What does attract youth to gangs?
What does attract youth to gangs? As I have researched there are many
different answers and reasons why youths get attracted to ‘gang life’.
When I was on www.youtube.com I come across a video talking and videoing
youths from gang central South Auckland New Zealand where there are a lot
of youths involved in gangs. Youth gangs are boys and girls aged from
12-18 where they make a crew/gang and end up in trouble doing small
crimes.
What does youth gangs seems so cool to youth? on the video I watched it
shows that these boys and girls like being in a youth gang or being in the
life style as one and it partly because of the American gangster
lifestyles we see on TV, internet and movies with that comes the rap hip
hop attitude that these boys and girls try so hard to be like the reason
why I say this is because there talking to a boy about his life on the
streets an what he gets up to with the youth gangs and they bring up about
the American gangsters an he say “ we ant trying to be like them they
trying to be like us” I think its like a pride thing that is important to
them to keep there reputation up. Most youth gangs are made up of young
Maori and pacific and has been on the rise since 2006 and is getting worse
on www.ehow.com it tells me this.
Anther attraction is they feel like they are being protected mabby growing
up with no friends or there family doesn’t care about them they go and
find boys like them and join a youth gang to make them feel like there
being looked after you could call it www.msd.govt.nz. DRUGS, SEX AND
ACHOLE for youth these 3 things are very big factor in in our life’s
growing up and in youth gangs there is a lot of peer pressure around you
when your with people that have drugs or cajole I think that would be a
big part of why youths join gangs as teenagers even myself here about how
good it can be. Most youth gangs are found in South Auckland and there has
been near killing with the youth gangs at war www.startimes.co.nz
Racisms is defiantly a big reason why youth join gangs as I’ve read in
most of my research they say its mostly Maori an Pacifica youths that are
apart of these youth gangs an yes that is true but they are given this
like name tag as youths who are bad an they don’t think there worth it so
they join gangs. They could be a victim of racisms an’s why they join
because there someone there that will protect them when there only getting
into more trouble. Youth gangs are getting worse as people are starting
to get seriously injured in fights as it is over just there ‘territory’ as
a boy said from the youth gang in Invercargill the ‘NSD’ (niggers down
south) www.stuff.co.nz . Most of these boys would have potential if it’s
in sport music or academically but they are given no chance as they are
labelled as bad people and don’t know how to get out of it as they are
just kids.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
M07092
Why the driving age should go up!
Do you think the driving age should go up??? Because I do! Even though I’m fifteen and do have my driver’s license there are too many younger drivers out there who don’t realise the responsibilities of driving on New Zealand New Zealand
I also think the driving age should go up because cars these days are getting to powerful and dangerous. Younger drivers don’t actually realise how risky they are and the responsibility needed to drive them. I’m pleased I’ve got my license now and not when I turn sixteen because it would be frustrating to wait that long. Now that the driving age is going to be put up parents and guardians will have to take out there own time do drop there kids off at sport or special lessons. Most of them would be happy to do this knowing there children are going to be safe getting to these places. If there children were driving to these places at a young age they would be worrying if they drove safe and responsibly.
In my opinion as the years go by teenagers are getting smaller and less responsible than older teenagers. Because of this, older drivers on the road are feeling unsafe knowing there are immature younger drivers and know that at least half of them don’t know the driving responsibilities and how risky it is driving on the open roads. Big weekends like Queens Birthday and Easter the road tolls for young drivers deaths are outstanding. The toll in the past two years has increased largely since 2007 when the driving age was fifteen.
In my opinion all the things I have mentioned above are things to keep children that are unsafe off the road and to keep the parents of their children safe knowing that they won’t be harmful on the road. I hope that one day all teenagers and other road users know the driving responsibilities needed to keep safe and be aware of things on the road.
07092
M07002
Imagine a world without sport. Obesidity rising? Kids looking up too Ronald MacDonald rather than a famous sport star?.... I’m here too talk about “why sports are beneficial to us in life” For most people, sports benefit our everyday lives; they make us happy when we’re low, smile when we’re angry or set memories over memories. In closer details “Sports help us learn the aspects of life”. Playing sports in a young age can benefit our lives, it helps us strengthen bones and muscles and “Improve leadership qualities”. The obvious one, “sports help have a positive body, a good out look one life”, our Haoura is a self-well being. Its aspects are Social, spiritual, physical, mental and emotion. In the next 3 paragraph will be written on the headings I have chosen in the speech marks...
