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The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) article and reading excerpts from Between Good and the Ghetto by Nikki Jones and Girls in Trouble with the Law by Laurie Schaffner address the dilemmas faced by young girls who grow up in poverty stricken neighborhoods with regards to violence and societal norms on the…

Analytical Paper on Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing Director and actor Spike Lee presents his “truth” about race relations in his movie Do the Right Thing. The film exhibits the spectacle of black discrimination and racial altercations. Through serious, angry, and loud sounds, Lee stays true to the ethnicity of his characters, all of…

Derrick Martin: A racist Derrick Martin is pious, sympathetic and very Christian aristocrat from Staten Island. He is married with two children. A boy and a girl of seven and four years respectively. His wife Maria Mendez also enjoyed the respect of the neighbors and friends as being a homely sweet heart and an epitome…

Located in the Caribbean, the archipelago of Puerto Rico comprises the major island of Puerto Rico and a number of other minor islands. The Spanish words that mean ‘rich port’, Puerto Rico was colonized by the Spanish and the people were forced to work in the harshest of conditions. The Spaniards were also known to…

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality. (Elizabeth Stanton). At the hands of person unknown by Philip Dray, is very fascinating and insightful book that anyone who is interested the history of Black African American should definitely take time to read. The book captured a lot stories that happened…

Recently the issue (issues ??) of apologizing to the Aboriginals in Australia has been widely debated in (among ? ) the society. The Aboriginal Australians are the natives of Australia before the ‘colonization’ of the British people. It can be said that the ‘Aboriginal peoples are the original owners of this continent’ (Attwood 200: 256)….

My reaction after reading and carefully examining the facts, themes and ideas of the two stories, “pop squad” and “Ten with a flag” is primarily similar because of uncanny resemblance in the stories. In pop squad, my initial response is of sheer horror and awe. It made me think of the sequence of events that…

In this dystopian book “The Handmaid’s Tale”, by the writer, Margaret Atwood looks for the outcome of the situation in which females have no absolute rights whatsoever All women’s rights in this book are taken away from the women.The ladies in The book “Handmaid’s Tale” are abused in every manageable from, most patyicyulary through of…

In my opinion I do not think racism has changed in the United States. I do however believe that the U.S has lightened up since the abolishment of slavery and the passing of the 14th amendment giving people of African descent equal rights as a citizen of the United States. Less than fifty years ago,…

Cyberbullying has been an ongoing issue not just in the United States but for other countries as well. According to the Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia the definition of cyberbullying is intentional and repeated harm inflicted on people through the use of computers, cellular telephones, and other electronic devices (Cyberbullying). Cyberbullies often mock, harass,…