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Gang Leader For A Day

Being a gang leader for a day may afford one the opportunity to gain in-depth knowledge on how a gang really works. Being gang leader for a day may even actually prove difficult. First of all what gang would allow you to be its gang leader for a day? Since all gangs are serious gangs, being gang leader for a day might be a experimental feat that one could try to accomplish for some academic reason. Maybe a prison gang might allow a gang leader for a day if negotiated properly for good reason. It might even be encouraged for researchers to hang around a gang leader for a day if people can gain positive insights from the activity. Gang leaders are often represented as degenerate creatures manipulating others weaker than themselves. Maybe by being gang leader for a day or being around a real gang leader for a day, we may get to prove if the depiction is a stereotype or a fact. In the field of Sociology it may help to break certain patterns. It may be worth it to expose teenagers who find themselves in gangs to being around a prison gang leader for a day. I am sure many teens would not want to be a gang leader for a day much lest a week. I am sure the simulation exercise of being a gang leader for a day would be even more effective is the gang leader for the day were to hypothetically die. I am also pretty sure being the gang leader for a day in any gang is fraught with many dangers.

I think a program where troubled teens can be gang leader for a day in a prison, or get to hang around a prison gang leader for a day would be a worthy step for any government intent on reducing gangs. Being a gang leader for a day would quickly demonstrate no glory in such aspirations.

I have often wondered what it would be like to hang around a gang leader for a day. Just to be able to walk in the shoes of a gang leader for a day is sure to bring insight into how he thinks and maintains control. I have also had the feeling that given the chance to be around a gang leader for a day I might be pleasantly surprised. I would like to be around a gang leader for a day for different days and different gangs. Is there a science to how these groups operate? Opportunity to operate with a gang leader for a day can sure clear that up.

We could experiment with rotating the gang leader for a day using another gang member and see he being a gang leader for a day produces. I believe this sort gang leader for a day role-play is necessary if we are to understand and break gang activities. Being gang leader for a day will force a gang leader to see how others perceive him to be. For sure, the gang leader for a day is going to imitate the actual leader. What happens after he is done being gang leader for a day is another issue.

Since disciplines of learning are forever crossing, there may just be some virtue in embarking on being around a gang leader for a day or actual practice of being a gang leader for a day or just studying a gang leader for a day. It might prove effective in discovering principles for that can work elsewhere. In that light, the notion of a gang leader for a day is not a bad idea.



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