Archive for the ‘Society’ Category

Ten Commandments of The Mafia

In 2007, Italian police make an astonishing discovery throughout a raid on the Mafia boss’ villa: a checklist on the Mafia’s most sacred laws.

It is an unbelievable come across: a code of conduct for that Mob. Now, for that very first time, former Mobsters converse out concerning the guidelines that govern their criminal globe; and reveal what took place when gangland started to query the so-called 10 Commandments on the Mafia.

Posted by Sara on November 25th, 2010 No Comments

Streets of Plenty

An unprecedented look into the underworld of Vancouver’s downtown east-side ghetto. This 65 minute documentary follows one man’s 30 day experiment of joining the thousands of homeless, ill, and addicted, who survive the streets of Vancouver’s cold, wet December.

He starts off with nothing but a pair of underwear. Where he ends up is a place he never knew existed, even though its a place he passed by every day.

Posted by Sara on November 25th, 2010 No Comments

Richard Dawkins: Faith School Menace?

The number of faith schools in Britain is increasing. Around 7,000 publicly funded schoolsone in three – now has a religious affiliation.

As the coalition government paves the way for much more faith-based education by selling ‘free schools’, the renowned atheist and evolutionary biologist Professor Richard Dawkins says enough is enough.

In this passionately argued film, Dawkins calls on us to reconsider the consequences of faith education, which, he argues, bamboozles mothers and fathers and indoctrinates and divides children.

Posted by Sara on November 25th, 2010 No Comments

Cocaine Cowboys 2: Hustlin’ with the Godmother

If you liked Cocaine Cowboys, you will like this 1 also. Accurate story on the cocaine queen who would make Tony Montana appear like Mom Teresa.

Set to the inner-city streets of Oakland, California, cocaine vendor Charles Cosby has his lifestyle is transformed eternally when he writes a fan letter on the “Cocaine Godmother” Griselda Blanco, who’s serving time at a close by federal prison.

Six months later, Cosby is really a multi-millionaire, Blanco’s lover, along with the head of her $40 million a 12 months cocaine organization.

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18th Street Gang

th Street is regarded as the biggest gang in Los Angeles, California, and is a strong armed transnational Latino criminal gang.

It is believed that you can find 1000’s of members in Los Angeles County alone. You can find approximately 200 separate person autonomous gangs operating under the same label within separate barrios in the San Fernando Valley, the San Gabriel Valley, the South Bay, South Los Angeles, Downtown Los Angeles, Pico Union, Inglewood, Cudahy, and Orange County, according to the latest figures from the NDIC.

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The Story of English

The Story of English will be the title of an Emmy Award profitable nine-part tv collection, along with a companion e-book, each developed in 1986, detailing the improvement on the English language. Just a little bit aged but pretty beneficial.

The e-book along with the tv collection had been written by Robert MacNeil, Robert McCrum and William Cran. The e-book continues to be revised twice, as soon as in 1993, and once more in 2002.

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Children Full of Life

Mr. Kanamori, a teacher of a 4th grade class, teaches his students not only how you can be students, but how you can live. He provides them lessons on teamwork, neighborhood, the importance of openness, how you can cope, and also the harm caused by bullying.

Within the award-winning documentary Kids Filled with Existence, a fourth-grade class inside a primary school in Kanazawa, northwest of Tokyo, learn lessons about compassion from their homeroom teacher, Toshiro Kanamori.

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Inside the Medieval Mind

One from the world’s biggest authorities around the Middle Ages, Professor Robert Bartlett of St Andrew’s University, investigates the intellectual landscape from the medieval world.

Within the initial programme, Understanding, he explores the way medieval man understood the world – as being a place of mystery, even enchantment. The world was a guide written by God. But because the Middle Ages grew to a near, it became a place to be mastered, even exploited.

Posted by Sara on November 25th, 2010 No Comments

Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going (Lectures)

Mr. Joseph had been lecturing about the unsustainable nature with the money-based economy — on cyclical consumption, planned obsolescence, corporate malfeasance and piles of poisonous waste.

“It’s time that we wake up,” he intoned, speaking solemnly through a wireless clip-on mike. “The doomsday scenario, the large contraction, may well be taking place correct now. The system of monetary exchange is — within the face of advancing technology — entirely obsolete.”

Posted by Sara on August 12th, 2010 No Comments

Taboo: Body Modifications

See what can make folks radically reshape their bodies – from neck stretching in Thailand to breast ironing in Cameroon to silicone implants that improve American male physiques.

Many examples of severe system modification are scarification, branding, implants, and splitting tongues.

Scarification is preformed by pealing away layers on the skin, and allowing it to heal to the specific layout. Some scarifications can be almost as intricate as being a tattoo.

Posted by Sara on August 12th, 2010 No Comments