Gang Violence Essay

Imagine if there were no more gangs roaming the streets. There would be less violence and less reasons for mothers to be worried. This may sound impossible, but this can be reality if we take the proper steps in fixing the problem. We have to focus on the starting point of gangs, we have to find out why people join gangs in the first place. We need to focus on the young people and providing them more opportunities to better themselves instead of lowering themselves. If we pay attention to the youth

and irrational mindsets has caused many African-American teenagers to depend on unorthodox alternatives for the use of spare time, making money, and the feeling of acceptance. Oppression of African-American teenagers has caused poor education, violence, gang activity, broken or dysfunctional homes, and health issues. Hatred is another major factor of the effects of oppression in the lives of African-American teenagers. Oppression is also the cause of civil wars, and a disunited nation. Oppression

Living a life in Honduras is dreadful because research has shown that in 2016, 66 percent of the population of Honduras lived in poverty according to official data. Honduras also has one of the highest murder rates in the world, and the homicide rate in 2016 was 59 per 100,000. Which means that every 100,000 people living in Honduras 59 Hondurans will die every year. The numbers of the homicide rate in Honduras is ten times higher than global averages, and it is also 12 times higher than United States

slums. As the movie goes on, some of these youngsters living in the slums took out guns and try to rub the truck full of gas tanks. Which would be one of the urban issues that was shown numerous times in the movie, the urban crime and youth gang. The youth gang activity was also mentioned in the class reading as follow “Many of these young people live in and around the cities’ sprawling public markets, where it is easy to scavenge food. A few work at shining shoes, cleaning windshields, or selling

There are PROS and CONS on having a school uniform. Opinions and suggestions were given and even did some research regarding this topic. As we go on, we will realize and analyze the advantages and disadvantages of having a school uniform. One of the main advantages of wearing a school uniform is that it symbolizes unity, respect and recognition to each other. Wearing uniform also increases the school's pride. This also improves the morale and respect of the student body. Wearing a uniform does not

in particular, began embracing this idea of ethnicity. From there, neighborhoods such as Western Heights and Harlem prospered. Though, with divided neighborhoods comes crime and gang warfare. In addition, dominance and control were sought between the different turfs (boundaries). Though integration was thought to reduce gang warfare, boundaries were established by neighborhoods which caused race related crimes and exclusion upon other ethnicities. According to Robert Orsi’s, “The Religious Boundaries

Transnational gangs are criminal groups that extend their illegal activities across national borders. Examples of transnational gangs include Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and 18th Street Gang (Gray, 2009). They are dangerous to local communities where they carry out illegal activities, such as human trafficking, robbery, extortion, murder, rape, and drug dealing. With soaring revenues from transporting and selling cocaine and crack, the inter-gang violence and bloody territorial disputes have spread

the urban times, now street gangs are formed in mostly developed cities, which are filled with crime and hate towards people other than their own gangs. Gangs all over the world especially in the United States of America, are very often very underlined as a male dominated one, and females that were supposed to be with the gang members, were either their wives of girlfriends, and females who were seen actively involved were supposed to be for sole purposes

operation of a complex tool, which is one thing a gun is (204). In order to decrease gang violence, innocent deaths, and accidents, I believe that unauthorized guns should be confiscated. One reason why I believe that unauthorized guns should be confiscated is because I feel that it will decrease gang violence. Nowadays, there are many gangs who claim territory on certain and popular properties. If an opposing gang comes to that property, guns and many other weapons will be used to defend whosever

period. In their housing projects, the family faces many hardships and struggles to survive in life due to the influence of gangs, violence, death and poverty that consumes their housing projects. Living in such a bad neighborhood like Henry Horner homes proves the fact that “there are no children here” in the housing projects because the children have seen so much crime, violence and death occur that they have lost their youth and innocence as children and have been forced to become adults. An example