In this book, a struggling teenage boy named Dave Pelzer that in his childhood years, got abused by his alcoholic mother and sent to foster care, was trying to put his life together before he turns 18 and gets sent out to the world alone without any support or money. Dave soon drops out of highschool wanting to join the Air Force, so he applies to become a fireman like his father once was. Unfortunately, Dave suffers from setbacks in the Air Force and eventually gets transferred to California where he met his gold digging girlfriend Pasty. He realizes her crazy money spending problems the fact that she was just using him so her family could have a place to live and tries to dump her, until she announced that she was pregnant with his son…
As narrator Paul Feine shows different perspectives of how McDonalds is viewed from different countries, one can decide who is to blame.…
Al Capone was a complicated man; even though he scammed many people, Capone gave back to his community by creating soup kitchens and other forms of charity. Despite all this he appeared on up and coming gang leader, Johnny Torrio’s, radar. Capone went to Chicago to work for Mr. Torrio. “Capone was twenty-one years old and new in town. He worked in Chicago’s Levee District, south of downtown, a neighborhood of sleazy bars and bordellos, where a man, if he cared about his health, tried not to stay long and tried not to touch anything.” (Eig 3) Capone was a great asset to the gang; after all he had grown up in the business. He was involved with street gangs when he dropped out of school in sixth grade, and worked as a bouncer when he got older. He tended to the bar called The Four Deuces; other times he resorted to his old job and worked the front door, acting as a bouncer. Soon, the Prohibition law came around and Torrio and Capone found themselves in a new…
After Lucky Luciano went to prison in 1936, Costello became the boss of the Luciano crime family, the most powerful crime family in New York and one of the Five Families of the New York Mafia.…
Benny Goodman was a great jazz clarinet player and the leader of one of the most popular big bands of the Swing Era (1935–1945). In fact, Time magazine dubbed him "the King of Swing."…
“The 2003 California Young Reader Medal goes to Ben Mikaelsen.” That’s right in Ben Mikaelsen has won many awards and has made amazing books such as Petey and Touching Spirit Bear. His articles about Touching Spirit Bear have appeared in many articles of today’s world and in many magazines.…
Alphonse Gabriel Capone (also known as “Scarface”) was a successful Italian-American gangster who obtained fame during the Prohibition Era. Capone was a big part of organized crime in Chicago and was the leader in the Italian Mafia. However, this would all change for Capone when he was arrested in 1931.…
Alphonse Capone was the most infamous mobster in the 1920s. He was “like any other man. ‘All I do is supply a demand’” (brainyquote.com ). During the prohibition era, Capone was the boss and co-founder of the Chicago Outfit. Although he is known for the horrific things he was involved in, his childhood was not all that amazing either.…
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York Robert M. Solow came into the world on August twenty third, nineteen twenty-four. Although Solow and his family weren’t the most fortunate and had to earn a living after they finished high school, his sisters and cousins were the first generation of the family to go off and attend college including Robert M. Solow himself. Robert Solow skipped a few grades in elementary, graduated at the age of sixteen and got a scholarship to Harvard University which he had gladly took the offer from in September nineteen forty. Solow felt that he could contribute more to his country and family, so he left Harvard to be in the United States Army just two years after being at Harvard University. August nineteen forty-five…
Many of the biography’s that we come across on are those who are vastly known in our history as from the greatest leaders of freedom and justice such Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr, Cezar Chavez, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, etc. All of these leaders fought for freedom and justice to prevent any future events that they fought to protect the people and their human rights they possess. There are many or few who over pass leaders of justice who have fought not for vengeance but for justice of equality for those who have done wrong. A man named Simon Wiesenthal is one of those leaders who brings the name of justice to Nazi war crimes to those held responsible for the death of approx. 5.93 million Jewish during the holocaust.…
This journal is all about one of the most famous and successful German composer of the Baroque period. Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach Germany in 1685 he had seven siblings which made him the youngest out of all his brothers and sisters. His father Johann Ambrosius Bach was the director of the town musicians and his uncles were professional musicians. Bach was surrounded by music and musicians his whole child hood, this influenced him to have a love for music. When both of his parents died in 1694 he went to live with his older brother Johann Christopher Bach who was the organist at St. Michael`s church. This is when the young Bach studied copied, and performed music. His brother taught him how to play the clavichord and introduced him to the works of many great composers of the time. By early 1700 Bach was enrolled in St. Michael`s school in Luneburg where he sang in the choir as well as played the organ and harpsicord. In 1706 Bach started his work as the organist at the Blasius church in Muhlhausen, but by t 1708 he left to go to Weimar this is where he started his period of sustained composing.…
From childhood to death, Al Capone had been one of the most infamous, ruthless gangsters of 20th century. Al Capone had assassinated and order many of people to be killed. He was hated by some and loved by others. He had a multi-million dollar operation, which included; bootlegging, prostitution, and gambling. he had never been charged with any murders but have only charged with income tax-evasion. He spent the three years of his prison term in a mental health hospital, and then he spent the last few years of his life with his wife in…
The word “reticence” is not a common word to hear in everyday life. The word “politician” while more commonly used, has received a bad reputation, at least in the United States, because it has been associated with power-hungry, manipulative public officials who value the progress of their agenda over their own integrity. Public officials, from Presidents to mayors, have been caught lying to the public within the U.S. liberal democracy, have tainted their own reputations, and have lost trust from the people they were elected to serve. By entering into a position of service to over 300 million people in the United States, political officials, especially those who serve at the federal level, should be held to a higher…
By 1929 Al Capone’s only threat was George “Bugs” Moran. Moran was the head of Al’s rival gang and in charge of the Rion O’Banion’s band of bootleggers.…
Tommy "Two-Gun Tommy" DeSimone- was an Italian-American gangster and an associate of the Lucchese crime family in New York Loose. He had loose grip on reality, thought nothing of killing men, and played a major role in the Lufthansa heist. He killed at least a dozen men, probably more, and even killed a close friend for an honest mistake. Tommy goes absolutely insane and kills Billy Bats forcing him to live on the run, until he is killed by the Gambino crime family.…