Restart.

I started with the most common way to search,Google. I found the two main types of crime, violent crimes such as murder, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault. The second main type of crime is property crime such as auto theft, burglary and larceny theft. The most common violent crime was aggravated assault one was reported on an average of one every 36.8 seconds, these stats shows the ammount of people being assaulted every day. Crime is a key part of many peoples life in the US. Maybe we need stricter penalties for these people that continue to repeat crime over an over While the most common property crime was larceny reported once every 4.5 seconds. These are the most committed crimes in America. I ask my self why do teens do these types of things? I believe that it has something to do with influence from everyone around them and their own personal judgement. In order to help these teens we should start with what we know, Start by giving them more alternatives to do in their spare time. More jobs should be created to keep them doing something constructive and at the same time make a little bit of money. Young teens that are costantly getting in trouble should be put to work voulaterially in order to show the young kids how to do things right. They should be used as role models for these kids. Alot of these crime committing teens feel that they "need to" do these things in order to have money and be respected in their neighborhoods.





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Chapman, Bill. "What is the most common crime committed in the U.S.?." Classroom Tools 12 10 1998 05 08 2008 http://www.classroomtools.com/comcrime.htm.

The Next step

Previous research was quite helpful; but my question what is the ratio of freshmen passing their first year still prove me to find answers. Is the ratio high or low? If high what is the cause? These questions had to be answered. Instead of Google I wanted to try Yahoo. I typed ratio of college drop outs. Results where shown but none of the results caught me interest. I typed in ratio of college freshmen drop out again none of the results appear to stand out to me. Frustration began to build while I still try to find results. I didn't know where to go. I didn't want to go beyond in my search so early. I'm not one hundred percent sure what I want to do.
My determination to find the answer became up roaring. I tried the Google again but this time I typed what is the percentage of college drop outs. I sign of relief finally came. I clicked on an article title Why DO 40 Percent Drop Out of College. Finally my question was answered. The percentage of college drop outs are 40% or higher. The next step was to find out what causes them(students) to drop out. Once again used Google. An article titled Officials Explain Dropout Causes-University. " As the stress of the end of the semester and the pressure of exams mount, many students begin to feel overwhelmed. For some, the best way to deal with the demands of college life, whether as a result of exams or just the daily grind of the school year, is to leave UNC. Despite the negative connotation normally associated with dropping out of college, some University officials said it can be the right option for students in certain situations. According to U.S. News & World Report, UNC's six-year graduation rate is almost identical to the retention rates at top-tier public universities, such as the University of Virginia and the University of California-Berkeley (Nicholson).
Now my question is what type of activity as an incoming freshman must do to excel in my first year?

nicholson, meredith. "Officials explain dropout Causes." 12/03/01 1. 21 May 2008 .
(Nicholson )

Action!! Take Two...

As i realized that politics are real boring to research, i changed my question... i decided to focus on a main topic something very important which is are youth. I would like to know how can we increase the awareness of young adults that commit crimes? I think that this is critical because are youth is the future of this country. Youth today are exposed to many things that can get them into serious problems. With the law or with people in the streets depending on what they are involved in and who catches them doing these things. Every day our youth is confronted by drugs, money, sex, and violence from peers. One thing that has a high influence on kids is peer pressure. The people around you dnt decide what you do but have a high influence on it. Its up to the young person to have a good common sense to choose what is good and what is not. This desision can be made easier to the teen if they had a good up bringing were their parents tought them to do things right.

In order to answer my main question i must answer small questions such as what is the most committed crime. List your small questions.

What is the most committed crime?

percent of young adults that commit crimes compared to older people?

what can be done to give kids another alternative... so they wont "have to" commit crimes.

why do athletes choose legal actions that jeopardize their careers:research 1

Once I began to look for research, I went to a website that was provided by Mr. Malley. As I began reading the information, I realized that every sport and every team had a teammate that did something to mess up their career and just screws up everything for themselves. Anyway, I went to Infotrac and got plenty of hits for information (Winnipeg Free Press), I came across this one article that started off talking about Tony Dungy. It was saying that after the superbowl, Tony Dungy had a problem with a couple of his players that were convicted with drunk driving charges. The Superbowl? Come on now, these guys are insane. I mean, why go do something so stupid that it would spoil such a celebration.