Everyone knows a leader. My favourite leader is the captain of the all blacks, Ritchie McCaw. He is the finest leader New Zealand has at the moment and will Lead New Zealand to win the Rugby world cup. Obviously sports have a lot to do with Leaders. From teenage years at school they will look up to leaders such as the First Xv captain. From a young age playing rugby, Keanu Kahukura, he captained the Marist team U13 this is what brought him to where he is today, the head boy of Southland boy’s high school. Sports at young ages improve leadership qualities. It helps us in life that in years to come it will benefit us. June 2nd
June 3rd
If you see most sports stars now, they have a toned out body. Sports have the benefits of making your everyday lives better. Playing sports gives you a positive out-look on life. Before I played sports in Year 8, I was big and I was a couch potato and didn’t like any sports but later on I got put into rugby. From then-on-now I play for the 2nd XV and I run the 100metres in 12 seconds at the weight of 91 kgs. I feel great. Sports have the ability to improve everybody’s well-being and a toned out body.
Now here’s one of the best beneficiaries I picked out. Sports have a lot to do on the future of your life, from a young age of playing sports to a age you are now. Sports are like an aspect of life. Winning and losing? Achieving and failing? Kids will learn from a young age that they can and can’t win everything in sports, this is what is linked up too life. They will know that they can’t achieve everything in life. If we lost a game in rugby, we’d have trainging and have group discussion on our faliures during the game . This helps us regather what we should do next time we verse then and train harder. Another aspect is ‘Team work’ . Team work will be a main part in the future as well. You can’t build a house on your own without a lot of help. So in Rugby , kids will know that theres no such thing as one-man-team. So sports ain’t just got to do with physical, it can also be what we can use in the future.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Y07043
Driving Age
Driving children around can be a hassle. Especially if they are very social or play sport. With having a child being able to drive, relieves the stress of “what time do I have to pick them up?” Or “where are they?” So, the driving age should not be put up. As of August 1st 2011 it is going to change to 16. In order to help parents cope it should stay at the current age of 15. As well as this it will teach young adults how to become independent. Driving also helps them to be more responsible.
In order to help parents cope, the driving age should stay the same. A personal example of this is when I was waiting for my mum and she forgot to pick me up. When parents are driving children around remembering where they are or what time to pick them up puts a lot of pressure on parents. So it should stayat the current age which is 15 for a learners licence.
Teaching young adult’s independence can be hard but letting them drive is an easy solution. When people drive by themselves they have to make decisions that involve no one but themselves. An independent 16 year old would be them driving to sports practices and parking in a good spot by themselves.
Teaching young adults how to be responsible can be a hard task. But letting them drive is a huge responsibility and that’s why it should stay at 15. If you are driving on the road by yourself, you have to be responsible because if you’re not someone could be injured or even killed. With driving comes a lot of costs like, warrant of fitness (WOF), petrol and registration. To pay for all that you have money and to get money you have to work. Most 15/16 year olds can’t get a job because they’re not old enough, or big enough. Also if you are involved in a crash that is another huge cost that needs to be payed for.
In summary, the driving age should not go up because it helps parents cope with all the stresses. Helps young adults become independent. It also helps young adults become a lot more responsible behind the wheel and hopefully everywhere else.
Y10202
Smokers Are Jokers
Past generations used to think smoking was great and all the ‘cool’ people did it, but since then we have found it is not cool as it can take your life. There are several problems with smoking like the costs, health risks and the addiction. Smoking is a big factor in New Zealand
Years ago thought it was cool to smoke until they found out about the health risks. From smoking you can get different types of cancers, for instance lung, mouth, lip and heart cancer. From being around smokers, there’s a thing called ‘second hand smoke’, which is simply inhaling it, so it has its health affects on everyone. I think it is a good idea about the smoke-free zones as it minimises places with smoke and then people are prevented from smoking until they find a place where they can, and it doesn’t lead to second hand smoke for other people. There is not one cigarette company now that does not try to get people to quit, they put all these horrible pictures of cancer or cracked lips from smokers which are truly ugly and sometimes it actually persuades people to quit. But still people say to me it is impossible to quit, so why do people carry on smoking?
