...By GIL-SCOTT HERON A rat done bit my sister Nell with Whitey on the moon. Her face and arms began to swell and Whitey's on the moon. I can't pay no doctor bills but Whitey's on the moon. Ten years from now I'll be payin' still while Whitey's on the moon. The man just upped my rent last night cuz Whitey's on the moon. No hot water, no toilets, no lights but Whitey's on the moon. I wonder why he's uppin me. Cuz Whitey's on the moon? I was already givin' him fifty a week but now Whitey's on the moon. Taxes takin' my whole damn check, The junkies makin' me a nervous wreck, The price of food is goin' up, And as if all that shit wasn't enough: A rat done bit my sister Nell with Whitey on the moon. Her face and arms began to swell but Whitey's on the moon. Was all that money I made last year for Whitey on the moon? How come there ain't no money here? Hmm! Whitey's on the moon. Ya know, I just about had my fill of Whitey on the moon. I think I'll send these doctor bills airmail special.... to Whitey on the moon. By GIL-SCOTT HERON A rat done bit my sister Nell with Whitey on the moon. Her face and arms began to swell and Whitey's on the moon. I can't pay no doctor bills but Whitey's on the moon. Ten years from now I'll be payin' still while Whitey's on the moon. The man just upped my rent last night cuz Whitey's on the moon. No hot water, no toilets, no lights but Whitey's on the moon. I wonder why he's uppin me. Cuz Whitey's on the moon? I was...
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...Whitey Bulger was a key leader in the gangster subculture of Southern Boston. In subcultures, the group develops their own set of values, which often opposes those of the dominant culture. The gangster subculture that developed in Southern Boston clearly did not view violence or drug distribution as being wrong or against the norm, as Bulgar was viewed as a sort of community leader. To an outsider, to view Bulgar as someone to be respected seems bizarre, as the general culture frowns upon violence. But as Ferracuti and Wolfgang concluded violence is a learned adaptation in order to cope with harsh circumstances. So in an area that likely fit Shaw and McKay’s model of having high rates of poverty, physical dilapidation, as well as a high cultural mix, a violent subculture could develop....
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...First, we must understand the background of the author. I am a thirty-something white married male with two children. I was born in Florida, raised around the rural outskirts of the St. Louis area, moved to the “Big City” (inner-city) when newly married, and then fled to farm country when the inner-city crime became too much to bare to raise a family. When in the educational system, I wasn’t completely isolated from racial concerns. There was a black family with kids in grade school and a couple of black kids in high school. We thought we were high society, progressive “color-blind” people, though I can’t remember ever going to their houses, or seeing them outside of school, or even hanging out with them in school. My parents were not always the first to step up and claim “ain’t racist” but they would when pressed. They enjoyed a good joke or two or twenty and stereotypes a-plenty. It was when I went to college straight out of high school, and let a racist slang term slip amongst a group of my multicultural friends that I realized how much my parents tainted my worldview. That was my first realization and my first step towards being anti-racist. The purpose of this reflective paper is to examine what confrontations are experienced in recognizing institutionalized racism and white privilege. In order to understand today’s institutional racism, we must define. That is a difficult task and we were unable to fully define it amongst a group of my peers and that I turn to an authority...
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...Black Mass is an exciting gangster driven film based on the infamous Boston kingpin Whitey Bulger played by the famous character actor Johnny Depp. In this film Johnny Depp takes on a role that he has not really taken before. He is a sick demented gangster who has no remorse in his actions. The film is based on the true story of Whitey Bulger and how he was a criminal who gave Intel to the FBI on rival games so in return the FBI looked over his actions. At the time Whitey was trying to build his empire of being a drug kingpin and this helped kill the competition. The FBI agent that was receiving Intel was a childhood friend of Whitey, and they had an agreement that whitey would give information for the arrests of the rival gangs. Whitey knew...
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... The movie “Black Mass”, directed by Scott Cooper, is a drama and biography based on a man by the name of James Joseph Bulger, also known as “Whitey”. He and his Irish-American mob were notorious in Boston during the late 1970’s for protecting their infamous name and desired territory. The mob would go to any extreme to intimidate and frighten anyone who would interfere with their success. Cooper is credible for producing a movie that shows in-depth scenarios that happened to Whitey and his mob during the time. He also elaborates on the explicit confrontations the mob...
