Female Gangs Essays and Term Papers
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Males and Females: Two Different Worlds
The story of the fall of my freshman year of high school, in my opinion, encompasses all of the innate tendencies male individuals possess. Furthermore, I believe this story delves deeper into our reality as human beings and the consequences we are destined to face as a result of our physical makeup. The consequences, for me, proved violent, physically painful, and eternally fulfilling. This is a strange statement because when these incidents occurred it was
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Gangs
Gangs are a violent reality that people have to deal with in today’s cities and one I am quite happy I have no connection with. There is no specific formula used to calculate who or why people or children join gangs. Upon initial insight, gangs can be viewed as a direct result of an individuals personal wants and peer pressure. However, by looking at the way different individuals are influenced in society, there is evidence
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Female Genital Circumcision
The process of female genital mutilation (FGM) or female circumcision is served as a ritual practice in African countries and cultures, yet doctors are faced with an issue of illegality and immorality when African immigrants want these procedures performed here in the US. Ever since the beginning of religion, Jews, Muslims, and Christians have practiced male circumcision. This practice was scene as both sanitary, holy, and if done properly, harmless. This practice became so popular
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Gangs
GANGS I'm doing a report on gangs. I need to start off by saying that a lot of the stuff I'm about to say, I think is bull shit. I think this because I am in a gang and do, or did drugs. I also have to disagree with some of, no actually a lot of the stuff I am about to say. Before I babble on about gangs I have to say one thing.
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Examine Pip’s Relationships with the Main Female Characters in the Novel Great Expectations
Pip, was the best name that Philip Pirrip could pronounce as a child. Growing up, Pip didn't have a mother or a father to look after him, they died when he was younger, and this caused his older sister Mrs.Joe to have to look after him. Throughout the story, Pip has a large number of women who influence him in many different ways. First there is his sister, Mrs. Joe, then Biddy, Mrs.Havisham, and Estella.
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Females: Voices Being Heard
“…so long as there stands yet in the way any wrong so cankerous as reprisal for free speech, so long must the woman-skald of the future cry unwelcome truth in the market-place.” (Elizabeth Robbins) Voices: Females Being Heard Overall I believe and perceive everyone as equal. Fortunately, a life integrated with all elements of minorities, majorities, and other aspects of less equal, has culminated into high morals and values. Many males find females that express
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Adolescent Males Face More Challenges Growing up Than Do Female Adolescents
As males, many have their difficulties of becoming men than others do, depending on whether or not they are ready to grow up. Although the stereotypical "jock versus nerd" concept is difficult to cope with in society, males face many more challenges than just that. They have troubles fitting into different crowds at school, impressing girls, and keeping out of trouble. People tend to think that females have a tougher lifestyle than do males, but
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Female Genital Mutilation
Female Genital Mutilation: Barbaric Custom or Cultural Rite “I was shaking out of my skin with fear. I sat at Netsent’s head so she couldn’t cry out. The circumciser began to cut with a razor blade. She cut everything: the clitoris, the inner and outer labia. There was so much blood!” This is an excerpt from an article that appeared in Marie Claire in April 2003. The speaker is a girl by the name of
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I Was a Female Motorhead
I love cars. I don't care if they're old cars, or new, shiny cars, or fast cars or minivans filled with kids. Somewhere, back in my teenage years, I discovered the allure of horsepower and exhaust fumes and the whirr of an internal combustion engine. Over time, I have come to appreciate the meaning of cars in my life. We all do that - when we sit playing "remember when," we say - "I remember
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The Power of the Female Mind
The Power of the Female Mind This paper examines Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s story "The Yellow Wall-paper," by focusing in particular on the history of the narrator’s mental instability, and on her current condition as that of post-partum depression syndrome. How, defeated by her inability to communicate with her husband, the protagonist immerses herself into analyzing the wall-paper, and, as her madness progresses, the narrator develops an unfounded fear of her husband and sister-in-law, and becomes
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Female Ambiguity
Female Ambiguity: Kirke from The Odyssey vs. Bianca from The Taming of the Shrew Women are ambiguous characters throughout texts such as The Odyssey and The Taming of the Shrew. In these two stories, there are female characters that are deceitful and beguiling towards men. Kirke and Bianca are two comparable characters that display such behavior. I will explain how both characters display ambiguity by hiding their true nature behind actions that they wouldn’t normally
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Gang Intelligence Methods in Law Enforcement
19 April 2002 GANG INTELLIGENCE METHODS IN LAW ENFORCEMENT The American headlines of any large city will site killings on street corners, robberies, assaults, intimidation, and drug interaction. While not all-criminal activity is associated with gangs, the 780,000 strong members do account for a large majority of the problems that are plaguing America. There is no one-way to stop gang activity in one single swipe, but through a combination of cooperation, education, and training techniques
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Gangs Across America
Gangs Across America The definition of a gang is a group of people using a unique name and identifiable marks or symbols who claim a territory or turf as their own (Edgar 94). Gangs have been a part of American culture since the beginning of our nation. Starting with secret societies like the Free Masons and evolving into violent street gangs such as: the Crips or Bloods. The evolution of gangs has been fast and
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Female Circumcision
In my senior year of high school I took an Anatomy and Physiology course in which we discussed a lot of things, especially about diseases and the things that other cultures practiced. But the one thing that still sticks out in my mind is the topic of female circumcision. My teacher, Mrs. Vanrouski, showed us a video in which model Waris Dirie reflects on her childhood in Somalia where she herself was circumcised at the
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Street Gangs
Street gangs are an organization of young people that are usually in their teens and twenties. They join together and claim a territory or neighborhood as their own. They are known for being violent and heavily involved in drug peddling. On the streets graffiti is the means of communication of territorial limits and to challenge other gangs. A challenge can be anything from making a mark on enemy territory or crossing out enemy tag.
