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Ways Of Life Gang Violence
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Youth Crime Mass Communication
1,164 words... on the screen. Perhaps the biggest advantage for a bookseller to start an electronic storefront is that the WWW is also one of the least expensive ways to start a business. Merchants do not have to pay rent or spend money on fixing and painting a store in the real world. For example, Amazon. com currently records sales of $ 1. 2 billion a year, which is equivalent to sales from 235 Barnes & Noble stores (web). However, amazon. com has invested only $ 56 million on fixed assets while Barnes &...
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Italian Immigrants Southern Italy
869 wordsItalians immigrated in large numbers in the early 1900 's. It is estimated that nearly three million immigrants came to the United States between 1900 and 1914. They immigrated to America to better themselves. Most of them lived in poverty and desperately needed an alternative. America was their alternative for a new way of life, a new horizon. I will discuss the arrival and acculturation experiences of Italian immigrants in New York City and Chicago. To understand these immigrants, one must fir...
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Works Of Art Political And Religious
1,142 words... ion of each was supposed to represent. Was it the past, present and future? Who was this man and whom is he supposed to represent? His features appeared to be of a black man. Is he representative of a passenger, who looks around him as he waits or leaves the station? Is this sculpture someone who I would see as I waited, as another face in the crowd? These were some of the questions the group I had collected along my way asked one another. The representation of the community within the sculp...
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White Middle Class Forced To Move
938 wordsThe movie, Save the Last Dance, goes along with all of our discussions and conversations about the visual difference between the black and white cultures and the stereotyping that Hollywood does of the two cultures. The movie shows the difference in the two cultures, according to Hollywood. you have your typical white middle-class suburban girl (Sarah) and your typical low-class black boy (Derrick). Save the Last Dance is a love story about the pros and cons that comes along with interracial dat...
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Hall Of Fame African American
1,647 wordsHistory of Harlem's Architecture There are a lot of various controversial statements about Harlem, this community has always been considered somewhat dangerous by the white inhabitants of New York, who were unwilling even to walk through it sometimes. However, the history of Harlem is rather interesting, there were a lot of events, which influenced the lifestyles of Harlem's inhabitants and also had a profound impact on the countrys history as a whole. The history of Harlem's architecture is clo...
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Middle Class Society Roman Empire
2,476 wordsNever in history has a generation differed as greatly from those of the past. The gap between the rich and the poor is widening, thus, their are more people living in poverty and more "middle class" society being forced to live in poverty. Our world is full of hate for one and other, mostly caused by a pre-conditioned belief of each other. We would be lead to believe that we live in an "enlightened society" by our worlds leaders, but the truth remains that poverty, hunger and human misery remain...
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Good Will Hunting Robin Williams
983 wordsA studious young man, an open book these two images swirl around the screen in a kaleidoscope effect, this was the introductory scene of Good Will Hunting. This scene is followed by Ben Afflick, knocking on Wills door, when Will comes out a credit rolls by that says, screenplay written by Ben Afflick and Matt Damon, just as the two walk side by side. This shows how perfectly the makers of this movie have everything timed, down to the credits. Also, the timing shows when the professors assistant ...
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Law Enforcement Officers Quality Of Life
3,372 wordsCommunity policing has emerged since the 1970 s as an increasingly important strategy for controlling and preventing crime and enhancing community safety. It is both a philosophy and an organizational strategy that allows the police and the community to work closely together in creative ways to solve the problems of crime, drugs, fear of crime, physical and social disorder, neighborhood decay, and the overall quality of life in the community. Community policing is difficult to define. Although i...
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Third Place Black Man
636 wordsThe Problem Of Place In America AndThe Problem Of Place In America And My Neighborhood: The Breakdown Of Community The Problem of Place in America and My Neighborhood: The Breakdown of Community WR 121 Paper # 2 In Ray Oldenburg's The Problem of Place in America and Ishmael Reeds My Neighborhood the authors express thier dissatisfaction with the community. Oldenburg focuses on the lack of a third place and the effects of consumerism on the suburbs, while Reed recalls his experience with prejudic...