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...Black Mass and The God Father I chose to write about two crime movies. The first movie is Black Mass which was directed by Scott Cooper. And the main character was my favorite actor, Johnny Depp. It was released in 2014. As for The Godfather, it was directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The protagonist was Marlon Brando. And the movie was released in 1972. Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator named William Bulger or Billy. He is also a Boston famous figure. Whitey and John Connolly grew up together in Boston. After few years ago, they meet again. Meanwhile, Connolly was an FBI agent. Whereas Whitey become an Irish Mob godfather and they were secretly trading to take down the Italian mafia family in Boston. In addition, Whitey's brother was involved in this dirty deal. Which lead them to commit crimes such as, racketeering, murders, drug dealing, and other crimes that made them FBI's most wanted list (especially Whitey)....
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...Pleasantville In Pleasantville, color represents passion, love, art, and risk. In the scene at Lover’s Lane, Bud describes the color as loud, scary, and dangerous. Fear of the unknown is the main conflict in the movie. Many in the movie, such as the Mayor and Whitey are threaten and fearful of the color. The Mayor describes Pleasantville as a traditional town, a “pleasant” town. He uses the towns traditional ways and values to create a code of conduct. The code of conduct attempts to suppress and outlaw activities that cause or bring additional color to the town. The Mayor imprisons Bud and tries to prosecute him for breaking the code of conduct. Whitey and his gang use violence, harassment and aggression to intimidate the people of color. So the “pleasant” citizens use violence and power in an attempt to discourage the activities they believe to be causing the colors to appear in their town. All of this is symbolism to historical racial conflict, Whitey and his gang symbolize the America’s KKK. The mayor and his code of conduct symbolizes the Nazi’s and their racial hatred toward those that are different then the arian race. One scene in the movie we see a sign in the window of a town store that says “No Colors,” this is symbolism for America’s ugly segregation past. The movie challenges the viewer to recognize that those with differences in society may cause volatility and push us outside of our comfort zones, but embracing the differences can make society better...
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...Courtney Napier SED 104 Vickie Nicholson Tuesday, April 14, 2015 Media Review: Me, Myself, and Irene Me, Myself, and Irene is a classic, and hilarious comedy that was released in 2000. It includes the amazing actors, Jim Carrey and Renée Zellweger. Jim Carrey plays a nice-guy cop, Charlie Baileygates, whom happens to have a split-personality disorder. Renee Zellweger plays a blonde, sweet woman wanted in her hometown for murder. Charlie sets out on an assignment to deliver Irene to the police station but instead wind up on the run from some corrupt police officers and a crazy ex boyfriend. During all these events Charlie loses his medicine subscribed by his doctor or help with his disorder, thus releasing Hank at the most inappropriate times. Charlie’s split-personality disorder began when his wife left him for their limousine driver, leaving him taking care of their three grown children. All this inner anger developed Charlie’s alter ego, known as Hank Evans. Hank is caused by advanced delusionary schizophrenia with involuntary narcissistic rage. Hank is the complete opposite of Charlie. Hank is crazy, and aggressive, more outspoken than Charlie but not in a good way. Charlie is assigned to escort Ms. Irene Walters to upstate New York where police wanted her in her hometown. Upon arrival Irene realizes that her ex-boyfriend is actually setting her up for murder. Charlie then takes her under his protection from the corrupt cops and crazy ex-boyfriend. In the middle...
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...My lenses in the beginning were very cloudy, not at all, like the white cat caught in my peripheral, as I headed out the door for work. A white cat, that means good luck, clean, and a loyal pet, right? On the other hand, if the cat had been black, well that’s a whole other story. A black cat brings bad luck, if it crosses your path, always dirty, and devious. Growing up a cat was described in these two ways. Well it didn’t matter, I never had a cat, didn’t much care to get to know one, plus I glanced at his claws, who want to get scratched? Days turned into weeks and the cat was still hanging around. My husband looked at the cat as having pet potential; it could keep the rodents at bay, and provide entertainment. On the other hand all I saw...
