...The Departed and the Irish Mob While not as talked about as the Italian mafia, the Irish Mob is just as violent and proficient in their ways. Taking place in South Boston, the departed depicts a fictitious, but only just, account of the struggle between the Massachusetts State Police and the Irish Mob. Leonardo Dicaprio’s character Billy Costigan is a new member of the MSP and is chosen to become an undercover officer because of his background. Costigan’s father was from South Boston, and Costigan spent time there as a child. He infiltrates the Irish Mob, headed by Jack Nicholson’s character Frank Costello. Frank is the violent head of the Irish Mob that seems to never really be convicted of his crimes. We later come to find out that is in part because of his status as an FBI informant. Costello has an informant in the MSP by way of Matt Damon’s character Colin Sullivan. Sullivan grew up in Costello’s neighborhood and Costello was almost a father figure to him. With his loyalty to Costello, Sullivan was convinced to join the MSP and feed information to Costello. As the movie progresses, both Sullivan and Costigan find out about each other as “rats”, but not necessarily each other’s identities until towards the end. Sullivan upon finding out who Costigan is, erases his file after the death of Captain Queenan at the hands of the Irish Mob and the dismissal of Sargent Dignam. In the end Barrigan, another one if Costello’s men on the inside, shoots Costigan and Sullivan’s partner...
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...The film that I have chosen is “The Departed”. My overall all impression is a great drma, great story, great ending, and best of all, great cast. This movie had several of my personal favorite actors who are also at the top of Hollywood as well; Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, and more. The plot is basically corrupt police in a very crime infested community. A hard working kid meets the main criminal of the community and is lured into doing some dirty work. He grows up to become a police officer however is still very in touch with his criminal family and friends. He gets a lot of things they need via the police force. Then there is also a cop who goes undercover with them. Eventually, both sides catch wind that there is some people playing on both sides. Without spoiling, things get crazy! The cast was superb! I’m talking actors that fit it so well you would think they were cops or crooks. But what really made me respect the acting was mostly Matt Damon and Leo, they played the nice guy and bad guy which showed in their speech, their dialogue and there overall expressions. The acting was spectacular! The only thing that stood out to me about visual effects, music, dialogue, sound etc. was the music and dialogue. The music was very suiting and all the background music wasn’t noticeable therefore worked perfectly. The best song they used was during the opening titles, “I’m Shipping Up To Boston” by the “Dropkick Murphy’s”, very suiting to the...
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...ESE 99 07/21/15 The Wolf on Wall Street The movie, The Wolf on Wall Street, directed by Martin Scorsese is a great movie for many reasons. The Wolf on Wall Street gives a deep message to viewers that reflect on the American Dream although in the movie it tells a story of a corrupted American dream. I definitely recommend The Wolf on Wall Street for its talented actors, the plot, and its unique message it gives to viewers. Having talented actors is the key to a good movie because they contribute to its audience emotions. Many viewers can relate to this movie especially to those who love money. The Wolf on Wall Street takes place in New York in the late 80’s. It reflects to the American dream to corporate greed, Leonardo DiCaprio plays the role of Jordan Belfort. Belfort is an American author, motivational speaker, and former stockbroker who pleaded guilty to fraud and related crimes in connection with stock market manipulation and running a boiler room as part of a penny stock scam. Belfort spent 22 months in prison as part of an agreement under which he gave testimony against numerous partners and subordinates in his fraud scheme. In the movie The Wolf of Wall Street Belfort goes from penny stocks and righteousness to IPOs and a life of corruption. Excess success and wealth in his early twenties as founder of the brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont warranted Belfort the title "The Wolf of Wall Street." Belfort came from mostly humble beginnings, and after getting married...
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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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...Prayer for the Departed O Lord, in your mercy welcome __________ into your heavenly kingdom. He has gone to her rest. Now, he hopes to rise with you. O Lord, in your encompassing love, bring him into the light of your Divine Presence. We meekly intercede, O Lord, for our faithful departed __________. May he find eternal peace with you. May he inherit your kind forgiveness. May he see you face to face. Yes, you are our hope in this world. You are our resurrection and life. You are our Judge and Savior. O Lord, we humbly beseech you: be merciful in your judgment and grant to __________ the promised salvation. Remember not his faults, but cleanse him of his sins and grant his lasting reward. O Lord, extend to _______ your victory over sin and death. Let his not be separated from you, but grant her a place in your eternal abode. Jesus, Lord of the living and the dead, comfort of the weary and the afflicted, conqueror of death and sin, guide our departed ____________. As he reaches the end of his journey, lead him back to you. As his life comes to an end, let him live with you. As he stands before you in judgment, please speak again these words: “Come, you who are blessed by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you.” May the good Lord grant him a merciful judgment and look kindly upon him. ALL: Lord, help us see death for what it really is: —the end of poverty and the beginning of riches: —the end of frustration and the beginning of fulfillment; —the...
