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Organized Crime : Expression and Repression

le Vendredi 06 juillet 2007 à 14:11 par Matt

Introduction There is a parallel between Organized Crime and the movie industry. Organized Crime was one of the ways for social climbing, of getting out of poverty and ethnic matters. In the main Hollywood studios, many directors were ethnics : Samuel Goldwyn and Louis Mayer (M.G.M. studios : Metro Goldwyn Mayer), David O. Selznick, Charles Chaplin… The [...] → Lire la suite

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Organized Crime and the Prohibition

le Vendredi 06 juillet 2007 à 14:11 par Matt

Introduction You cannot really rely on newspapers articles. Recently, it featured the confessions of repenting organized crime members, i.e. the distort truth for their own interests. The police distorted the figures to get credit and money from the Federal Government. Organized crime was considered as a kind of un-american activity. Since more gangsters were ethnics (Jews, [...] → Lire la suite

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Organized Crime in America

le Vendredi 06 juillet 2007 à 14:11 par Matt

Organized Crime in America (1929 - 1951) 1929 : Wall Street crash, which forced gangsters to find a new wy of making money in a time of recession. 1951 : middle of the Cold War. Kefauver hearings started the huge mystification of the Mafia, discovering that organized crime was still on in the U.S. First TV debates on organized [...] → Lire la suite

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Organized Crime in America during the Prohibition (1929-1951)

le Vendredi 06 juillet 2007 à 14:11 par Matt

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The American Civil War : 1860-1865

le Vendredi 06 juillet 2007 à 14:03 par Matt

Introduction The American Civil War started with the secession crisis and ended up with the assassination of Lincoln and the abolition of slavery in 1865. It transformed the political, economical and social life of the nation. It first began with a constitutional struggle and then became a test of federal authority but soon took a broader [...] → Lire la suite

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Introduction to Puritanism and Expansionism

le Vendredi 06 juillet 2007 à 14:03 par Matt

A few notions… Puritanism is a radical version of Protestantism, which is rooted in the movement called the Reformation (16th century). American Puritanism and English Puritanism are fairly different. American Puritanism became the ultimate, most coherent of Protestantism because it grew in a virgin soil. It is an experiment in America with European roots. The most [...] → Lire la suite

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