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100 000 Population Began To Drink
1,630 words
Prohibition did not achieve its goals. Instead, it
added to the problems it was intended to solve
(Thorton 15). On the midnight of January 16, 1920,
one of the personal habits and customs of most
Americans came to a halt. The Eighteenth Amendment
was put into affect and all importing, exporting,
transporting, selling, and manufacturing of
intoxicating liquor was put to an end. Shortly
following the enactment of the Eighteenth
Amendment, the National Prohibition Act, or the
Volstead Act, as it wa...
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Junior High School Carlo Gambino
2,703 words
... existence the Mafia has always been feared and
respected. They are respected for the power that
they posses to do what they want whenever and with
whomever they please. Also the Mafia is respected
for the money that they poses and the ability to
get it by all means possible. They are feared by
people knowing that the Mafia would not hesitate
to kill someone if need be. "The roots of the
mafia go way back to Sicily where their history is
ancient and bloody" (Cummings and Volkman 3). The
Ameri...
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Teenager Would Smoke Marihuana Make Them Less Powerful Drugs
400 words
Teenagers use drugs like marihuana because its
illegal which makes them think that their cool
when they smoke marihuana. Fewer teenagers would
smoke marihuana when it was legal, therefore the
government should make smoking of marihuana legal.
Not only less teenager would smoke marihuana but
also the government could control the use of
marihuana, and making marihuana legal could
decrease the amount of crime, which has to do with
drugs gangs. A lot of teenagers smoke marihuana
because they think t...
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African American Street Gangs In Los Angeles
1,533 words
... egotist strategies to combat white
intimidation and violence, the effectiveness of
whites to fight against integration and
residential segregation began to fail. Eventually
'white flight' occurred, as white residents began
to move into the growing suburban areas that
flourished in the 1950 s, leaving the city areas
of South Los Angeles behind. This left the central
city of Los Angeles as a primarily black enclave,
with blacks accounting for 71 percent of the
inner-city population (Brunn et a...
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Rival Gang Organized Crime
1,138 words
Alphonsus Capone was born on January 17, 1899 in
Brooklyn, New York. Capone quit school in the
sixth grade at age fourteen. He became part of the
notorious Five Points gang in Manhattan and worked
in gangster Frankie Yale's Harvard Inn as a
bouncer and bartender. While in New York Capone
murdered two men and hospitalized a rival gang
member, however he was tried for his crimes. With
a reputation for a willingness to kill, Yale sent
Capone to Chicago to work as a bodyguard. # Capone
arrived in Ch...
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Put Into Effect 100 000 Population
1,358 words
" Prohibition did not achieve its goals. Instead,
it added to the problems it was intended to solve
", which is actually true because since alcohol
was seen as the devil's advocate, prohibition came
along to try to put an end to all the crime,
poverty and the rest of the problems of America
but instead made them worse by the creation of
organized crime like organized gangs who competed
amongst each other to sell illegal liquor and the
development of stronger proof liquor and other new
kinds of l...
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Racial Mixing Conan Doyle
1,831 words
Racism in Popular Culture (Argument on Hispanics)
(1) There can be no doubt as to the fact that
overwhelming majority of White people in America
has a cautious attitude towards Hispanics.
However, only few of them are able to rationally
substantiate such their attitude. The same applies
on the part of African-Americans and
Asian-Americans most of them think of Hispanics in
very low regard, without being able to explain
this fact even to themselves. In American jails,
Hispanics are being treated ...
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Ethnic Cleansing Racial Affiliation
2,520 words
Is Violence Encouraged by the Medias (1) Nowadays,
it became a statement of good state, on the part
of Bible thumper's and those who refer to
themselves as conservatives, to come up with
public statements that blame the influence of
Medias for all the evils in the world. Namely, the
self-appointed guardians of public morality refer
to Medias influence as such that encourage
citizens to resort to violence, as the ultimate
mean of dealing with their life problems. For
example, the article Media Vi...
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Gang Activity Police Department
282 words
Beacon Police Department in Beacon NY Keeping
Track of Gang Activity I have contacted Beacon
Police Department in Beacon NY 12508 to find out
how they keep track of gang activity. In order to
combat gangs, Beacon Police Department takes a
multifaceted approach. The gang unit places
emphasis on prevention and works in cooperation
with school resource officers to identify youth
at-risk. This prevention strategy is combined with
home visits to at-risk youth and other strategies.
In case gang preven...
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Harsh Realities African Americans
2,427 words
Coming Up of Age in Harlem Manchild in the
Promised Land by Claude Brown is one of the most
realistic books written about life in Harlem.
Although the book is not a memoir, the main hero
of the book resembles the author itself in many
ways, there are a lot of details that allow us to
suggest that actually the book is about life of
Claude Brown himself. The main idea conveyed
throughout the book is that life in Harlem was so
violent and harsh in its nature, that it was not
possible at all to be a...
