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- 6461: Al Capone
- Al Capone Alphonse Capone was perhaps the most famous of all American gangsters in history. Al Capone was involved in many serious crimes including the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, income tax evasion, and the illegal selling of liquor. He also took part in the running of gambling and prostitution. He dominated organized crime in Chicago from about 1925 to 1931. Al Capone's ... Torrio. In the next few years Capone spent his time killing his rivals and competitors in a series of gang wars. The most famous event that Capone was responsible for was the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in 1929. At this occurrence, Capone's gunmen dressed as police officers and executed seven members of the "Bugs" Moran gang. This incident won Capone control of Chicago's underworld. In June 1931 Capone ...
- 6462: An Edition Of The Rover
- ... outdated orthography could significantly slow or distract a modern audience. For example, “perswasive” becomes “persuasive” and “jealousie” becomes “jealousy.” Similarly, the final “k” has been dropped from words such as “rhetorick” and “antick,” and “wou’d” and “cou’d” have been spelled in full. The “-our” endings of words such as “honour” and “vigour,” however, have been left intact -- for though the abbreviated “-or” endings have widely replaced them in America, the “-our” spellings ...
- 6463: Aquinas’ Fifth Way Of Proving
- ... or the like. Even the greatest men in history with unbelievable riches and power have small amounts of happiness compared to the pain it took to achieve such riches and power, Hume explains. A modern day example of such a man might be President William J. Clinton. President Clinton is arguably the most powerful man in the modern world with a large home, bank account, an extensive education, a closely knit ... of evil, my mind keeps wandering to one example of human life, Christopher Reeves. He is a man who was blessed with looks, career success as an actor and celebrity, and a happy marriage. One day he becomes paralyzed from the neck down losing everything even the capacity to breath. If God sees this and can change his condition, why doesn’t He? Has is made Reeves a better man or ...
- 6464: Creative Writing: Apocalypse at the Nuclear Plant
- Creative Writing: Apocalypse at the Nuclear Plant Pete pulled up to the familiar sight of cooling towers overshadowing his car as he parked his car next to the multitude of his coworkers. His day began just like the others. If there was any plutonium to be expected, he was damn sure he would be the one to inspect it. He walked past George the security guard, asked him how ... turn around again. As he passed the guard at the front door, he just yelled "Get out while you still can!" and took off for his car parked somewhere in the humongus parking lot. Every day he spent at least 10 minutes wandering through the multitude of cars, searching for his. Many times he had found a car that looked like his, tried to get in, sometimes setting off annoying car ...
- 6465: Admiration Of Anne Bradstreets
- ... unlikely Beginning with the Figure I have since made there. I was in my working Dress, my best Clothes being to come round by sea. I was dirty from my journey; my pockets were stuff’d out with shirts and stockings; I knew no Soul, nor where to look for lodging. I was fatigu’dwith Traveling, Rowing and Want of Rest. I was very hungry, and my whole stock of cashconsisted ... unlikely Beginning with the Figure I have since made there. I was in my working Dress, my best Clothes being to come round by sea. I was dirty from my journey; my pockets were stuff’d out with shirts and stockings; I knew no Soul, nor where to look for lodging. I was fatigu’dwith Traveling, Rowing and Want of Rest. I was very hungry, and my whole stock of cashconsisted ...
- 6466: Reason For The Growth Of Infor
- ... Portes, A., & Sassen-Koob, S. (19XX). Making it underground: comparative material on the informal economy in western market economies. Unknown. Unknown, Jobless quarter worst in 13 years, New Zealand Herald, August 8-9, 1998. Yager, D. R. Sr., & Yager, D. (1994). The business handbook; A guide to building your own successful amway business. USA: InterNet Services Corporation.
- 6467: A Hero Among Men, A Man Among
- ... to the death. It is a fight with Death, itself. He rarely alludes to his old age, and the obvious frustration he feels at being forced “to pause, to make an end, / To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use! / As tho’ to breathe were life!” (Lines 22-24) hints at his fear of facing old age and death. Nevertheless, Ulysses rises to the occasion. The inevitable will certainly come ... life. The last third of this powerful monologue serves as a call to arms to his mariners as well as to the reader. He directs the last stanza to his mariners, “Souls that have toil’d, and wrought, and thought with me” (Line 46). This descrition just as easity applies to the reader, who at this point can identify with Ulysses’ imperfections, virtues, and fears. Ulysses draws us in with his ...
- 6468: Richard III
- ... a soliloquy, which emphasizes Richard's physical isolation as he appears alone as he speaks to the audience. This idea of physical isolation is heightened by his references to his deformity, such as "rudely stamp'd...Cheated of feature by Dissembling Nature, deformed, unfinished. This deformity would be an outward indication to the audience of the disharmony from Nature and viciousness of his spirit. As he hates "the idle pleasures of ... of foul deformity" and "fouler toad" during their exchange. Despite these insults, she still makes time to talk to Richard, and by the end of their exchange, she has taken his ring and been "woo'd" by him. After Richard has successfully gained the throne, he isolates himself when he asks the crowd to "stand all apart" in Act IV scene ii. And later, when Richard dreams, he is completely alone ...
- 6469: Donkey
- ... turn of the century one would see various tools such as: heavy jack-screws, a light ratchet screw, big seven-foot saws, axes, and heavy chains for chaining logs together. A logger's typical work day, as Grainger describes it, would start before the break of dawn by getting in one's rowboat and rowing to the desired spot to begin the day's tasks. Now before a logger could start logging an area, they would have to construct, or in loggers terms, "hang" a boom. A boom is a series of logs chained together and anchored to ...
- 6470: Summary of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- ... worries to someone. He was certain that Dr. Jekyll was not the man in that room and that maybe his master had been killed. He had seen who he believed to be the stranger one day by accident. He said to Utterson, "Sir if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face"(Stevenson,56)? Poole was extremely certain that Jekyll did not have a face like that ... he had created was quite unhuman looking. "Evil besides had left on that body an imprint of deformity"(Stevenson,83). Their was no other way of putting it, Hyde was stuck with Jekyll till his day of death. It was of his own doing that he had come to have this counterpart and he had brought him onto himself so much that he could not control his taking over any longer ...
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