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The Godfather: Did The Author Present An Accurate Portrayal Of Narcotics As A Major Part Of The Mafia Business
Number of Words: 1554 / Number of Pages: 6
... on what it was, it had to be found and brought in from over-seas. From Ecuador they could obtain opium poppies with which to make heroin, and virtually unlimited supply of coca leaves, with which to make cocaine from Bolivia and Peru. Plus their smuggling routes and expertise were solidly established. Hence, the first drug laboratories were established in Medellin, supposedly with Mafia money (Eddy and Hugo, 45). The New York Mafia as well as other American crime families, would buy the drugs from Colombian drug lords. One of the major Colombian syndicates- commonly referred to as the "Medellin ...
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Jay Gatsby And The American Dr
Number of Words: 965 / Number of Pages: 4
... medals for his outstanding effort in World War I. Gatsby created this “ideal image” in order to impress those people who were curious about his background such as Daisy and Nick, and to make sure no one thinks he was “just some nobody”. This “ideal image” was a complete lie; his real name was Jay Gatz, which he changed when he was seventeen and witnessed the beginning of his career through Dan Cody. As Dan Cody pulled his yacht into the shore of Lake Superior, he saw a young Gatsby working as a clam-digger and a salmon-fisher doing whatever was necessary to put food on his plate. Dan Cody was an ...
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Night
Number of Words: 629 / Number of Pages: 3
... always be there for him, even if he would die for it.
Throughout the novel Elie Wiesel shows the reader how the Nazis broke the spirits of the Jews. This caused Elie to lose his faith in God, as his time in the Nazi camps grew longer. The reader can see this in Elie's father 's confrontation with the gypsy. His father asked a gypsy where the lavatories were, but the gypsy did not even respond to Elie's father. Then the gypsy struck his father in the head, and knocked him down onto the floor. Elie watched the situation and realized that he was going to physically and mentally punished during his time at ...
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Life In A Medieval Village Summary
Number of Words: 1292 / Number of Pages: 5
... village had a lord, but only rarely was he in residence. A
resident lord was usually a petty knight. The old feudal theory of lordship
as a link in the legal chain of authority running from serf to monarch had
lost much of it's substance. However, as far as the village was concerned
such legal complications hardly mattered, anymore than whether the lord
was great or small. A village with two or more lords was comfortable.
Whatever the technicalities, the lord was the main consumer of the village,
meaning he was in control of the profits. The 13th century manor, of which
the village was a part, was not ...
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Filling In The Gaps: Ideology In Faulkner’s “Dry September”
Number of Words: 2185 / Number of Pages: 8
... reading of the text. I have chosen secondary sources that represent an ascending scale of critical emphasis on ideology in “Dry September.”
Paul Rogalus, in an article to the Explicator, states clearly that “Minnie Cooper…has accused a black man, Will Mayes, of having attacked her…”(Rogalus 211) Rogalus goes on to examine the scene in the theatre as a ‘victory lap’ for Minnie Cooper; where she parades herself through the town and then cannot contain her joyous laughter once in the movie theatre. He goes go on to acknowledge the ideological motivations of the main characters, focusing strictly ...
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The Jungle
Number of Words: 325 / Number of Pages: 2
... he became interested in the idea of socialism. With the introduction of a socialist Jurgis, I wanted to put down the book. Where had the whole socialist movement came from? I felt it made absolutely no sense to be in this story. The story, at that point, needed to concentrate more on the reunited family of Jurgis rather than the radical ideas circulating throughout Chicago. Upton Sinclair painted an accurate historical picture with , but he wrote it without a sensible plot, with redundant and ambiguous details, and with no appeal as a readable story. I recommend leaving this book on the shelf f ...
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Bless Me, Ultima
Number of Words: 872 / Number of Pages: 4
... This gave Tony faith that as long as his father was around, he would be protected. Antonio's mother made home a loving and caring place to be. She would always baby Antonio and give him the affection he needed whenever he needed it. The morning after Tony had seen Lupito killed, Ultima tells Tony's mother not to be too hard on Antonio; he had a hard night last night. His mother puts her arms around Tony and holds him saying he "is only a boy, a baby yet" (Pg.28). The Virgin also makes the atmosphere of Antonio's home peaceful and protected. Tony loves the Virgin Mary because "she always forg ...
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'Checking Out' A&P
Number of Words: 624 / Number of Pages: 3
... miles off the beach. Despite this closeness to the beach, some people in the town "haven't seen the ocean for twenty years" (482). This town, and this A&P, like the people in it, are boring and stagnant.
The characters in this A&P are the most persuasive external factor in Sammy's internal conflict. The reader arrives at the scene to find Sammy ringing up a "cash-register-watcher", whom he describes as being "a witch about fifty with rouge on her cheekbones and no eyebrows" (480). She nearly has a stroke when Sammy accidentally rings up her HiHo crackers twice. This woman is most likely a "sheep ...
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The Societal Implications Of "The Yellow Wallpaper"
Number of Words: 896 / Number of Pages: 4
... is another women. Gilman explains, "I didn't realize for a long time what the thing was that showed behind, that dim sub-pattern, but now I am quite sure it is a women." (665). Eventually the narrator merges her life with the life of the woman behind the wallpaper.
The ever-changing pattern of the wallpaper divided the two worlds that the narrator was living in. The front of the wallpaper represented what society expected of women during that time. Generally, a woman was to be submissive to men as well as devoting all of their time to raising perfect children (849). Gilman describes the patter ...
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Edgar Allen Poes Fall Of The H
Number of Words: 1020 / Number of Pages: 4
... which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium” (718). This statement contributes to the collective atmosphere of despair and anguish, the narrator tries to view everything he sees in a rational manner, but upon looking at the house and its surroundings, he seems to have a heightened sense of unreality, as if he is hallucinating. Poe uses descriptive words such as decayed, strange, peculiar, gray, mystic, Gothic, pestilent, dull and sluggish to help set the unusual, gloomy atmosphere of the story.
The narrator goes on to talk abou ...
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