Mafia

It is often believed that history is best learned from those who have experienced it firsthand. That being the case, I found it most fitting to learn about mob life in New York during the 1930’s from a man who lived it: Mr. Billy Bathgate. Billy was merely a teenager when he got roped into probably one of the most exhilarating, nerve-racking incidents anyone could ever encounter; he was part of a mob. Billy recalls so many vivid memories about the 1930’s because of his experience with Dutch…

A criminal organization that is still relevant to today’s society is the Yakuza; it is, “…among the most powerful and largest of the world’s many organized crime confederations” (Lyman & Potter, 2015, p. 275). The Yakuza organization is known to participate in corporate extortion, gambling, smuggling, loan sharking, money laundering, narcotics, real-estate, sports, entertainment, stock manipulation, tourist scams, sex tours, prostitution, slavery, pornography, and gun running; they also smuggle…

No one really knows in which terms organized crime is affecting our society. There is no official information, nor data that could shed light on this issue. No official records about arrests or convictions for organized crime. At this point, the question would be, why is there no information about a crime that can affect our world economic and socially on such a broad scale? The reason that justifies this lack of data is that organized crime is not a real legal category, but a composition of…

will lose track of time. The game is called ‘Mafia’. I can see some of you are nodding for acknowledgement but as I was asking some of you guys, I was informed that they have heard and have played this ‘Mafia’ game, but they do not know exactly how to play it. And today,…

talks about how the culture effected the mafia in Sicily. He first started talking about how Morello’s story was not known around the world yet. So, he explained how Morello set up crime in New York in the 1900’s. Mr. Morello was well operated before the mafia was even a big deal to screenwriters. Morello ended up getting imprisoned, then murdered. Mike Dash then goes on to talk about the culture of Sicily, where Morello had lived, had given rise to the mafia. He started to talk about how…

Francis Ford Coppola’s, The Godfather Part II, released in 1974, provides additional insight into the Corleone family affairs following the events of the first film. The film begins with a mafia chief executing all of Vito Corleone’s immediate family in Sicily. Left alone, young Vito flees his hometown and travels to America. As Vito gets older, his career of crime begins with petty theft and later escalates into the neighborhood negotiator. Despite his life of crime, Vito continues to be…

article concerns Kim Davis, a clerk for marriage license and her refusal to adhere to a court order. Higdon has also written many different articles for different companies such as The New York Times and The Washington Post. Higdon wrote “The Cornbread Mafia” which was about organized crime dealing drugs in Kentucky. He published the book in 2012 and received 4 out of 5 stars for his book. Higdon’s recent article about Davis has received a lot of attention because of the topic gay marriage.…

Specifically, when it comes to mafia movies, the core values each film shares still stays true. The consistent rush of criminal activity and bad guys looking like good guys are all the same qualities that keep the content of the films strong. But, the genre itself has continued to grow, both through techniques as well as the expansion of subjects to be successful in. The mafia genre took off around 1931, with the film Little Caesar. Even though it was not the first mafia film ever released,…

Like any organization, the structure of the mafia represents the norms and set of values that is the road mat to how the organization would operate. Unlike any company however, the consequences of not following the structure of this organization could get you killed. The Mafia was structured much like any other business (outside of the killings). From everything from organizational; decision making, leadership and reward structure; the mafia was one of the most complex business organizations in…

The American dream and the tale of the Mafia Problem: How did some of the immigrants live their American dream at the end of the nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth century? The American dream started with the idea that everybody with his own work, determination and courage could become rich and prosperous. The concept of the American dream appeared in the nineteenth century. It is one of the most important migrations in the history of humanity. Migrants searched on the…