American History X American History X is a very controversial movie. It is a movie about a Venice Beach skin head gang called the D.O.C. The gang is run by the master mind of Cameron Alexander who likes to poison children's minds with racism and other negative things like stealing and vandalizing. T...

American History XAmerican History X is a very controversial movie. It is a movie about aVenice Beach skin head gang called the D.O.C. The gang is run by the master mind ofCameron Alexander who likes to poison children's minds with racism and other negativethings like stealing and vandalizing.The st...

"American History X" Film Analysis The film "American History X," is about Derek, a young boy whose father is murdered by a black drug dealer. Overcome with rage, he seeks the guidance of a local white supremacist. He quickly gains popularity within the organization and becom...

As shots ring out at schools across America, one cannot help but assume that America is more violent now than it has been in the past. Has America really become more violent? Violence has always been present in the world, and in America, but it seems that in the twentieth century American violence ...

A History of gangs in the USA Although it is not fair and certainly not warranted to connect any ethnic group with organized crime, it is a fact that the massive immigration of the early 1900's fueled the creation of the early gangs, particularly in New York City. As more and more immigr...

Should society execute killers? At this point, I have decided to take a position because there are many different cases. I am against Capital Punishment. There are too many inconsistencies within the judicial system that should be questioned when it comes to punishing a prisoner. The enforcement of ...

In theory there is a rational difference between police profiling\' and racial discrimination\'. However, in actuality this distinction is open to suspicion of racial and other biases towards minorities and marginalized communities and cultures. The profiler is often seen as a discriminator ...

The Death Penalty and Race The death penalty has existed throughout the course of our nation's history and has always been a part of our judicial system. Over time the criminal justice system has taken advantage of the death penalty by applying it differently to individual based on ...

Gun control is the limitation of the use and ownership of guns. Guns are a big part of American history. The first guns in America were used by the colonists for hunting. Later, the colonists used their guns to gain their independence from England. The Revolutionary war, along with all the other war...

Matt Lesage M. Jenson Eng. 101 BP #2 11/30 April 18, 1775 the British marched down the streets of Lexington, in pursuit to disarm the American Colonists. Little did the British know, the colonists were prepared for this act. This is where the famous line “ The British are co...

America's Role In the Next Century As one of the most powerful and productive nations on earth today, America has many goals to persue in the next century. A few of these goals would be better employment status, less school violence, and more emphasison education. Presently, people of the...

On April 19, 1995, a cold-blooded killer drove up to the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and left his rented Ryder truck parked outside. But this was not just another rental truck; it was loaded with 4,800-pounds of a fertilizer and fuel oil bomb. This bomb was to event...

A crime that is apparently so heinous that the only conceivable punishment is death. The use of the death penalty as a deterrent to crime is as heinous as the crimes that put people on death row. The death penalty is believed to be one rooted in racism, and it has continued in that tradition. The po...

The issue of capital punishment has been a longstanding controversial issue in American society. Our society has always had dissenters who have tried to abolish the death penalty in our country. Despite several tries by the American government to regulate and, eventually, stop the death penalty, th...

Hate In America On October 6, 1998, Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, was kidnapped from a bar by two men. While tied to a wooden ranch fence, he was beaten nearly to death with a .357 magnum handgun. Eighteen hours later, a passerby discovered him hanging there. He ...

Keep The Death PenaltyThe debate on the death penalty is a unique and controversial one, however after reviewing the relevant arguments associated with the debate the conclusion is quite clear. The death penalty should be retained. People throughout history have used the death penalty as a means o...

In the following pages, I will discuss the history, debate, past and current public opinion, and how it applies to American ideology and opposing values. Both sides have a fair amount of support and I have included direct quotes and paraphrasing from authors, celebrities, journalists, and ordinary ...

Both Fyodor Dostoyevsky, in Crime and Punishment and Richard Wright, in Native Son look to men who have been pushed beyond reason into murder, and both authors ask us what justice means in such a context. The answers that the authors provide are quite different - which should ...

In American History X the skinheads gather around an older man Cameron Alexander, a "white power" writer and recruiter of youthful neo-Nazis. His rhetoric of race reduces all the social problems in America to one thing-minorities. The trouble is, complex social problems never have one s...

Abstract There has always been a great deal of controversy over the concept of capital punishment. There are those who believe that the death penalty not only rightfully punishes the criminal but, also, deters future criminals. On the other side of the heated debate are those who feel capital p...

Originally there was no negative meaning tied to the word gang. In the Old English language referred to a group of people that hung out together. In this modern day when we think of gangs we think of bloods, crypts, violence and drugs. Gangs are a form of organized crime. At the top of the gang i...

Currently, 38 states have legalized capital punishment statutes. In most states, the reinstatement's of the death penalty were a response to public outcry over the perceived increase of violent crimes. There are now more than 3,000 people on death row, and more are being convicted each ...

The United States has many problems-problems that need the attention of people as a whole. Murder is one of the problems. Murder is such a heinous crime that it deserves appropriate punishment. Capital punishment is the appropriate discipline against cold-blooded killers. Murders deserve a fair and...

The old west and the days of prohibition perhaps were dramatized back when we were kids when we would play Cowboys and Indians or Cops and Robbers. But, today the drama is much more serious and the issues about handguns can be debated until both political parties declare war on each other. In what h...

Computer crime is a crime of fresh history. This crime affects all of us. People who are involved in this crime are looked at differently than people guilty of any other crime. This public offence is one which , in a very strange way, forces the accused to be looked at with respect, nobility, and i...