It continues to say that the directors of the NFL says that " three strikes and you're out, three convitions and they are banned or suspended from the league for life. Harsh, I think so. But it seems though, that they are doing all that they can to keep players on track. I don't think that anyone has been suspended forever. Wait a minute, Ricky Williams Has been kicked out the league about four or five times for doing drugs and he's coming back this year. I don't know, I guess its not as big as many other things that other athletes do.

"Players push for discipline; Would tough stand curb legal woes?(Sports)." Winnipeg Free Press (Feb 28, 2007): c9. Custom Newspapers.. Gale. McKinley High School. 30 Apr. 2008

Research 3

The previous research I did helped me understand a few things that are key to my freshman year in college, but I still wanted more answers. I want answers that are more comprehensive for the generation we are living in now. Simple stuff like apparel, popularity, nice accessories, and etc, do these materials really have an impact of my freshman year? If it did would I qualified to what society expect? What do the society expect for upcoming freshmen? To find out the answers to my question I did some researching. I Google what to do as a freshman in college. Within seconds tons of articles were found. I selected a article titled "College Freshman Tips- The official Website. I didn't know whether to believe this site can give me a more direct answer that I want. The intro gave a brief idea of how incoming freshman may feel and tend to agree with the opion. I scrolled down the page and I saw previous answers from earlier research but these answers gave an explanation why such activities can benefit a freshman. After being in high school for four years, college freshman are sometimes uneasy and timid when entering their freshman year of college (College Freshman Tips). The answer that interest me most was popularity. I thought that the more people you know the more distracted you become. But now I must know as a student should I try to build a friendship with my professors or remain as just a student?

College Freshman Tips-The official college Freshman Website 21 May 2008 .

ebonic search

Looking at the computer wondering how am I going to pursue this project, and then I thought, y don't I look up the word on Google and see what Ebonics mean. I found a link to a Wikipedia article which explained "the term "Ebonics", a portmanteau of "ebony" and "phonics", was originally intended and sometimes used for the language of all people of African ancestry, or for that of Black North American and West African people, emphasizing the African roots of the former; since 1996 it has been largely used to refer to African American Vernacular English (distinctively nonstandard Black United States English), emphasizing the independence of the latter from (standard) English." In other words....Ebonics has diffused all over and has changed in many different language, so now Ebonics is a mixure of diifferany lanuguages in a way. and afther finguring that out. umm, Then I got lost. After that because i figured that i knew what my answer was, but then got confuse because we have to put up more blogs for class and I didn't think that I had enough info and my search cont.

"Ebonics." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 29 May 2008 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebonics.

RESEARCH WEEK 2

So i traveled far and long through the vast deep and wide valleys of my brain to find my answer and what did i find NOTHING. So i started my real research an i started with my father. So if your asking me why my father its because my father is a producer for black island record company. So i told him about my English project and he agreed to a profession interview. So the interview went as followed i called him on the phone(he lives in cali) an had my list of questions ready to ask him. Some of the questions that i asked him where my foundations questions that can be found in my introduction.Some new facts that i picked up from this interview was to write your own music."your only adding more butter to your bread in the long run if you learn how to write now" said my father.
If you start talking short cuts now by letting others write for you it'll only cause problems for you in the future. This way You can only get mad at yourself for unwanted lyrics. I completely understand where he's coming from with that one because many of artists who didn't start their career of writing for them selves have difficulties telling record companies which direction they want to take their career to. Which is right to me if you weren't strong enough to right your own music and voice your own opinion why would they "the record company" take a chance know? He also said to learn how to produce and mix your own tracks no one can make it 100 percent to your liking but YOU.Once you got the sound and lyrics your looking for its time to bring it to the public. "let someone critique your sound listen to their criticism and if need be tweak it. Now make demos don't start of selling them that's where alot of people go wrong. Free is the way to start "you want to get your music into every one's ear" so the more your music gets around the bigger fan base you can began to develop.
I think this interview was very helpful to me shout out to the pops on the help. With all this new information that i obtained i surly will be able to come to a greater conclusion of my question.
personal interview AUBREY CALVIN 4/18/08