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- 2071: La Cosa Nostra
- By: Natalie Ann E-mail: CampYomeca@aol.com La Cosa Nostra Perhaps one of the most poignant moments in American cinema is the closing scene in the film “The Godfather” when Don Vito Corleone’s son Michael takes over his father’s position... and one of the most unforgettable moments, a severed horses’s head lies bloody in a man’s bed. It is this tradition and brutality that characterizes the Mafia, a secret Sicilian society that lives and functions just as much today on American soil as it did and does still in Italy. To understand this organized crime, one must begin to understand how it came to be organized in the first place. During the medieval times in Sicily ... to the United States. “Don (term for the boss or head of a Mafia family) Vito Cascio Ferro fled to the United States in 1901 to escape arrest. He is known as the Father of American Mafia.” (La Cosa Nostra) Many Italian immigrants came to the United States through Ellis Island in New York, which is today the most important center of organized Mafia crime in the United States. The ...
- 2072: The Great Gatsby 2
- The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is about the American Dream, and the downfall of those who attempt to capture its illusionary goals. This is a common them central to many novels. This dream has varying significances for different people but in The Great Gatsby ... who agrees to set up a meeting, "He wants to know...if you'll invite Daisy to your house some afternoon and then let him come over (83)." Gatsby's personal dream symbolizes the larger American Dream where all have the opportunity to get what they want. Later, as we see in the Plaza Hotel, Jay still believes that Daisy loves him. He is convinced of this as is shown when ... that the past cannot be relived by saying, "Can t repeat the past? Why of course you can! (116). This shows the confidence that Jay has in reviving his relationship with Daisy. For Jay, his American Dream is not material possessions, although it may seem that way. He only comes into riches so that he can fulfill his true dream, Daisy. Gatsby doesn't rest until his dream is finally ...
- 2073: Great Expectations
- ... Jarvis Lorry, who, in the beginning of the book, is on his way to retrieve the doctor from the prison (Constable 13). Another group of readers will believe that this book is about the French Revolution. Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities starts out in 1775 while the Revolution was still in its underground preliminary stages. The book covers eighteen years ending with one of the bloodiest battles, the Reign of Terror in 1973. Although most of the major revolution events take place off stage in the novel, they do have a major effect on the lives of the characters in the story. It would certainly be no error to say the events of ...
- 2074: Battle Royal - Symbolism
- ... give a speech to some of the more prestigious white individuals. The harsh treatment that he is dealt in order to perform his task is quite symbolic. It represents the many hardships that the African American people endured while they fought to be treated equally in the United States. He expects to give his speech in a positive and normal environment. What faces him is something that he never would have ... jolts of electricity from the rug. The boys find it extremely hard not to reach for the money even though they will go through much pain in doing so. These activities again represent the African American’s struggle for equality. Even though segregation became an eventual realization the blacks had to suffer much. Blacks attending schools with whites still had to endure racial prejudices and misjudgments by much of the population ... they had to endure the physical pain of being electrocuted in the process. The white men again are amused by these activities just as men throughout the years were amused by the activities of African American’s. The blacks were given things but with a price attached to it just as the boys were. The dream that the narrator has at the end of the story is very important as ...
- 2075: Cultural Diversity: Campus Climates and Classroom Instruction
- Cultural Diversity: Campus Climates and Classroom Instruction American Society has been and continues to become increasingly mixed, complex, and variegated in its cultural practices and ethnic make up. However, the state schools have fallen short of race goals established thirty-one years ago ... at Knoxville non-diversified resulting in a predominantly white campus. Despite recent statistics from 1993-1994, African Americans’ enrollment is about 5 percent of the student body, and only 4 percent of the faculty. Moreover, American Indian, Hispanic, and Asian Americans now comprise about 5 percent of the enrollment, and international student enrollment have also maintained a fair 4 percent (Snyder 4). The University of Tennessee at Knoxville should recognize the ... Johnson had stated numerous times that black undergraduates are typically located in Shelby County – 400 miles from Knoxville (UTK Fact Book 19). Johnson had launched a scholarship program offering $10,000 for very good African-American students as an added incentive for coming to the campus. In addition, to scholarships there have been increased recruiting efforts toward targeting black high school graduates living in West Tennessee, but what about the ...