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...! Movie Analysis: Pleasantville Gary Ross uses a variety of cinematic techniques in the film Pleasantville to show that neither conservatives nor liberals are able to establish a perfect society by showing the positive and negative consequences of the two ideologies. However, the ending of the film seems to favour liberals over conservatives. This film is a miniature of the rivalry between the people holding conservative values and those holding liberal values in the US. The film was first released in 1998 and gained a lot of critical acclaim, becoming a classic of the 1990s. The film Pleasantville is about two teenagers in the 1990s who find themselves in a 1950s sitcom. Through their actions the people of Pleasantville begin to experience strong emotions and consequently events in the town begin to deviate from the equilibrium. ! Gary Ross uses color to promote liberalism. The majority of the film is set in black and white and only certains people and objects that have colors. During the courtroom scene towards the end of the film, the audience in the courtroom starts with people having colors being the minority. As the movie progress, black and white characters get colors one by one until the mayor is the only one who still remains black and white. David, the protagonist of the film, in the end however forces the Mayor to turn into color as well. The color represents the idea of liberalism because the characters change into color once they find what is missing in their...
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...case. The jurisdictional question can be broken down into three components: whether there is over the person, whether there is jurisdiction over the subject matter, and whether there is jurisdiction to render the particular judgment sought. There are also different courts that have jurisdiction depending on the case. State courts have general jurisdictions, meaning that they can hear any controversy except those prohibited by their specific state laws. Federal courts have limited jurisdiction , meaning that they only exercise powers granted to them by the Constitution and Federal Laws. The criminal case I chose for this assignment is the case of James “ Whitey “ Bulger a crime syndicate head With a larger than life history that includes bank robbery, and being a gun supplier for the Irish Republican Army the one time F.B.I informant and head of Boston's Winter Hill Gang after being tipped off by an F.B.I agent of a pending racketeering indictment Bulger fled Boston in 1994 becoming one of the nations most wanted fugitives until he was finally captured in Santa Monica California in 2011.( A.P., 2013 ) In regards to jurisdiction and due to the seriousness and nature of his crimes, Bulger was charged in the...
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...ranch where he could keep his followers, which grown so big he named them the “Manson Family” (London, 2013). The family would do anything that Charles told them to do, including kill. Charles instructed Tex Watson to lead the girls into Sharon Tate house to do kill and Charles continued to tell them to kill anybody else he could think of and then he told them to leave messages on the walls. Some of the messages on the walls were “Death to pigs, Pigs, and Helter Skelter” (Bugliosi & Gentry, 1994). Manson motive was that “his philosophy of the upcoming Apocalypse was the true motive behind the killing and told his family that Helter Skelter was coming and the uprising of the racial war between “blackies” and “whiteys”. He would facilitate this war by killing “whiteys” and implicating that the African Americans did the acts” (“Charles Manson and the Manson family”, 2016). This motive is what drove Manson and his followers to commit the murder acts. Manson personality let alone was antisocial, but he was a narcissist and manipulated to his followers and anyone that cross his path. Manson only thought about himself and doing things only for himself being self centered, and that how his whole life was from a young age being on the street, he adapted this personality. Narcissism is defined as “inflated self- admiration and constant attempts to draw attention to self and keep others focused on self” (Knight, 2006). Manson was drawn to attention by having his followers come to him...
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...The largest, youngest, ox with a thick layer of fat underneath their hide is the most sought after for it most likely will feed the entire community. Lee purchased a black ox, which he believed to be the largest and fattest (weighing approximately 1,200 pounds). After confidently purchasing this ox, he returned to the village where everyone has already heard that “whitey” had purchased the ox. Everyone within !Kung were appalled that he had bought an ox who was surely a “bag of bones”, which in turn would mean a hungry Christmas dinner for all. The days following, Lee was belittled for his choice. Lee, however disappointed by his mistake, still attended Christmas dinner, only to find that when they cut open the chest of the ox, there was a thick layer of white fat almost two inches...
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...Pete Rose is an american baseball star who is best known for setting a career record in hits and most games played. He also set the record for most career walks, doubles, runs, and total bases by a switch hitter. (“Pete Rose Facts”) Some of his biggest accomplishments were most years played, (24) most career runs, (2,165) most career hits, (4,256) and most seasons with at least 600 at bats. (“Pete Rose Facts”) He is also the only player in baseball history to play over 500 games at 5 different positions. Pete Rose won 2 gold gloves, 3 world series rings, 3 batting titles, 1 MVP award, and the rookie of the year award in his first full season in Cincinnati. Pete Rose was a player of limited physical talents, but unlimited heart....
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...Some of the famous prisoners who occupied Alcatraz were Al Capone, George”Machine Gun”Kelly, Robert Stroud also known as the Birdman of Alcatraz, James”Whitey”Bulger, and Alvin Karpis. Probably the most famous inmate was Al Capone, because he started his life of crime at a very early age and was the leader of one of the most deadly gang in...
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