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Central Los Angeles South Central Los
1,336 wordsOur helicopter whirled in a tight circle over Florence and Normandie in South Central Los Angeles. Pilot Mike Smith kept the ship at an almost constant bank. I was in the left seat next to the pilot and had a clear view of the rampaging clutter on the street below. Cameraman Martin Cancer, strapped in a shoulder harness, was hanging out of the helicopter. He had opened the left side door, placed his mini-cam on his shoulder and was recording the helter-skelter action. This was the early evening ...
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Marshall B Clinard Merton Nisbet
1,532 words... end gang violence we must find the way that these morals are given to the individual Unfortunately, these can only be hypothesized. However, by looking at the way humans are influenced in society, I believe there is good evidence to point the blame at several institutions. These include the forces of the media, the government, theater, drugs and our economic system. On the surface, gangs are caused by peer pressure and greed. Many teens in gangs will pressure peers into becoming part of a ga...
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Ice Cube Main Characters
1,454 wordsI have elected to take a closer look at movies that deal with the ghetto social institution. There have been several movies that attempt to depict the harshness of growing up in predominantly black urban neighborhoods. The three films that I have selected are what I believe to be the top three films in this genre. They are Boyz N Da Hood, Menace to Society, and Juice. All of these films try to send a message about what it is like to live in da hood. The first film, "Boyz N Da Hood" marked the di...
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War Of 1812 Lewis And Clark
894 wordsThere were many changes taking place in the US around the year 1800. The frontier land was constantly being pushed back by new settlements and would contribute to the history of slavery and African Americans. Louisiana was purchased in 1803 and freedom-loving young settlers as well as successful cotton plantation masters moved west to try and exploit the unsettled land. This conflict was complicated by the Industrial revolution and development of the cotton gin which only promoted the use of sla...
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Runnin' Down Some Lines Book Review
1,387 wordsDeprived of opportunities for advancement in mainstream society, [black ghetto] teenagers elevate their personal style into a philosophy of life. Their exemplars are pimps and gangsters... Gangs develop to bolster self-identity through psychological control of the streets; hip "threads" and "freaked out" cars also serve as outward signs of inner creativity. Both sexes consider coitus ("doin' the do") a natural and desirable part of adolescence; soft drugs, primarily marijuana ("tea"), also offer...
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South Central Male Female
1,437 words... n. But for now, it's just a big dream, 'cause I find myself in the place where I'm last seen. My thoughts must be relaxed. Be able to maintain, 'cause times 'is changed and life is strange. The glorious days 'is gone, and everybody's doin' bad. 'Yo, mad lives 'is up for grabs. Brothers, passin' away, I gotta' make wakes. Receiving' all types of calls from upstate. 'Yo, I can't cope with the pressure. Setting' for lesser. The god left lessons on my dresser (Wu-Tang Clan 1993). For many, the g...
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Innocent Bystanders Criminal Activity
1,291 wordsExpendable Teens For the last twenty years, our prosperous, elite-driven nation has been constantly plagued and hindered by teenagers that seemingly have the ability to commit every violent crime in the book without remorse or fear of consequences. From coast to coast, parents, teachers, and community leaders have been witnessing a continuing surge of teenage criminal activity in schools and city streets. In a wide variety of suburban areas across the nation, teenage perpetrators are proactively...
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The Of Tuberculosis Among Low Income People
1,609 words... aged 20 to 45 years. Age adjustment was accounted for using the direct method with 1990 U. S. population statistics as follows: aged 15 - 24 (80, 596, 000); aged 45 - 46 (46, 710, 000) (Tuberculosis control law 1993). iii. data analysis and results 1860 cases were explored in both South Central and Harlem. Both districts are low-income, medically under-served communities with large numbers of immigrants such as Hispanics, blacks or Asian-Pacific Islanders. The data was evaluated with the obj...
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Anglo Saxon Jewish Immigrants
2,979 wordsCities and Social Change Scio me nihil site Socrates The urban city and its function in society cannot be understood without studying its structure as a city of immigrants, their newcomer families and friends and the ties that connect them. By overlooking the social culture and networks of the city's immigrants, the study of the urban centre is at best a futile effort. Several characteristics of immigrant settlement in urban Canada have been studied. Perhaps the most frequent focus in the litera...
