Top 10 Best Mafia Movies

The Mafia has a rather interesting history. It originated in Sicily, Italy in the nineteenth century as a criminal syndicate. When Sicily was transforming from feudalism to capitalism, the Mafia was formed as a loose organization with protection racketeering of the merchants who paid them in return for protection. It was difficult for the State to enforce property contracts under the new free market economy and therefore the property owners had to turn to extralegal arbitrators and protectors. Gradually, the Mafia transformed into an obnoxious, criminal organization, however still retaining the tag of ‘men of honour’.

In the original sense of the word, Mafia only referred to this family crime organization in Sicily although now it is widely used as a generic term for any criminal network with common code of conduct and interests. Many people still do not approve of this usage as all-inclusive for the criminal network and prefer the word gangster. Here is a list of top ten films made on Mafias/gangsters.

10 A Prophet

This film was originally made in French and opened to widespread critical acclaim from critics all around the world and a 97% aggregate on Rotten Tomatoes. It is about a prisoner of Algerian descent in a jail, who rises to the top in the inmate hierarchy as he tides through the Muslim and Corsican factions there. The film is the perfect blend of fine performances and gritty gangster acts. The two criminal subcultures in the prison and their manifestations give this film a typical Mafia appeal. The film was nominated for the Best Film in the Foreign Category at 82nd Academy Awards and is frequently counted amongst the best pictures of all time. I would strongly recommend to this everyone.....

Top 10 Most Pirated Things in the World

Want to watch a new movie without going to a theatre? Want to experience the gaming ‘feel’ of the game launched yesterday without purchasing a DVD? Want to listen to the audio of a new movie before the official audio launch? Piracy it is. For everything. Want to save a few bucks at the cost of quality? Want to kill the ‘art’ industry? Piracy it is again. Let’s show the world that we are not stingers, ‘We are original’ and we respect art. The art which has made our lives so wonderful. KILL PIRACY!! Before ‘killing it’, you got to know ‘where is it’. Listed below are the 10 Most Pirated Things in the world:

10. Designer items (accessories)

Designer items include apparel and ornaments. To be specific, they include men, women, children’s clothing, undergarments, outerwear, gloves, footwear and headgear. They also include accessories like handbags, purses and belts. All these things are protected under the ‘Design Piracy Prohibition act’. Everybody likes to have trendy clothes, funky accessories and flaunt them. ‘Foreign’ clothing and accessories have always been in demand. Everybody wants to put on foreign clothes, the foreign ‘super cool’ goggles and flaunt them. Having foreign accessories and explaining others the ‘uniqueness’ of the same has always been the way to go about. The ‘craze’ about foreign stuff has always been a tradition started years back. Foreign goods might be less expensive sometimes, but most of the times, they are found expensive. This expensive nature of goods is due to the ‘customs duty’ imposed on them during the course of import or export. So, people skip the ‘customs duty’ and carry goods illegally in innumerable ‘innovative’ ways. This is what is referred to as pirating/smuggling. How can you get a ‘Rolex watch’ at the nearby ‘footpath market’, that too for 10$? How can you get your very own ‘branded’ puma shoes at the next door ‘thief market’ for 20$? ‘pirating’- the word, answers all these questions. The goods once pirated are to be sold as soon as possible. The fear of the law (police raids) makes vendors sell all these goods at a very low price....

Top 10 Countries Infamous for Human Trafficking

We live in the 21^st century where each and every individual is free to do whatever they like, act however they like, and live however they please. We talk about freedom but in reality, not all individuals are free. Slavery is abolished and is made illegal in all the countries of the world, but people are still slaves to many things, knowingly or unknowingly. One such situation where an individual lacks freedom is prevalent widely amongst many countries of the world till date. This is none other than human trafficking.

Human trafficking can be described as – the trade in humans, most commonly for the purpose of sexual slavery, forced labor or for the extraction of organs or tissues, including surrogacy and ova removal. Human trafficking is done because it ensures that these traffickers get easy money in no time. It is a very risky job but the traffickers have established such a strong network throughout the world that the global police are finding it very difficult to curb these activities. Human trafficking is extremely inhuman and gross and it goes against the very principles of human rights. It is seen that human trafficking is carried out more in poor, under-developed or developing countries than in the rich and developed ones. The countries that have a huge urban-rural gap are especially targeted for human trafficking. Here are the top 10 countries infamous for human trafficking –

10. China

China is a top developing country in the world and everyone keeps talking about how China will soon turn into a super-power. But, one must know as modern and planned the Chinese cities are, equally poor and unplanned are the villages. The urban-rural gap is tremendously huge. China is a source, a transit and a destination for human trafficking. Humans are trafficked mostly for the sake of forced labour or forced prostitution. Because of it’s population, the labour in China is cheap. Traffickers make use of this fact and lure poor people into trafficking for labour which is gruesome and hardly pays anything. Forced prostitution happens within the Chinese borders and beyond it. It was recently found out that there are large Chinese human trafficking rackets in Spain and France will buy and sell these Chinese people for about $72,000....