...Ryan started the business by himself in 1993 originally located in Orange County, California, then he moved to Los Angeles in 1988 to the outskirts of Compton and the current location now is in Corona, California. He had a capital of 5000 dollar which he earned by working in his dad’s liquor store, when he opened West Coast Customs. From what he earned by working is now a world famous car customizing shop, and he is very successful. When he was 15 years old he customized skateboards and bikes for other kids, and after some time he started to work with cars. His first customization work was a Mazda pickup truck which was his, also at the age of 15. West Coast Customs also got more famous by a television program that was showing on MTV, called Pimp My Ride. All the cars from the show were modified at WCC. Celebrities such as Paris Hilton, singer Will.i.am , UFC fighter Anderson ”Spider” Silva, movie star Sylvester Stallone and NBA star Shaquille O’Neil have got a fully customized car by West Coast Customs. Currently they have a show called ‘’Street Customs’’ which is on the...
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...please don’t kill me.” You have to be that serious.” Stated by Bishop Don "Magic" Juan, a pimp interview with VladTV.com, April 2013. Sex trafficking is a form of modern slavery that exists throughout the United States and globally. It’s defined as the service of having a person in possession for the purpose of a commercial sex act. Sex trafficking happens more often then what people know in the United States. In 2005, the Department...
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...How to pimp a butterfly. Listen to Kendrick Love Marvin. Hope well. You’ll recall that To Pimp a Butterfly leaked just 24 hours before its official release date, March 15, and that most major music websites published their reviews of the album within three days of the leak. On such an immediate deadline for filing a feature-length album review, it’s nearly impossible for a young critic to stunt. At Jezebel, Clover Hope just wrote the truth. With bits of personal and political context interspersed, Hope framed her review as a first-take impression of the “overwhelming blackness” of an album about funk and self-destruction. “This initial feeling is suffocating,” Hope wrote. “It’s the essence of Dis Tew Much.” I think most fans and critics would agree that Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly is, indeed, overwhelming. I reviewed To Pimp a Butterfly in about 72 hours. In that narrow band of time, I "got" the album's messages and themes but couldn’t grasp the motivations for the album’s sound. Why, in. You’ll recall that To Pimp a Butterfly leaked just 24 hours before its official release date, March 15, and that most major music websites published their reviews of the album within three days of the leak. On such an immediate deadline for filing a feature-length album review, it’s nearly impossible for a young critic to stunt. At Jezebel, Clover Hope just wrote the truth. With bits of personal and political context interspersed, Hope framed her review as a first-take...
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...The word, according to Andrea J. Nichols, originated back in the 1600s to define an individual who coordinated the sale of sex for his own profit. Shared Hope International claims that almost all prostituted minors have pimps who profit from and manage them (Schauer). Pimps also perceive the sex economy as a low-risk enterprise with a high-reward through reported “incomes from $5,000 to $32,833 a week” (Withers). In the sex industry, modes of exploitation and oppression by pimps typically involve acts of abuse, degradation, and violence against women (“Sex”). This usually involves young people - mostly women - who have left home, after having been abused as a child, and are addicted to drugs (“Sex”). This hard life and background often lead women to the romanticized idea that pimps can save them from their past, which causes them to eventually end up in the violent control of a pimp. This is exemplified by Meghan Casserly’s interview with Rachel Lloyd that directly brings to light the glorification of pimping done by favorite rappers that serve to romanticize pimps for thirteen-year-old girls with how they can be “cute and handsome” men who “pay attention.” In pop culture, the word pimp means “really cool” with achieving a high level of success (Nichols). Overall, Nichols states how the word signifies images of wealth, power, and respect through the management of girls and women who sell sex for profit. However, Nichols takes notice of how...
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...Prostitution: An introduction to America’s biggest folly It is a commonly held belief that prostitution, whether or not it is its current illegal state which is dominated by criminals and abused women or whether it is its legal state which is much safer alternative, is a bad thing. However for little to no reason the idea of legal prostitution has been branded to be just as bad as illegal prostitution if not worse due to its acceptance of a “morally bankrupt” occupation. With legality prostitution becomes safer due to STD tests, less damaging due to eliminating factors like controlling pimps, addictive drugs, and aggressive customers, and, perhaps most importantly, more profitable due it being a taxable service. When compared to its seedier...
