Kingpin

Johnny Depp, as he takes storm of the late 1970’s- 1980’s selling cocaine, and Scarface a movie featuring Al Pacino as Tony Montana; a cocaine dealing Cuban native who had fled to Florida to escape the refugee camps. As addicting and similar the two kingpins lives’ were, they had some key differences including their motives for entering the underground drug world, the things of most value to them, and, the ending of their reign in the drug game. Now one may ask why a person would ever think to…

superiority theory. This theory can be basically understood by saying, “X is funny because it prompts apprehension of our superiority over others;” in other words, we laugh at something because we feel that we would handle the situation better. In Kingpin, the superiority theory explains moments of humor occurring when we – the audience - feel superior to Roy and Ishmael. When we see Roy after the destruction of his bowling career, we laugh at his inability to preform simple tasks.…

and much more. Born on September sixth, 1817 in Saint-Antoine, Lower Canada Cartier had been a former rebel against the Canadian government, responsible for the bringing of French Canada, Manitoba, and British Columbia into the Dominion, arguably a kingpin to confederation and Canada's first minister of militia and defense. Coming from a very wealthy family made up of millers and grain exporters and as stated by a family legend a descendant of the family of Jacques Cartier. George had…

This could be from a kingpin to a street dealer. In most cases, the goal is to take down the top. If you catch one of the street dealers it will only be that because that offender has not seen anything above his pay grade. Plus, with the “just in time” method, the high level dealer is only going to give that street dealer just enough to sell so if that person gets caught it is not a loss. It is usually a huge network of dealers that know nothing of each other. A lot of kingpins never even touch…

The first season of Narcos was released in August, 2015. During the first two episodes, the creators addressed the war on drugs in the 1970s and 1980s. The introduction of Pablo Escobar and how he built his business through smuggling cocaine US and paying off government officials and police officers, shows us the power that money has in this world. Therefore this brought up a few socio-political issues such as corruption, the power and the use of drugs. The producers of the TV show, highlights…

announcement of several thousands of soldiers were sent to the streets to procrastinate the minimization of the war. The results have been to known complaints of the human rights abuse by the Mexican patrol and armed force. The tribe to arrests drug kingpins and less figures have set off to violent wars, that is to say Mexico’s war is unwinnable. Throughout Carlsen’s argument she tries to make us understand that drug war is a losing one, she dives us into the backlash caused by the war…

Known for his dark, white-knuckled films that address the complexities of human morality, director Denis Villeneuve executes a pragmatic and newfangled drug thriller that evokes the masterpiece, Traffic. Villeneuve’s 2015 film, Sicario, portrays how the United States contends with the escalating war on drugs against Mexican, and in particular, Sonoran, cartels. The film endorses positive and negative archetypes of Spanish-speaking individuals. Additionally, Villeneuve utilizes cinematic tools…

January 16, 1920 was the last day before things were going to change. For the following thirteen years the eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution would particularly deny each native the privilege to purchase or offer mixed beverage. Those thirteen years were to change America everlastingly: rather than controlling social conduct and killing the scourge of "the Devil's blend," Prohibition instigated Americans to curve or infringe upon the law by for all intents and purposes any methods…

Currently, pirates are being especially bothersome in multiple ways. For one, pirates are allowing large drug rings along the border of the United States and Mexico to be reopened. The largest being a former wing of the Gulf Cartel, called Zeta. Zeta seems to have good control over this area and their trade, selling dope and robbing fishermen of everything valuable, because the boats they use are faster than the boats used by the coast guard, “Border Patrol agents tried to follow a Mexican boat…

A “Proffer Agreement” is defined as “a written contract between a federal prosecutor and a defendant, or a person under criminal investigation, where the defendant agrees to provide the prosecutor with useful information. The statements they made will not be used against them in future criminal proceedings(Link)”. Proffer Agreement should be defined because later on in the case some suspects use this agreement with police to provide light to the case without incriminating themselves. What would…