The Godfather Essay

this phase, the children have time to play because they have the least amount of responsibilities. Between each phase, there’s a celebration for the person. When a child turns five or six they move into the youth stage. The youth stage is when the godfather and the aunt are chosen, boys join a secret society, the boy is expected to kill his first game, and responsibilities increase for both sexes. Compared to how children are raised today, the children of the Hopi take on a lot of…

A Way to Christ “The rainy forenoon darkened “the dungeon” of the old prison, the last refuge of the Soubirous, who had been turned away from everywhere else” (Laurentin, 17). Fourteen year old Bernadette Soubirous was living in a disused jail with her parents and her five siblings. The family was destitute, living off of the wood that they gathered and using it to buy their daily bread. Bernadette’s father, Francois Soubirous, was out of work, out of time, and out of profit. The Soubirous…

Italian-American Culture When most people hear the term Italian-American, they begin to think of the Godfather, Rocky, the mafia, or even Fonzie from Happy Days. But, Italian-America is much more than the characters portrayed in films. Italian-American culture is a culture that has evolved through history despite discrimination and hardships. While they faced prejudice at first, they are now seen as a monumental contributor to the immensely diverse culture of the United States of America known…

group takes over the distribution of the much sought after chicken fingers in the school cafeteria, with Abed as the fry-cook. The plot quickly turns into a homage to popular mafia movies such as Goodfellas (1990), American Gangster (2007) and The Godfather (1972) as Abed’s voiceover says, “as far back as I can remember I’ve always wanted to be in a mafia movie”. What is notable with this episode is that there is a significant decline in pop culture references, at least from Abed. When everyone…

Dreamland, by Sam Quinones, focused on the opiate epidemic that has been flourishing within America. Similarly, the documentary, Heroin Cape Cod, USA focused on the widespread abuse of Vicodin, Percocet, and Oxycodone that has led the U.S. into the rise of an opiate addiction today. Both of these sources not only focused on the operations behind the administration of opiates like heroin, but also the factors driving the epidemic in the U.S. A driving factor of the opiate epidemic both…

A train barreling straight for you, with no intentions to stop would certainly cause you to panic. An audience experienced this while watching the Lumière brothers Arriva of a Train at La Ciotat (1896) in France. These new moving images amazed audiences all over the world. Thanks to Thomas Edison, Georges Méliès and the Lumière brothers, the great pioneers of film history. Silent films used camera effects, music, lighting, staging of props and the actor’s body language as a medium to create a…

Coming of age is a very special time in all countries. First hearing the phrase many people may not be to sure what coming of age day is, originally I had thought of it to be perhaps a holiday, or maybe a special event, and to an extent it is both of these things. Coming of age, is a time in one's life when they are considered to be an adult in their particular culture or community. This time is celebrated very differently in all cultures, religions, and even provinces. Coming of age is a major…

Kasey and I just broke up. Well, it’s actually been a few months. Three months ago, to be exact. I guess you could say I’m still no over it. That’s the understatement of 2017 - I’m super not over it. I bought a record player recently. I’m not an audiophile or anything, but I do enjoy music more than the average bear and I believe that I’m part of an artifact-less generation - maybe the first generation to move on from collectible, physical copies of music, book, games, etc. as the whole world…

Numerous elections happen each year with dozens and dozens of campaigns. People spend endless amounts of time trying to get money to fund their campaign along with them spending money themselves. Most campaigns and elections are funded honestly with the public and authorities knowing where and who the donations are coming to for that good cause, but some campaign funding’s go unlawfully. Some campaigns seem to get anonymous money donations otherwise known as “dirty money donors” trying to…

The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F Scott Fitzgerald that is set in the 1920’s. The main character, Jay Gatsby, was involved in numerous illegal activities, which allowed him to gain the mass wealth that he used to try and get back the girl of his dreams, Daisy. Gatsby was involved in numerous of the illegal activities of the Prohibition era. Gatsby was involved in corruption, bootlegging, and organized crime. The Great Gatsby is an accurate portrayal of the 1920’s because of, the main…