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Rice Rockets Rice Rocket Car
764 wordsA thunderous roar echoes throughout the once quiet neighborhood. I hear the revving of engines. Suddenly there is a loud screeching of tires pealing out across the pavement. The sound of the engines becomes even louder than before, then quickly decreases as the cars speed away. There is quiet for a few minutes, then the whole thing repeats again. This is a common occurrence in my neighborhood and always means one thing. Its those racers in their rice rockets again! To the layman, a rice rocket i...
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Gangsta Rap Promote Violence
1,289 wordsRap music began in the mid 1970 's with artists such as Grandmaster Flash, Africa Bambaataa, and Kurtis Blow. According to the encyclopedia based web site infoplease. com " the word rap is derived from a 1960 's slang word for conversation. (web). This extraordinary style of music served as a form of street poetry for most artists. With a mixture of jazz, disco, and funk rap became extremely popular within the African American and Hispanic communities. Some of the artist spoke of only fiction st...
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Gay And Lesbian School Board
746 wordsA lot of people today are prejudice. Most think of this as being racist. In addition, it's making decisions on the basis of age, gender, or other features not facts. People who are prejudice can lower others self-esteem, cause discrimination, and it can lead to violence. Prejudice lowers self esteem and hurts people mentally. Can you imagine being handicapped or having a disability? Now try to imagine applying for a job or being treated the same as someone with a disability. We have come a long ...
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Gun Control Laws Bear Arms
1,099 wordsGun Control issues have been apart of American landscape since the days of pioneers. The use of guns has changed over the years. Once used by settlers to survive, guns are now used in killing humans across the United States. Jim Reibsame, a contributor to the Dallas Morning News stated, There is an urban outrage at some of the practices at controlling predators. There is a popular notion that we should let the wolves live, which happens to contrast with a century-plus of attitudes that we need t...
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Gang Members Management Skills
779 wordsSBS 318 - 01 Due: 4 / 11 / 05 "Amer-I-Can" 5. 2 yards per carry, never missed a game, won the rushing title every year but one; there was a lot of contenders but if you have to select one, you have to pick Jim (Brown) as the greatest running back in history"- Bob Costas Multi-media, press, and prevalent negative propaganda would leave one to believe that Athletes are, besides accumulating points, only capable of drug abuse, domestic violence and extortion. Being a collegiate student-athlete, at ...
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18 Th Amendment Noble Experiment
1,388 wordsEnglish III Honors P. 1 Mrs. Robinson 4 May 2004 "Prohibition: The Noble Experiment"Prohibition, sometimes referred to as the noble experiment, did not achieve its goals. It did the exact opposite by adding to the problems that it was intended to solve" (Thorton). It is also considered to be the thirteen years that damaged America. On January 16, 1920 one of the most disobeyed laws was put into effect. The 18 th amendment, also known as Prohibition, was ineffective and caused more corruption in ...
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Violence In Film And Music
672 wordsSince film was introduced in 1923 as a means of entertainment, violence has played an increasing role as a way of enthralling the masses. However, it is only in recent films such as The Gangs of New York (2003) and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) which have displayed gratuitous amounts of violence, the latter highlighting a real disparity with its certificate. Films such as The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Seven (1995), Copycat (1995) and American Psycho (2000) may be read, in part ...
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Harsh Realities African Americans
1,004 wordsTo most of the critics, the most important aspect of the whole book is the authors description of Harlem's utterly violent culture, the culture that coerced kids in the very young age to become gang members and earn money for living with robberies and assaults. There were many incidents in the book when the author described 8 - 9 year old African American kids that were armed with homemade guns, zip guns and knives, which was certainly impossible in any white district of New York. No wonder Harl...
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November 17 2006 Cultural Backgrounds
1,395 wordsGroups and Teams Paper In order for us to get a better understanding of the factors, which enable the group of individuals to become a high-performance team, we need to examine the real meaning of the term. This is because the combination high-performance team is being used freely out of context. In a way, we can say that this term became a catch phrase, when people who apply it, do not really understand what does it really stand for. The team is the group of individuals, who are united for the ...
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Juvenile Crime Street Gangs
245 wordsJuvenile Delinquency 5. 14 Mr. Raymond Kendall Secretary General INTERPOL Quai Charles de Gaulle 69006 Lyon, France Dear Mr. Kendall, There is growing concerns of juvenile crime problems in the United States. Gang membership as well as gang-related crime is mostly a juvenile problem. According to the experts predictions, due to the rise in juvenile crime the crime problem will get worse in the next few years. Therefore, it is very important to adopt an effective approach to combat crime level in...