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Sense Of Responsibility Six Hours
636 words
Creative Writing: There Isnt Much Time It is
Monday morning and I have slept in, thanks to
Thanksgiving. In fact, its twelve oclock and I am
free for the afternoon. As usual, I sit in front
of the. television after I clean myself up,
staring endlessly at the screen with my finger
clicking on the remote. I realize that I have a
draft due on Thursday, but I justify my
procrastination with reasons like: there is still
lots of time. Life is faster now, and people in
the 90 s are supposed to organize...
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Single Parent Families 4 Th Ed
1,185 words
Imagine a thirteen-year-old boy living with his
mother. His parents have been divorced since he
was four-years-old. He has never really known his
father and therefore uses his friends for his male
role models. His mother has to work two jobs to
support her family and is therefore not there to
spend much time with her child. This is the type
of child that is normally delinquent. Add to this
scenario a group of teenage friends that are
involved in delinquent activities and it is almost
guaranteed ...
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Juvenile Justice System Today Society
1,745 words
One of the most important issues in crime today is
Juvenile Delinquency. It is too often the cause
that people see it as something? new? and a
problem that needs to be dealt with by today? s
society. Female delinquency is and has been
rapidly increasing in the past few years. In
Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice, Lind and
Shelden give an overview of juvenile delinquency
among females. To fully understand the question of
who, where, when, how, and why females are
delinquent, it is necessar...
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Gang Activity Gang Members
440 words
Gang are stereotyped to be a bunch of thugs who
walk around selling drugs, shooting, and
participating in other criminal activity. To an
extent, this is true, but what people dont really
take the time to consider is the fact that some
gangs are more than just thugs on the block. Some
gangs, in fact most are actually organized. The
article covers a few bare essentials to hindering
this type of organization in the school settings
and gives steps to reducing it. Three main points
the article deals ...
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Number One Cause Homicide Rates
1,753 words
Homicide Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow I. Intro
A. Background information B. Thesis statement II.
Major Homicide Areas A. Geographical regions B.
Cities C. Area of cities III. Murders and Victims
A. Murders 1. Race 2. Sex 3. Age B. Victims 1.
Race 2. Sex 3. Age C. Murder to Victim
Relationship 1. Relatives 2. Acquaintances 3.
Strangers IV. Reasons 1. Murders associated with
drugs 2. Murders associated with gangs 3. Murders
associated with family 4. Murders associated with
a crime V. Clearance R...
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Joining A Gang Join A Gang
556 words
Gangs are a violent reality that people have to
deal with in todays cities. They are a direct
result of human beings personal wants and peer
pressure. Kids are the main targets because they
feel that being in a gang is both an acceptable
and prestigious way to live, because of the bad
miscommunication of society. By looking at the way
humans are influenced in society, there is good
evidence to point the blame at several
institutions. These institutions include the
forces of the media, the govern...
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York Random House Organized Crime
2,252 words
Protectionism in the New Capitalist Russia The
Russian Mafia has always exercised an important
role in the Russian economy. The contemporary
mafiosi are descendents of the seventeenth Century
highwaymen and Cossack robbers. These men
occasionally murdered families prior to raids
preventing them from being captured. The Russia
mafiosi made a point to remain aloof from the
state. Mob men were actually spurned when
returning home from fighting in the Great
Patriotic War. The gangs begin to dominate...
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt Anti Saloon League
2,356 words
During the twenties national prohibition was the
most avidly discussed subject in American society.
It was a subject of far more interest than foreign
affairs or party politics and indissoluble from
fashion, entertainment, and crime. Prohibitionists
are largely made up by a large group of religious
fanatics who have more on their mind then just
ridding the U. S of alcohol. The prohibition
movement is just put forth as a means to
eventually instill a certain kind of religious
faith. People are al...
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West Side Story Romeo And Juliet
823 words
Romeo and Juliet vs. West Side Story Comparison
The playwrights of Romeo and Juliet and West Side
Story, even though are separated by centuries, are
very similar. In both plays there is love between
two enemies. At the end, there is a tragic fate
that tears apart the lovers forever. The only
character difference between the plays, is the
lover s reaction to the other lover s death. Both
plays are considers great works of writing. In
both of the plays, a member of one family, or
gang, falls in lo...
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Parent Households Police Force
761 words
There are problems facing people everyday, some
worse than others, but none anymore pleasant. We
see problems ranging from the environment to
crime, gangs, diseases, wars and so many more.
William Finnegan saw a major problem arising for
the residents of Lancaster, California where he
went to find out why two skin head gangs are so
prevalent in the area. Parents working low wage
jobs for long hours far from home made absent
parents a huge problem as well as lack of
education greatly due to poor ...
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