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Ice Cube Main Characters
1,457 wordsI have elected to take a closer look at movies that deal with the? ghetto? social institution. There have been several movies that attempt to depict the harshness of growing up in predominantly black urban neighborhoods. The three films that I have selected are what I believe to be the top three films in this genre. They are? Boyz N Da Hood, ? ? Menace to Society, ? and? Juice. ? All of these films try to send a message about what it is like to live in? da hood. ? The first film, Boyz N Da Hood ...
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Central Los Angeles Crack Cocaine
4,367 wordsCongresswoman Rep. Maxine Waters A woman who will simply not go unheard CIA/Contrast Connection to Drug Trafficking in the US (South Central Los Angeles) Congresswoman Maxine Waters is considered by many to be the most powerful Black woman in American politics today. She has gained a reputation as a fearless and outspoken advocate for women, children, people of color, and poor people. In an interview with Peter Jennings of ABC World News Tonight, Rep. Waters was referred to as a woman who will s...
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Square Miles Largest Island
1,165 wordsCrete is the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean. The waters surrounding mainland Greece are dotted with its numerous islands. Crete is the largest island of Greece situated below the Peloponnesian mainland. It stands as a boundary between Europe and Africa. Without a doubt it location has influenced its history, culture and climate. The island is relatively long and narrow stretching for 152 miles (245 m) on its east-west axis and varying in width from 7. 5 to 35 miles (12 to 56 km). The ...
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Central Los Angeles South Central Los
2,898 wordsTHE RODNEY KING INCIDENT According to Whitman (1993): Well before he heard the first siren, Rodney King knew he never should have slipped that key into the ignition. They had been having so much fun, he and his buddies Bryant Allen and Freddie Helms, just kicking back, sipping some inexpensive 40 -ounce bottles of malt liquor at the local park as they jawed and laughed while the daylight ebbed away. Afterward, they had stood in front of Allens moms house trying to croon a few tunes. King wasnt m...
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Los Angeles Police Los Angeles Times
2,973 wordsThough sparked by the Rodney King verdict, there were many other causes of the riots that erupted on the streets of Los Angeles on April 29, 1992. The Los Angeles riots in 1992 were devastating. The obvious issue portrayed through the media was black versus white. If you did not live in Los Angeles or California chances are you did not hear full coverage of the story, you heard a simple cut and dry portrayal of the events in South Central. If you heard one thing about the riots, it was that ther...
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Central Los Angeles South Central Los
1,312 wordsBelieve it or not, Los Angeles was just waiting for an event like the Rodney King verdict to explode. All that was needed was that one spark to ignite the anger in the citizens of South Central and cause the area to explode. One of the recent and most significant riots took place on the streets of Los Angeles on April 29, 1992. The case was controversial because Rodney King was a black male beaten with excessive force by four white Los Angeles police officers. The not guilty verdict of the four ...
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Organized Crime Rival Gang
1,340 wordsMafia and Organized Crime have wreaked havoc for many years upon society in an entirety and it has definitely corrupted government in a way too. Gang leaders and such have left families broken or in dismay with family members dead, crippled, wounded, or with shattered dreams and memories that can tear a person apart mentally. Organized crime is not extended to such crime and Mafia leaders such as Capone, but it can be even farther reached as to mention L. A. Gangs like Crips and Bloods that have...
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Game Was Played Didn T
951 wordsThe mesoamerican ballgame, known as ullamaliztli or ollamalizitli in the native language Nahuatl, was played for many different reasons and by many different people. The game was played all over what is now Mexico. It was played by two different groups, the Aztecs and Mayans. There is a very extensive history of the ballgame. Ranging from how it was discovered to whom discovered it to different personal accounts. The people who played the game were Mayan and Aztec. Some of the courts they found ...
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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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Central Los Angeles South Central Los
3,824 wordsEllison 1 A FEW KIND WORDS FOR AFFIRMATIVE ACTION by Hosea L. Martin Hosea Martins article on affirmative action aims to defend the practice of hiring people not just on their qualifications but by their race as well. He does so by using his own experience in the work place along with some personal, unsupported opinions of his own regarding hiring practices and education. Martin also attempts to defend affirmative action programs as being fair and non-discriminatory by emphasizing that every sin...
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