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    The Godfather Reflection

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    The Godfather is a movie about one of the New York Mafia families, the Corleones. It tells the story of the moral youngest son coming home from war, violence and brutal, sometimes fatal, assassination attacks on the members of the Corleone family, revenge, and gang wars. At the end, peace is made by Vito Corleone with his adversaries, and the youngest son is made head of the Corleone family. The youngest son then goes on a rampage for revenge for the traitors of the Corleone family, going against

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    Throughout the evolution of To Kill A Mockingbird (TKM), events have occurred that occupy current happenings in our world. For instance, mob mentality, courage and justice are by far only meer examples of the real life situations that we endure in our everyday lives today. Although a variety of residence around the world do not encounter these experiences, such topics are surprisingly popular within the thriving community. Therefore, in this essay I will pursue my observations in an attempt to discover

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    Nowadays, the Mafia is perceived to be a transnational criminal organization, riddled with violence and gang-like activity. For example, the American Mafia has been described as, “A cult, a secret society, a brotherhood among men, and even a pack of rats that eat anything in their path including each other” (Inside the American Mob). On the flip side, the Italian Mafia groups have been described as, “gangs, whom besides running a series of illicit businesses, also pervade the social environment

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    The Mafia, a network of organized-crime groups, evolved over the centuries on the island of Sicily, located just off the coast of south western Italy, and the Italian mainland. Up until the mid-19th century, Sicily had been ruled over by a line of foreign invaders dating back hundreds of years. The citizens of the island state banded together and created groups to protect themselves from foreigners and carry out their own justice against the invaders. The word Mafia, having been derived from the

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    It was November 20th, 2015, seven days after “the incident”. The sky was filled with patches of darkness. Marc Darko an angry, depressed, and brave man was on his way to Chicago because he needed to leave Wong Kong after “the incident”. When Marc Darko lived in Wong Kong he didn’t have a great time there. On the way to his plane, Marc finally decided to take the medicine prescribed to him for his broken leg. All of the sudden, his broken leg regenerated back to normal, and it was like “the incident”

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    into fraud, embezzlement, theft, bribes, and kickbacks. Silvio used his social enterprise to help him rise to the highest political achievement you can have in Italy, along the way he made horrific mistakes that eventual would be the end of him. The Mafia started as basically a bodyguard for your land before Italy was even established as a country. Since then they hit a point of decline but eventually rose to unimaginable strength. Would weave its way in between the cracks of the Italian government

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    them to cover up “dirty money”. Second, property is already in a valuable region not meaning that the property will increase in value but offer greater proceeds from criminal earning can be laundered with a thought out purchase (2015, p.948). The mafia in Italy is more likely to invest in urban areas compared to rural areas.

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    I’m in the mafia. Yes. My job is drug trading and killing people. It’s not a big family like those in New York, but we were growing and strengthening our position within the murky world. And I was doing all my best as the underboss of my family. But today, I lost my job. I was at home, just before heading out to go to work, I suddenly got a call from my boss that I was fired.. It was ridiculous. I guess he forgets what I have devoted to the family. I just thought he was being fickle and regarded

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    interesting how the phenomena of defining victors had changed throughout the centuries, alienating from moral values such as courage and benevolence. We can clearly see it in mafia as an example. At its origins in Sicily, this word intended

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    The Godfather Themes

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    where I made my fortune.” The director right from the first line makes it clear what one of the biggest themes in the movie will be. Making a legal living is in sharp contrast to the Sicilian mafia’s use of force and bribery. The philosophy of the mafia could be summed up as, capitalism by any means necessary. It explained that Don Vito Corleone started from nothing and worked his way up to be the millionaire crime boss that everyone fears. He instills the same kind of “work ethic” into his three

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