英语小论文：Gangs_in_America.doc

Gangs in America Qujin Abstract: This paper concerns the gangs in America, which intends to analyze the history, culture, classification, and harmfulness of the gangs that has been causing a lot of problems in the United States, in order to expose a dark aspect of American society and show that the gangs appeared when the nation was founded and it is very hard for the United States’ government to put an end to the gangs. Key Words: Gang, Origin, Immigrants, Development, Crime, Large Cities, and Unavoidable 1 Introduction This paper shows the American gang issue in the aspects of the origin of the gangs including the cause of the early gangs and some information about the first gangs, the development of the gangs consisting of the characteristics of the gangs, the types of the gangs, and three major gangs cities. There are some information and classification of the Chinese gangs, and other similar notorious organizations in the US. And this paper is written to make a conclusion about the future of the gangs according to what we have showed and collected. 2 Origins 2.1 Immigration There have been a large number of immigrants in the United States known as “melting pot”. Among the immigrants, in order of priority, the Irish, Italian, African, Mexican, and Chinese have their own gangs in America, which have taken up a large proportion of all the gangs. 2.2 Problem After many Europeans migrated to the East coast of America for a better life, the savings of them was quickly depleted and many were forced to take out loans with local merchants and colonization companies, who charged steep interest rates. Life for the migrants was more difficult than they imagined. Many of them died due to poverty and disease. And there were also many who died orphaning their children. It became a common problem in many cities that there is no money to send the children back to their homeland and not any relative to care for them in America. At the same time, s