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    perceive things can play a major roll on how the world see it. If someone gives the perception that someone else is a theif the world will label them as a theif. Most black people are perceived as a "gangster" when they really aren’t. Some black people are actual gangsters and should only get labeled as a gangster because of their actions. In the story "Just Walk on By" the narrator started off the story with how he first started stalking women. Not haven read the story before; when he started it off with

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    Youth and Gangsterism

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    passers-by. They resort to robbing and stealing to support their drug and alcohol habits. Larger gangs on other hand are more problematic and dangerous and are responsible for violent crimes like murders. These gangs are well organised and all the gangsters in that gang follow unwritten rules and if they break them they are punished with death. Most people are roped into gangsterism at an early age‚ from the ages of ten to sixteen years. Many males are drawn into the gang arena by the attraction

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    It begins with two gangsters leaving a café‚ discussing their plans to attend a meeting involving the countries major crime bosses. One gangster goes back in the café to get a toothpick and at the same time the other gangster is killed from a drive-by shooting. The movie’s plot is based upon the surviving gangster seeking out a psychiatrist to help with his emotional distress and out of control lifestyle. Throughout the movie the relationship between doctor and gangster represent an example

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    The Classical Hollywood Cinema era took place after the silent cinema era. This was roughly between the late 1920s and 1960s. The start of this “Golden Age of Hollywood‚” began with the film‚ The Jazz Singer‚ which was released in 1927. It was the first movie to have used synchronized voices as a vitaphone talkie. This was how they brought sound into the films. Unfortunately‚ the vitaphone ended up putting the silent film actors out of work‚ eventually putting an end to the silent cinema era

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    From Italian gangsters to African American rebels you know name racial controversy and the Bronx tale has it all. The film takes place in the Fordham section of the Bronx in the 1960’s. Calogero Anello is a 9 year italian boy living in the Bronx‚ where they were notorious for gangster bars‚ racist people and an aggressive nature. Calogero witnesses a shooting in the street involving local gangster‚ Sonny‚ but refuses to betray him to the police. Sonny grows fond of the boy and begins to teach him

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    their murder sites‚ he was startled to find gangster and the founding father of the right-wing paramilitary group Pemuda Pancasila‚ Anwar Congo‚ had a different reaction. “I’ve tried to forget all this with good music…dancing...feeling happy…a little alcohol…a little marijuana…a little…what do you call it? Estasy. [Ecstasy] Once I’d get drunk. I’d ‘fly’ and feel happy.”

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    good company. * Do not allow them to visit discos‚ snooker and gaming centres. * Do a spot-check on the place your child frequents. * Keep your children away from gambling dens‚ and places that gangsters frequent. Gangsters are a threat to society and you can be considered a gangster if you are involved in any of these activities: * Extort money from shop owners‚ hawkers and the like. * Receive payment for threatening others or to beat someone up. * Protect/cover-up gambling

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    at the top. Al Capone was the most infamous gangster in the 1920’s. Being a highly know and revered gangster was a big business. Money was made fast and very easily. Bootlegging alcohol was by far the most profitable in the 1920’s; this was because of the prohibition of alcohol. Gambling was another business that paid off; stations sanctioned for gambling were set up all over cities. Prostitution and murders were also crimes that made gangsters quick and easy money. Alphonse Capone was

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    just like marijuana. Even though alcohol was prohibited there were some loopholes; like the sale‚ Manufacture‚ and transportation of alcohol was outlawed‚ but the consumption of alcohol was not. Gangsters would sell alcohol to the speakeasies or the secret bars. Al Capone used to be the biggest gangster of his time. He set up a lot of trouble with alcohol. The 18th amendment would be ratified and the Volstead act would be thrown out on January 16th 1920.   Marijuana: Is it Good or Bad

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    stereotypical‚ whilst challenge stereotypes. Set in the 1920’s during prohibition‚ Nucky is a corrupt Republican politician and gangster‚ who has risen to his position through bribery‚ corruption‚ and murder. The series begins as prohibition begins‚ with Nucky toasting the government who ban alcohol; “…to those beautiful ignorant bastards in Washington”. As a gangster‚ Nucky knows he can make millions by supplying illegal alcohol to the public and is portrayed as a businessman‚ making money for

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