Outlaw

Imagine riding across an open highway with all your brothers. Your Harleys are roaring through the canyons and valleys, deep down you fear nothing because no one in their right mind would bother you. This is what it is like to ride as a member of the Hells Angels. The Hells Angels are a motorcycle club known to be associated with drug trafficking. Before they became a motorcycle club, the group started as a crew manning a B-29 Superfortress named “Hell’s Angels”. The crew flew missions over…

The story of the famed outlaw of the American west, Jesse James has been retold time and time again. Each time history seems to be a little kinder to this well-known bank robber. The story of pirates is a similar one; they have gone from being terrors of the high seas to household names in children’s cartoons. While pirates are criminals and outlaws, it was appropriate for Robert Louis Stevenson to idealize pirates; Society always romanticizes the outlaw. Stevenson never justified what the…

are not going to be too happy. Though it may seem that be honesty and true to your subject is what most people would want to do, sometimes it’s not as clear to people what your intentions are. One example of this is Jacob Young’s documentary Dancing Outlaw. In this documentary, we are introduced to Jesco White and his family that live-in Boone County. Throughout the documentary we learn a lot of unsavory…

Jesse James is surely one of the most interesting western outlaws because of his many odd life experiences. For example, born in Clay COunty, Missouri,on September 5, 1847, Jesse Woodson James was the son of Zerelda Cole James and her husband, Robert James, a Baptist minister and slave-owning hemp farmer. In 1850, Robert James left for California to preach in gold-mining camps; however, soon after arriving, he became sick and died. As a result, Zerelda James and her children, Jesse, Frank, and…

What caused the explosive confrontation, in public, between the Cossacks and the Bandidos? Motorcycle clubs in America have a long history of civil conflict. In this outlaw culture, violence is normal and frequent; however, these stories rarely make the news due to witness intimidation and the clubs’ inferred code of silence. Outlaw motorcycle clubs live by their own set of laws, and the patches that they wear are held sacred; any act of disrespect toward a clubs patches is considered to be the…

#1.) There are many ways that gender can be defined and experienced. In our first class discussion, we examined how gender can be an identity, expression, expectation, and an attribution. Kate Bornstein addressed these terms in “Gender Outlaw. We identify with (or in some cases totally reject) social gender categories like “man” or “woman.” Gender expression is how we “do gender.” It is a behavior. In relation to expression, gender expectations are the culturally outlined “oughts and shoulds” of…

why MCs are so particular on who represents them is because the ATF still views them as dangerous. While not outright labeling military-only MCs as “gangs” the ATF does notice that the clubs do have gans tendencies that are similar to those of an outlaw motorcycle club. The ATF explains “ [military motorcycle clubs] are beginning to inherit OMG traits and mannerisms (Anderson).” The Leathernecks, has "zero history of violence" and is now unfairly getting blacklisted as a "criminal gang,” because…

different stories with three different main characters, that are all going through or have gone through exactly that. The three following stories: “The Trip”, a fictional story by Laila Lalami, “Exile”, a poem written by Julia Alvarez, and finally “Outlaw: my Life as an Undocumented immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas all have three main characters that are going through similar struggles. These three stories are all about the struggles of an undocumented immigrant and those trying to get into a…

Biker Boyz Critique DeWaun Bowman Methodist University The movie Biker Boyz is very powerful and it carries a strong message throughout the entire movie. It’s about the underground world of motorcycle clubs and not so legal street racing. A young man who is 18 years old named Kid (Derek Luke). Started his own motorcycle club named “Biker Boyz” after witnessing the death of his dad “Slick Will” at one of these races. He wants to be the one in charge the one everyone idealized…

Abuse can be defined in thousands of ways. Can be defined as in improper use of something, or cruel and violent treatment of a person (Merriam-Webster). Ultimately leading to harmful events. In “ Why America should outlaw spanking” an article written by Emily Bazelon talks about banning spanking kids under the age of four to ensure kids safety at home. Child abuse is one of the well know abuses worldwide. Along with underage alcohol abuse. Were Barrett Seaman covers in “How Bingeing became a new…