Cadillac

“As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster. To me, being gangster is better than being president of the United States.” It is the first voice over line from Henry in Goodfellas; and it also sets the tone of the whole film. Martin Scorsese builds an incredible but also cruel gangster world in 146 minutes. Scorsese tells us a story from the angle of the most basic and lowest level gangsters. It is also the same story-telling angle in Mean Street. We can feel the main…

No one knows exactly when or how it started or who took the first step to what later would become the Great Migration. Blacks in the south endured a great amount of pain due to the caste system that was placed in the mid 1870’s. The caste system would solely be based on race. The south payed no attention to the fourteenth amendment. In other words, blacks were stripped from their rights and protections. They had to step aside if a white person was walking. They had to respond with “sir” or they…

have it at a bargain price. He ordered the whisky to be delivered at 10:30 the next morning at the garage of the S.M.C. Cartage Company on North Clark Street, where he kept his bootlegging trucks. It happened to be Saint Valentine's Day, when a Cadillac,…

City #1: Salt Lake City Absolute location: 40° 45' N / 111° 53' W The city is located in the northeast corner of the Salt Lake Valley surrounded by the Great Salt Lake to the northwest and the steep Wasatch and Oquirrh mountain ranges on the eastern and south western borders. Salt Lake City has a dry continental climate with hot, dry summers and cold, snowy winters. Its current weather is partly sunny with occasional showers. An example of vegetation in Salt Lake City is sagebrush. It is a…

My mother 's favorite saying is “we can no longer cover the sky with our hands.”We cannot pretend it doesn 't exist anymore because poverty is lying on our doorstep. National Geographic 's Andrea Stone has learned through a Feeding America study that “72 percent of households reported living at or below the poverty line.” Our job prospects are not much better. MarketWatch Reporter Jeffry Bartash states that “3.8 million people have been out of work for as long as six months” and he dampers our…

James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time consists of two letters. The first letter was entitled My Dungeon Shook: Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation and the second letter was Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in my Mind. The first letter is much briefer than the second. In My Dungeon Shook: Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation, Baldwin wrote to his nephew. He wrote the letter five times before finalizing it. He…

The double doors of Mason County High School soared open at three o 'clock on a sunny spring afternoon. School was out for the summer. Students darted out of the school like they were being chased by something colossal, repugnant, and petrifying. “Ouch!” wailed Tyra as she was pushed down by this gargantuan pack of mad wolves sprinting as if they had their eyes on prey. Tyra continued on, “The boys at this school are SO annoying and immature!” “Atleast boys give you attention. I would do…

The Roaring Twenties in the Great Gatsby By: Isaiah Aguilera The 1920s was a decade of exciting social changes and profound cultural conflicts. For many Americans, the growth of cities, the rise of a consumer culture, the upsurge of mass entertainment, and the so-called "revolution in morals and manners" represented liberation from the restrictions of the United States’s Victorian past. Sexual mores, gender roles, hairstyles, and dressing all changed profoundly during the 1920s. But for many…

The stench was overwhelming, foul meat, maybe, but Joey didn 't give a damn, he 'd been staking out a nightclub and searching for the weapon responsible for the murder of a stripper. Undercover cops were used to diving in dumpsters, he wiped the spoiled food off the butcher’s knife and bagged it, just another day on the job for the stocky built Irishman, a fireplug, with a relentless pursuit of bad guys. His back-up pulled in the alleyway, with the disposition of a talk show host, before his…

The Imperial Valley: Permanent Oasis by Cory Phillips Imperial County, California has been a major agricultural, political, and commercial center in Southeastern California for over 100 years. Although the peripheral agricultural activities have been the focus and source of the region’s economy, the area’s role in agribusiness has also facilitated much urban growth. The farms in the Imperial Valley bring about $1,000,000,000 to the state’s economy each year. This rural and…