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    Bugsy Malone‚ High School Musical and Grease. Bugsy Malone: It’s a 1976 British American musical gangster film‚ very loosely based on events in Chicago from the early 1920’s to 1931 in the prohibition era‚ specifically the exploits of gangsters like Al Capone and Bugs Moran‚ as dramatized in cinema. Featuring only child actors (with singing voices provided by adults). A gangster movie where all the gangsters are played by children. Instead of real bullets they use ‘’Splurge guns’’ that cover the victim

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    schizophrenic man‚ or a jealous women who has a cheating husband. At times‚ crime is seen as an unorganized‚ and just randomly spout together process. But‚ in the standards of the 1920s‚ this was not the case. Many of mobsters‚ street gangs‚ and gangsters ruled the world behind the scenes‚ creating a cartel of illegal products and murder. A great amount of people may believe that these things never really happened‚ it all just stories and media. But mobsters such as Al Capone and Lucky Luciano caused

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    Caucasian clients on the same night. With Ernesto out of both of their lives‚ they can move on and earn back each other ’s friendship. After Ernesto ’s death shadow takes over his brother ’s drug dealing business with the help of Shadow‚ a female gangster that was shot with Ernesto. Meanwhile‚ Anhenica "Giggles" is released from a four-year sentence in prison

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    As America flourished with their newfound independence‚ taverns and drinking houses became the focal point of all ethnic neighborhoods. Immigrants felt comfortable in taverns; being surrounded by a common ethnicity‚ foreigners were free to converse in their native tongue and keep touch with their motherland. These pubs created a safe haven for people to unwind after a long week‚ while also generating revenue from the tax placed on liquor itself. Throughout the 19th century‚ a variety of different

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    Contemporary Urban Music: controversial messages in hip-hip and rap lyrics Though Franklin B. Krohn and Frances L. Suazo portray hip-hop and rap as a protest to racism‚ poverty‚ and glorifying the drug dealing and gangster lifestyle I completely disagree with their views. Hip-hop and rap is way of life for young black men and women. It’s a language for not only blacks but white people that truly understand the content of the lyrics. Krohn and Suazo wrote‚ “More recently‚ the term hip-hop

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    are often categorizing as deviant and delinquent. These deviant and delinquent children are involved in drug addicting‚ playing truants and raping. Furthermore‚ female students and primary school students is shown to be increasingly involved in gangsters nowadays. Nationally‚ research conducted by Davids (2005)‚ indicated that the rise of gangs on the Cape

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    Torrio taught him everything he needed to know about being a crime boss. This led him to take over the entire operation when Torrio left after opposing gangsters tried to kill him. Capone disregarded Torrio’s instructions to play it safe and lay low. Instead‚ he started to live a lavish‚ overt life with press watching Capone like a hawk. This led to him becoming a beloved person by the public‚ he was almost

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    and after his death several Crip sets started fighting against each other. The Crips leadership was dismantled prompting a deadly gang war between the Rollin’ 60 Neighborhood Crips and Eight Tray Gangster Crips which began causing nearby Crip sets to choose sides and align themselves with either the Gangster Crips or Neighborhood Crips waging an all-out war in South Central and other cities. The East Coast Crips and the Hoover Crips directly severed their alliance after Washington’s

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    Jerry Heller. After Ruthless Records‚ N.W.A launched their first album called “Straight outta Compton” with Eazy-e‚ Ice Cube‚ Dr. Dre and M.C Ren. Some people thought these were just stupid gangsters trying to get rich‚ but they actually had a lot of talent After N.W.A got famous from gangster street rap‚ they went on tour to a lot of different states like

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    Criminal Acts and Choice Theories CJA 490- Survey of Criminal Justice   Abstract In society‚ people always want to point a finger as to who did what and why. For centuries‚ theorists have come up with ideas to try to identify and explain why people commit crimes. What causes them the break the law‚ even when they know the repercussions for their actions. Many theories have been brought up‚ but only a few have surpassed time and are approved by society and law enforcement. These choice theories

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