Beyond the Mafia V (188-End)

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Today states organized smuggling, assasinations, and other crimes and they are trying to stop them at the same time.

Chinano gangs are gangs that come from a result of economic reconstructing.

"Blood in, Blood out" was a term used by prsion gangs to say that they were initiayed by sheding blood and could only leave if they died because prsion gagns usually had a life membership.

The hird level in a prison gang is the Family Level which is thelevel where all the secretive things and actions go on i a prison gang.

Organized Crime didnt start in the twentieth-century but started with colonial pirates.

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How can the prison gangs be secretive wehn they're being watched by guards and are in cells?
What are prison gangs able to do in the prison since theyre being watched and dont usaully have much stuff or money?
How did people trade with pirates?
Why was trade with pirates made illegal in the Carolinas?

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inextricably (pg 192): impossible to untie or disentangle; impossible to solve; impossible to escape from.

privateer (pg 221): a privately owned warship commissioned to prey on the commercial shipping or warships of an enemy nation.

vagrancy (pg 226): the state of wandering from place to place; having no permanent home or means of livelihood.

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"organized crime and the legal authorities.."(pg 198) Oxymoron because the legal authorities are trying to stop crime yet theyre working with them.

"blood in, blood out"(pg 213) This is symbolism because blood in means the initiation into a prison gang and blood out menas the only way to leave the gang was if you died.

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The final section of the book talks about prison gangas and it also talks about how pirates strated teh term "Organized Crime".

Beyond the Mafia IV (141-188)

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Women are not known to have a role in organized crime groups, especially in Chinese triads but when they are they usually do clerical or administative work.

Womwns role in Motorcycle gangs like the Hells' Angels is to follow the man and men usually have the dominant contorl in motorcycle gangs like in most gangs.

Women are not allowed as club memebrs into motorcycel gangs because of competition and it would cause poer and identity issues.

Ol" Ladies are referred to as the dominant female force in outlaw biker gangs.

Since the destruction of the Berlin wall there has been an increase in crime in Eatern Europe.

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Why are women organiaing into motorcycle groups sepearte from males?
why are there not many female bikers?
Why did the fall of the Berlin Wall promote organized crime?
How did Organized crime groups in Russia take over enterpirses?

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clerical (pg 145): of or relating to clerks; "clerical work".

hedonistic (pg 167): the pursuit of pleasure as a matter of ethical principle.

concoctitions (pg 177): a combination of various ingredients.

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"Hell's Angels"(pg 151) Oxymoron.

"the fuel-tax evasion"(pg 175) This shows man vs. man conflict between the Russian mafia and New York law enforcement.

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This section talsk about the role of women in Motorcycle gangs and it also talks about the Russian Mafia nad the tax-evasion problemin New York.

Beyond the Mafia III (94-141)

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The LAPD do not belive that Yakuza has caused as much trouble as the other Chinese or Vietnamese gangs in America so they do not waste theur money chasing them.

Yakuza used tlaent scams to force women into prostitution and into other jobs for the YAkuza organization.

The Yakuza are not only a organized crime group but also good bussinesmen who invest in foreign markets like cars.

The Colombian cartel Medellin has been the most destructive and violent organized crime group in the world.

Colombia became known as a nacrodemocary because of all of the drugs that were being trafficked.

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Why did the embassy refuse to help Kristen flee from Japan since she was being abused by the Yakuza organization?

Why didnt the govornment do anything abiut Yakuza in Hawaii knowing they re there?

Why didnt the Colombian govronment do anything about the cartel Medellin?

How did Medellin become so powerful and got the govornment on its side?

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anachronistic (pg 98): chronologically misplaced.

discernible (pg 109): Possible to discern.

oyabun (pg 132): a Japanese supervisor.

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"Yakuza leaders maintained control through money" (pg 102) This foredahdows that if there was no more money there would be no more control and there would be a lot of conflict in the organization.

"What does it mean to be a sicario...a professional killer..." (pg 119) This shows dialouge between to people.

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This section of the book talks about the organized crime group Yakuza in Japan and it laso tlaks about the cartel Medellin in Colombia.

Beyond the Mafia II (47-94)

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Almost all the Organized Crime Gropus that exist exist in secrecy and usuallly include members of the same ethnicity and the same background in crime.

Chinese gangas are known to be the biggest exporters of heroin in both the United States and now in Canada.

In Chinese gangs females are not allowed and theyre not considered gang members even if they have joined, they just hang out with the gang members for atention.

