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Elias Martinez Jenna De La Cruz February 16 2017 The most powerful mobsters of the 1920’s When we think of tailored suits, cigars, fedoras, and tommy guns, the first thing that tends to come to mind are the powerful and notorious mobsters of the 1920’s. Who held the title to be the most notorious and powerful of all mobsters during that time period is highly debatable to some, but clear to others that Charles “lucky” Luciano's early life of mugging, shoplifting, and extortion had prepared him…

Back in 1925, the school board had a law (Butler Act) that evolution (the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth) or any theory of creation other than the biblical Creation could not be taught in public schools. This law was targeted at English scientist Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, which was that human had ascended from apes. Some people did not agree with this law but others…

it. But Mr.Ross was the first to disappear. Dan Frank Ross had bright green eyes, had honey brown hair, and looked to be in his 20s . He was also 6’00” and was a muscular man. Mr.Ross normally wore any clothes that were clean, but he always wore a fedora hat to match his outfit. Normally he liked about any food or drink, depending on his mood. Mr.Ross also loved the colors black,blue, and green. Dan Ross had a lovely wife named Sophia Ross, who had chestnut colored hair, vivid blue eyes, and…

Do you ever feel like you have to leave the world without saying goodbye and you want someone else to live life for you? “Kiss Me First” by Lottie Moggach took place in an internet world which people were connected through the internet. Leila often struggled to connect with people, particularly with girls at school, but when she was on the internet people understood her. One website she discovered was the Website Red which she had met Adrian the Website’s founder. Adrian asked to meet Leila and…

opinion the Mac OS of today’s world does not feel a lot different of the Mac OS I used to play with in the early nineties. Linux has evolved from the original Red Hat used for Systems Admins on Linux servers in enterprise environments to Ubuntu and Fedora that are for everyday users with friendly OS GUIs and the ability to use them like Mac and Windows. Mobile Operating Systems are the perfect example of the evolution of operating systems. Going from the old Nokia Brick phones with snake to the…

Throughout a person’s lifetime, they have to deal with hard times, and they all have different ways to cope with those hard times. Everyone has very various means to deal with how they want to deal with the difficult times in their lives. In Cynthia Ozick’s essay “A Drugstore In Winter,” she writes about how she and her family coped with the effects of the Great Depression. Her family faced many obstacles during the depression, like their drugstore being shut down, but they survived by dealing…

Deanna, leggy, beautiful, and daring, came a long way from a rugged childhood and the time of liquor bottles aimed at her mother’s head. So said a Washington Post reporter in 2008, “Councilwoman Deanna Flin is a fresh face and a breath of fresh air in D.C. politics.” In the eyes of her colleagues (boozing old school boys with potty mouths and potbellies), she personified Hillary Clinton, the little engine that would, if she could, overturn the political status quo. “Too big for her britches,”…

Bruno, a character from the City of Orphans, sat in the grime of New York City’s streets and thought to himself how he “can’t remember when he wasn’t by himself, finding ways to live on his own. Now like always, he’ll have to take care of himself.” (Avi, 304) This child represents the children who resorted to crime during the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century of New York City. Times were hard during this moment of history to the point that many children needed to work in order…

One thing that’s always confused me, the counterfactual view of Private Investigators. We’re not classically-dressed men, clad in heavy trench coats and fedoras. We do not commonly solve murder mysteries, most of the time it’s rich people wanting to catch their spouses cheating. Although, I’ve known to do a few other odd jobs, search and rescue and protection, to be exact. And wouldn’t you know it, my most recent, and certainly strangest, job happened to be in protection. It’s still going on,…

started to burn because it was so hot. Ms. Sandoval wanted me and another person to pick the last two names out of the hat. He was on the team too. My hands were shaking, trembling with fear and anxiety. I stared at the thin pieces of paper inside the fedora. I knew I had to pick an 8 to pick myself. The other kid who was trying to get on the team was standing beside me. He picks one of the pieces of paper. His nervous expression changed in an instant when he picked himself. That made me even…