Castellammarese War

New York. There he quickly took over the Bonanno-Magaddino-Bonventre clan and ran all business in the neighborhood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Later he returned to Sicily and died of a heart attack in 1915. The clan went through several leaders until in 1927 the Castellammarese War broke out between the two rival criminals in New York, the Castellammarese Clan was hijacking liquor shipments from Giuseppe “Joe the Boss”(Editors, 2015) Masseria the boss Genovese Crime Family (members of…

in exchange for their protection on the way to school and back in earlier years. At the age of 19 Luciano became a boss to the Five Points gang on the lower East side of new York. 4 years later he would become the boss of the Masseria family and rename it to the Luciano family. At the age of 22 Luciano was the head of a crime organization that would bring in an estimate of 12 million dollars per year. Luciano was never satisfied in his position and always wanted more, and as a criminal…

Water, a natural resource deemed to be a right, is fast depleting. Our planet’s fresh water reserves present an unfavorable picture, with only 1% out of 3% accessible for direct human use. This scarcity, fueled by unequal distribution amongst countries caused by geographical and political obstacles, raises the potential of “water wars”. Such concerns are exacerbated by uncontrollable population growth, pollution due to industrialization and modernization, and climate change. A new approach to…

It is rare to have wars based solely on religion, although they make up about 40% of all other wars fought. Religious wars are motivated by a higher power or idol that is said to have commanded radical groups to kill in an unjust manner. Ethnic cleansing, for instance, is one aspect of war against religion. The Holocaust, for example, was a war against millions of Jewish men, women, and children were killed because of their ethnic background. Hitler’s affirmation of dominance of his race was…

The students talk about the prevalence of these practices in elementary school right through to high school, where some claim that “everyone gets beaten up by him (a teacher)...even the Advanced Level boys get beaten up”. Meaning older and stronger boys are also susceptible to being struck, not just those who are in younger grades. However, the girls point out how teachers are somewhat cautious about disciplining older boys. This statement is also interesting because it points out how these…

nature are equal, this produces fear, such fear leads to war, this state of war leads to preventive measures of attacks against neighbors, there are three principles of quarrel relating to such which are competition, fear and glory, in such state nothing is ‘unjust’ and thus there is no civilization. Due to all these claims, if humans were left to the State of Nature, humanity would cease to exist due to all the violence this state results in. One of the reasons the State of Nature produces…

peaceful, it is worth asking how much of unrecorded human history was peaceful. Since the creation of man, humans have been at war with one another. Our wars have been violent and quiet, however, almost always present. Conflict is observable within every niche of humanity, even within the walls of a classroom it is possible to find evidence of conflict, yet humans have not found a way to deal with it better than war. The history of conflict stretches as far back as the beginning of humanity…

Armstead and his life My wounded warrior hero is Charles Armstead. He was born 1977 May 9th. He grew up in Needville Texas. He states that he lived a normal childhood with a loving family. He went to school in Needville High School. His hobbies are playing basketball and racing. He became a military hero because he saw other military people and he wanted to be just like them. He enlisted in the military in 1995. He was enlisted and was not an officer. He was in the…

on the order of $100 billion annually on cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine, but in 2000, much more money was spent on cocaine than marijuana; in 2010 the opposite was true (estimation). However, the drug traffic is not the only U.S policy issue with Colombia. The civil war against insurgent groups in Colombia had been a critical battle, that U.S has been supporting. The armed conflict in Colombia…

I chose to dissect “Apples and Water”, because as we discovered in last week’s discussion, it can have many different meanings. Consequently, after reading it at a slightly more surface level, I arrived at a more war-driven and less interpersonal interpretation. No matter the meaning a person arrives at, one of the key elements of this work is the hardships of the war. This poem also speaks of the juxtaposition of a youth’s innocence and hopefulness surrounding war and that of more experienced…