Lansky: A Gangster In The Prohibition

He got luck when he used his knowledge to go to the official car and when he didn’t run and instead lied about being a Jew. He also got lucky when instead of running away or giving in he lied about he good he was carrying and said he had a store. Vladek was also unlucky sometimes when he was resourceful. An example of this is when Vladek made a bunker him and his family got caught.

A Bronx Tale Growing up in the Bronx, in an Italian American neighborhood, during the 1960’s a boy finds his way stumbling into manhood. He has two paths to choose the legitimate way or the illegitimate way. His father, Lorenzo, who is played by Robert DeNiro is a hardworking man who works for a living. He always told Calogero also known as C (Lillo Brancato), “that nothing in the world is worse than wasted talent.” He always tried to listen to his father.

In the 1920’s the 18th Amendment caused the prohibition of manufacturing, selling and transporting intoxicating-liquors. Alcohol in the United States was not longer legal. However, this did not stop most people from not consuming any alcohol.

Fortunado may have an addiction to alcohol and he may have died beause of it. Everyone has good and bad traits. Montressor may have trouble with his anger. However, Montressor is also very smart and can litterally get away with murder.

There were many stories told about outlaws and lawmen during the 1800s in America, and many of them originated from the “Wild West.” There have been stories and legends about people who robbed banks, committed homicide, or threw wanted criminals in jail. Often, people would stretch the truth of what westerners actually did, to make their tale more compelling. The same goes for a popular stagecoach driver of the mid 1800s, a man named Charley Parkhurst, who is best known for being a woman disguised as a man.

As Beowulf went into battle, he believed in a fair fight. With Beowulf’s skills and talent, he can overcome all trials that came his way. As he fought Grendel, he fought by hands. This battle with Grendel took great courage and skillful fighting. In conclusion, Beowulf is my hero because of his outstanding bravery skills; his great strength and loyalty.

Otto Frank The Holocaust took place in World War Two. Otto Frank was a Jew who was in World War Two. He also hid in the Secret Annex with eight other people including his wife and two daughters. Otto Frank is a good example of a survivor because he survived the Holocaust, he was in another war, and was good at medicine.

Gatsby was a man who came up from essentially nothing by gaining his money through bootlegging and other illegal acts in order to gain a reputation in society. Gatsby’s constant desire to accomplish more in his life demonstrates the corruption of the American Dream. It is evident that Gatsby has had a thirst for the American dream since a young age, this is shown when Gatsby’s father says: “Jimmy was bound to get ahead. He always had some resolves like this or something. Do you notice what he’s got about improving his mind?

João tries to cut costs wherever he can, “cheating his customers with short weight and scant measure.” He goes about his life “leaving his debts unpaid whenever he could but always collecting what he was owed.” João’s passion lead him to steal from local construction sites to obtain the materials needed to build homes behind his tavern, these homes would ultimately make up the slum. The two-room houses are “badly built.” João Romão’s passion for wealth is why he created the slum, which is

Dodger introduces him to his way of life and says ‘Consider Yourself’ one of the gang. He leads him back to see Fagin, the crook who runs the thieves’ kitchen. In Fagin’s den, Oliver is surprised at the number of boys working for him. They teach him that “You’ve Got to Pick a Pocket or Two” in order to survive. Whilst Fagin looks after the boys, they are all under the watchful eye of sinister robber Bill Sykes, whose girlfriend Nancy is sympathetic to the gang.

Gangsters were responsible for murder, Prostitution, Illegal Gambling, and many other crimes but yet everyone still loved them. They were a shining example of how prohibition didn 't stop anything and arguably led to even more problems. Nothing could stop them because they had immense wealth from bootlegging alcohol, and could have anyone they wanted to join their side because as they saw it you were either with them or a rival gang. Even the law enforcement was scared to be close to any of the gangsters as they often took payoffs.

We can see in the present day that alcohol does present a good revenue income overall for the economy. What we can also see is that partial prohibition is a lot more productive because instead of taking away, you are just creating restrictions. For example, the drinking of age 21 and no sale of alcohol on Sundays lowered the number of teenage drinking and also gave respect to a, what some may consider to be, a religious day. The best we can all take out of prohibition is to always remember how ineffective it was and what it did to overall to the community/economy, because “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”-George

The successful bootleggers at the time were able to capitalize on the high demand for alcohol. “Through the criminal experience gained and the political connections established in gambling and prostitution rackets in the early 1900s, gangsters had become well prepared for the exploitation of Prohibition.” One could argue that these gangsters may have only been successful from an economic standpoint and that their lives seemed more glamorous then they truly were. Many of them died terrible deaths but the fact is historians and society will forever be fascinated with these figures and their lifestyles. Through my research, I have determined that it was more than this; these successful gangsters had very similar character traits and childhood

Although he committed a crime rather than fraud, Barry Keenan encompassed all three points of the fraud triangle. He experienced pressure from his recent large financial loss. He was not making money the legal way but he need money to make real estate investments. Secondly he had opportunity, he knew the Sinatra girl from high school and had been over to the house before. This gave him the knowledge he needed to commit the crime.

The effects of legalizing drugs would not have a major effect on organized crime. Situation in the past support the theory that organize crime would still thrive even without the sale of illegal drugs. The corruption, extortion, and trafficking would still be a major source of organized crimes income. In the 1920’s and early 30s when we had prohibition crime groups ran the illegal “speak easy”. The sale of illegal alcohol is similar to the sale of illegal drugs today.