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    California Pros And Cons

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    California is a unique state that is the most populated. Sometimes state and national leaders differ over California's management. Maddees become worse when determining financial responsibility for costly issues. California has not figured prominently in president elections in recent years. We don't see the candidates as much as boaters doing other states. Is distance between California and Republican presidents. California has 53 members in the House of Representatives, mostly Democrats. Californian

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    During a House of Commons debates (June 2009), Chris Gray ling argued “ the truth is those who join gangs often come from the most difficult family backgrounds—from an environment where they feel neglected and unwanted” (they work for you 2009). Within the same debate it was further argued that if we mapped out the geographically rates of unemployment, family breakdown, educational failure and addiction within the family, we would uncover a high correlation linking social breakdown and gang culture

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    The movie Stand and Deliver (1988) begins with a character driving in an urban neighborhood as an introduction to the setting of the film. The various shots of the setting that are presented between cuts to the streets and to the intrigued face of the protagonist, Jaime Escalante, help provide the viewer context to this neighborhood's economic and cultural background. This movie directed by Ramón Menéndez dramatizes actual events into a movie with the idea of combating stereotypes enforced upon

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    The Gangster Disciples are still an active group in the United States (Mallory, 2012). There are members of the group in over 35 states and 70 U.S. cities (Mallory, 2012). Nearly 20,000 members reside in the city of Chicago, where the FBI considers this group a “major organized crime group” (Mallory, 2012, p. 208). The Gangster Disciples were formed after the death of the group’s original leaders, David Barksdale (Mallory, 2012). A young man who was already a member of the group, Larry Hoover become

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    This summery talk about how life is in Newark and what the kids had to deal with. In this town was a lot of drug dealers. They were mostly young people who had dropped out of schools or some kids who needed money to buy something that they didn’t have like Nike and Adidas sneakers, some clothes and cars. Shooting happed every day on the street .A lot of time sports will safe children from dangers , They will played behind school or in the yard while shooting will happed around the corner.

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    Just a Game It was just a game. I didn’t know it was as bad as it was until about a year ago when I was crying alone in my room for days. I was young and I spent my most vulnerable years in one of the poorest counties in the nation. The one stop light town I lived in was Maxton, North Carolina. The houses were mostly trailers separated by fields and trees. The town was completely isolated in so many ways. It made Maxton the perfect camouflage for drug houses and kept the scrutiny of the police down

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    How To Prevent Gangs

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    Unfortunately, gang members mostly start out at a young age. Almost all adult gang members had received their start in the gangs in their youth (Hoover, 2013.) In the city, I feel that a lot of the youth are led to the gangs by the area they live in. Most of these children have family members who are in gangs and most of the friends or school kids they know are in gangs. Most of the kids are never shown that they have better options and have no positive role model in their life. To assist in preventing

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    The Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade will take place on the Sunday after Thanksgiving: November 26, 2015 Formally known as Hollywood Santa Parade or Santa Claus Lane Parade, the Hollywood Christmas Parade is an event that takes place on the Sunday after Thanksgiving and is scheduled on November 26, 2015. Apart from its participants, the parade follows a 3.5-mile route along Sunset Boulevard, featuring top celebrities, politicians and prominent personalities from the United States and across the

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    One of the most basic tropes in Western film is that of the black hat versus the white hat. In this simplistic paradigm, evil is represented by a clear villain dressed in dark clothing, representing the blackness of his heart. Meanwhile the hero of the story is dressed in white, symbolizing his purity and willingness to fight for the weak against the strong with the clear moral high ground on his side. On the surface, Shane may seem as if it follows this pattern and the simplistic morality it implies

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    Burial Film Essay

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    The stage setting for a typical Western film happens in the, Opening Credits, A Burial scene in which the image reveals the challenges of the West’s landscape juxtaposed with the beauty of the land (Bandy and Stoehr xiv). In addition, the form of the exposition appears to signify an ode to Ford by showcasing the beauty of the American landscape against the harsh realities of life in the West. Nonetheless, this also acts as a contradiction because, on the one hand, Eastwood revises the context of

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