

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... Organized Crime One of my favorite movies and perhaps one of the greatest ones ever made stars the great Al Pacino, its name, Scarface. The plot of this incredible film is about a Cuban refugee named Tony Montana who starts with nothing and becomes one of the most powerful hit men in America. He becomes addicted to cocaine, drinks heavily and has more money than he ... ultimately knows what to do with. I don't want to ruin the end of the movie but I will say that he goes a little wild on cocaine and has some unwanted visitors enter his property. Al Pacino also stars in some other great ...

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... amount of 62,000 vacant homes reported at the end of last year. Families were forced to move out due to unpaid mortages or taxes. Banks reclaimed the homes but did not maintain those homes properly. Uncut grasses, broken windows, trash on the lawn, etc. Those vacant properties are nearly ... destroyed due to weather and criminal act. Some people may have entered the homes for prostitution, drug selling and even ... stealing anything valuable that could be resold. Fixing all those vacant homes in Chicago alone will take the city thousands ... If those banks were to tear down those house...

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... codes, whether or not school violence would lessen if student were made to wear uniforms, and that uniforms take away a child's First Amendment rights. The idea of school uniforms has comes from the dress code regulations of the schools. Each school has their own rules and regulations, and in every school there are students who break or disobey them. A school's dress code is ... were committed by students with problems a lot larger than what they were going to wear to school. Uniforms could not have prevented or lessened any of these tragedies. The idea that they could is not based on f...

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... eight times more likely to commit suicide, and twice as likely to be attacked with a weapon. Then probably the worst of them all is juveniles are fifty percent more likely to be beaten by staff. The staff that the citizens" taxes pay to do what abuse young kids. These risks should not be part of a child's ... punishment. Congress says their reasoning is to cut back on costs, but these children who live from day to day in fear ... are going be released in an even shoddier state than when they entered. Studies have shown that victims of rape and sexual assault are more likely to exhibit a...

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... intent. " everybody is equally good and equally bad." Society teaches us to be good and then we will get rich and be happy. The question is: do people truly get rich by being good? According to Darrow, people have to find other ways to "get rich." Not ... everybody in jail is an "angle," but they are all trying to do the best they can. "A jail is evidence of the lack of charity of the people on the outside who make the jails and fill them with victims of their greed." Prisons do not accomplish anything. Some people ... commit crime because they need the money or they are trying to feed ...

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... society makes rules, so that we can be civilized and that as citizens we should follow these rules. This social contract theory supports the idea that law without punishment is worthless. Punishment is needed so that there are repercussions for law breaking which discourages crime. In a ... well defined legal system, there are known consequences for various crimes. Retribution is necessary in cases were the crime is unlikely to happen again. For example, Martha Stewart is unlikely to get involved in stock market scandal again so there is ... set procedures for a therapeutic remedy. This...

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... but today they pose their greatest threat. Gang activity can range from simple graffiti to first degree murder. It seems that the gang related acts of violence reported on the news daily are getting more brutal now than ever. We as a country and as individual communities need to act now and ... employ anti-gang programs and strategies that will prevent our youth from throwing their lives away like they have been doing so frequently over the past decade. Juveniles across the ... They join gangs because they feel a need for power, their friends are in a gang, they feel neglected, and othe...

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... because they can rest assured that they will never hurt anyone again. The death penalty satisfies the demand for justice. It channels the family's outrage into the acceptable form of a criminal sentence. If criminal sentences do not satisfy this demand for justice, angry family members may lose respect for the law and even, on occasion take it into their own hands. As we have seen, In ... order to assure that victims of severe crimes will see justice, to save the hard ... working taxpayers some much needed money, and to allow the victims family peace of mind, the death penalty should b...

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... of a crucifixion was humiliation and this is why the soldiers hung Jesus almost nude and beat him (Gorman 167-168). The person being crucified had to carry a piece of wood on his back and it was attached to a post placed in upright in the ground (Doney 17). "The victim's wrists were tied or sometimes nailed to the cross-beam before it was hoisted up and fixed ... to the upright," (Doney 17). The victim's feet were either tied together and left ... dangling or nailed to the upright beam (Doney 17). Jesus is ... ...

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... a baby. When he was older, Oedipus visited the Delphi Oracle, where he learned the same terrible news. Hearing this, Oedipus fled from his new home, back to Thebes where he thought he could escape an inevitable destiny. On the journey Oedipus was confronted and harassed by a group ... of travelers, whom he killed in self-defense. None-the-less, one of those travelers was his real father, Laios. When he reached Thebes he heard the ... terrible news of the King's death. Knowing that Thebes ... see / When all my sight was horror everywhere (Act 1. Scene 4. Lines 110-115)? When Oedipus te...

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... Brazil. Eric Brazil apparently has lost his key witness in a high profile drug case. He is furious. Not because of the witness's death, but rather the fact that his work on the drug case was ruined. This victim is definitely portrayed in a bad way. The cop says it okay he died because he was an alleged gang member and a drug dealer. As is turns out ... the witness was only fourteen years old. When the grieving mother tries to cry on the police officers, Eric Brazil, shoulder, she is pushed away. The police officer has no sympathy for the victim's family. In the flowing scene Jordan ques...

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... profound. Research has shown us that children who grow up in low-income homes are less likely to complete school and more likely to have health problems. In most instances the underclass begins in childhood, come from low-income families and rarely move back in "social order", in other words, research has found it unusual for a person to go from a middle ... up in a more affluent society have completed high school and in many cases college. This gives them a more stable background to fall back on compared to the "underclass" which rarely have completed school and in many cases have fall...

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... Birmingham Jail" written by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is the most outstanding example of argument I have ever read or heard. What is the most shocking about the letter are the conditions Dr. King was under when he wrote the letter. He wrote portions of the letter in the margins of a newspaper and on scraps of paper until his attorney was allowed to supply him with paper. I assume ... that King did not have the luxury of referring to any books because King was ... not even allowed paper. The fact that King was able to put together a letter that ... ...

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... what they do because they believe in it or if they do something when they are not in control. For example a person doing something through the influences of religions (i.e. prisoners of conscience or dead bodies of conscience), drugs, etc. Those countries that have death penalty argue that it is necessary ... supported because it reduces the number of people. It is used to solve over-crowding in prisons and to get rid of large groups of people who question the way the country is being run. Instead of death penalty, there are many other replacements for it, and on of these methods is ca...

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... Union supports capital punishment. And no one would argue that European society is not civilized. The death penalty is not a requirement for a modern, civilized society. The United States does not need such a punishment to function. In truth it is probably harming the U.S foreign policy. (Last year, while on a visit to Spain, President Bush struggled for an answer when faced with abolitionist protesters.) Most nations ... in the world view capital punishment as cruel and barbaric. And the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution prohibits "cruel and unusual punishment". How the leader of th...

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... , as T. took charge of operation. T. had his whole mind set and made up about the plan. Being very commanding, the rest of the gang had a hard time disagreeing with him. For instance, while the boys were carrying out the plan of destroying Old Misery's household, one of the members asked if the should stop (since they had already damaged enough). But, Trevor, being so sure and confident ... because he felt anyone could . The damage they had unleashed. Of course, everyone agreed with him, otherwise they would be considered soft. The amount these boys destroyed was tremendous. Perhaps livi...

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