John Gotti
.... Boys, named after two streets in their neighborhood. At an early age he exerted his bad temper, dominance and readiness to engage in fistfights. These were just the right characteristics to develop his potential as a Mafia boss.
In the mid-1960's, Gotti's boss Carmine Fatico moved his headquarters out to Ozone Park near JFK Airport. Gotti, his brothers, Angelo and Willie Boy became relatively successful hijackers. That is, until they got caught in 1968 and landed in prison.
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Charles Dickens
.... aspect as Dorritt. Many people wondered how there could be a man who was both Micawber and Dorritt, seeing the great difference in personality between the two. People couldn’t possible believe that this was Dickens father so they just said that those characters were part of his imagination. John Dickens moved around quiet a bit. When Charles was not even two years old they moved for what would be a short stay to London and then moved to Chatam for what would be a longer stay, there Charles start .....
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Frederick Douglass's Physical And Intellectual Struggles
.... the slaves. Douglass felt that the autobiography was descriptive; however, no reader could actually feel exactly what a slave felt, and sympathize completely with a slave. "... I say, let him be placed in this most trying situation, -the situation in which I was placed, -then, and not till then, will he fully appreciate the hardships of, and know how to sympathize with, the toil-worn and whip-scarred fugitive slave." (70) Douglass felt that no one would ever know what slavery was like unless he or she ha .....
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George Washington
.... grew up a tall, strong young man, who liked music and theatrical performances, and was awkward with girls but fond of dancing. His ambition was to gain wealth and to do well whatever he set his mind to.
His first real adventure as a boy was going to a surveying party to the Shenandoah Valley of northern Virginia and rising the Shenandoah River by canoe. An earlier suggestion that he should be sent to sea seems to have been discouraged by his uncle Joseph Ball, who described the consequences of a unkn .....
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Wallace Stevens
.... Wallace's younger brother went to the University of Pennsylvania, where their father attended to study law.
Wallace continued his education at Harvard in September of 1897. There, he wrote for the Harvard Advocate under the peudonym's, including John Fiske and Carrol Moore. The recurring name of John is said to be part of Wallace's jealousy toward his older brother. At Harvard, Wallace also joined the Signet Society, and was soon after elected secretary. It was here where he met his good friend George .....
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Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
.... horses, ballet and studying the French culture and language (23).
Jackie’s first job was the “Inquiring Camera Girl” for the Washington Times-Herald. She would spend her working day walking around the city with her camera capturing citizens’ reactions to issues of the day. At a Georgetown dinner party, Jackie was first introduced to John F. Kennedy who was a newly elected senator from Massachusetts. From there, Jackie and John’s relationship progressed. Upon her return from Europe, where she .....
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The Life Of Michael Jordan
.... in voting.
Jordan holds the record for most career scoring titles with eight, including 7 straight, also a record. He scores so many points that it is almost unfair to compare him with other players. On November 6, 1996, Michael scored 50 points for the 36th time in his career! Jordan eclipsed the 25,000 career points total, and he continues to dominate in that statistical category. He was the tenth player to score that many points, accomplishing the feat against San Antonio on November 30, .....
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Thomas Jefferson
.... member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, the lower chamber of the Virginia legislature, when he married Martha Wayles Skelton in 1772.
Jefferson took an active part in the events that led to the American Revolution (1775-1783). His literary talents made him a highly valued member of committees when public papers were drafted. Early in 1774 the colonies were angered by the British Parliament's passage of what were called the Intolerable Acts. One of these, the Boston Port Act, closed the harbor of Bosto .....
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Booker T Washington
.... Taliaferro Washington. His friends called him Booker T for short. Booker T was told and knew education would lead to success.
At age 16, Booker T went to Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute. This had been established the Freedman’s Bureau’s chief to educate former slaves. Booker T earned money by sweeping and dusting classrooms. After he graduated he became a teacher. Booker taught in Malden, W. VA and at Hampton.
When the board of commissioners asked the head of Hampton to .....
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Stephen King
.... but he also had two of his short-stories published.
King attended the University of Maine at Orono and earned a Bachelor's degree for English in 1970. He married Tabitha, also a writer, the same year. After graduation, he worked as an English teacher and spent his free time writing and being rejected by publishers. Then came his break with Carrie and things have never been the same.
Today, Stephen King is the world's most successful writer. He has over a hundred million copies of his works in print and .....
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Al Gore
.... the concerns of his father’s constituency about Al Gore, Sr.’s opposition to the war. Gore served his time in Vietnam as an army reporter. When he returned to the States in 1971, he worked as a reporter at the Tennessean . When he was later moved to the city politics beat, Gore uncovered political and bribery cases that led to convictions.
While at the Tennessean , Gore, a Baptist, also studied philosophy and phenomenology at Vanderbilt University. In 1974 he enrolled in Vanderbilt’s law school. Just two .....
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Malcolm X
.... the whole family was terrorised by the Ku Klux Klan. To avoid any more harassment by these white racists, Little had to migrate with his family to Lansing, Michigan. It did not help. The white racists of Lansing killed Malcolm’s father and laid him on a railway track, claiming he committed suicide. Alone and without money, Louise Little got more and more desperate, before the white authorities sent her to a mental hospital.
Malcolm attended school until eighth grade living with different families. Wh .....
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
.... he also collected stamps, birds, and ship models—hobbies that he pursued all his life.
His formal education began at the Groton School in Massachusetts, where the headmaster, Endicott Peabody (1857-1944), stressed to his wealthy young students their obligation toward those who were less fortunate in society. After graduation from Harvard University in 1904, Roosevelt attended Columbia University Law School without taking a degree and was admitted to the New York State bar in 1907. In 1905, despite his .....
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Kobe Bryant
.... directly from high school to the pros in 1996 and had an impressive rookie season with the Los Angeles Lakers. He won the Nestle Crunch Slam Dunk and was the lead scorer in the Schick Rookie Game during the NBA All-Star Weekend. Then, in his second season, he was voted a starter for the 1998 All-Star Game, becoming at 19 the youngest All-Star in NBA history.
He was the all time leading scorer in southeastern pennsylvania history with 2,883 breaking the marks of former Hall of Famer Wilt Chamberlan .....
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“George S. Patton, Jr.”
.... kids by playing sports. He was an exceptional football player and track star.
He went to two colleges VMI and West Point. He first went to VMI then he decided that he wanted the best so he transferred to West Point. While at West Point he was noticed for his amazing athletic ability he earned his letter there the famous Army A. He did this in football where in one game he broke both of his arms. He was also a good student in history and all of the war classes he took. He did not do so well in Mathem .....
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