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Long Term Effects Violent Behavior
1,749 wordsPopular Culture Influence of Popular Culture on Violent Behavior Introduction For this paper, I have chosen to investigate the link between popular culture and violent behavior. This is due to my keen interest in many aspects of contemporary popular culture and an awareness of its influence in not only my own life, but also in the lives of teenagers across the globe. Thus, the stimulus for this research was personal and lay in my yearning to discover whether the correlation between violence and ...
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Violence In Schools Money To Buy
1,056 wordsThesis Statement Violence in schools has spread widely throughout the nation. This has caused many problems among students, families, faculty of schools, and residents of the areas. In my paper I will discuss the reasons why violence in schools exists and what could or should be done about it. Violence In Schools Violence in schools has spread widely throughout the nation. This has caused many problems among students, families, faculty of schools, and residents of the areas. However, their are m...
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Death Penalty Capital Punishment
958 wordsEven though they are just kids, should they be tried as adults? The United States Supreme Court has ruled that the execution of children as young as sixteen is not cruel and unusual punishment. Out of thirty-eight states with the death penalty, thirteen have set the minimum age for death at eighteen; four states set the minimum at seventeen; nine set the minimum age at sixteen; twelve have no minimum age specified. In 1996, prosecutors in the state of Mississippi sought the death penalty for juv...
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Drugs And Alcohol Friends And Family
1,022 wordsAlways Running, by Luis T. Rodriguez, is a book based on a certain chapter of the author s life story. Rodriguez s life was centered in the fact that he was involved in gang life during his teen years. Like the title of his book, he was constantly running, whether it be a crime scene or the police. La Vida Loca, a Spanish phrase meaning, the crazy life, is the term used in the novel to depict the gang warfare that Rodriguez went through as he was growing up. A crazy life is a vague and general t...
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Gang Activity Labeling Theory
1,126 wordsTo the Editor of the Billings Gazette: The Old West has changed. Instead of youths traveling into the back country with their fathers to hunt game to support their families, youths are purchasing guns for show rather than theoretical use. Family structures have also changed significantly. Instead of mothers ringing the triangle bells for their children to return home for dinner, they are dialing the telephone in order to reach their son or daughter, via their beeper. Although, there is a signifi...
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Hundred And Fifty Fourth Dynasty
1,368 wordsTHE BUILDING OF THE PYRAMIDS From the reign of Djoser until the beginning if the New Kingdom, almost every pharaoh of substance and authority was buried under a pyramid. The pyramid, introduced by Djoser, reached its most definitive form with the Great Pyramid of Cheops, at Giza. At the end of this long tradition the splendid visions of the earlier dynasties had shrunk to monuments of poorly built steep-sided mud brick, that were no larger that about forty feet square, but a thousand years befor...
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Quot Orphan Trains Quot Orphan Trains Quot Children
917 wordsOrphan trains and Carlisle and the ways people from the past undermined the minorities and children of America. The film " The orphan Trains" tells us the story of children who were taken from the streets of New York City and put on trains to rural America. A traffic in immigrant children were developed and droves of them teamed the streets of New York (A Peoples History of the United States 1492 -present, 260). The streets of NYC were dirty, overcrowded, and dangerous. Just as street ...
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Law Enforcement Officers Police Officers
1,505 wordsLaw enforcement officers carry guns, are given special privileges and great responsibility. Public safety officers are trusted and expected to respect society as a whole. Taking all of this into consideration, do cops actually break the law? Yes they do and they do it quite often. Some of the best criminals (or best at being criminals) work in law enforcement, and your fate lies in their integrity (Epperson 215). Continuing high crime rates of today have resulted in more police officers being pl...
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Juliet Romeo
491 wordsIn the play Romeo and Juliet and the musical Wet Side Story, the two pairs of lovers were part responsible for their tragic fates. First, Romeo? s and Juliet? s families were enemies. In comparison, Tony and Maria of West Side Story were practically apart of gangs that were enemies as well. Second, both couples knew they shouldn? t have been together especially if they had to hide it. Third, Romeo and Juliet gave up hope when they committed suicide. Last, the couples knew their situations would ...
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Romeo And Juliet Tony And Maria
694 wordsSimilarities of Two Famous Tales of Love In one of the most famous love stories of this century, many elements from another famous tale of love were borrowed. In many instances, Westside Story mirrored ShakespearesRomeo And Juliet. Many similarities were noted from the characterization to the plot structure. However, they differed as well. In Westside Story, some characters shared personalities with those of Romeo And Juliet. The families of the Capulets and Montague's were well represented by t...
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