Clarence Thomas

On the day of June 11,1962, three inmates at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary took to action their escape. Frank Morris, John Anglin, and Clarence Anglin used tactics such as dummies , the removal of ventilator covers, and the construction of tools to help plan their escape. However, to this day it remains a mystery as to what happened to the three and if they carried out their escape successfully. Frank Lee Morris, who led the escape attempt out of Alcatraz, has been planning out their escape…

Robert Stroud, gangster Al Capone, and the “Birdman of Alcatraz”. Of all of the felons that had been through the prison and attempted to escape, very few had ever managed to actually get off of the island. Frank Morris along with brothers John and Clarence Anglin were three of the few men to initiate the escape of the prison. In June 1962, the three…

Early in the 20th century, a new wave of crime swept across the nation. In the 1920’s and 30’s the Volstead Act encouraged illegal alcohol distribution that became a very lucrative business. This sharp rise in crime formed organized gangs that became more and more violent. President Herbert Hoover decided at that time to crack down on crime and this led to the creation of larger, higher capacity federal prisons. Alcatraz prison was one of the products of this decision, and is possibly the most…

Rough Copy Aumio Islam The play Inherit the Wind is a fictionalized account of the 1925 “Scopes Monkey Trial”. Inherit the Wind was written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee and premiered in 1955. In the play, Matthew Harrison Brady, the prosecuting attorney, has three characteristics that negatively influence his conduct during the play. These three character traits are intolerance, conceit, and ignorance. The first of the three traits that…

different to them. Veterans, scientists, parents, and teachers can be honorable, it all just depends on your personal criteria of honor. Clarence Birdseye was an American inventor and entrepreneur born in Brooklyn, New York on December 9, 1886. Clarence’s parents, Ada Jane Underwood and Clarence Frank Birdseye, had nine kids and he was six of the nine. Clarence attended Amherst College in Massachusetts with interests in becoming a biologist, but only for a short period of time. In 1908 he…

the water, which had bite marks in it assumed to stop the air from escaping. Also discovered was a home made paddle. The boat had a small opening and the air started to escape and they went down. The FBI identified photos of the family of one of Clarence and John Angland. Amongst the pictures there was a list of addresses and phone numbers. They wouldn’t just leave this stuff behind. The prisoners must have drowned. (video 4, the…

far with her voice. Holiday spent much of her childhood in Baltimore, Maryland. Sadie was only a teenager when she had her. Her father eventually became a successful jazz musician, playing with the likes of Fletcher Henderson. Her father name was Clarence Holiday. Her father…

Scopes: The Battle over America’s Soul The battle between science and nature seems to be one that is never ending. One of the times when this battle came to a head was in 1925 when a trial occurred over whether evolution was okay to be taught in school. In Tennessee, the practice was outlawed, but when a teacher in Dayton Ohio was coerced into using a textbook that contained evolution, the debate became one of major national attention. John Scopes, a twenty-four year old math and science…

During the 1920s, many events had taken place that have impacted American culture to this day. Some of these events include: the 1925 Scopes Trial, women’s suffrage and behavior, and the American film industry, too. The Scopes Trial brought about debates on evolution in schools, women’s rights are becoming more equal to those of men, and a revolution has begun in the American film industry. All of these events have had a lingering effect on how the American culture is today, and without them,…

that humans evolved from monkeys. Before the opening day, the town of Dayton was booming with people, the hotel rooms were fool, there was not even standing room in the court room. William Jennings Bryan, served as the prosecution attorney, and Clarence Darrow, an agnostic, was the defense attorney. Both Bryan and Darrow agreed on one thing, to make this trial a public display to test the public education system. The day the trial began was July 13, 1925. The Judge ruled out a scientific…