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Year Old Boy Acts Of Violence
1,791 wordsMoses Lake, Wash. 2 students and 1 teacher Bethel, Alaska Principal and 1 student killed, 2 killed, 1 other wounded when 14 -year-old Barry others wounded by Evan Ramsey, 16, at his high Loukaitis opened fire on his algebra class. school. Pearl, Miss. 2 students killed and 7 wounded by West Paducah, Ky. 3 students killed, 5 wounded a 16 -year-old who was also accused of killing his by a 14 -year-old boy as they participated in a prayer mother. He and several friends thought to be in on circle at...
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1,531 wordsCommunities are not all created equal. Have you ever heard of or considered the concept of Environmental Racism and what role it plays in the lives of Afro-Americans? I presume your answer is no. Well then, have you ever wondered why so many housing projects, which are majority Black occupied, are located near industrial parks? I presume you havent even noticed. Well, I have. Growing up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, I often visited my older cousin who resided in the Red Hook Housing...
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Lot Of People Road Rage
1,749 wordsRoad rage, what is road rage? Road rage or aggressive driving is when a driver is in danger of being injured or killed over a traffic dispute by another driver (Vest 24). People will show how anger and frustrated they are by giving people the finger, slowing down in front of people, cutting off other drivers, many other things, and who knows what they " ll do if they pull off the road to continue a fight with another driver. When some people drive it's like they have a second personality, they "...
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Decision Making Process Toxic Waste
1,707 wordsI am evaluating solutions to reduce the proliferation of chemical and radioactive industrial carcinogens that threaten human health nationally and globally. I am specifically concerned with the toxic health effects on minority and low-income communities. After critiquing several alternatives, I can recommend methods to find reparations for suffering resulting from severe medical problems. More than half of the nations 26 million African Americans and more than a third of its Latinos live in neig...
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Trials And Tribulations Amazing Grace
1,799 wordsIntroduction Jonathan Kozol's Amazing Grace is a book about the trials and tribulations of everyday life for a group of children who live in the poorest congressional district of the United States, the South Bronx. Their lives may seem extraordinary to us, but to them, they are just as normal as everyone else. What is normal? For the children of the South Bronx, living with the pollution, the sickness, the drugs, and the violence is the only way of life many of them have ever known. In this book...
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Internal Combustion Engine Twenty Five Years
1,716 words... can be made to fit these smaller cars making them inaccessible to some cars and trucks, safety will increase because of the maneuverability and low speed of the NEV and because of their small size there will be more space available to be put to other uses. These NEV's will lead to non-industrial neighborhoods. Neighborhoods will keep the industrial world and all of its problems out by making the roads smaller so they handle only NEV traffic. Households will tend to "run" less and instead of ...
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U S Department S Department Of Justice
963 wordsStructural Characteristics Members are typically young teenage males of similar ethnic or racial backgrounds (usually from disorganized families in the inner-city). Loyalty and adherence to a strict gang code (i. e. , the gang is more important than anything) is mandatory. Cohesiveness among members increases as recognition from society increases. Loyalty and camaraderie are solidified by participation in group activities that are often antisocial, illegal, violent, and criminal. Goals, identifi...
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African American Street Gangs In Los Angeles
1,602 wordsby Alejandro A. Alonso, M. S. In Los Angeles and other urban areas in the United States, the formation of street gangs increased at a steady pace through 1996. The Bloods and the Crips, the most well-known gangs of Los Angeles, are predominately African American[ 1 ] and they have steadily increased in number since their beginnings in 1969. In addition, there are over 600 active Hispanic gangs in Los Angeles County with a growing Asian gang population numbering approximately 20, 000 members. Sur...
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Police Officers Community Policing
933 wordsThere is a remarkable historical, geographical, and organizational diversity in the activities of persons who are, or have been, counted as police. Within any one country the work of police today is very different from what it was 200 years ago. There are also major differences between countries policing New York City is bound to have little in common with policing the Solomon Islands. The diversity is so great that the onlooker may wonder if the different kinds of activity and organization have...
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The Crisis For Affordable Childcare In New York
954 wordsThe Crisis for Affordable Childcare in New York In order for a single parent in Brooklyn, New York with one pre-schooled and one school-age child to make it out of poverty, he or she must earn a minimum of $ 44, 592 per year -- without any government or private support, according to a new study, "The Self-Sufficiency Standard for the City of New York. " That same family would need to earn $ 44, 208 in the Bronx, $ 46, 728 in Staten Island, $ 46, 836 in Queens, $ 48, 048 in Upper Manhattan and $ ...
