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    Frankly speaking, this article really surprises me because I have never known that Honduras is the most murderous country in the world. In my opinion, gangsters and criminals are practically present everywhere on the globe including some developed countries such as America, Germany, Italy, etc. To me, however, the roots of the problem base on three basic things: what and how the local government does in order to control it, the living standards of the people in a country, and the interference of…

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    The Town Film Analysis

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    possible to consider that cop can be considered to be the bad guy in a gangster movie? It is possible like for the movie called the ”Town“ that show a movie about a group of gangster that committed a crime in robbing a bank and held a employee from the bank as hostage in order to escape. The problem is that employee was held hostage from the bank became a witness and was dating with one of the member that was from the group of gangster that committed a crime in robbing a bank. The witness was…

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    Salinas Gangs

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    offenders. This group was created in the mid-19th century in Sicily because, people became sick go government. Then it was scattered throughout the West, the United States of America and Australia. The most famous gang in the United States is five gangsters which are located in New York. At the beginning, gang was related to a family. Therefore, gang is an organized group of family. Each family controls a city, and the conformation of these families is like a tree. All of these families are…

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    Experience the historic past of Chicago by visiting gangster hangouts, cemeteries and more. Chicago was once the site of the world's most infamous gangsters like John Dillinger and Al Capone. While some of the original sites are gone, many gangster destinations still remain within Chicago. Top off your tour with a stop at one of the many speakeasy-themed bars that remain from the Prohibition Era. Biograph Theater Placed at 2433 North Lincoln Avenue, the Biograph Theater is where the FBI once…

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    Goodfellas Genre Analysis

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    opted to take a look at a particular genre, this genre being gangster films. In order for me to tell if a film from this genre fits into the category of “gangster” I have decide to study a film called “Goodfellas”. By analyzing this movie I will be able to look at characteristics that have put this film in the gangster genre. There is also a trend that is important to the setting of gangster films, which is that most if not all gangster films happen in the hustle and bustle of the city or at…

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    most of his heroin shipments began to dry up or were hijacked. Other gangsters throughout the underworld where shocked at the extent of his losses, but were convinced that Mr. Big would make good on the losses. Everyone was completely taken by surprise when he refused to pay the debt because he believed that the game was fixed. Rothstein’s luck was running out.” On November 4, 1928 he was shot and killed. Rothstein was a gangster who had made a lot of his fortune during the Prohibition…

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    Gangster archetypes: the gangster, the best friend, the canarian, the moll, the mother are some of the key factors that a gangster movie is made out of. This is, according to Hughes, something that any gangster film has to have in order to be a gangster film (215). All these archetypes are carefully defined and are not prone to significant changes which could be regarded as being in sync with the changes in the state of the society. Still, some of the archetypes did get some alterations, and…

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    rescue came early. As they were coming closer Thomas was starting to think that they were not the rescue because the rescue is a different color. He then realized they were Gangsta trains and he was sweating a lot and getting really nervous. As the Gangsters were getting closer, he was thinking about what to do or what to say. The Gangsta trains got to him and were circling him and holding bats, pipes, knives and guns.The gangsta trains started to threaten him. Thomas is scared at this point and…

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    famous gangsters because of lack of respect towards law enforcement and the government, and triggered rise of the FBI (“Crime 1920-1940”). Prohibition played a major factor to crime in the 1930s. Prohibition was put into effect in 1920 through the Eighteenth Amendment, decreased respect for the government, and encouraged bootleggers (“Crime 1920-1940”). Bootleggers illegally smuggled alcohol to the public, became wealthy, and became public cult heroes during the Great Depression (“Gangsters…

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    at a very young age in horrible conditions. This chapter is called The Three Heartbreaks of Belicia Cabral because Beli is someone who loves with everything she has. To me, the three main heartbreaks are referring to her love for Jack Pujol, The Gangster and her kidnapping/torture. Her first love was to Jack, a boy who only gave her a second look because she was something he could use for sex whenever he wanted. Beli thought of him as basically a god, but how could she not. The book describes…

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