Gangster

The Archives of Alcatraz In 1775, a spanish explorer named Juan Manuel De Ayala sighted the island of Alcatraz. He named it Isla de los Alcatraces, which translates to Island of the Pelicans because of the birds which call the island home. Juan Manuel de Ayala proceeded on and charted the rest of the San Francisco Bay. In 1848, the U.S. Military realized the island could be used to its tactical advantage. Two years later, president Millard Fillmore issued an executive order designating Alcatraz…

Hotel Congress inside before, even though I always pass by every day to go to college. The Hotel Congress was built in 1919 where tap rooms opens, and where it use to provide rooms to legendary bank robber John Dillinger, who was a famous American gangster. This hotel celebrates his capture each third weekend of the month of January with different entertainments. In 1934 of January 22, the hotel catches on fire causing, it started in the basement and made its way into the third floor, causing…

members want to be presented. The way members of a gang dress is not only because they want to keep a “low profile”, but it is also based on their surroundings and what inspires them to be in a gang, “hip-hop music often depicts a dangerous, violent gangster lifestyle. Music videos, rap lyrics, clothing, jewelery and other merchandise support hip-hop culture and sometimes become gang symbols”(pg. 52 Gangs Ed.). Not only does an environment encourage gang behaviour but music plays a huge role in…

Lit 4/29/2018 Clothing in the 1920’s Back in the 1920’s clothing was very different from what they are today. Especially the clothing that women and children wore and the certain looks they tried to appeal to like the flapper look for women and the Gangster looks of the men. It is more appropriate to dress the way people did back in the 1920’s. To start, roughly 100 years ago women and children often dressed in short skirts and bobbed hair. Even the boys of this time period had long hair at…

Chicago as a place of opportunity and a place to start or start over because it was the center of trade. Some of the main ethnic groups found in Chicago are Irish, German, Italian, Black, Korean, and Chinese. In 1930’s Chicago was dominated with gangsters and political debates and then into the 1950’s to 1960’s the city population shrank because families started to move out to suburbs. Even in the 2000’s we see immigrants traveling to Chicago because it is a city full of…

During the 1920’s there were many debates going on and people had different thoughts. There were many different perspectives on the Ku Klux Klan, the prohibition, and Flappers. In the 1920’s the Ku Klux Klan took things to a whole new level, they most wanted to restrict immigration. This newer generation of the Klan was not only anti-black but also took a stand against Roman Catholics, Jews, and foreigners, basically anyone who wasn’t American. It was fueled by the growing hostility to the…

blackmailing, and so again prohibition failed to abolish social problems. On the other hand, the other main reason that ended the prohibition was the St. Valentine Massacre, which was one of the biggest gang fights ever, that Al Capone’s gang killed seven gangsters; this massacre was one of the turning points that changed the people’s idea about the prohibition; they thought that the prohibition causes a lot of violence and they should end…

people were calling me a murderer. In 2000 after James’s death, half of the people thought that I was the one who killed him, but I was not the one guilty. On 8/25/2000, my friends and I were at the gun shop to buy a gun because we were a group of gangsters. James came into the market. James was dressed in a soft white shirt, blue jeans, a red tie and shiny black shoes. James was a strong, tall and well-dressed man. Unfortunately, our leader Omar started a fight and shot him because he wanted to…

Security Threat Groups, also referred to as gangs are either an formal or informal group of prison inmates who set up either by race or by their beliefs. The evolution of gangs have developed a threat to the safety of prison officials and other inmates. Some of the major security threat groups include the Aryan Brotherhood, The Klu Klux Klan, The Folks, The Nation of Islam, and MS13. Groups within the correctional facilities are categorized as STGs depending upon parameters such as gang history,…

The Great Depression era saw some of the most notorious criminals and outlaws, and John Dillinger was most certainly among them. His felonies captured the public’s imagination, and to this day, there is still an aura of mystery and excitement associated with him. He was a crime genius and certainly proved it. Dillinger was able to prosper as a criminal due to his hardened upbringing, his support and involvement in gangs, and the public’s perverse encouragement towards him, in a time where they…