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African American Men Racial And Ethnic
1,378 wordsA Sociological Critique of Spike Lees Jungle Fever Liana R. Prieto (April 1998) Spike Lee? s Jungle Fever is not a unique cultural production, but a reflection of splintered aspects of real life. It depicts relationships between African-Americans and Italian-Americans centering on one interracial relationship. The film is as much a critique of urban life in New York City as an examination of interracial relationships. It presents a bleak picture of city life full of stereotypes where no racial g...
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World We Live Strengths And Weaknesses
1,058 wordsWe should look at the differences of the world and try to learn from them. All people have their good points and bad points. We live in a world that is not all white, all black, or not even all yellow. We live in a world where all races interact among themselves. The university in the United States is where this is easily seen. At the university, we see people of all color and ethnicity from our neighborhoods and from around the world. This is the place, where we are hoped to be forged into begi...
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Lived Their Lives Body Was Found
3,276 wordsJack the Ripper is remembered as one of history? s most famous, daring, and heinous serial killers. His technique of getting his victims to lay down before he slashed their throats, then disemboweling them in a matter of a minute or two with as little blood flow as possible distinguishes him as one of the most methodical, ruthless killers to ever live. He even performed some of his gruesome murders right in the street and left his victims to be found minutes later by people or policemen passing ...
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Anti Gang Legislature Affect An Individual Gangs
667 wordsIntroduction of theme and articles The theme of the family studies media journal is gangs and how school, neighborhood and family affects the number of people who join. The articles are chosen to show how gangs can affect the way society looks at gangs, the way neighborhood, school and family can affect a person to join a gang, and how schools, neighborhoods and family can be affected by a person who becomes a member of a gang. Summary of theme (main issues, arguments, etc. ) The main issue of m...
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Primary Caregiver Healthy Child
2,136 wordsThe Concept of Healthy Child Development Most caregivers try to be the perfect parent and aspire to raise the perfect, well-rounded child. Caregivers want a child to be healthy, caring, and responsible. Healthy child development plays a major role in how a child turns out. There are many aspects of a child s development. The different aspects include the primary caregiver, school, spiritual guidance, social environment, and the role of television, videos, and computers. All these things play an ...
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Bad Luck White Kids
1,293 wordsHow do you tell a story of a boy who was raised right but turned out wrong? Do you focus on key events during the course of his life, or do you examine his life in sequence from birth? In his compelling essay Our Time, John Edgar Wideman has the responsibility of telling the story of the boy who turned out wrong... The boy is Wideman s younger brother and black sheep of the family Robby. Wideman uses three voices and three events to tell his brother Robby s story. The three voices that Wideman b...
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Middle East Peace Israeli Palestinian
584 wordsName Global Studies Period 3 Teachers name February 24, 1997 Palestinians: Peace in Jeopardy The Associated Press Ibrahim Barzak Saturday. February 22, 1997 Page 1 Nations: Israel and Palestine Region: Middle East World Issue: War and Peace The focus of this article is on the political aspect of this region Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet on Friday that he will go ahead with construction of the 6, 500 -home Jewish neighborhood of Har Homa despite fierce Palestinian opp...
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Vachel Lindsay Beauty Quot
3,242 wordsPreaching The " Gospel Of Beauty" Essay, Research Preaching The " Gospel Of Beauty" Vachel Lindsay's peripatetic lifestyle was driven in part by financial need: from 1914 onwards, public recitation of his poetry was Lindsay's most consistent means of income, and a necessary one after the deaths of his parents (in 1918 and 1922) and particularly after he married and had children (1925 - 26). That lifestyle was driven just as much, however, by Lindsay's artistic vision: the bel...
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People With Disabilities Equal Treatment
1,111 wordsThe Rights of People with Disabilities Many people with disabilities have been fighting for equal opportunities and equal treatment. Discrimination against people with disabilities was at an overall high but, in the last ten years new laws have been passed and equality is one step closer. Why disability rights? One man tells a story on why people with disabilities need rights and laws to get the same opportunities. Paul had been active in progressive politics for more than 25 years. He became di...
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Aggressive Behavior Child
393 wordsResearchers have found several social factors that attribute to childhood aggression. Some of these factors include mother infant relationships, neighborhood structure, family structure, and peer influences. If infants have an insecure attachment with their mothers, which is defined as the child? s overdependence on, or lack of interest in the caregiver, and a child? s lack of confidence, then they are more likely to have behavioral problems. In the case of boys, these problems are often of an a...
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