Pablo Escobar

driven the ideal image of women in that the aesthetics of the culture are referred to as “Narco-aesthetics”1. This is the description given to the current aesthetic trend of body modification through plastic surgery of the women of Colombia. Pablo Escobar created this trend with his habits of keeping women of his ideal proportions. 3. Tejo…

law, morals, linguistics and dialectics. The story follows Cristi (Dragos Bucur), a young plainclothes detective assigned to track a teenager who occasionally smokes hash outside his school with his friends. Aware that the kid isn’t exactly Pablo Escobar, Cristi is torn between doing his job and doing what’s right. While the teenager’s arrest could lead to the source of the drugs, Cristi knows that it could also result in up to a seven-year jail sentence for the teenager who, in Cristi’s eyes,…

In the 1960s and 1970 the Cold war began to truly influence the political and social climate in Latin America. The great battle for power between the United States and the USSR was a global conflict and ended up raising tension between the United States and Latin American Nations. An excellent example of this is Cuba who began to follow many Marxist tendencies and utilize the communist agenda to bring in a new Cuban future. With the practically self appointed Castro at the helm and the…

Ismael Dembele Week 6 English Language Homework It was a slightly hazy, albeit sunny morning in the south of Los Angeles on that day. Meanwhile, the big story was all over the news; “Global manhunt for wanted criminal continues in Compton, Los Angeles”. Three policemen were shot dead, two airlifted to Mount Zonah (the biggest and safest hospital nearby), and one taken hostage – all by one fierce human being. There was no sign of him for at least a couple hours, but we weren’t going to cease…

they could make quick, bountiful yields and sell the raw product without having to pay for transport. The master behind the South American cocaine empire was none other than the infamous Pablo Escobar. Escobar combined with other large players in the cocaine industry to streamline the cocaine production. Escobar was as lethal as he was smart. His cartel controlled many major politicians and almost all of the police…

Colombia is a small country located in South America. The people of this country have lived in fear for many years. In 1538 Spain entered Colombia. Before Spain’s entry, the land was populated mostly by isolated tropical-forest Indians. Simon Bolivar became the first president of The Republic of Greater Colombia, after a 14 year war that ended when Bolivar defeated the Spanish. A bloody war began in 1948 when a presidential hopeful Jorge Eliecer Gaitan was assassinated. This did not end…

1) For this assignment, I watched the first episode of Narcos, a Netflix series based on Pablo Escobar, the drug tycoon of Colombia, with the sound turned off. In the first ten minutes, I could see a plane flying over the capital city Bogota. Three telephone tappers were trying to get connected with a phone call of a drug lord. They were wearing casual dress. They were constantly moving their headphones which was likely to show that they were not able to hear the conversation properly. They…

This semester we have been talking about many issues in developing countries and ways to fix them. Poverty, Climate change, Deforestation, Child Mortality are just a few of these issues. We learned about Mexico’s huge deforestation problem and that is having an enormous effect on the people living in the area. As well as, how Microcredit is being used in developing countries in the Latin American, sub-Saharan Africa and Asian regions to give people a better chance to improve themselves…

“Dreams don’t work unless you do” (anonymous). This quote means a lot to me because growing up I had to work. The reason why I had to work at the age of 12 was to buy my school supplies and any other things I would want to have. What my parents were trying to teach me since I was little is to not be lazy or dependent on anyone to buy me things and to have responsibilities. When I was younger I wouldn't want to work because I would see my friends playing and having a fun time during the summer.…

This essay aims to demonstrate that the demandingness objection has probative force against the theory of act utilitarianism. I will be arguing that act utilitarianism is false because it requires the agent to make very great sacrifices in order to maximise utility. This essay will be exploring Brink (1986) and Sobel’s (2007) response to the challenges faced by act utilitarianism. I will be using Williams’ (1973) argument to demonstrate the various problems act utilitarianism encounters when…