Joe DEustachio Essays (785 words) - Cinema Of The United States

Joe D'Eustachio PBS 101 Outside speaker For my outside speaker paper, I went to see Glenn Hockley, who is running for office in my hometown of Westchester. In here, he talked about why the jails are overpopulated and what makes a criminal. I am going to try to summarize it best here. " Charlie, there are two kinds of thieves in this world: the ones who steal to enrich their lives and those who steal to define their lives." There are many ways a criminal can enrich or define their lives with crime, and the ways they enrich or define their lives with crime almost always has something to do with their motive. These motives can range from revenge to crime being the only thing they know how to do to greed, and many, many more. Revenge is an extremely common motive to become a criminal, and The Italian Job and "Girlfriend's Revenge Case" bring this motive to life. In The Italian Job, Stella says something that clearly displays her motiverevengefor becoming involved in crime: "'I want to see the look on that man's face when his gold is gone. He took my father from me, I'm taking this." She didn't care about the money, she didn't care about the consequences; all she cared about was taking vengeance on her father's killer. In "Girlfriend's Revenge Case", Barbara Wu tries to get her boyfriend to kill an ex-boyfriend of hers for revenge on him for breaking up with her through an email. Later in her trial, another one of her exes came forward and said she'd tried to get him to do the same thing to another ex-boyfriend . The fact that her boyfriends took her seriously about killing her exes means that she would become a criminal if it meant getting revenge on her exes, so she tried. Sometimes, people become criminals because hey start at an early age so crime ends up being the only thing they know how to do. For example, In The Rescue Artist, Peter Scott, an English cat burglar, said "'As a husband I was a failure and as a lover indifferent because my real passion was to be out on the roof, or creeping through the country, or making a little tunnel through a wall. I'd found this private world which yielded a sexual, antisocial excitement unobtainable by other means.'" Scott's motives were the thrill of stealing as well as crime being the only thing he knew how to do well, so much that he was still committing crimes at age of 67, when he was sentenced to three and a half years in prison for trying to fence a 650,000 Picasso. In The Italian Job, John said "'I've spent half my kid's life in prison. Don't get to be my age with nothing but his, Charlie.'" Stealing was all John had ever done, knew how to do, and would ever do, so he continued to do it, even after going to prison, until he died. Probably the most common motive for someone to become a criminal is greed. "Greed to Steal $500,000 Motive for Boss's Murder" displays this motive blatantly to anyone that reads the article. An employee named Sneza Suteski of an accountant named Richard P iech paid her hairdresser's boyfriend $3,000 to murder Piech so she could steal $500,000 from him since he wouldn't be at work. (Brooke 1) Both the boyfriend and Suteski became criminals because of greed in the end, showing how common this motive is. Another example of this motive is that Steve betrayed his friends, tried to kill them (and killed one of them), and it was all to get 35 million dollars in gold bricks. John Hancock (yes, the John Hancock) succumbed to greed near the end of his life when he was traveling in the California and Nevada area. He and his companion, Winny , were stranded because their failure of a team gave out, and when two men named Engelke and Edmiston stopped by where they had been for the three weeks they had been stranded, Hancock and Winny left with them. In the middle of one night, Hancock killed the two men and buried their