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Trials And Tribulations Amazing Grace
1,825 wordsKozol's Amazing Grace: Trials And Tribulations Of Kozols Amazing Grace: Trials And Tribulations Of Everyday Life Kozol's Amazing Grace: Trials and Tribulations of Everyday Life Introduction Jonathan Kozol's Amazing Grace is a book about the trials and tribulations of everyday life for a group of children who live in the poorest congressional district of the United States, the South Bronx. Their lives may seem extraordinary to us, but to them, they are just as normal as everyone else. What is nor...
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Driving Age Teen Drivers
731 wordsThe dramatic increase in teen accidents has lead major portions of the public to favor the driving age to be raised to 18. The direct concern is over 16 and 17 -year-old drivers if they are responsible and experienced enough to drive on the road. Most San Diego citizens agree that accidents involving teen drivers are their lack of judgment and irresponsibility as a driver, and as well as their lack of experience and poor attention to details. I believe the sky rocketing increase in teen accident...
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Juvenile Justice System Juvenile Offenders
2,032 wordsToday, there is a great concern about gang activity and youth violence. Every day, we can open a newspaper or turn on the evening news and see that another child or victim was killed in gang or youth related violence. Teenage crime and violence has existed for many years. Many people have become more aware of the violence committed by todays youth because of the media coverage of the viciousness of these crimes. The public is also aware of the new breed of criminal and many people want to change...
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Black Panther Party Martin Luther King
2,951 wordsDuring the late 1960 s and early 70 s posters of the Black Panther Partys co-founder, Huey P. Newton were plastered on walls of college dorm rooms across the country. Wearing a black beret and a leather jacket, sitting on a wicker chair, a spear in one hand and a rifle in the other, the poster depicted Huey Newton as a symbol of his generations anger and courage in the face of racism and imperialism (Albert and Hoffman 4, 45). His intellectual capacity and community leadership abilities helped t...
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Boston Bedford St Late At Night
886 wordsShort stories like? Desiree? s Baby? and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven portray the racial prejudice of? olden days. ? In? Desiree? s Baby, ? the racial prejudice shown to Desiree is by her own husband, who is supposedly madly in love with her and their baby. At the faintest chance that his wife is of mixed race, Armand sends her and the baby away never to be seen by him again, only to find out that he himself is of mixed race. In? The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, ? ...
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U S Department U S News
3,007 wordsLegalization: Problem or Solution to the War on Drugs Legalization of drugs is a very controversial topic that is being discussed in the United States. Currently there is an intense debate to legalize marijuana as a medicine. To most people, legalizing drugs seems like something insane. They probably ask how can they legalize something that the government furiously tries to eradicate. The problem is exactly in what the government tries to do. Eliminate drugs. The drug problem will never go away....
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Black People White People
810 wordsOpen Your Mind I am very concerned with the hate and bigotry going on in our world today. Over time, people have become more open-minded and less racist, but there is still much further to go for humanity. I believe that the environments that people have and continue to grow up and live in have much to do with how they behave. It is understandable then, how people can become so closed-minded and racist. This should not be an excuse, however, for people to act the way they do. It is time the worl...
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Mumia Abu Jamal Community Based Policing
2,535 wordsIt was Police Brutality Description: It was April 29, 1992 and it was my twelve birthday. My mom gave me a little chocolate cake with a plastic surfer riding a wave on top of it. We were watching television while I was getting ready to blow out my candles. There was a disturbance in South Central Los Angeles that the news helicopters were covering on every channel. There were crowds of people flooding the intersection of Florence and Normandy acting rowdy and getting aggressive toward passing ca...
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Educational Levels Income Level
884 wordsThe well being of a nation begins with the development of its younger generation. They are the ones that will assume the task of running and maintaining the well being of this nation in the future. Unfortunately the task of to lead these youths in the right direction is no easy task. Numerous articles and studies have confirmed that our youth problems is a rising issue and should receive extra attention. Youth problems range from poor school achievement to youth pregnancy, crime, and drug addict...
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Institutional Racism Racial Equality
2,657 wordsstudent Mid Term take Home Exam Question 1: The correlation between socioeconomic status and student performance has been consistent for as long as records have veen maintained. Students from affluent backgrounds tend to do better in school and on standardized tests than students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. In the following paragraphs, I would like to present two different ways of understanding this pattern. I believe that both socioeconomic and genetic phenomena can be best exp...
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