Juan Ponce De Leon Juan ponce de leon was born a spanish nobility in 1460. He served as a page in the royal court of Aragon. When he was done he went fighting as a soldier in a spanish campaign against the Moors in Granada. He may have accompanied Christopher Columbus on a voyage to the new world which is now puerto rico in 1493. He lead an expedition to the coast of what's now Florida.…
Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (December 1, 1949 – December 2, 1993) was a notorious Colombian drug lord who, paradoxically, was both a ruthless Machiavellian despot and a national hero. At the height of his career his cartel supplied an estimated 80% of the cocaine smuggled into the United States.[1][2] Often called "The King of Cocaine", he was the wealthiest criminal in history, with an estimated known net worth of US$30 billion by the early 1990s, and approximately US$100 billion when including money that was buried in different places throughout Colombia.[3] He was also one of the top ten richest men in the world at his…
February 28th 1999, the life Adnan Syed once lived, would soon quickly fall apart. The 17 year old amiable, intelligent, athletic honors student that everyone loved was now behind bars, for a dreadful crime that he has been accused of committing. This atrocity being the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee. Hae was South Korean and also attended the same high school as Adnan which was Woodlawn High School, where she played lacrosse and field hockey. Her and Adnan had broken up.…
On Friday President Donald Trump pardoned the Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio from a jail sentence after he was convicted of criminal contempt related to his hard-line tactics for going after undocumented immigrants. The sheriff was said to be practicing racial-profiling in Arizona, during which Arpaio was ordered to stop targeting Latinos for traffic stops and detention. Who is the Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio and who did he become the “toughest sheriff”? Arpaio, who first took office in 1993, rose to national prominence for his crackdown on illegal immigration, earning the nickname "America's toughest sheriff" along the way. He cultivated that reputation, and as Bolton's order makes clear, he was not going to let anyone tell him what to do.…
As the streets are filled with colorful banners made of tissue paper: papel picado, extravagant floats, and girls in bright dresses dancing side to side with men dressed in Mexican and French army troop costumes while surrounded by chanting crowds, screaming “! Victoria, victoria!” in order to honor the improbable win that happened on May 5, 1862, known as the famous Cinco de Mayo.…
Cesar Chavez is considered a member of a Mexican family César Chávez was very little to school and dropped out before graduating. During World War II, Cesar Chavez went to the navy American for two years and then returned to Arizona to continue working in the field. Chávez is considered one of the most important social fighters for the rights of the Peasants in the United States their protest was against the employment of immigrants. César Chávez became a hero of the US labor movement for supporting the rights of Workers to the detriment of undocumented workers. Chavez was also vegetarian And supported the Rights of Animals.…
Most people believe “El Chupacabra” is a myth while others don't. Although many have claimed that they have seen it, they don’t have proof. It may just be some stray dog, or canine-type creature. One of the pieces of evidence goes something like this "It can change colors at will, has a hairy, reptilian body with spines all along its back and an obsession with blood. El Chupacabra translated into English means "the goat-sucker," because that's exactly what it does.…
Charles Manson Charles Manson. The man who organized a group to kill Sharon Tate. The man who had the same group kill so many other innocent individuals. The man who got the swastika on his head during his trial in court. He was the man whom everyone knows as Charles Manson.…
Its been months since the eighteenth amendment went into effect. Alcohol is noe strictly prohibited but this doesn't seem to be stopping america from getting a drink speakeasies have been appearing more and many are getting shut down by the police. You would think the american public would stop there but no ,bootlegger are becoming more and more popular .The name Al Capone ring a bell? Al Capone is known to be the man with the signature Italian gangster look, with is iconic hat and scar face.…
The Menendez Murders By: Aaron Chen CCJS 498Y May 2, 2018 Introduction Seeing a typical family being broken up is saddening, but a family being broken up by one or two of their own kind is unsettling. That is what happened in the Menendez family. Was this an act of revenge?…
Exactly, who is El Chapo? Why is his name provoking fear and admiration in Mexico? Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, or known as “El Chapo (Shorty) Guzmán” for his 5 feet 6 inches stature, despite not being well-known by most Americans, is the head of the El Chapo Sinaloa Cartel, currently the biggest drug empire in the history. Over the years, he has built a corporate that makes him billions of dollars from selling synthetic drugs such as: marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine. In fact, he even made it on the Forbes magazine as one of the smartest entrepreneur with his staggering net worth.…
In Randol Contreras’ book, “The Stickup Kids” he does an ethnographic study of what is known as the Crack Era in the South Bronx. Contreras studies how society shaped people growing up in the South Bronx that led them into the world of drugs and crime in order to fulfill the American Dream. He does so by providing detailed field notes, creating a sociological framework of how components such as culture, deviance, socialization, crime and race contribute to the society as a whole. In this book, Contreras specifically studies a small community of friends in his neighborhood and how their life changes along with the loss of jobs and deindustrialization of the economy. Contreras starts off by describing how his friends started to become “stickup”…
Al Capone: a man who started living a rich and lavish lifestyle by the age of 30. Living that lifestyle, always comes with a price; especially if it’s not legal at all. Alphonse Gabriel “Al” Capone rose in the 1930s to become one of the most notorious mob bosses in history. His actions not only affected the Chicago area, but had a major impact on the gangster himself. Prohibition, Gambling Dens, Whorehouses, and Gang Murders all made him the popular mob boss that everyone knows about today.…
Alcatraz Island has a rather distinct past. Even though Alcatraz sits in the middle of San Francisco Bay, the island seems distant, as if it were miles out of sea. The appeal to Alcatraz is uninviting, since it had played an important role in the history of California. Imagine being imprisoned in one of the world’s most disreputable prisons. However, not only is the island well known as the prison, but it was much more than a prison going back in time.…
How many prisoners escaped the Alcatraz Prison on Alcatraz Island during its nearly 30 years of service? If you ask the government, they will tell you that nobody ever escaped from Alcatraz. But if you believe the movie “Escape From Alcatraz” starring Clint Eastwood, then you will know that the statement is otherwise proven wrong. Alcatraz held some of America's most cruel felons including murderer Robert Stroud, gangster Al Capone, and the “Birdman of Alcatraz”. Of all of the felons that had been through the prison and attempted to escape, very few had ever managed to actually get off of the island.…