I class smoking as a drug as it is very addictive and people get hooked easily. There are no benefits to smoking except it gives you something to do. It is not a good example to set for younger generations because look at what example they set on us, and now the present smokers can not quit. From teenagers to elders, people all round New Zealand
The costs of smoking is not to flash either, a negative is there is packets from around fifth teen to forty dollars, and some people chew through a few packs a week so the money starts to add up. People who smoke eventually end up having to pay for healthcare as well if they want to live, which can be very expensive. Imagine what the family misses out on, if people saved there money each week for a year I am sure they could almost take there family on a holiday. So it can affect everyone in all types of ways, so it is pretty selfish to continue this habit considering the cost affects on your family.
Smoking should be banned in New Zealand
Y 10202
Y07078
The pay difference between people in the race industry is unfair
It’s an outrageous that a race car driver sit’s on there backside for 2 hours. But they get paid these ridiculous sums. But the race engineer probably the most stressed out person at the race meeting.
Ok take, for instance with Michael Schumacher. He got paid $60 million with Ferrari. I bet his race engineer never got paid that much in all the years he worked in F1. We know that Michael won 6-7 world championship to his name but he wouldn’t have been able to do that without his engineer.
In 2009 the lowest paid F1 driver was Jamie Alguersuari and he was $0.5 million and that was the lowest and an engineer around $40,000 and $50,000 that’s probably a driver’s pocket money. Most of the drivers if they get fined the teams pay it for them how wrong is that. Personally I think you do the crime you should deal with the consequences.
Have you seen the sponsorships? And that just the driver there’s even more on the car I watched a NASCAR race the other day and was gobsmacked to see how much there was. By the time hew was finished people had forgotten who had won the race. It will be more money for the drivers back pocket.
Now by now you’re probably stating to think that I hate race car drivers. But that’s not true I have the most respect for them. What they can do in that car is amazing you put an average Joe in there and he would probably crash. Here’s is an example for you Sebastian Vettel they way he made his tyres last for 61 laps when they are only meant to last around 45 laps so that’s about 16 laps more then they should of. It would be like driving on bald tyres for 16 more laps and he still won the race. So I can kind of see why they get paid more but they could find some place in the middle.
Usually a season last about 16 race meetings but a race engineer last from about January to maybe middle of December. The drivers have it so easy with there sponsor events. While the engineer is still the looking over data have a de-brief and organise people for the rebuild of the car the engineer would be the first one there and the last one out of there at night time.
So you have read my argument about the unfairness in the racing industry. I hope you have the same amount of outrage as I do and I hope that this will make a little difference in the pay but even if it doesn’t. It won’t stop me trying to become a race engineer.
Q07114
Nuclear energy. Everyone has heard of it , but do we really know the full effects of nuclear energy on the enviroment. Nuclear energy is harmfull to the enviroment it releases radiation, it warms streams that’s water are used to cool the reactors core, it also is said to release no carbon dioxide, this is true but cabon dioxide is releasd in mining the uranium and it is released in storing and trucking of the waste products.
However human lives are not the only lives being lost in the struggle against nuclear power. When the atoms of a nuclear are collided or split it creates a masive amout of heat this heat is cooled down by sucking fresh cld water out of streams and pumped around the core this water is then pupmed back out into the strem 27oc hotter this heat is killing fish life , plant life and destroying the streams ecosyatems. This affect can snowball if nothing is done.
Carbon dixoide “greenhouse gas” Nuclear power is a clean green power it does not release carbon dioxide . True but deceving although the actual generating of power does not emmit carbo dioxide , there are alot of things that the nuclear powerplant need tht do. Uranium is used in the reactor core this has to be mined and trucked or shipped. To power the machienes that mine, petrol is used . nuclear power plants have to be built this and all of the entity emit carbon dioxide , so can it really be said that a nuclear power plant does not emmit carbon dioxide.
Chernobyl , eco systems, carbon dioxide, all have or will affect the enviroment, nuclear energy is not clean energy that is made out to be. It has cost lives , money and the enviroment . I can leave you only with one question , is nuclear power worth the enviroment ?.
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