Colors, Letters and Numbers

Summary: Its about the current gang problem in the United States and the Northeast (NYC, in particular)

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Colors, Letters and Numbers. The three things that have been with us from infancy, to adolescence until now. No one ever thought that the symbols that were on our building blocks would symbolize what they do today. The movie Colors glorified bloods (red) and crips (blue) to some extent. It made a lot of teens and younger kids want to be apart of a gang because it seems cool, or maybe they just had nothing else better to do. The whole gang theme seems to be catching on through out all aspects of life. There are even reports of a homosexual gang that wears the rainbow as their calling card. There will never be a slow down in gang violence once there are members of the hip-hop community that glorify the gang lifestyle. Rappers such as Snoop Dogg who is a highly......

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Title: Gangs
Approximate Word Count: 1702
Approximate Pages: 7 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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