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Claiming Jezebel: Black Female Subjectivity
Author Ayana Byrd's composition, " Claiming Jezebel: Black Female Subjectivity" emphasizes the problem between the progressive misogynic vulgarity in hip-hop and the image it ultimately portrays for black women. The author supports this assertion through her own experience from actively listening and observing the changes in hip-hop over the course of her developing life. Byrd's cynical rant towards hip-hop begins with being shocked from not being shocked from hearing " Hoes /I've got hoes/
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Youth Gangs
Our community is not the only community currently having gang problems. Many small towns and rural areas are experiencing gang problems for the first time. In small communities, citizens jump to the mistaken conclusion that gangs are present. This occurs because small groups of delinquents are common, even in the smallest rural communities. Juveniles enjoy hanging out together, and the reality is that juvenile delinquency is often committed in groups. The visibility of these groups,
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Why Do Females Ask Males the Question They Do?
Every day males are faced with questions that, in a females perspective, are punishable by death if answered incorrectly. Why do they do this to us and what can males do to evade them? The questions seem basic enough at first glance. When examined further, the questions are without a resolution. They are questions like “What are you thinking,” “Do you love me,” “Do I look fat,” and “Does she look prettier than me?” We
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The Female Care Product
“ Why do you always complain about your cramps and your uncomfortability. Look at these people; they’re having a good time while on there period.” That’s what I told my girlfriend when looking at a recent tampon ad. It’s funny though, that this particular ad we were looking at, was talking about how they (the tampons) don’t hurt, how they helped conquer fear and also the race of people that it used. When I
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Nourbese Philip's Poetry Seeks to Re-Balance the Exclusion from “history” the Black Female Voice, Body and Experience.
M Nourbese Philip's poetry not only "seeks" to re-balance the exclusion from history the black female voice but powerfully demands this voice no longer be oppressed. Philip writes from a "tumultuous" postcolonial present. She represents the black female voice previously oppressed by colonial conquest, by "history". She attempts to overcome historical stereotypes. Her poetry gives a voice to women oppressed in a male dominated world and also to the "other" lost in Eurocentric dominance. Her
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Are We Ready for a Female President?
“We have it in our power not only to free ourselves, but to subdue our masters, and without violence throw both your natural and legal authority at our feet.” Abigail Adams In 1776 Abigail Adams threatened her husband and our second president, John, with a women’s revolt (Wilson). This was an early start to women having power in current issues. There was almost 150 years between Adams threat and the right to vote was
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How Becoming an Adult Today Differs for a Female Fifty Years Ago
Becoming an adult today differs greatly compared to becoming an adult in the 1950’s. There have been many historical, cultural and social developments since that time. The experience of becoming an adult not only relies on their own individual expectations but it also heavily relies on the social environment and attitudes associated with that society. Cohen (1997: 180-181) observes that this idea of youth has to constantly be modified in the light of the changing
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Police in Schools - Gang Resistance and Education Training Program
Police In Schools Gang Resistance and Education Training Program In 1991, the G.R.E.A.T. Program was developed through a combined effort of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Phoenix Police Department. The program began as an eight lesson middle school curriculum. In early 1992, the first G.R.E.A.T. Officer Training was held, and in 1993, the program added four additional law enforcement agencies to assist in administering the program: La Crosse, Wisconsin,
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Male Versus Female Communication Styles
In the twenty first century, communication is the essential aspect of a person "The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said." There are several arguments between male and female communication styles. First, communication is dependent on type of human brain. Second, the gender is determination on the style of communication. Third, the environment influences to develop communication with other people. However, Samuel Johnson said, "Nature has given women so much power
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Keeping Kids out of Gangs
Keeping Kids Out of Gangs Children are the future, and hopefully not future gang members. Kids should be taught to stay out of gangs and make good choices and as a reward their future will be better. Let the children know that they were born in the best country in the world and as long as they stay out of trouble they will be helped in whatever they need, whether it’s money, love, or the
Rating:Essay Length: 299 Words / 2 PagesSubmitted: June 4, 2010