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...racism, etc.” Prostitution and drugs go hand and hand. Most prostitutes use drugs to numb themselves in order to continue working from all the physical and mental pain. Others turn to prostitution as a last resort to score drug and money for an ongoing drug habit. While prostitution is still a choice, troubled women find it is an easy path to escape to. Prostitution should not be legalized because it promotes domestic abuse and drugs associated with the profession. Legalization will bring more power to the predators. Brothels are an example of legal prostitution. In the article “Nevada’s Legal Brothels Are…”, Stella Marr a former sex worker in a brothel states, “People think that legal brothels will protect the women in prostitution from pimps and johns. They are mistaken.” According to the same article women who are sex workers in the brothels explain how it feels like a prison, with high security fencing,...
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...How does Amis subvert morality in chapter 2 Morality is the distinction between right and wrong. It is the determination of what should be done and what should not be done. Morals deal with behaviours as well as motives. Tod's morality is questioned when polar opposition is reverded for example good is evil, wrong is right and guilt is innocence. Amis does this to make the reader question on their views on morality and describe what is seen to be wrong or evil to them as something good and innocence. This links to the how Amis describes the holocaust as an ironic and humorous thing to ridicule the nazi ideology and how it was ironic as the they set out to create the perfect race and make the Germany a better place by committing genocide because in their eyes they went against their idea of the perfect race, and doing this meant exterminating millions of jews and were doing the right thing. Amis explores the theme of morality through his use of temporal inversion as this allows him to reverse ideas of morality. In chapter 2 he reverses ideas of right and wrong. We can see this when he discusses the rape of women in the ‘crisis centres’ describing the perpetrator as “the men who suddenly heal them”. The word ‘heal’ implies that the men are heroes and take them away from a life of sadness which is problematic for a reader as it reverses the idea of right and wrong as it describes the men as the innocence and sinless and the women as weak and fragile. Also it says how “there's...
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...life of prostituted women is very physical. Their job is to perform sexual acts to please the customer’s sexual desires. They encounter extreme violence such as being robbed, beaten, tortured, rape by one or, gang raped by 2 or more and sometimes murdered. Can you imagine being burned with a cigarette, punched in the head with a closed fist, having a black eye, hair pulled or your eardrum damaged? The sad part about it is the pimp and the customers think the prostituted women are fair game for this type of treatment. According to the Council for Prostitution Alternatives in Portland, Oregon in 1991, 78% of prostituted women were raped: Mostly by their pimps and customers. In a year’s time, they are horribly beaten by their pimps about 58 times and 1 to 400 times by their customers. Can you believe that? The second area I would like to touch upon is the verbal and emotional abuse of the prostituted women. On a daily basis, they are called every name except the “Child of God.” They are constantly reminded that they are worthless because their pimp is the one who makes her who she is. That...
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...homicidal thoughts, and being rape could all be consider factors on why Cyntoia was labeled as a complex child. Cyntoia’s family history goes back three generations. Her grandmother shot herself in front of her mother when she was in the second grade, her great aunt killed herself with a shot gun, her great grandfather shot himself in the head, and her great aunt Shirley is always attempting to kill herself. Cyntoia lived with numerous people and was kidnapped by a family member. Cyntoia was adopted at the age of two and lived with her adopted mother Ellenette Brown for six to eighteen months. Ellenette Brown stated, that Cyntoia was very possessive and jealous of anyone that gets close to her. Cyntoia was recruited by a local drug dealer/pimp named Garion McGlothen aka “Kutthroat”. Kutthroat took advantage of her vulnerability as a runaway. He provided...
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... 2009 Shorter College Professor Ashley Robbins Abstract In recent years there has been a surge in the number of young girls living as teenage prostitutes. The average age of a teenage prostitute today is 13 years old, and this problem has hit communities from the impoverished to the upper middle class. The lure into prostitution has captured girls that are runaways from broken homes, as well as those who suffered emotional and sexual abuse. Although these girls are offenders, they are first victims; thus causing advocates, social workers, and policy makers to unite to establish prevention programs and provide help to those girls living as prostitutes under the hands of men who represent themselves as their pimp a way of escape. Teenage prostitution is a problem in our community that many have failed to look at the severity of its growing presence. The number of girls living a life of prostitution has greatly increased over the last few years and is now beginning to draw local and national attention. The numbers and tragic stories of these young girls lured into this lifestyle for various reasons are beginning to cause society to stop and take notice. Girls as young as eleven years of age are being forced into a lifestyle of prostitution as a means for survival. In order to begin to work on addressing the problem of teen prostitution, it is important to understand the dynamics of this cycle of lifestyle choice...