Like other Hisoanic and African American gangs, Asian youth join gangs for the same reason, problems in school, their association with crime and the want to make money.

Like many other gangs, Chinese gangs are filled with adolescant youth.

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Why are women not allowed in the Chinses gangs and even if they join why are they not considered gang members?
Why are the Chinese gangs filled with youth?

Why do some gangs have a ceremony where they have to drink blood with wine?
Why do other observers of Chinese gangs exaggerate Chinese gang activity in the U.S.?

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lucrative (pg 54): producing a lot of money, profitable

dissuaded (pg 58): To convince not to try or do

cohesive (pg 72): well integrated

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"Every Chinese gang in New York City manuvers in its own land" (pg 76) This shows man vs. man conflict between gangs in New York if gangs get involved in others territories.

"...monilithic hierichall criminal cartel..." (pg 80) This shows hyporbole because other observers are exaggerating crimnial activity of Chiniese gangs in the U.S.

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This section talks about Chinses gangs, their activity in the U.S and also all of the things that happen in some of the gangs.

Beyond the Mafia I (Start - 47)

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The Bhopal disaster was the wordls most industratial accdient and it occured in Bhopal, India.

More than 3;000 people died in the Bhopal disaster and 200,000 others were badly injured reported the Indian govornment.

Its illegal to sell a wide range of pesticeides, pharmacutical and other related products every year but many companies like Upjohns sell products to thrid-world countires.

Many chemical companies cause deaths in developing countries because they sell safea nad unapproved substances for their profit in the countires.

Infant formulas have been a big death factor for infants in third world countries in places like Africa and Adia because the formula has to be mixed with water and without clean water the infant is exposed to water-bourne diseasees.

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Why didnt The company take more safety measures when they were dealing with a toxic chemical (MIC) and they were near a big population of people?

Why does the US allow sales of products that are banned in the US to be sold in thrid world countries?

Why are companies making factories in other countires when they could be building factories in the U.S and helping get jobs for the American people?

Why doesnt the U.N. do anything about the explotaiton of thrid world countries wehn they know its happening and hurting those countires?

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pesticides (pg 17): a chemical preparation for destroying plant, fungal, or animal pests.

stringent(pg 22): rigorously binding or exacting; strict

moonshiner (pg 39): a person who distills or sells liquor, esp. corn liquor, illegally.

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"In the shantey town of Bhapol..." (pg 1) Foreshadows that something bad is going to happen.

"the mushrooming use of pesticeds in the Third World countries is a daily threat..." (pg 17) This is a conflict betwwen multimillion companies and their factories in the third world countries.

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This section talks about the explotation of land in the third world countires and the illegal production and trade of liquor.

A Scanner Darkly: The Movie

• The movie was great and it had great acting along with great directing.
• I liked how they used cartoon-like filming because it made the movie seem better for me.
• The movie was very brief while the book was very detailed.
• The movie left many parts out like the part with Freck in the beginning and also other parts in the movie that when you really look at, are really insignificant to the movie.
• The director used many P.O.V. shots from Fred inside the Scramble suit.
• The movie was very interesting to watch because it painted another picture in my mind of what was going on and how the enviornment looked.
• The way that the characters acted showed their true personalities in the plot whihc in the end shows that it was great acting in the movie.
• One thing I fiugred out right before they were going to show it was, Donna being Hank.
• When Hank started to talk to Fred at the End you could tell it was Donna.
• Did Donna ever take Substance D or was she faking all the time, also witht the cocaine?
• I liked the way the director visualized the book and I believe that it was an excellent film.

A Scanner Darkly Post 5

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Bariss is snitching on Bob while Bob is working for the police an listening to him talk.
Bob is being signed into New-Path to work on his addiction.
The peopel in New-Path are brainwahsed and are like robots.
Fred was sent to work on a farm in Napa Valley after he wwas signed into New Path.
New-Path produces Substance D with their blue flower
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Who is Hank?
Why is Fred being fined when he had to tke Substance D to protect his cover?
Did Jim Barris poison Fred or is it the Substance D?
Why do they call Bob Bruce now, was that his real name?
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Tapestry (p 237): a machine-woven reproduction of this.
impassively (p 251): without emotion; apathetic; unmoved.
transmute (p 258): to change from one nature, substance, form, or condition into another; transform.
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"cuckoo"(p 225)Onomotepia.
"the flower of the future"(p 272) Symoblis. The floweres symoblise the way that society is heading because of Substance D.
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The last section talks about Fred being addmited into New-Path and eventually figuring out that New-path is the cause of all the roblems because theyre making Substance D.