Samantha Wilson on February 4th, 2010

Picture this….
You see a group of youths hanging around the mall parking lot, smoking and leaning against cars. Is it a gang, or a just group of kids who might cause some trouble if provoked?
There is a distinct difference between a gang and a friendship group, and ways you can tell them apart.
 
Gangs are:
A gang is [...]

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Samantha Wilson on January 21st, 2010

Hatred is a learned emotion.
Children are much different from adults in the way they absorb, value, and retain information. Adults have learned not to believe everything we hear. We will often devote more attention to valid information and discard misleading information quickly. Children, on the other hand, absorb good and bad information equally. They will [...]

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Samantha Wilson on January 14th, 2010

In 1973, Richard Ausley kidnapped 13-year-old Martin Andrews, raped and beat him for days and left him to die in a wooden box. Fortunately, Andrews was found by a passing group of hunters, but in 2002 he found out that his attacker was going to be released after 29 years in jail. Andrews fought Ausley’s [...]

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