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Search terms: tenements, American Jews, Turn of the century New York, Lower East Side 1900,

On the Lower East Side: Observations of Life in Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century: http://www.tenant.net/Community/LES/contents.html

Alex Sanchez out on bail after recent MS-13 indictment

Missouri State University website on gangs—Into the Abyss

California State University Northridge—The Urban Ethnography of Latino Streets

Blood In, Blood Out? Why Youth Join Gangs and How They Leave (Justicepolicy.org)

[Link]www.justicepolicy.org/.../07-07_Ch5_GangWars_GC-PS-AC-JJ.pdf

A New Approach to Gang Violence Includes aMultiple-Choice Test

Opposing Viewpoints--MPAA Regulation Censors the FilmIndustry; MPAA Ratings are Effective; MPAA Ratings are Not Effective; YoungPeople Should Not Be Barred from R-Rated Movies

Gale--MPAA Regulation Prevents Federal Censorship of theFilm Industry;

Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) CreatesControversy--

Lt. Governor Anthony Brown Announces New, Stricter ImpairedDriving Laws--

New survey results: stop anyone impaired by alcohol fromdriving any vehicle, public says--

Legislators must tinker with recently changed window tinting law (advantages)

Gale—search death penalty and viewpoint. Can narrow it down by juvenile death penalty

An Impassioned Debate: An Overview of the Death Penalty in America--

Gale—search curfew statistics and look in books andnews. Can also search teen andcurfew or juvenile and curfew

Washington Supreme Court Overturns Sumner Juvenile CurfewLaw--

Gale—search texting and classroom; school; education

Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers (UNICEFsponsored)

A long page of links from the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers

North Carolina Families Adopted Children from Liberia (Oprah Winfrey Show)

Find a person that you find interesting. Be sure the person has made an impact in their field that experts have documented. Consider people in the performing arts who have won lifetime achievement awards...

Navigate by genre...visual arts, performing arts, music, literature or film/television or click on the American Masters Home.

Select the "For Teachers" link and search their lesson plan ideas for a person.

Sundance Film Festival-Independent Film Awards: http://www.sundancechannel.com/festival/

Consider visiting the library for some additional ideas...

Architects, Think about Chicago landmarks you could visit, People who helped design the buildings and plan the city, Pop Culture Icons, Entrepeneurs

Interest Inventories - Find a Career Match (Start here if you can't think of a career you want to research.)

CAREER CLICKER (LearnMoreIndiana) - Answer a questionnaire to determine possible career matches.

COLLEGE BOARD – Includes an interest inventory located in “Find Your Match”. Search colleges by major, cost, location and more!

ILLINOIS SKILLS MATCH- Match your job interests and skills!

MY NEXT MOVE - Interest inventory to match yourself with a career.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY MAJOR EXPLORER - Click on areas of interest to bring up major results.

Click on any major for more information about careers related to that major.

CAREERS.ORG- links to job search sites, occupations, industries and more!

COLLEGE ZONE- An Illinois Student Assistance Commission Resource – includes detailed career information plus additional internet resource on

JOBWEB- offers career and job-search advice for new college graduates, and is the online complement to the Job Choices job-search publications.

NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY CAREER INFORMATION – Allows a person to investigate occupational opportunities based on college major choice.

OCCUPATIONAL OUTLOOK HANDBOOK – Five or six pages of solid information on just about any occupation.

ONET ONLINE - Search for careers and occupational information

ONESOURCE- Decide on a career, look for employment outlook, research wages, and more!

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America: http://www.iava.org/

See the Vet of the Week for Soldiers' Stories on the bottom right. Click on See More to select and read more than 25 of the Vet of the Week soldiers' stories.

An online encyclopedia of memories, posted by everyday people to help keep history alive.

Do a search using Iraq War and scroll through the search results under Article Title.

Use the page navigation on the top to continue to navigate through 100's of entries.

Created by JP an Operation Enduring Freedom Veteran after he returned home in October 2005 to connect people all over the world with soldiers serving in the war. This link connects directly to the miliblogs associated with Iraq.

Includes interviews with multi-generation American mothers, naturalized American mothers, mothers of non-US citizen military combatants, Iraqi mothers, and Iraqi émigré mothers.

