La Cosa Nostra
By: Natalie Ann
E-mail: CampYomeca@aol.com
La Cosa Nostra Perhaps one of the most poignant moments in American cinema is the closing scene in the film "The Godfather" when Don Vito Corleone's son Michael takes over his father's position... and one of the most unforgettable moments, a severed horses's head lies bloody in a man's bed. It is this tradition and brutality that characterizes the Mafia, a secret Sicilian society that lives and functions just as much today on American soil as it did and does still in Italy. To understand this organized crime, one must begin to understand how it came to be organized in the first place. During the medieval times in Sicily, Arabs invaded the land and native Sicilians fled and took refuge in the hills. Some of these refugees formed a secret society that gave protection to the people in exchange for money. This group took their name, "Mafia" based on the Arabic word for refuge. In America today, one can hear it also be called "La Cosa......
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