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    Discovery Project History of Costume Kyle Parham Punk Began as a music based subculture in them mid 1970’s in England and slowly started to be culturally excepted in America in the mid to late 70’s‚ exactly which region originated punk has long debated and a major controversy within the “punk” movement. Within the subculture‚ there are many different factions‚ such as New Wave‚ 2 tone‚ Pop Punk‚ Hardcore Punk‚ No Wave‚ Street Punk‚ and Oi. Many of the sub groups

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    References: History of the Mexican Mafia prison gang; July 25th‚ 2007; Valdemar‚ Richard; www.policemag.com Ten members of Bronx drug trafficking crew charged; Jan. 9th‚ 2013; U.S. Attorney’s office; www.fbi.gov The Aryan Brotherhood; Montaldo‚ Charles; Jan. 2013; www.crime.about.com Ebook:

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    both the public and private sectors. From 1958 to 1971‚ Hoffa became the general president of the National Brotherhood of Teamsters. Hoffa needed help with muscle and money for the Teamsters for their strikes so he turned to the Italian mafia for help. The Detroit mafia was who he got help from. It is believed that Tony Zerilli had something to do with Hoffa. During these years as president of the Teamsters‚ Hoffa was convicted of jury tampering‚ fraud‚ and attempted bribery. He was jailed in 1967 and

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    gangs were formed in the 1960s and 1970s in prisons in California. These gangs are as follows: Aryan Brotherhood‚ La Nuestra Familia‚ Mexican Mafia‚ Texas Syndicate and The Neta Association. However‚ Zackasee writes that in 2004 the Federal Bureau of Prisons classified the following prison gangs as disruptive groups. These are as follows: the Mexican Mafia‚ the Black Guerilla Family‚ the Mexikanemi‚ the Aryan Brotherhood‚ and the Texas Syndicate. The threat of prison gangs Usually prison inmates

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    How the Mafia Works The Mafia has controlled everything from the street corner drug trade to the highest levels of government. Glorified by movies and television‚ hounded by law enforcement officials‚ marked for death by their enemies‚ mobsters live violent and often brief lives. The Mafia at its core is about one thing -- money. Still‚ there are secret rituals‚ complicated rules and tangled webs of family loyalty.In this article‚ we’ll find out how people get into the Mafia‚ what the Mafia does

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    as the self-proclaimed Anti-Christ Marilyn Manson. His fans understand where he has come from‚ what he has been through and are familiar with rejection from society. The Marilyn Manson’s following is normally associated with the Gothic or "Goth" subculture. At first examination‚ this seems to be the case as Manson followers and those of the Goth community share remarkable similarities; although true Goths label Manson follows as merely "Spooks" or "Mall Goths"‚ and not real members of the Gothic following

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    command modeled on the structure of the Italian Mafia. They communicated through a third party and established drug trafficking‚ security‚ extortion and gambling rackets in prisons. Leaders with multiple life sentences worked out of solitary confinement in some of the highest security prisons in the US. Now‚ the Aryan Brotherhood is no longer racially motivated. Instead‚ they are now focused on power in the system. They now work closely with the Mexican Mafia as one of their greatest allies. The Aryan

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    notorious gangs‚” James Morton states during the Mann Act in 1910-1920‚ “Torrio arranged for Jim Colosimo .. to receive a shipment of whiskey”(Morton 48) four months after the prohibition was enacted. On February 9‚ 1925 Torrio gave his position as mafia leader to his understudy Al Capone‚ who became the Boss of Chicago. Karen Blumenthal states “In Cicero‚ the Capone crowd turned out in force.” (Blumenthal 96). Al Capone had killed the town president because he did not pass Capone order. The killings

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    Punk rock music and style has subsisted for several decades since it originated. The punk movement opposed modern culture‚ not only through its fast paced music‚ but also through its fashion. The youths who proceeded to follow punk‚ were reacting to current social situations in the 1970’s and doing so by expressing themselves through music‚ clothing‚ and violence. Punk chose to fight for such things as anti-capitalism and anti-racism. Punk stood against everything that was conventional with its Do-It-Yourself

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    Katie Dobersztyn English IV Accel Ms. Gutierrez History Personified History the Mob Boss Arundhati Roy personifies history as a mob boss‚ with Baby Kochamma‚ Chacko‚ Inspector Thomas Matthew‚ Comrade Pillai‚ even Vellya Paapen acting has the mob boss’s thugs‚ who maintained order and came to collect what you owe when you don’t follow the rules. When you owe the mob money‚ the boss’s thugs will come for you. Roy uses the personification of owing the mob boss to show what happens when you

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