Gangster

KARNSTREET is a gritty, crime drama that centers on two major rival gangs. Their rivalry leads to a vicious gang war. The script does a nice job of showing the violent side of gangsters and their need for control. The stakes are life and death. While there are certainly strengths to the presentation, the script would benefit from more development in the area of structure, pace, and character development, as well as the professional presentation. First, the opening nicely sets the tone of the…

Crime and prohibition was a large factor in the 1920’s. Prohibition or the 18th amendment was made to ban the manufacturing, transportation and sale of alcohol. In the 1920’s many people consumed alcohol. The main reason that prohibition was created was to reduce crime and corruption in America, this law was not easy to enforce. Instead of decreasing crime, prohibition increased it. In the result of this amendment, crime rate started to increase because of the desire for alcohol and the…

It is all decisions that the listener makes themselves. Acts of violence and other questionable behaviors are all a part of the culture of “gangster rap”, a subgenre of hip hop that is more vulgar and violent than its predecessor. These songs were made to express the frustration and life of what it was like to live in troubled areas with high racial tensions. Granted the lyrics were very controversial…

organized violence such as petty crimes like murder or theft and transporting alcoholic beverages to places like speakeasies where people would drink illegally. A man named al Capone played a big role in bootlegging and was actually a very notorious gangster who had half of the chicago police force working for him and over 1,000 gunmen on his payroll. In today’s society, we have a similar version of organized crime everywhere like prostitution, drugs and…

Not seeing what logic is, and going off of personal feeling or experiences. The Media makes people emotionally unstable when they come in contact with their video games and their music video gangsters. Watching or listing to these videos could potentially lead a person to changing their character or living with long term consequences. This is a very important topic to discuss because youth crimes are on a constant rise and if we had an understanding…

if misusing force and we need to be more careful before making decision. Type 4 1. Have you ever experienced any brutality of force in your career? No, I haven’t used my power to bully suspects. But I have witnessed some colleagues do that on gangsters. Follow-up question: Have you ever verbally blame on…

The learning event I attended was the Tupac Amaru Shakur exhibit in Robert W. Woodruff library. The exhibit is opened to all AUC students and staff, from Monday-Thursday, 9:00am to 7:00pm. I attended the event on Tuesday November 9th 2015. There were no speakers or performers only tour guides to help assist you in attaining your information. The tour lasted about thirty minutes and I was given a pamphlet explaining what I just experienced. This was somewhat of a guided tour. They first…

their living conditions where abysmal by having to live in railroads boxes. They also experiences discrimination by the Americans by showing insecurities about them because of their way of dressing, language and the stereotype given as a group of “gangsters” Italians where taken to jail, lynched, hanged and beaten by a reaction of the Americans because of distrust. Although, Italians didn’t have a easy transition they achieve to become successful people in the United States. Some open…

are designed to make you feel like an outsider, become verbal abuse, narrow our perception of someone. Using any word as a label blinds a person’s true identity. It covers the qualities a person may have. “To them, we looked like lowlifes, chinks, gangsters, and punks. In truth, we were two Filipino Americans headed toward Stanford and Berkeley, living in a town that swiftly disowned us with four reckless labels after raising us for ten years.”…

bribe, he would have them killed. By the mid 1980’s Escobar was worth more than 30 billion dollars and was considered one of the richest men on earth. He had so much money he had a private zoo, army of soldiers, mansions, and a Learjet. “…infamous gangster, who was on America's most wanted …had brought in rare and exotic creatures for a zoo he set up in his grand home Hacienda Napoles…” (Descendants of pablo escobar’s, 2016). In 1990’s Escobar surrendered to the Columbian government, he could…