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- 13851: Al Capone
- ... the Harvard Inn as a bartender and a bouncer were he was popular with the bosses and customers. Until one evening, a young couple came in and the girl was extremely beautiful and Capone couldn’t contain himself , he leaned over to her and said “Honey, you have a nice ass and I mean that as a compliment.” The man with her was her brother, Frank Gallucia, and he jumped up and punched Al. Al went to defend himself and the man wiped out a knife and cut Capone’s face three times, grabbed his sister and ran out of the Inn. The wounds healed, but leaving three long, ugly scars across his face. Scarface had an income of $105 million dollars, when the average ... joint and a whorehouse combined all in one and running a Hawthorne Race Track. Torrio was shot, barely surviving, he retired to Italy, turning over his leadership over to his right-hand man, Capone. Capone’s power increased immensly, now that he was the leader of the most powerful gang in Chicago. Of course there had to be a down fall and it all went back to Al’s uncontrollable ...
- 13852: Suicide In The Awakening
- ... variety of novels, short stories, and movies. Suicide moves like an undercurrent in the sea of themes of The Awakening. The possibility of suicide and even the idea of death darkens the story, making Edna's emotional ups and downs dangerous - her occasional misery leads her to subconsciously think of suicide. She holds the hopelessness at bay by moving out and getting her own apartment, while trying to find a man who will accept her, but in the end she succumbs. Edna's closest physical brush with death occurs one night at the beach, when the summer residents decide to take a midnight swim. Despite having had a hard time learning to swim, she realizes her ability and swims farther out than she ever had before. She overestimates her power and almost doesn't make it back. She has a "quick vision of death". The experience scares her, but she has tested her limits and survived the sea for a while. Metaphorically, she has come close to death ...
- 13853: Julius Caesar
- ... anthony turned the crown around from brutus' speech I start with Brutus has just left Anthony alone to start his speech and had asked the crowd to stay and listen to him. If Brutus hadn’t of asked the crowd to stay I don’t think anybody would have listened to Anthony and would of all gone of down the road praising Brutus. Letting Anthony make his speech second was a very foolish thing to do as most people remember the second thing people say over the first, that was his first mistake. His second was leaving Anthony to make his speech unaccompanied and as Brutus hadn’t checked Anthony's speech would not know what he was going to say. Anthony then started his speech almost identically as brutus only changing one word, but it made an obvious difference, and it ...
- 13854: Revenge In Hamlet
- ... a classic example of a tragedy as Hamlet suffers while trying to avenge his fathers death and eventually dies at the end while attempting to do so. Hamlet feels empty without resolution to his father s death and since there is no justice system that is going to reveal the truth about his father s death, he must take it into his own hands. Hamlet delays killing Claudius for a long time after the ghost appears. Hamlet delays his revenge of his fathers death not because he is a coward ... his untimely murder. The ghost speaks to Hamlet about his father and says, Revenge his foul and most unnatural murderer (1.5. 31). Although Hamlet has little doubt that the ghost is not his father s, he must still prove to himself that Claudius is in fact the murderer before he attempts to kill him. Hamlet decides to have the players act out what the ghost has told him and ...
- 13855: Jane Eyre
- ... Eyre The story begins when Jane is 10. Her parents are dead and her aunt at Gateshead Hall has taken her care of. There she lives a miserable life with her cousin John who bully's her. After a fight with John she is put in the room where her uncle died. There she has a nightmare. Late at night she is taken back to her room by Bessie, the nurse. She isn't well so Bessie call's the apothecary. To him Jane says that she wants to go to school. For weeks nothing happens. At one day Mr. Brocklehurst arrives. He is the head of Lowood Institute. Jane goes to Lowood ...
