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    Reflection About Society

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    Our society puts pressure on all genders, races, and lifestyles to be up to their standards and this is apparent throughout all aspects of our lives.To further prove this point I have deconstructed four music videos of popular artists, that being “Gucci Gang” by Lil Pump, “Anaconda” by Nicki Minaj, “Hit Me Baby One More Time” by Britney Spears and “The next episode” by Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, to show their bare structure and how they further underdeveloped society's views. To start off I will explain

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    Gangs Of El Salvador Essay

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    they usually need a loving and nurturing soul to listen and help them move on to a more prosperous life (“Gangs of El Salvador”). Rosa Virginia, is the brains behind the madness that is the only female juvenile center in El Salvador. “They call me ‘mami’ and they love me because they know that I am not going to betray them. See, they trust me and I trust them. We build a relationship here (“Gangs of El Salvador”). Educational classes, workshops (to learn to cook, bake, or draw), and psychological therapy

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    (Stickland) She had two siblings and hard working parents.(Strickland) Her father died when she was only four years old due to an accident that happened at work. (Strickland) After that her family moved in with their grandparents that lived in West Dallas.( Strickland) In high school Bonnie was very interested in poetry and literature, and she was also an honor

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    pains. Next to her was one on the gang member from the gang that mostly robbed her of her sons. The doctors were losing him and all that Soledad could do was pray. Praying the hardest that she ever prayed, so that he could live (184-186). This shows that we can show kinship for people whom we don’t know or don’t like. Soledad is a great example of showing kinship to people whom we don’t know or don’t like, because she showed kinship to one of the gang members of the gang that killed her

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    Gangs in inner cities like Chicago and New York also use social media to communicate and recruit new members. The police in these cities see gangs using social media in this way as a mistake because they are able to keep track of the gangs locations and actions. Megan Behrman, the writer of “When Gangs Go Viral: Using Social Media and Surveillance Cameras to Enhance Gang Database”. She states that, “gang members routinely use social media to highlight

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    hour each week or each month, and the goal leaves no room for improvement, which is essential to change. In an interview for a Reuters news article, former gang member Stephanie Lane states that “Now I feel like I've got too much to lose. Boxing keeps my head on straight and gets me back in shape.” To combat her problem of relapsing to the gang life, Lane took specific measures which helped change her outlook on life. Taking action and setting goals is a major way to combat changing. Although some

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    proprietor of its utilization or ownership, and the vehicle taken is worth more than $100, that individual commits the crime of grand larceny in the fourth degree, which is a Class E felony offense. (Theoharis, 2016) Joe, Larry and Bob can face up to four years with a minimum of one year in prison for driving a stolen vehicle. Criminal conduct involves an assortment of activities, which includes: the planning the crime, carrying out the offense, evading arrest, and disposing of the fruits of the crime

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    In the 1960’s the Chairman of the Communist Party of China, Mao Zedong feared that China would move too far in a revisionist direction with an emphasis on expertise rather than on ideological purity as the Soviet model was doing. In response Mao gathered a group of radicals such as Defense Minister Lin Biao to help him attack current party leadership to reassert the authority he had lost during the recent economic crisis and the Great Leap Forward. In 1966, Mao launched the Great Proletarian Cultural

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    The Monkey Wrench Gang By Edward Abbey I read The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey. The book is 421 pages, and was published by Lippincott Williams &Wilkins in 1975. It is a fictional story about a group of four people who meet, and all want the same thing. To stop development on America’s southwest. Edward Abbey’s purpose in writing this book was to raise awareness about what is happening to, quite literally, our back yard. This book takes place in the southern Utah and Arizona, and

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    came together to listen to Chairman Mao, he praised them and urged them to find and neutralize revisionists. The Red Guards were given orders to get rid of the old fours, old ideas, old cultures, old customs, and old habits (China’s Cultural Revolution Begins: May 1966). Mao believed in order to completely change the society the old fours must be rid of. The Red Guards targeted mostly the intellectual population, the elderly, teachers, and school officials. The Red Guards terrorized the citizens by

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