- 2076: The Need for Federal Government Involvement in Education Reform
- ... governor Bill Clinton, agreed on six broad goals for education to be reached by the year 2000. Two of those goals (3 and 4) related specifically to academic achievement: * Goal 3: By the year 2000, American students will leave grades 4, 8, and 12 having demonstrated competency in challenging subject matter including English, mathematics, science, history, and geography; and every school in America will ensure that all students learn to use ... were established to implement the new educational goals: the National Education Goals Panel (NEGP) and the National Council on Education Standards and Testing (NCEST). Together, these two groups were charged with addressing unprecedented questions regarding American education such as: What is the subject matter to be addressed? What types of assessments should be used? What standards of performance should be set? The summit and its aftermath engendered a flurry of activity ... be introduced at an earlier age, and students would view math as a relevant problem-solving discipline rather than as a set of obscure formulas to be memorized." The National Science Teachers Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science quickly launched independent attempts to identify standards in science. Efforts soon followed in the fields of civics, dance, theater, music, art, language arts, history, and social studies, to ...
- 2077: Affirmative Action: Why It Should Go
- ... be turned away. A perfect example of this can be found at the University of California at Berkeley. A 1995 report released by the university said that 9.7% of all accepted applicants were African American. Only 0.8% of these African American students were accepted by academic criteria alone. 36.8% of the accepted applicants were white. Of these accepted white students, 47.9% were accepted on academic criteria alone. That means that approximately sixty times more African American students were accepted due to non-academic influences than white students. It seems hard to believe that Affirmative Action wasn¹t one of the outside influence. (http://pwa.acusd.edu/.) Another interesting fact included ...
- 2078: Hostile Takeover Of The New Wo
- ... to deal with them. The current confusion and violence in Indian Country are a result of the failure to do so by generations of elected officials in this country. To continue to perpetuate myths about American Indians which have no basis in fact or in law is merely avoiding the larger issues confronting the nations of the world," said author Vine Deloria, Jr. (Deloria, Prologue) The United States government failed miserably ... to separate the whites and the Indians, but also intended to restrict them to specified areas known as reservations. Nineteenth century removal and reservation policies reduced Indian lands to mere islands in the stream of American settlement. Reservations themselves were largely unwanted or remote environments of little value. (Lewis, 1) The policy makers did not only want to control the Indians, but civilize them as well. The chiefs are thought to ... is presumed that humanity dictated the original policy of the removal and concentration of the Indians in the West to save them from threatened extinction.. But today, by reason of the immense augmentation of the American population, and the extension of their settlements throughout the entire West, covering both slopes of the Rocky Mountains, the Indian races are more seriously threatened with a speedy extermination than ever before in the ...
- 2079: NAFTA: The Concept
- ... to find ways of forming bonds with one another to strengthen their economies and living standards. This way when one economy is strong, all of the economies can become strong. This is where the North American Free Trade Agreement or NAFTA comes to play. The main mission of NAFTA is to allow free trade between the neighboring countries. NAFTA is a combination of the economies of the United States, Canada, and ... as accustomed to the middle class. This is possible to help potentially solve the problem with increased immigration and “Border Jumpers”. But in turn, NAFTA has its disadvantages. Exporting without tariffs makes it difficult for American companies to compete with Mexican companies. The Mexican companies who pay there employees $.75 an hour can market their goods at a lower rate than an American company paying its employees $10.00 an hour. This can cause products to be purchased by the lowest bidder, which can have negative effects on American business. In conclusion, NAFTA certainly has its pros ...
- 2080: Jefferson and Socrates' Idea of Democracy
- ... any form of government becomes destructive ...it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it. " (Peterson, 19,1984). Jefferson spoke out against not only British colonial rule of America, but against the American government. It was for these outcries against what he feared would become an elected monarchy that Jefferson found many enemies in his era (A&E Biography, 1995). Just as Socrates' criticism’s on politicians, poets ... great and noble steed who is tardy in his motions owing to his very size, and requires to be stirred into life."(Kaplan, 1951, 25) If Socrates is the Athenian gadfly then Jefferson is the American gadfly. Thomas Jefferson's ideas have steered this nation since before the revolution and ever since. Jefferson might be long gone but his thoughts and words will always be part of the Nation. That is what a gadfly is, not just someone who speaks out and questions ...
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