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(Modern Art Movements, 2008). Impressionist painters, such as Manet, Claude Monet and Edgar Degas, preferred to paint outside, w...

This followed along with the theories that crises can lead to more serious disorders and can have long-term effects (Myer and Moo...

gang activity in Los Angeles is to realize how gang mentality universally displayed in this racially and ethnically homogeneous su...

religious direction in the lives of modern adolescents are factors that impact whether children turn to delinquency and crime. ...

closely at how and why the dam was built. Glen Canyon Dam One of the most powerful elements, or perspectives, in...

proven detrimental to all Los Angeles communities that become caught in the crossfire of racial discord. So prevalent is the viol...

of the reasons behind crime. One such theory is social organization theory, which investigates the contribution of community socia...

111). Social conditions become problematic through systems of communication (Charon). This interactionist perspective is based ...

soul it would seem and clearly accustomed to oppression and anger. He represented the people, the Irish people and others who had ...

The most interesting question is really why people get tattoos or piercings in the first place. Despite claims to the contrary, bo...

areas. As this summation suggests, in this introductory chapter, the authors show that this topic represents a much more complex ...

recent national-level data reveal that gang members account for a very small proportion of any individual prison system" (Trulson,...

name from its founders Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof; though Baaders girlfriend Gudrun Ensslin is known to have been the "real...

color as well as students with emotional and behavioral disorders" (Austin, 2003; p. 17)? Can educators achieve better results by...

Woodson (2001) presents some startling statistics about the world into which American babies are being born in these opening years...

national media fascination with the Crips and the Bloods ensured that gang formation would increase and soon be represented throug...

understand that theirs is a life of devastating poverty and extreme hardship, a life which bears little resemblance to that most o...

contend, is fueled by nothing but a lot of "hot air and rhetoric" (Berry, 1995, p. PG). The cycle is not difficult to comprehend:...

own wives for 9/11 widows. While perhaps these individuals were not burned out, one can see how someone in a helping profession ca...

disintegration exists and how it exists so that effort can be focused to prevent the conflict arising and ensure that there is int...

city" (Duke, 2000, 3). Most people became familiar with such locations during the 1960s and 1970s when the so-called "white flight...

by Torrio. Through Torrios negotiations agreements were reached with the other gangs participating in Chicagos lucrative bootleggi...

happens is that while gang injunctions prohibit gang-banging activities like vandalism, graffiti, and possessing weapons, the inj...

they seek to deal with problems through violent means. And, considering that their home life is probably less than adequate with a...

gang situation for most of the nation has escalated and California reflects those trends. As a result, specific laws pertaining on...

serious when school students try to express their childish reactions in a more violent way (2002). Columbine was noted, but is onl...

that accounts for gang activity. By studying some of the biggest gangs in the nation, especially those in Chicago (The Latin King...

be. 2. Agricultural economic base and need for labor. 3. Slavery introduced with indentured servants. Taken to the next level in ...

that empower adolescents with the ability to resist peer pressure to join gangs". It does so in an approach that encourages behav...

gang members. Over their history they have also been known to unite as in the 1980s when the Gangster Disciples and Latin Disciple...