Gangster

A hooker desperate to save her young son from a brutal gangster, is trained in martial arts by a Shaolin Monk. BRIEF SYNOPSIS The inner city of Detroit is run by a pimp-gangster, K2. K2 runs a prostitution and drug organization. Tenekwa (30’s), the single mother of Darwin (3), works for K2. Tenekwa and K2 share a past together. Tenekwa wants to be the superhero in her child’s life. When Tenekwa asserts her independence, and creates a phone application that the other hookers can use and cut out…

of his life. Fortunately, I decided to centralize my report on an era within American history that fascinates me most: Prohibition. The biography, “Al Capone” written by Rick Hornung, depicts the life of Al Capone, one of America’s most notorious gangsters within the first half of the 20th century. Based primarily in Chicago, Capone made his multimillion net worth from various illegal businesses. It was in 1920, during the height of the prohibition that his businesses such as bootlegging,…

Belicia or Beli, is the mother of Oscar and Lola. She grows up in Bani with La Inca. At thirteen, Bani gets a scholarship to El Redentor-- one of the best schools in the area. At El Redentor, she falls in love with a Jack Pujols who is described as “The school’s handsomest(read: whitest) boy, a haughty slender melnibone of pure European stock”(p.89). The narrator ackloweges that Jack’s single thing that makes him the handsomest boy at El Redentor is that he is white. Coinciding with Audre…

The mind understands in many different ways when a book uses a realism. One example of magic realism was the scene where is a scene where Beli was kidnaped by Trujillo’s people. It happened in Canfield. It happened because she was dating to the Gangster; who is husband of Trujillo’s sister. As a result of her abduction, she has: “her clavicle, chicken boned; her right humerus, a triple fracture; five ribs, broken; left kidney, bruised; liver, bruised; right…

and their families. Young farmer, "Pretty Boy" Floyd was put in poverty by the Dust Bowl, a great drought that prevented farmers from farming. As a result, he was pressured by the times and was forced into a life of crime. His infamous name as a gangster lives on through generations due to his disturbing deeds during the depression. His crimes are stories that will be never forgotten. After World War I, the US was in billions of dollars of debt. All prices were steeply inflated and job wages…

Dysfunctional homes help create the sociopathic gangster and it’s all started by what type of environment a child is raised in. Luis’s parents couldn't hold a stable job as well as a stable home, “For months we had been pushed from one house to another, just mama and us children. Mom and dad split up prior…

Gangster films portrayed American society through a different lense, in the 1930s. The gangsters depicted in the films seemed different than lives of Americans when they were in fact similar. Just as in the lives of gangsters their was a hierarchy so to in american society their is is social ladder which is hard to climb. These films showed the American dream is a myth, especially in qthe times of depression. Gangster films reflected American society during the 1930s, but do the gangster setting…

producing a film called The Godfather, which detailed the inter-workings of the Mafia in a romanticized way. The Godfather has impacted the world since its birth. I will discuss how The Godfather influenced other films and television shows, real-life gangsters, and Italian-American culture. Widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all…

1965-66, is a raw and terrifying film directed by Joshua Oppenheimer. This bone chilling feature delves deep into the failed coup in Indonesia that resulted in the death of over a million Indonesians at the hands of a ruthless gangster in an anti-communist cull. These gangsters for the large part have escaped prosecution and are even considered local heroes by some. The documentary provides a platform in which viewers are able to look into how the military and the party in power are able to…

as seen through the amount of alcohol still being consumed during parties or at speakeasies. Furthermore, bribery and corruption were another typical form of organized crime that increased in the 1920s. In The Great Gatsby, Wolfsheim served as the gangster figure and represented the corruption that embodied the 1920s as an era of not just Prohibition, but also of organized crime. In the text, readers are first introduced to Wolfsheim as the man who fixed the World Series in 1919 and a gambler…