Mafia

Great-Great-Grandpa Anniello who disembarked with no more than $25, a hope, and a dream. This is the reason for Pizza Saturday and Pasta Sunday in the Puglia household. The generations’ pass but the Italian traditions linger on. But no, I don’t have roots in the mafia. This was my life ‘til the age of 13, when I bid farewell to the Mediterranean land. Good-bye to sunny days and hello to the chilly rain. Even though I claim to “spreek een beetje Nederlands” my Dutch is limited to “Mag ik,…

Deception through appearance is a literary device comedies use to entertain their audience and create the plot and additional subplots of the storyline. In Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night the character Viola lands on the shores of Illyria after being involved in a shipwreck. Furthermore, she disguises herself as Cesario to serve for the local Duke, Orsino. In Billy Wilder’s movie Some Like it Hot Joe and Jerry disguise as women to join an all-female band which is headed to Miami. Through the…

We all wish we could disappear at times. When life throws a curveball, we wish we could fall off the face of the earth, to avoid all of life's confrontations. But since our youth, we are told to be careful of what we wish for. We never know when our facetious comments, are going to become reality. An incident occured to politician named James Hoffa, who in simple terms just disappeared. The disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa is Detroit's most mysterious unsolved mystery. The mystery still awakens…

The Presidential Motorcade along with a car ahead, and a car behind pulled onto Houston Street in Dallas, Texas, around 12:30 P.M. with President Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Nellie Connally, and Governor Connally. Like all Presidents, President Kennedy decided to take a nine day campaign tour which went to nine different states, and ended in Texas. November 21st, 1963, Kennedy and the First Lady departed on Air Force One for a two day, five city campaign tour, which went from San Antonio, to…

Over the past 100 years, government officials and scholars in search of a definition for organized crime have performed numerous investigations and studies. According to the textbook “Organized Crime” by Michael Lyman, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), define organized crime as: “Any group having some manner of a formalized structure and whose primary objective is to obtain money through illegal activities. Such groups maintain their position through the use of actual or threatened…

Sadat Cano Arizona State University Unique Gang In the United States CJS 468 1/2/2015 What makes the gangs in the United States unique is that gang members in the United States are more likely to get arrested for drug and alcohol related crimes than non-gang members. In cities of the United States almost all report gang activity “86% percent of the United States report gang activity.”(Donnelley, 2014). This means that for every city, an average “¾ of the population report” (Donnelley…

cops,” illustrates how despite their brutal nature, many saw the mob as protective, while they saw the police as destructive. This characterization of the mob as better for the people than the government is again reflected and publicized in popular mafia movies such as The Godfather. In The Godfather, Michael, son of the family’s boss, tells his wife, Kay Adams, “My…

It has been more than 40 years since Jimmy Hoffa was last seen by his loving family, loyal friends, and sworn enemies. He drove his dark green 1974 Pontiac Grandville for the last time to go to a “peace” meeting with two known members of organized crime. Jimmy’s life leading up to his disappearance may shed some light on the reason for his sudden misfortune. Even though the men that Jimmy was going to meet are known; there isn’t anyone speaking about what truly happened that fateful day. The…

drink. In the 1960's, New York created police vice squads that's purpose was to raid gay bars and baths. They began using decoys to solicit and entrap gays. By 1966 over 100 men a week were arrested as a result of this effort. Police raided this Mafia-run bar several times but never escalated.(Stonewall Uprising). On June 28,1969, the Stonewall Inn was filled with customers. In this time period, it was not uncommon for police to raid gay establishments. It was just after 3a.m. when police…

Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys Dr. Victor Rios is an award winnings college professor, author and speaker. Dr. Rios provides captivating, evidence-based professional developments to educators about the power of positive quality of interactions in the lives of young people. Rios was hanging out with teenagers on some of the country 's toughest street, in Oakland, California. The police officers threatened to arrest Victor for conspiracy by just hanging out with teenagers.…