Gangster

When I was a kid, growing up in Cleveland, Ohio, I was surrounded by a lot of negative influences. Prostitution, drug dealers, gangsters, and much more. I also had the displeasure of suffering through post-traumatic stress disorder after I was raped by my older brother. As a kid, I was not fully aware of the negative influences around me nor what it meant to be raped. I was not fully…

It doesn’t sound that bad, but more will be explained as I continue to talk about this book. The Mysteries of Pittsburgh follows Art Bechstein, the narrator of the novel, and the first thing that I was introduced to is Art having lunch with his gangster father who happens to be in town for the weekend in the beginning of his summer vacation. As I continue to read through, I learned that the main character had an unsuccessful relationship with someone by the name of Claire. When Art found a group…

know them better, we witness their genuine good personalities. There are four factors which must have caught the attention of the audience. Firstly, they used a real lion. Secondly, Robert (Hub) was so calm and composed when he was fighting the gangsters. In fact he offered them advice about how to fight. Thirdly, Kyra (Mae) exhibited her motherly love when she adhered to her son. Fourthly, at the end of the movie the Sheikhs grandsons come to acknowledge and honor their death. Nevertheless they…

In the 1920’s alcoholic beverages became highly illegal which upset nearly everyone who drank it. due to the high percent of people affected by alcoholism a heavy band was set into place to sober up the society. Better not stop some people from drinking hidden behind storefronts were illegal bars that sold alcohol. Access the bars you had to know a secret code so that the establishment was not infiltrated by undercover policeman. Dozens of smoke alcohol into the New York and New Jersey area by…

“I’ll never leave your side, my dear Clyde. I’ll ride till I die.” Bonnie Parker’s words, spoken in the 1967 film named after the infamous duo, are quite literal when studying the criminal couple genre. No matter how much they love each other, the road will always be the double-edged sword of freedom - at some point, the rest of the world will catch up with you. Starting with the film “You Only Live Once” (1937), through “Bonnie and Clyde” (1967), and continuing to this day, the romanticization…

The men of the Hip-Hop industry usually portray the look and lifestyle of gangsters or what they call the “thug life”. Creating a smokescreen, to hide the fact that majority of today Hip-Hop artist have some form of college education. They rap about things like selling and using drugs, having sex with various women, fancy cars and clothes, and “shooting up someone’s block”. These lyrics encourage young black men to be gangsters or thugs, rather than a business man. The women of the Hip-Hoop…

Throughout the excerpt from the book, “The Greening of America” written by Charles A. Reich, he interprets his theory, emphasizes the differences, and explicates what Consciousness I, II, and III are per his model. Reich starts off by stating that the American Dream is “—the dream shared by the colonists and the immigrants…. —a dream premised on human dignity, a dignity that made each man an equal being in a spiritual sense, and envisioned a community based upon individual dignity”. This feeds…

1,186. 1,186 is the number of people killed by police in 2015 (Petrohilos, 2015). In 1991, Rodney King could’ve been one of those numbers, with the perpetrators getting off scot-free. The acquittal of the four officers who brutally attacked Rodney King was an outrage to the American people as well as being the catalyst for the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. Rodney King was driving one night when he was pulled over and beaten by police. Upwards of one-hundred miles per hour, Rodney King’s car was…

activity throughout america. These crimes mostly took place up in the north, mostly up by new york and chicago. One of the most notorious people during this era that was a major criminal was gangster …

Each drawing and painting always has a true and great story behind it. Paintings in Los Angeles are very beautiful and there should not be any problem with having nice paintings or drawing in the walls. I think its okay to have drawings in Los Angeles because a lot of people from all over the world go there and like to look around and explore How Los Angeles really is. Art is a really outstanding when you know that it is something that a artist drew out of there feelings or emotion or simply…