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- 91: Multiculturalism In Music
- ... or gang. This ongoing feud still exists, but has somewhat slowed down since the eventful murders of Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. Currently rap is still about gangs. However, these ‘gangs’ are now the different record labels of rap, such as, Bad Boy, Ruff Ryder, No Limits, Rockafeller, and Death Row. The future of hip-hop is cloudy, and one can ...
- 92: Mob Involvement With Prohibition
- ... mob did this is because they wanted to control all the alcohol going into a specific city. As you can imagine this brought forth some fairly large confrontations between rival gangs. One of the most notorious gangsters of all is Al Capone. He was part of one of the most notorious gang massacres of this time. On February 14, Valentine’s ... they could tax all the sales and with all that money it would improve the economy and the society. Sales of "bath tub gin" and "moonshine" went down. Speakeasies and gangs all died down. In a whole, I think the whole prohibition idea was a flop. All it did was raise the use of alcohol, produced crime, and killed a lot ...
- 93: Tobacco: Opposing Viewpoints
- ... decrease. It increased consumption, disrespect for the law, and law enforcement corruption. What prohibition is most famous for is giving rise to organized crime. During alcohol prohibition there were many gangs and “crime families” distributing liquor to make money. Big money. Many of the gang members became filthy rich from the high demand for alcohol. These gangsters, many affiliated with the Maffia, were much more dangerous than the gangs of street kids before and after prohibition. Some even boasted killing hundreds of men. This just goes to show that the excesses of prohibition are not necessary. Another type of ...
- 94: The Outsiders: An Analysis
- ... is that kids today may have parents that are alive, but they might not have enough time for them. Also, kids are worried about not fitting in and might join gangs to act “cooler”. It also shows how if a member of a family has an injury it's tough for the family and friends. This happens when Johnny gets hurt ... when Ponyboy was walking through the park, and three socs came out of the bushes and jumped him. This is one of the many times that problems between the two gangs end in destruction. One other reason to read the book is that the end of each chapter of the book does not leave you in suspense. You do not have ...
- 95: The Transcontinental Railroad and Westward Expansion
- ... Union Pacific sent out location parties, tracing the line and clearing the path by killing the Sioux and the buffalo in the way of the railroad. Then came the construction gangs who, working in shifts, graded (flattened) the land by as much as a hundred miles a stretch. Behind them came the track-laying crews, each consisting of ten thousand men ... most of its materials, except timber, by sea, twelve thousand miles around the tip of South America. Another difference between the two companies was their work-forces. The Eastern work gangs were recruited from immigrant Irish, poor Southern whites, and poor Southern blacks, while the Western crews came mostly from China. The Union Pacific was said to be sustained by whisky ...
- 96: Organized Crime
- ... leaving behind their old worlds. Worlds of fear, depression and crime" (Mafia Secrets). So along with these new immigrants came much crime as well which connected brought upon many ethnic gangs. "Each gang had their own gang, there were several of them. Chinese, Irish, Jewish, and Italian gangs were all recognized at this time"(Mafia Secrets). Every community gang was different in some way. Although Italians are considered the Mafia, the other ethnic groups have their own involvement ...
- 97: The Outsiders
- The Outsiders INTRODUCTION: "The Outsiders" by S. E Hinton is an early novel based on two waring juvenile gangs, divided by economical and social background, the lower East side Greasers and the upper West side Socs. The novel is set in 1966 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It is a novel ... Negro gang warfare in American in the 1990's. This might pose a problem if ethnicity or racial discrimination existed in the classroom. Another obvious problem would be is if gangs existed in the mythical school, however both problems do not occur. The only problem to deal with is gender as females do not tend to dominate in gang warfare, they ...
- 98: 1984: Control is Power
- ... of the system that you can not get out. If people try to get around the system they will get punished they will get hurt or killed. People get into gangs not really knowing what they are getting into until the have entered. Many times after a while they realize the gangs beliefs and do not obey by them. The party controlled Oceania people's life in such ways as a gang sometimes does. “Our control over matter is absolute (pg. 218 ...
- 99: Romeo and Juliet versus West Side Story
- ... in sililoquy, the fact that Maria doesn't die, the fact that we never see Tony or Maria's parents, as well as the issues of marriage, the importance of gangs and families to each story. To understand these differences, I have read and/or watched both Romeo and Juliet, and the similar tragedy, West Side Story. Above, I named a ... what family is all about and tend to be very strong bonds. In West Side Story the only thing holding each other back from one another are their ties to gangs; Maria, the Sharks and Tony, the Jets. This, in my eyes, makes Romeo and Juliet's love for one another stronger than Maria and Tony's. This is why it ...
- 100: Similarities of Two Famous Tales of Love
- ... However, they differed as well. In Westside Story, some characters shared personalities with those of Romeo And Juliet.The families of the Capulets and Montagues were well represented by two gangs, the Sharks andthe Jets. Both being ineffective rulers, officer Krumpke and the Prince struggle to keep peace if their cities both to no avail and warned," If you disturb our ... and Juliet, Tony and Maria met at a dance and it was love a first sight for both. Their love lifes were a secret because of the warring between the gangs like that of the hostile Montagues and Capulets. Romeo And Juliet's famous balcony scene was mimed by Tony and Maria's fire escape scene. After the loss of their ...
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