... was not a criminal anymore he was a hero. Hinton in the story used a lot of description that makes the reader feels he or she is there. She make the reader feels like is real and she get in touch with the audience. While you are reading you can make a whole world in your mind and imagine the scenes. The Outsiders is a wonderful and emotional book perfect for teenager ... . The book can teach a lot of teenagers to not get involved in wrong things. Also to stand for the things they think are right. It can gave an invaluable lesson with an example of the wrong decisions that ponyboy made in...

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... an expert with cars. Darrell was Pony's twenty-four year old brother. Cherry and Randy were secondary characters also. They were "Socs" 's member who were friends of the gang. I believe the main conflict in The Outsiders is "Greaser" versus "Socs." They were always trying to get back at each other by fighting or hurting each other. There were also many minor conflicts in this ... is one of them, Johnny's thinking about death, etc. The rising point occurs after Johnny killed Bob. Everything was as normal as possible before that. I also believe the climax of The Outsiders occurs when John...

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... The Outsiders" by S.E Hinton we are introduced to a boy and his life in a gang. Ponyboy Curtis is 14 years old with longish brown reddish hair, squared off at the end, greyish green eyes, a bit to green for his liking. "I 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 ... better life. "Me and Darry just didn't dig each other. I c...

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... the Outsiders," is set on the cruel, harsh streets of a Texan city in the 1960's. On the surface, the book seems like a tale of mindless violence, brutality and belligerence, but if you scrutinize it then you will discover a powerful story including Christian imagery and profound morals. We are told of the division in society due to prosperity and class between "The ... since they were born, so they just don't think or know otherwise. One thing that is particularly interesting in the story is the gang culture. The group constantly try to sustain their image as a "tough" gang but really, ...

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... . Generally a gang may be defined as people who share a common Identity, usually through a gang name and individually or collectively engage in criminal activity. A good example of this is The Outsiders. Criminal street gangs have become one of the most serious crime problems all over the world. Gang violence, particularly assaults, drive-by shootings, homicides, and brutal home-invasion robberies, accounts for one of ... the largest, single, personal threats to public safety. In the outsiders there are many assaults between the Socs and the Greasers. A gang is also a group of persons ha...

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... and adult's join gangs for difficulties in their life. They feel that they need a group of people to understand and support them through the rough stage of their life. In the novel, The Outsiders, by S. E. Hinton Ponyboy is a fourteen-year-old boy who is a part of the gang called the greasers. His whole remaining family are greasers. Gang life can lead to death and trouble. In ... The Outsiders, Ponyboy is in a gang with all of the people he grew up with in the neighborhood, including his two brothers, Sodapop and Darry. In a fight against the socials, the enemy of the greasers ... , Po...

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... love of a mother or a father, they can likely be influenced by bad people and could lead them into participating criminal activities. Children at a young age can be easily manipulated by outsiders and this will increase the chance for children to get involved into crime such as theft, shoplifting, and murder. A child can blame both of ... the parents for not properly raises him/her, yet this costs them their whole future. Lacking the love of neither parents can psychologically affecting the child behavior and yet that can lead him/her into the life of a committing serious crimes. Hence,...

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... on our criminal justice system. Outsiders look at our country as though we've got it all together. And although we may have it more together than other countries, our prisons are in need of some serious help. Our prisons are either too harsh or too appealing. Many times when a criminal is convicted of a crime the word prison sparks fear into their ... fight each other sometimes until someone is very seriously hurt, or is killed. And if the inmates are not the people handing out the punishments then at times it is the guards dealing them out. Although the people in the prisons are though...

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... colour or ethnicity to judge whether or not they have committed a crime even before any evidence has been gathered because they "fit the profile". Racial Profiling is not an effective way to resolve crime because it alienates and diminishes people's sense of citizenship, creates mistrust ... due to racial profiling. They feel that they are being rejected by Canadian society and feel that they are and always will be outsiders. People from other countries escape from undesirable living conditions and come to Canada in hopes to be treated fairly, equally, and to live a ... being black natu...

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... for some time now. There are three types of researchers that have tried to answer this question. There is the psychological answer, biological answer, and the sociological answer. With all of the studies that have been performed, no one group has come up with an exact reason to why people behave deviantly ... . Although, sociologists" theories have not been disproved as often as the psychologists" and biologists" theories because their experiments are too hard to define and no one definition for deviance is agreed upon by all experimenters ... . When a person does a deviant act they are...

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... ) Examples of organized crime are illegal gambling, prostitution, pornography, loan sharking, bootlegging, and land extortion. ( Incairdi, p.109) In organized crime violence is generally used to ensure the ongoing survival and profitability of an organization. Organized crime has also been known to promote other crimes for profit such as bank robbery, hijacking, labor racketeering, burglary, and arson. ... on Lake Shore Drive, its hospitality". (Gabor, p. 160) Capone's justifications for his activities, whether fully accepted or not, point out the symbolism of the relationship between or...

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