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...The hero’s journey has played an integral part in society for thousands of years through the use of stories, books, films and other forms of media that bring with them certain values and traits that are a fundamental part of cultures across the world. A hero represents what a society or culture sees as having positive qualities such as courage or honour, a hero can be someone from an assortment of different backgrounds and beliefs systems with a range of qualities that provide a message to audiences of these stories. The film ‘The Departed’ is an example of a hero’s stories that centres on a central ideology of greed and deception with a central character that can widely be seen as a hero who risks his life and livelihood to confront a dangerous and calculating enemy. ‘The Departed’ takes place in Boston, where the state police are waging a bloody war with the Irish American mob, the story centres around the protagonist Billy Costigan who is assigned to infiltrate the mob and bring down the violent gripe it has on the city. There are two key antagonists, Frank Costello the spearhead of the Irish mobs operations and Colin Sullivan who has infiltrated the...
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...Liberalism is a political ideology based on the principle of liberality and equality. It is an ideology that came about during the age of enlightenment and was popular among political philosophers and economists, John Locke being one of them. Locke is a man who is often accredited with founding Liberalism, he argued that “each man has a natural right to life, liberty and property” while adding that governments “must not violate these rights based on the social contract”. Revolutions such as the Glorious Revolution in the UK or the French revolution used liberalist ideas to justify overthrowing what they considered to be tyrannical governments. The main core themes of liberalism are individualism, freedom, justice, tolerance and reason. Individualism is the social theory favouring freedom of action for individuals over collective or state control. In classical liberalism it is valued as one of the most important core themes of liberalism. Classical liberals believe in egoistical individualism, this is to say that they believe humans to be ‘rationally self-interested’ creatures. This therefore means that society should be considered as atomistic; that it is composed of a lot of individuals rather than it being one whole. Classical liberals also believe in negative freedom. This means that they believe in allowing people to be free be simply leaving them alone, which opposes positive freedom in which the government enables people to be free by giving them the means to do so. A...
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...To what extent has modern liberalism departed from the ideas of classical liberalism? The further development of industrialisation led to social and economic inequality. This led to a revision of classical liberal ideas to prevent the spread of ignorance and poverty. It is suggested that modern liberals have betrayed classical liberal ideas as they embrace collectivism and diverge from classical liberalism on issues such as freedom. However, it can be argued that modern liberals have simply built on classical liberal ideas such as its commitment to the individual. One area in which it is suggested that modern liberalism has departed from classical liberalism is individualism. Classical liberals believe in egoism, that individuals are rational self-interested creatures who have a pronounced capacity for self-reliance. Thus, they are influenced by Jeremy Bentham and utilitarianism which is the idea that individuals take decisions and moral action based on self-interest; that which maximises the individuals pleasure and minimises pain. He argued that ‘it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong’. They view society as atomistic, the idea that it is simply a composition of largely self-sufficient individuals. Thus, they disagree with paternalistic conservatism strongly as each individual can perceive their interests and its consequence. In practise, Classical liberals have supported a free market with minimum government intervention...
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...To what extent have modern liberals departed from the ideas of classical liberalism? (45 marks) The two branches of modern liberalism and classical liberalism naturally clash within the ideology of liberalism itself. There are fundamental ideas that form criteria for debate across the two coexisting views, although they do possess various similarities with one another. Classical liberals often highlight the supreme importance of the individual, reflected in their desire to minimise the role of the state, whereas modern liberals take a more collective approach, and the see the expansion of the state as necessary based on the socio-economic circumstances of society. In this sense, modern liberalism can be viewed as a development on classical liberal thinking; it is only in the new ideas that modern liberalism brought about upon which they are fundamentally different. Modern liberalism can be viewed as taking a strong departure from classical liberalism based on their ideas of freedom. Firstly, classical liberals have believed in the idea of negative freedom, meaning non-interference or freedom from external interference of any sort; individuals should be left alone to make their own decisions. The government or state, external to the individual, should act as a ‘night watchman’, as summarized by the classical liberal John Locke, meaning its primary role should merely be to oversee society to keep law and order in place and the state in check. An extension of this classical view...
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...To What Extent Have Modern Liberals Departed from the Ideas of Classical Liberalism? (45) Liberalism has been active throughout Europe since the early 19th century, although the UKs first experience of Liberalism put into practice was in 1868 under Gladstone’s Liberal government. Early Liberalist ideas concentrated largely around core values of freedom, individualism and a minimal state. However, revisionists have deployed a modern liberalism, which in many ways have departed from core themes of Classic Liberals. Classic Liberalism has a heavy focus surrounding the core value of freedom, which also overlap the core theme of a minimalistic state. However, the evolution of liberalism, has brought about a different perspective as to what extent freedom should be exercised and at what point the state have a responsibility to implement restrictions. Early liberals such as John Locke and Adam Smith supported a ‘negative freedom’ whereby individuals were left to make their own choices without interferences from the state. J.S Mill another classic liberal proposed a very simple principle known as the Harm Principle. The harm principle is a concept which acknowledges the need for government intervention only when one’s action is physically detrimental to another. This again defends the concepts of both ‘negative freedom’ and a minimalistic state. Locke proposed the idea of ‘Natural Rights’ which specified god given rights such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The idea of...
