A Short Story : The Story Of 91 Days

“Well, believe it or not, it’s true.” Dean’s voice was low as he let go of her arm and leaned back on the couch. “Though I guess my timing isn’t the best for it to sound sincere.”

My mother would start the mornings with a “Levantese que hay mucho que hacer”, in translation, “Wake up there is so much to do today”. Every day, the wakeup call was at 5:30 in the morning and it started with a list of chores. Occasionally, we would sleep until 7:30 in the morning on the weekends to more chores and whatever else was on the list. My mother was regimental and the “A” typical Latina mother, very old school. Not a day went by where my brother and me didn’t do chores and helped around the house. Lord forbit that she would have to repeat herself twice on our individual chores. She constantly reminded me that one day I would become a wife and would have to know how to take care of my family, “A man does not like a lazy wife and you would want to stay married to the same man you have exchanged vowels with”, she would say. Seeing that she was remarried two times already, I did not understand why she would expect it from me. None -the-less, I did what I was told and without any galivanting I accomplished every task assigned to me.

The story hour we read was a very true story I think back in that day. Back than the husbands hit their wives and beat them and stuff and thought it was okay, people still do that today but they will get in trouble for it. But I can see why she did not like staying with that guy. She was a slave I bet and did all of the work around the house while all he did was went to his job. I bet he doesn’t do anything for work either. The reason why I think she croaked was because she was sad that he did not die and she wasn’t actually free anymore. That is what I am thinking happened.

When the visitor sat down next to the rugged window he saw his father in the reflection, it reminded him of when he was young sitting with his mother. He was taken back to that day whenever they were making a plot that would alter his life. He was daydreaming next to the frosted window on a late Christmas Eve with his mother trying to read a story to the young visitor. The mother finally caught the young boy's attention and was talking about plotting an idea. The mother explained to the young boy onto what had been happening. She discussed with him how they were going to try and leave that night, so they no longer had to deal with this non-understandable and incomprehensible human being.

The movie that I chose to do my review on is the 1990 film GoodFellas. This movie chronicles the life of Henry Hill and his rise from being a small time assistant to the mob in his childhood, to when he grows up and is a full blown gangster involved in many different aspects of the organized crime group’s illegal activities. The reason that I chose GoodFellas is because it fits the requirements of this assignment nicely and it’s just a really well made movie with an all-star cast and a great story. To begin, I will cover the eight attributes of organized crime and how they are portrayed in the movie. Next I will cover the laws that were used against the organized crime group in the movie. Lastly, I will cover some of the law enforcement techniques that were used by law enforcement in the movie to capture the organized crime members. We as a society often glamorize organized crime, but in reality it is a nasty business of corruption and violence that has no business in modern society.

The Godfather is a movie about an American mafia family in the forties. The story is of one of the Godfather’s sons Michael and his unexpected rise to power after experiencing treachery, tragedy, and the need to fulfill his duty to the family. The settings in the film created depth whether it was used to give a sense of realism in the environments or to portray some deeper message to the audience. The acting utilized intense emotions such as fear and despair in order to give a sense of devotion to the Corleone family. These two aspects work together in order to portray the overarching theme of how the characters have so much loyalty to the mafia that they have put their family over their moral values without being aware of it, and the struggle

A small chuckle escaped James lips and he scratched his neck. “Seems like we'll have to relive the past for a little while here.”

The historical period of the Mafia Film spans from the early 1930s to the early 1960s with various flashbacks throughout. Luciano oversees the modernization of the mafia from a small time family affair to a corporate syndicate of global crime with significant economic and political influence. The analogies used in the movie plot and its historical biopic genre and gangster genre centralizes the narrative from Luciano to a film investigation that looks into the ranging implications of Luciano's crime

Hands on hips, Carter leaned back looked up at the tower and then down at the body working out angles and positioning.

Michael's back hurt from sleeping on the hard wooden chair but he didn’t mind since he was well rested. He sat up cracking his back. It was still dark out. He noticed there was a note left on his chest. ‘We all went out on the boat to see the sunrise. Be back by noon - Ashton’. Michael didn’t care that they left him he never cared for boats. He stumbled half awake up the stairs making his way to the bedroom him and the boys were supposed to share. He turned the corner and opened the door. Michael froze when he was met with the site of Harry Styles half naked sprawled out on the bed. The only thing covering him was a pair of navy blue pants that cut off just above the ankle.

Eli was in the shop checking on the shipment that had come in this morning. Glad to see that the parts he had ordered for his current restoration project were all here and in good condition. This put him in a great mood.

On November 21, 2007, I was home for break and watched an interesting-historical film titled American Gangster. The film was written by Steven Zaillian and was directed by Ridley Scott. American Gangster was a gangster movie that reflected back on the pass. The performance environment was at my house in the living room on a DVD player. The room was dark, cool, and very comfortable, which made it very relaxing and easier to watch and study the film.

Booker arrived at the chapel early Monday morning, keen to get his debriefing with Tom over with as quickly as possible. He was professional enough to know he needed to put his disappointment to one side and concentrate on their assignment, but the sting of Tom’s rejection still lingered. He thought they’d made a connection, and he’d looked forward to building a solid friendship with the shy officer. But despite a promising start, he realized he now had no choice but to accept what Penhall had told him. Tom was weird, and his mercurial temperament made it impossible to break down the barriers that kept him at arm’s length. Whether Will was responsible for his brother’s character traits or not was still open for debate, but as far as Booker

It was an average spring afternoon on April 15, 1989, my Brother John and I had plans to make our way up to Sheffield for the Liverpool match but had a dilemma as to whether to take the tube or drive. “the train will be much faster” He argues, I give in to his argument, eager to start the journey. With the shambolic construction on the M62, we take the train. I was expecting the same as the year before. A victory. The trip was like any other, we arrived at around 2:20 pm. I went to join some Liverpool fans in singing and marching to the stadium as the smell of beer and meat pies filled the air. There were thousands of us, and only seven turnstiles, there was a big crowd all trying to get to the front and the steward on his horse did

Parents are always fond of telling tales of when their children were young and had some silly misunderstandings. Two stories from about 100 years ago also tell of children’s simple, yet funny misconceptions. The story A Day’s Wait is written by Ernest Hemingway and is in the perspective of the father of his son. It is about the little son, named Schatz, who has come down with the flu and the father is wondering why Schatz in acting weird while recovering. Turns out Schatz thought he was going to die, due to a high fever. This misunderstanding happened because he got confused with the difference between Fahrenheit and Celsius. A Stolen Day by Sherwood Anderson has a different story, is about a boy who believes he has inflammatory rheumatism