La Cosa Nostra and the Gambino Crime Family Jodiann K Gleason Southern New Hampshire University La Cosa Nostra (LCN) is an Italian/Sicilian organized crime or mafia family that performed illegal and corrupt activities in New York from the 1920’s and onward. Their activities started with prohibition and moved to include money laundering‚ gambling‚ loan sharking‚ extortion‚ labor and construction racketeering and a poultry monopoly just to name some of the major ones. Some would state
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powerful such as Jay Gatsby. Throughout the novel we learn of how some people became wealthy or successful through the participation of of illegal or corrupt activities such as bootlegging‚ rigging sports events‚ and other illegal activities. Al Capone is a name that is still talked about even in modern times he is the best known gangster and the greatest figure of the collapse of law and order in the United States
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Little Caesar‚ Mervyn LeRoy‚ Edward G. Robinson‚ Warner Bros.‚ 1931 The Public Enemy‚ William Wellman‚ James Gagney‚ Warner Bros.‚ 1931 Scarface: Shame of the Nation‚ Howard Hawks‚ Paul Muni‚ Universal‚ 1932 This purpose of this paper will be to explore and define the gangster genre in American film history from the years of 1930-1932. These gangster films center on the criminal actions of bank robbers‚ hoodlums‚ and the bootlegging of alcohol during the period of prohibition. The gangsters
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Al Qaeda is a terrorist group that was founded between 1988 and 1989. The founders included Osama Bin Laden and Muhammad Atef among others with the same views. The name Al Qaeda translates to "the base" in the English language. Al Qaeda moves around the Middle East until it settled in Afghanistan. The group opposes the United States and other countries due to the counties not following Al Qaeda extreme views of Islam. Al Qaeda has allied themselves with other extremist groups with the similar agendas
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and unlawful act in which groups or agents of some principal engage in a threatened or actual use of force or violence against human or property targets” (Understanding Terrorism Gus Martin). Terrorism is all around us from the UK‚ 28th June 2012 “Al-Qaeda terror suspect caught at Olympic Park” (Telegraph) and the world‚ 20th May 2013 “Car bombs hit Dagestan capital Makhachkala” (Euronews). It is clear we must gain as much knowledge and understanding of terrorism in order to attempt to prevent attacks
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his citizen should function within a political or social context‚ this paper seeks to find from different works and opinions of different authors made within his works to provide an interpretation of the role of Alfarabi’s citizen. Abu Nasr Muhammad Al-Farabi‚ referred to as simply Alfarabi‚ lived from about 870 A.D. to 950 A.D. He spent most of his life in Baghdad. Not much is known about Alfarabi’s private life. He was born of Turkish descent in the Farabi district of Turkestan. Alfarabi was generally
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Arabic Lit 1121 Al-Andalus Al-Andalus was referred to as the areas of the Iberian Peninsula which were occupied by the Moors between 711-1492 AD. The Iberian Peninsula is the south western most part of Europe including Spain‚ Portugal‚ and France. The Moors were Muslim people of Arab descent who invaded or settled Al-Andalus from Northern Africa. Before the Moors came to the Iberian Peninsula‚ Spain was ruled under the Visigoths. Their kingdom quickly fell apart when the Moors
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of music and literature but it was also a decade of crime. This rise of illegality was not random but caused by prohibition and immigration. The advancement of guns also helped gangs progress. One of the most important figureheads of this era was Al Capone. Organized crime flourished during the 1920s in America. The typical Italian mafia stereotype has some truth since our mafia was strongly influenced my Italy. During the mid-1800s the Sicilian mafia grew exponentially in Italy‚ but this quickly
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The Criminal Styles of Al Capone and John Dillinger Al Capone is the most powerful and infamous gangster in the United States ’ history. At the same time‚ John Dillinger is one of the most notorious bank robbers in the United States ’ history. Al Capone built a criminal empire based on fear of the people. According to "Al Capone Quotes" (2001-2011)‚ “I have built my organization upon fear (p. 1).” On the other hand‚ John Dillinger did not want to scare people or for people to have any fear of him
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When non-Italian citizens think about Mafia they picture huge villas in which bosses spend their entire time surrounded by bodyguards‚ beautiful women‚ and a lot of drug. Despite this scenario could resemble a perfect Hollywood movie‚ the Italian Mafia is all but showing one’s power and wealth. One of the most powerful but at the same time more hidden Mafias‚ is the Ndrangheta‚ the Calabrian one. To reflect briefly on the etymology of the word "Ndrangheta" is not merely an academic exercise‚ but
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