This is a good place to start for a general description of Arthurian history:

The Camelot Project at the U. of Rochester has a comprehensive database. It’s kind of hard to search, but the information is some of the best out there. Try clicking on the Frequently Asked Questions: http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/cphome.stm

Some of the different people who have written about Arthur, and how the legend has changed:

This has a great breakdown of the main characters in the legend, as well as a comprehensive list of those purported to be his knights, among other information: http://arthurpendragon.ukonline.co.uk/artfaq.html

A great, easy to use compilation of King Arthur Trivia:

Links to web sites dealing on American Literature and its social and cultural contexts.

Shakespeare and His Critics: http://shakespearean.org.uk/

Well-organized list of sites for African American authors.

Encyclopedia Britannica: Use keywords "coat of arms" or "heraldry"

e-Library: Click on the Reference tab, use keyword "heraldry"

Directions for starting your shield with illustrations.

Directions designs and samples including mottos, family crests and clans created by a business who specializes in creating crests for business, families and schools.

A site created by a business which specializes in providing custom made symbols based on a family's heritage. It "display[s] worldwide graphics with names of Irish, German, Scottish, Italian, Spanish, English, Scottish, Welsh, UK, Canada, Australia and America origin.

This business site specializes in heraldry clip art for purchase. Click on the Heraldry Symbolism, Heraldry Dictionary, Family Mottoes, and Learning Center for more resources.

"There Are No Children Here" / Inner City Life Links

Keywords: Crime, Eighties, Gangs, Alex Kotlowitz, Politics, Public Housing, Schools, Social Services, Teenage Parents, Pregnancy and Welfare

Student Resource Center Gold: Use Drug Abuse AND Crime

In Newsbank/Chicago Tribune: Use Crime AND Chicago AND "West Side"

Scroll Down, Under Reports and Statistics, Select “Index Crime Statistics”

Gang Awareness for Parents/Educators/Law Enforcement (19th Judicial Court, Lake County, IL): http://www.19thcircuitcourt.state.il.us/faqs/gangwise.htm

Street Gangs: Chicago Based or Influenced (Florida Dept. of Corrections): http://www.dc.state.fl.us/pub/gangs/chicago.html

Try Chicago Area Newspapers and/or Encyclopedia Britannica

Horner information and education statistics…scan for Horner

Gale Student Resource Gold: Chicago Public Schools or Urban Schools

Illinois State Board of Education: School Report Cards: http://206.166.105.128/ReportCard/rchome.asp

* Click Search then Click School name to access its report card.

Compare Glenbard South to Spalding High School, Crane or Westinghouse- where Suder students attend

Suder Elementary School Statistics (from greatschools.net): http://www.greatschools.net/modperl/browse_school/il/1365/

Illinois Department of Human Services: http://www.dhs.state.il.us/

Teen Sex and Pregnancy from the Alan Guttmacher Institute: http://www.agi-usa.org/pubs/fb_teen_sex.html#tp

Teen Births National Center for Health Statistics: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/teenbrth.htm

Divide and Conquer: Responsible Security for America's Poor (1987): http://www.fordfound.org/elibrary/documents/0199/toc.cfm

A review of various income-maintenance programs and suggestions for change to take account of the great diversity of the poor and the needs of different groups.

Scroll down several pages to “Welfare Recipients Struggle to Balance Work and Family.” Read the details from interviews of welfare mothers.

Poverty Thresholds (Income amount to qualify for aid and services): http://www.census.gov/hhes/poverty/threshld.html

Violence Against Women in the United States (National Organization for Women): http://www.now.org/issues/violence/stats.html

Joint Center for Policy Research: http://www.jcpr.org/

A national and interdisciplinary academic research center that seeks to advance our understanding of what it means to be poor in America.

New York Times on the Web (Book Reviews): http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/

Before surfing the web, check out these great sites to search…

* SIRS (includes country information- broken down into sub-topics)

* Electric Library: Search by author, title or country

An enormous site organized by country that includes links to resources organized by business, culture, education, embassies, government, health history, language and literature, and recreation and travel.

* Scroll down to the bottom of the page and select a country.

* This site includes geography, religion, education, history and other country specific references.

* It also features an online version of a series of books published by the Federal Division of the Library of Congress under the country studies/Area Handbook Program.

Ecuador Explorer Travel & Tours: http://www.ecuadorexplorer.com/

Botero's Current Political Art (US mistreatment of soldiers in Iraqi prisons): http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,352869,00.html

History Channel- Biographies of famous African Americans: http://www.history.com/minisites/blackhistory/

African-American History Makers (sorted by area of expertise): http://thehistorymakers.com/