- 13856: Rethinking Orphanges
- ... to a nurturing, educational, residential setting. As a result of old orphanage stereotypes in the past, many residential education programs have shut down during the past four or five decades. Most of these stereotypes weren’t helped by such examples as shown in Charles Dickens's novel Oliver Twist. Major newsmagazines supported these popular stereotypes with turn-of-the-century pictures of pathetic orphanage residents on their covers. The debate lasted only a few months. The critics claimed victory once again ... failed at taking care of children who find themselves unwanted because their parents have given them up or died. There are now few education-focused, residential settings available for young people, especially adolescents, who don’t have homes that can support them nor schools that can effectively teach them. However, there are tens of thousands of children who could benefit from such care. Unwanted children are condemned to constant dependency ...
- 13857: Revolution In A Tale Of Two Ci
- ... our dead children were no longer be silenced, for they began to burst forth from their coffins. Their cries harmonized with those of our forefathers demanding change. "Monseigneur, the good God knows; but I don't ask it. My petition is that a morsel of stone or wood, with my husband's name, my be placed over him to show where he lies. Otherwise the place will be forgotten, it will never be found when I am dead of the same malady, I shall be laid under ... Two Thousand, Jacques Five-and-Twenty Thousand;in the name of Angels or Devils-which you prefer work!"(Dickens,page 214-215) For years the Bastille had always stood as a symbol of the king's power. When the people decided to storm the Bastille they went against the king and his power.The fight was very bloody, but that is how the people were heard. The bloodshed got them ...
- 13858: Bubonic Plague
- ... and hate, two horrible things married by fear. Some of the cures were not much better than the plague itself. The plague was transmitted to humans by fleas from infected rats that nested in people's roofs (Matthew 154). Fourteenth century man had no concept of how the disease was spread or how it could be stopped. The plague was transmitted to western Europe from China along trade routes (Matthew 154 ... have invented a cure (Matthew 154). Though the doctors of the time were unable to cure the disease, or even explain it, they did observe its symptoms and try to supply theories of the plague's cause (Matthew 154-5). People were aware that if you came in contact with the sick or their belongings (clothing, bedding, etc...) you would soon be afflicted with the disease (Herlihy 353). Medieval man also knew that animals could catch the disease from a person's material possessions (Herlihy 353) but they never realized they could catch the plague from animals. There were three main theories about why the plague had stricken an area. The first is a "corrupted atmosphere" ...
- 13859: Longfellows Optimism In Writin
- ... to feel hope for the future. After reading it the first time it had a powerful effect on me. Surprisingly, he wrote this poem few months after his first wife died. Longfellow took his wife’s death and interpreted it as a sign to look at life as fleeting and it passes quickly. I feel that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, after his wife’s death, had an optimistic view on life in the poem, “A Psalm of Life”. The second stanza seems to say that life is here and it must be lived. It is real and not just some dream. Line five supports this with the hopeful exclamation that “Life is real! Life is earnest!” In the next line he says “And the grave is not its goal”. Longfellow feels you don’t live to die. Death is not the point of living a just life. Lastly in this stanza, he states, ”Dust thou art, o dust returnest, was not spoken of the soul”. Our bodies will ...
- 13860: Sir Sandford Fleming
- Sir Sandford Fleming Sandford Fleming was born at Kirkcaldy, Scotland in January 7, 1827. Sandford died at Halifax in July 22, 1915. He was a civil engine er. He was Canada's foremost railway surveyor and construction engine er of the 19th century and a distinguished inventor and scientist. He came to Canada in 1845 and , after studying science and eng ineering in both Scotland and Canada ... was in charge of the major surveys across the p rairies and through the Rocky Mountains. He proposed constructing the ra ilway along a northerly route through Edmonton and the Yellowhead Pass and then turning S to Burrard Inlet on the Pacific. Altrough his spe cific recommendations regarding the route were not followed, his extens ive survey work of various routes, including the Kicking Horse Pass t hrough which the Canadian Pacific main line was built , greatly facilita ted Canadian railway construction. In the early years of the 20th ce ntury the Canadian Northern railway work. He was a strong advocate ...
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