Words And Their Implied Meanings
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Would you rather belong to the "Apple Dumpling Gang" or the "Crypts"?
The connotation of the word gang reaches "hit an all time low" in the 1990's.
We envision today's gang members as drug lords who kill each other on street
corners. Society rejects and imprisons them. Once members of a "gang" ....
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.... Terrorism because terrorism connotes
anarchy and a lack of social structure. The actual difference in strategy
between the two groups may appear more gentle, however, they both kill.
Regarding the words "gang" and "club" only one denotes violence. The
dictionary defines gang as, "A group of persons working together; a group of
persons having informal and usual close social relations." The definition of a
club reads as follows, "An association of persons for some common object usually ....
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