transnationally organized crime network. Additionally, the FBI warned that the MS-13 gang has evolved from an alliance of loosely structured cells into a unified and sophisticated organization that is engaged in retail drug trafficking, rape, murder, blackmail, auto theft, human smuggling, robbery, and international terrorism. Subsequently, in 2004, the FBI, who was concerned by both the ferociousness and the geographical expansion of the Mara Salvatrucha gang, that they declared the…
Two dozen 18 year olds sat inside a warm smelly classroom at Marshall High School. Graduation was a month away and everyone, including the teachers were ready to get out of this hell hole of a school. It was that point of the year where it wasn’t warm enough to turn the AC and not cold enough to have the heat on. Everyone in the building was sweating buckets. Walking down the halls, one could definitely tell who was wearing deodorant and who was not. Mr. Johnson was about to start Monday’s…
Philip Marlowe, a private investigator, goes out to a home that is owned by the elderly and wealthy General Sternwood during the month of October. Sternwood wants Marlowe to take care of a bookseller named Arthur Geiger, who is trying to blackmail Sternwood's daughter Carmen, a wild young woman. After putting things right, something else that Sternwood said still nags at him that is very vital to the rest of the case. “Farewell, My Lovely” is the second novel in the “Philip Marlowe” series…
Rather, during a fight with the singer and prostitute Mademoiselle Danielle, he has been shot in the groin, most likely by Danielle. When Judge Brack realizes it was Heddas pistol that killed him he uses it to blackmail her. Hedda threatens to kill herself, and the judge responds: “People say such things. But they don’t do them.” Realizing that she is in the judge’s power, Hedda retires into a room and shoots herself with the second pistol. Judge Brack is given…
Except most of the time those at the top aren’t the most pleasant to be around. In “The House of Mirth” people like Gus Trenor and Bertha Dorset were at the top. Bertha Dorset, a women full of revenge, was ready to use her power of money to blackmail any one who got on her bad side. She also had an affair with a man, but when her husband wanted to do the same it was no longer okay. As for Gus Trenor he was a man he would pay women for a good time. During that time he was married. These were the…
order, then flies away. Lady Lamorna then turns to her treasure chest and SCREAMS. She is broke, so in order to pay for her dress, she concocts an evil plan. In the words of her troll slave Gubble: "Prince. Zap! Frog"(5). This idea, combined with blackmail, will surely deliver. The main character, Gracie Gillypot, lives with her malevolent stepfather Mange Undershaft, and his wicked daughter Foyce. Gracie is rescued from her stepfamily by a talking bat named Marlon. Marlon takes her to the…
As a result of the development of the "Cold War" in the late 1940s most Americans came to believe that communism threatened world peace and the liberties of free people everywhere. Including the United States. Indeed, the issue that aroused more American passion than any other in the late 1940s and early 1950s was the fanatical fear of communism which led to the Second Red Scare. Like the first Red Scare following World War I, the Red Scare of the 1950's was a product of hysterical overreaction…
In many of Ibsen 's works, the inferiority of women in a male dominating society is often evident. Specifically, in A Doll’s House, it deals with the difficulty of maintaining an individual identity in a society where females are often told who to be and how to think.In this play, the effect of the oppressions of society on one 's action can often be seen as a recurring theme throughout, we can see this in the feminine personality of the protagonist of the play, Nora, who struggles to find…
“The Canterbury Tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer, the pardoner would be inclined to sit with the summoner at the Tabard Inn due to their shared power abuses, their fraudulent activities, and their former relationship. The summoner abuses his authority to blackmail people into satisfying his selfish thirst for wine; meanwhile the pardoner also exploits others, but does so in a manner that fulfills his personal cravings for money. Both men would be reunited at the Tavern Inn when the pardoner realizes…
Throughout the course of the play, Macbeth changes as a human being throughout the play because of his actions. In the beginning of the story Macbeth is such a nice guy and cares for everyone and by the end of the story Macbeth no care about anybody of himself and only cares about his power. Shakespeare throughout the play that uses dramatic devices to highlight MAcbeth’s changes from beginning to end and how quickly his personality changes. Macbeth in the beginning cares for everybody and…