Gun Control for Concealed Weapons Abstract Gun violence is all over the world not just in the state of Illinois. The gun violence in Chicago has already passed last year’s total. Now that all fifty states have passed concealed weapons, citizens must go through background checks, so many hours of gun safety classes and also have to pay a hefty amount for the permit to carry. Allowing citizens to have concealed weapons can deter criminals from randomly selecting victims to commit crime on. Does allowing concealed weapons stop the violence?
“Can you name one law that would keep guns out of the hands of criminals” (Webster)? Assault Weapons Ban: “Handguns are used in about 90% of all firearm murders” (Webster). No legitimate study in the U.S. has ever shown that gun control has any positive impact on crime. People want to believe gun control will reduce crime, but the truth is that gun control will never work. History has shown that gun control will never work.
CRN:23166 Going to high school is an experience, because walking into any high school for most teenagers is like walking into another world. In one’s opinion high school could be considered a metaphor for the real world because school is a subculture in itself. The text book attests that, “While in school, young people acquire identities and learn patterns of behavior…exposed to a hierarchical, bureaucratic environment...[and schools] emphasize conformity to societal needs...” (Margaret L. Anderson, 2008). Choosing The Breakfast Club to analyze social inequality seemed like a perfect example to write about. The movie explores the relationship amongst high school students who are socially separated, are forced together and find that they had more in common than they initially thought.
More and more young minority men and women are being ushered into the criminal justice system under the guise of fighting drugs. Therefore, the resources for educating them are diminishing and barriers to education restrict students with drug convictions from receiving higher education. Our youth of color bear the brunt of harmful drug policies from arrest to prosecution to detention in correctional facilities. In some states in the U.S. they now have the distinction of sending more Black and Latino young people to prison every year than graduate from state university programs. This legacy of discrimination in U.S. drug policy amplifies the burgeoning gap in opportunities available to White youth and youth of color.
One of the hottest topics is the SAT scores. Clinton said that the SAT is a good prediction of success in college, but they in fact are not perfects predictions. The debate about Affirmative Action is because the law is not applied fairly example where a couple years ago three minority students got accepted in Penn State University with paid tuition and they were not successful during the whole semester. Now this was a waist of money that other students could have used for their tuition. There is still a lot of discrimination in this society that we live today, specially towards blacks and latinos.
The program BUILD mentions above also adopted their techniques by giving questionnaires to the community youths in Chicago. There was a national study developed to evaluate the effectiveness of the GREAT program through a cross section survey involving 5,935 seventh and eighth grade students. That reveals some kind of lower delinquency behavior in the students. Overall there has been a huge increase in numbers of gang membership and gang related crimes. There might not be a cover all solution for the gang epidemic that is occurring all over the United Sates today.
In today’s current news nothing is more prominent than that of the American government and it’s struggles. The American Economy has been a main focus of thousands of Americans for the past few years. A lot that has been argued deals with the massive difference between the upper 1% of the nation and the angry 99% of the rest. Occupy Wall Street deals with these angry 99% looking for some sort of reciprocation from these individuals and the hopes that they can began to enjoy their lives without the fear of becoming broke and possibly homeless due to the failing economy of the U.S.A. ("Occupy Wall Street"). This movement has highly appealed to the youth of this nation especially that of the college graduate students that are still struggling to
American Dream United States of America is known as the land of opportunity for many immigrants who dream of a better life. Since the beginning of American history, the US has focused more about equal opportunity than any other country. There are many people who strongly believe that once they come to the United States it is almost guaranteed to find success. Also, they believe that we live in a very different world than them, living the American dream. However, it’s beginning to seem like this country is no longer the land of opportunity for those who are immigrants and the low class people.This is because of the difficulty to get a job, false assumptions, and heavily enforced social classes.
Sine after-school programs were not supported by the government, community associations like Boy Scouts of America and YMCA were in charge of most after-school activities. However, after educational standards expectation became stricter, a lot of states considered developing extra learning supports to help children achieve. Simply, early programs were developed partly to help immigrant children to adjust to a new country and learn what it means to be a citizen. Programs today serve not only the children of immigrant families but also general children ages 5 to 12 in the United States. Kweonmin Yi, who graduated from Cedar Park Christian High School as an international student in 2009, is an example of an immigrant who found greater social connection in America through after-school programs.
Most teens have their first cellphone by freshmen year of high school, which seems acceptable. Yet, when you have a 3rd or 4th grader asking for a cellphone of their own, because “all their friends have one”, and they get one for the wrong reason. Even a 5th or 6th grader requesting a cellphone is a bit much. So if these younger kids need a cellphone to keep in contact with their parents, “Why are these young kids going anywhere without adult supervision anyway?” As far as, staying socially interacted with friends, what happened to the face to face interaction while at school and do children really need to be connected every moment to their peers. Interpersonal communication skills are negatively affected by technology because social interactions and development are limited, which can affect future jobs, relationships and health in children (Comstock, 2007).