Scarface

ashamed of being less than a man if they do not meet this expectation. Young boys are taught to see violence as their last resort but as a solution to their problems. This could explain why many boys get suspended from school for fighting. Movies like, Scarface, teaches the youth and the general public that violence is necessary to earn the respect of others. Media has also increased the masculinity of males since the 1970s. The first original Batman was portrayed as slim and not muscular. The…

Hockedy Professor Schultz Freshman English November 12 2015 Howard Hughes During his lifetime, Howard Robard Hughes Jr. was known as one of the wealthiest, self-made people in the world. Hughes produced many big-budgeted films such as Hell’s Angels, Scarface, and The Racket. Most of his films were highly controversial which only increased their popularity. He was not only a filmmaker; however, he was also an aviator, aerospace engineer, inventor, and an entrepreneur. He was the definition of…

Where am I wearing” is booked by Kelsey Timmerman. Kelsey Timmerman did research on where does his clothes were made, what probably conditions of those workers who made them. After meeting them, he learns workers who make our clothes most of them make really less money (Timmerman, 2008). In this book he talks about Globalization, Consumerism, what struggles that workers faces to feed their family, and His trip to Honduras, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China and United States. For this trip he found the…

“You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot further with a smile and a gun.”-Al Capone. The 1920’s was a time of crime and rebellion introduced to America through the work of Al Capone and his mafia, the prohibition movement, and the creation of Speakeasies. Al Capone was born on January 17 1899 in New York to his parents who moved to New York from Italy. He grew up in the slums near the Navy Yard, surrounded by bars and sailors who sought vice. “The family was a regular, law abiding…

George “Bugs” Moran (Cairo, Illinois). These are some of the most infamous gangsters that controlled the streets during the “Roaring 20’s”. However, the cruelest, most neurotic, ravenous one of them all was Alphonse Gabriel Capone, better known as Al “Scarface” Capone. Born in Brooklyn, New York on January 17th, 1899 to two Italian, immigrant parents (Gabriele and Teresina Capone), Capone’s early life was not an easy one. As a child, Capone showed great promise in his studies, but was expelled…

The two essays I chose to compare and contrast are Sam Walton/Jay Z and Serving in Florida. The purpose of the authors is to inform the audience about how the character of these to essays Sam Walton/Jay Z and Serving in Florida succeed staring from nothing and their evolution throughout their life, in a legal or illegal way of obtaining money. In the story of Sam Walton, he started from nothing and kept growing due of his ambition of progressing, he was a very cheap man, didn’t care much about…

Brandon Medina Medina 1 Jena DelaCruz English II Pre-AP 8 May 2015 Alcatraz Ghosts Hauntings The Alcatraz prison is one of the many places in America that is haunted by ghost today and there is usually a strong belief in ghosts whether or not they actually exist this discussion has been argued for a long time in about all civilizations around the world since the old times. Such beliefs in ghosts started out from religion by believing in evil spirits called demons who were said to be…

truly sorrowful for these people going through with their lives nothing but despair, and would use drug to escape the harsh reality. However, many other Americans use drugs because our society and culture strongly encourage us. Cinematic movies like Scarface portrays Tony Montana sitting in his office with a huge pile of cocaine and military assault rifles on his desk or songs that symbolize lighting a joint and share with friends have impact us how we perceive drugs as an alternative form of an…

Gangster archetypes: the gangster, the best friend, the canarian, the moll, the mother are some of the key factors that a gangster movie is made out of. This is, according to Hughes, something that any gangster film has to have in order to be a gangster film (215). All these archetypes are carefully defined and are not prone to significant changes which could be regarded as being in sync with the changes in the state of the society. Still, some of the archetypes did get some alterations, and…

What do James “Whitey” Bulger, Al “Scarface” Capone, and George Celino “Machine Gun Kelly” Barnes all have in common? The first thing that comes to mind is they are all leaders of Crime families and gangs, but they were all prisoners of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. Alcatraz is one of the most famous prisons in the country if not the world for what happened there and for its notorious prisoners. “The Escape of Alcatraz”, the LSD trails, and the life on “Uncle Sam’s Devil Island” are all…