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...Although it can be said that classical and modern liberals hold the same fundamental principles and ideas, it could also definitely be argued that modern liberalism moves away from the brutality of classical liberalism, and the two concepts have departed, with modern liberals focusing more on helping individuals achieve their potential and protecting them. With this said, both concepts do undoubtedly hold true the fundamental concept which is freedom of the individual; even if they interpret this concept in different ways. Whilst the moving away from classical liberalism holds to be true, because of concept such as neoliberalism, classical liberalism does still have an influence on every day life. One of the fundamental liberal principles is centered around freedom of the individual, and this can be said to be both one of the main similarities, and one of the main differences between modern and classical liberalism. Classical liberals believe in negative freedom; freedom being the absence of external constraints. The individual is therefore free: left alone and not interfered with or coerced by others. Classical liberals believe this leads to the formation of a meritocracy; where people can make a success of themselves based on their hard work and talents, and are not held back by the state when trying to do so. Modern liberals share this same concept of freedom and believe that the individual should be free to make the best of themselves through talent and hard work. However...
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...There are huge differences between classical and modern liberalism and as a result classical liberals believe that modern liberals have not stayed true to initial ideas posed by the likes of John Locke given that modern liberals have embraced collectivism while classical liberals favoured pure individualism. But they are fundamentally both forms of liberalism so are united in their belief of freedom and rights of the individual but they have slightly different views on the type of freedom they support. Classical liberalism has a belief in utilitarianism first posed by Jeremy Bentham, this is where individuals make tiny calculations about whether their actions will ‘maximise pleasure or minimise pain’. This is an egotistical form of individualism that assumes individuals are motivated by self-interest. Modern liberals do not share this view as they see it as a flawed method. This view of classical liberalism was opposite to that of paternalistic conservatism, who believe that the state can make the best decisions for the individual whereas classical liberals such as Bentham believed individuals knew what was best for themselves and thus can have the responsibility and freedom to act as they choose. This means that because the likes of Locke and Bentham prioritised the freedom and happiness of the individual, this leads classical liberals to a belief in negative freedom, which argues that there should be a removal of external restrictions from the individual. This is effectively...
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...1. Dia De Los Muertos, Meaning Day Of The Dead, A Mexican Holiday. Mexicans Celebrate And Prepare Special Foods To Celebrate Departed Family Members. 2. Dia De Los Muertos Can Be Celebrated By Cleaning The Cemetery. Out Of Respect People Go Around And Take The Time To Clean And Decorate The Cemetery. This Is One Way People Choose To Celebrate Day Of The Dead. Another Way To Celebrate The Day Of The Dead Is The Altar. People Take Time To Decorate An Altar (Ofrenda) Of A Family Member To “Bring Them Back” For A Day. Family And Friends Decorate The Altar With The Passed Members Favorite Food And Pictures Of Them. a. 1st Tradition: Cleaning The Cemetery b. 2nd Trandition: Altars 3. Countries Where It Is Celebrated: a. Spain b. Italy c. Poland...
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...To what extent has the Obama administration departed from traditional Democratic values and policies? The 2015 state of the union address, Barack Obama had stated ‘after a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs…shrinking deficits…things like childcare and sick leave and equal pay; things like lower mortgage premieres and a higher minimum wage- these ideas will make a meaningful difference in the lives of millions of families. Like any Democratic President, Barack Obama had commented on traditional aspects of the Democratic Party, however there are parts of Obamas administration that has departed from some traditional Democratic values and policies. These will be explained further. Firstly, signs that Obama has not departed from key traditional Democrat values and policies is Obamas intervention in the economy to promote growth. In the recent state of the union address, Obama had mentioned the economy and its growth several times, which portrayed how important the president had found this issue; sounding finally like the president that his liberal supporters want him to be. Traditionally, the Democrats believe in building a stronger economy by raising the minimum wage, giving equal pay for equal work, and reforming student loan debt. This is highlighted by Obama, with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, most commonly referred to as the ‘stimulus bill’. The bill was a direct response to the economic crisis and at the urging of...
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...The Garuda Purana This is a translation of an abridged version of the Garuda Purana. The Garuda Purana is one of the Vishnu Puranas. It is in the form of a dialog between Vishnu and Garuda, the King of Birds. The second section of this Purana (given here) deals with issues connected with death, particularly funeral rites and the metaphysics of reincarnation. Portions of the Garuda Purana are used by some Hindus as funeral liturgy. Indeed, some consider it unlucky to read this text except during funerals. Of interest are the intermediate states between birth and rebirth, which roughly correspond to the western concepts of Hell and Heaven. Since this was written during the medieval era, it is possible that the writer of this text had contact with Christianity. Earlier Hindu texts do not elaborate about 'hell' and 'heaven,' at least not to this extent, and the subject is completely absent in the oldest texts. Here, the torments of Hell are described in terms that would not be out of place in a Baptist revival tent (or Dante, for that matter). In addition, the four-square city of Yama, the God of Death, is reminiscent of the heavenly city in Revelation. However, these are way stations between incarnations (or, as termed in the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Bardos), not a permanent destination. The Garuda Purana starts with the details of the afterlife. Following this is an account of funeral procedures, including rituals, the astrological timing of the post-death observances, and ritual...
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