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...Human Trafficking In the United States and around the world there is a growing problem that people do not know about, but that is a growing concern it is Human Trafficking. In the last few years more is becoming known about the seriousness of the problem in society with human trafficking. It is a growing problem because children, young women, and men are taken every day, and they are physically, emotionally, and sexually abused, sold for sex, and then used for profit. Society believes human trafficking only exists in foreign countries, but that is not true, it is happening in United State Cities every day. Human trafficking defined as transporting a person with the use of force or threat. Human trafficking entails recruiting, abduction and deception by a person for purchase. The purpose of human trafficking is subjecting a person to involuntary slave-like practices, or forced labor. Power and abuse is the primary foundation with this issue. The victim is brainwashed by the perpetrator in believing they will be killed, or their with the direction of the capturer. Eventually the victims begin to do what they are taught to do, and never want to return home. The victims will become accustom to the lifestyle, and believe that that is all will ever become of them. People hear stories about human trafficking in faraway places out of the United States. Human trafficking is happening in our neighborhoods. Even our farm workers who are picking strawberries here in California are the...
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...in the human trafficking for the business side of things, such as pimps, brothel owners and gangs. One of the most notorious of the gangs is MS-13, which is probably one if not the most dangerous street gang in America right now. These people are in the business as human trafficking for sexual exploitation is a extremely easy low risk and high reward way to make money. Human Trafficking is one of the most sustainable syndicates because women and children can be reused as many times as you want because they are a renewable resource because we can always make more humans compared to guns and drugs which use non-renewable resources which means that in the long term these things will die out due to lack of...
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...Da Odyssey is tha epic rap of a warrior named Odysseus n' his cold-ass ten-year trip home afta tha Trojan Battle n' bein held captizzle by Calypso, a horny nymph, fo' seven years. Da epic recounts tha nuff encountas n' adventurous endeavors Odysseus n' his crazy-ass pimps is involved up in durin tha long return ta Ithaca. Durin his odyssey, nuff laudable adversaries, primarily up in tha form of temptations, karmic justice n' arrogance, dat confront his ass n' his hubristic, fatuous men. Early up in tha story, there was nuff temptas dat distracted Odysseus n' his crazy-ass men, like fuckin tha nativez of a island they found dat offered dem dope lotus flowers, which only served ta hinder they progress n' ensnare nuff of tha pimps wit they saccharine flavor n' addictivenizz fo' realz. Another major temptation is tha straight-up nymph dat trapped Odysseus n' held his ass on a island fo' seven muthafuckin years yo. Dude wanted ta leave cuz of his hoe n' lil hustla waitin fo' his ass yo, but was tempted ta stay longer than he needed to, as tha nymph was a skilled temptress....
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...A theory is defined as “a coherent group of tested general propositions, commonly regarded as correct, that can be used as principles of explanation and prediction for a class of phenomena.” There are three major theories that sociologists use when viewing social life: Structural Functionalism, Conflict Theory, and Symbolic Interactionism. I will offer a brief explanation of each theory and apply each one of these theories to prostitution. Structural Functionalism focuses on viewing society as a whole, instead of on a smaller level. The theory views social life as having many smaller parts that all work together. It is studied at the macro-level. For example, think of a fire pump. The goal of a fire pump is plain and simple – to save lives. There are many parts within the pump that must work together to make it work properly. The speed increaser/pump transmission, the impeller shaft assembly, and the pump body all play very important roles in the flow of water through the pump and into the discharge hose for firefighting operations. The structure represents how all parts of society fit together to make the whole and the function represents each smaller part and how it works together. There are two different kind of functions to consider when studying structural functionalism. The first is manifest functions. Manifest functions are beneficial consequences of a social process that are intentional and obvious. The second is latent functions. Latent functions are beneficial...
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...Time to Legalize the World’s Oldest Profession Prostitution is the act of offering sexual services to another person in return for money. Prostitution is often referred to as the world’s oldest profession and has existed in the sex industry for centuries occurring all over the world. Since prostitution first began the debate has raged: should prostitution be legalized or not? To protect the safety of sex trade workers, the time has come to legalize prostitution. A major argument for legalizing prostitution is the questionable logic of criminalizing an activity that occurs routinely in our society. The services of a prostitute are used regularly by many people. According to Doctor Allan Schwartz, four main reasons that men visit prostitutes are a “compulsive need for sex, an insatiable need for sexual pleasure, a fear of intimacy or relationships, and misogyny” (Schwartz). These reasons for using the services of prostitutes have existed for a long period of time and the demand for paid sex will always exist. In many segments of society paying for sex is acceptable. History has proven that eliminating prostitution is not possible. Decriminalizing the sex trade will recognize prostitutions role in our society. Prostitution is generally an act between consenting adults and different categories include street, brothels, escorts and sex tourism. According to Sherry F. Colb of Rutgers Law School, prostitution is classified as a victimless crime. She states “What makes prostitution...
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