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    boys from the murder last week. To see how juvenile delinquents turn heroes, read on! Ponyboy Curtis and Johnny Cade, 14 and 16 years of age, disappeared from town right after the dead body of a boy named Bob was found. According to them, Bob’s drunk gang attempted to drown Ponyboy and Johnny was just trying to protect his friend, not trying to hurt anyone. Now these same boys save five children from a fire. Before the incident they were talking to their friend Dally about

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    I could feel a shift in the attitudes from both groups. The ABB weren’t walking away from this fight, not with Bakuda murdering any who disobeyed her. My group could run, but if we took off, we’d be chased a group that had no where to go but forward. A group that had already been bloodied and wouldn’t be interested in mercy. Moreover, I knew what Bakuda would do if she got her hands on any of us. She didn’t have the same respect for life like other villains in the city did. She was too new

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    childhood, Logan was a total trouble maker. Like for instance, starting fights, stealing and always skipped school due to not caring from society's normal way to success. He idolised his father. Later into teen years, he started to get involved in gangs and criminal activity establishing some status

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    Myths About Gangs

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    I think the most surprising myths about gangs from reading the material is that the want to-be is a going to be section. I lived in Peoria Illinois for a time when I was younger we lived in the Greeley projects, there were a lot of tough kids there that claimed to be members of a gang. I being ten years old and new to the area believed them. But now that I’m older I understand that they were just wannabes acting like they were gang members, I’ve actually talk to some of them on Facebook now who are

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    There was a man named jack he would robbed stores banks and he would robbed your house to and the cops they could not catch jack he has robbed all the houses in the neighborhood he just needed to rob a store and he said when he that store he is going to leave and then the next day he went In the store to robbed the store he had a hat on and then he pulled the gun out and he told the guy give me the money and he jack says give me the money or I will shoot you and then he put the money in the bag and

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    Good Will Hunting explains story of a young man who goes by the name of Will Hunting. He is a very intelligent man who has had a troubled life and lets it control him day to day. He doesn’t want anybody to know about his talents because he thinks they’ll think differently about him and he doesn’t want to get hurt. Like Will, almost all of us in college and even in life go through blocks of trouble, big or small, in our life and can relate to him. I myself can relate to Will in many aspects of his

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    In 2006, Memphis had the second highest violent crime rate in the country. The mayor of Shelby county at the time collaborated with the District Attorney, the Sheriff’s dept, Memphis Police Director and business leaders to try to address the issue (Goggans, 2014). Collectively they created a 15 point research based crime reduction plan. Due to Memphis’ data driven policing initiative, their safe community strategy has helped with the decline in serious crime in Memphis by more than 26.6 percent.

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    How many times have you heard of youth crimes in the media? Most of the murder, theft and harassment crimes are related to the youth and our generation. We cannot deny the fact that the media represents us in a negative way! All of the news that come up about the crimes that have been committed by teenagers and the articles that are released a couple days after explaining that the teenager suffers from mental and psychological issues, are constantly on repeat. This paints a cynical image

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    are what I call them) are so outraged and uneducated with guns. They are shooting innocent by-standers, which is always a small toddler or teenager. Not all of the youth are considered hateful and violent. Peer pressure from gangs have taken over and some kids join gangs or become followers just to fit into the “in crowd”. Teenagers like to feel like they are a part of something worthwhile to them. I think they do this so they won’t get bullied and end up becoming the bully. Everyday someone’s

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    A Vacuous Fop Analysis

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    Amores perros rooted in class and conflict. There is no escape from Innaritu’s street. You either cling to traditions and responsibilities of family loyalty and responsibilities of relationship or you gravitate to an existential social system engineered. Fighting underclass brother destroy their family and ultimately themselves over lust and some sort of hip hop machismo. A middle class publisher, leaves his mundane life and moves in with a highly successful model. This narcisstic model loses her

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