Frank Blake

Pictured above: Two guns used in the 1929 Massacre/Courtesy The Mob Museum CULTUREIFY On February 14, 1929, a day that was anything but sweet hearts amidst a bed of roses, the St. Valentines Day Massacre unfolded as five rivals of gangster Al Capone and two wannabes were gunned down in a garage on the North Side of Chicago, IL. The day’s events are, arguably, the most publicized and talked about mob event in history. The sole purpose of the killings was the elimination of George “Bugs” Moran,…

Over 500 books have been written about the Holocaust. Sara Young has written one of them, My Enemy’s Cradle. A Jewish girl loses her German cousin to attempted abortion and uses her identity to save her own baby. This taught me to love with all you have and focus on the good in life. Cyrla has always wanted to be Anneke. When Anneke gets pregnant, she sees no other way out. Anneke attempts abortion and bleeds to death. Cyrla, who is Jewish, uses Anneke’s German papers to help save her own life.…

The 1920’s were a time of drastic change in America. This was because of the many inventions and because of all the new laws was passed during this time. Crime rates were increasing because of the prohibition of alcohol. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb both came from wealthy families from Chicago, Illinois. Loeb was a troublemaker and has been obsessed with committing crimes all his life. It was just a matter of time where he would prove to everyone that he was capable of committing the perfect…

The Way of the Wordsmith By Keenan D. Davis Nicholas Lemann’s interview; and subsequent critique of Frank Luntz’s methodology, highlighted both the simplicity and complexity of finding the right words to effectively persuade individuals not of a similar mindset. The ultimate assumption being the naivety of the individual targeted for persuasion. If one has an informed opinion on a subject it is harder to manipulate their understanding of it with empty rhetoric. Too often the general…

Number The Stars is a great book based upon a true story. It is placed in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1941. Years after the war started, the Nazis started to patrol the streets. There are two main characters, Annemarie Johansen and Ellen Rosen, which are best friends. Annemarie and Ellen come face to face with a wild adventure that reveals the danger of knowing the untold, knowing the untold secrets, and knowing the told lies, and the. One of their lives is in serious danger. Annemarie and Ellen…

Throughout Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt’s father, Malachy, had a purely negative effect on not only Frank, but also the rest of his family. I think that nothing he did positively affected them, even if they seemed like they did. Malachy put himself first constantly, and in my opinion he did not care about his family at all, after the tragedy of losing three of his other children. The three main reasons that I believe he negatively affected his family are because he had a serious alcohol…

more popular than the others, and that was the story of Anne Frank. Her legacy lives on, and inspires people to never give up and stand for what they believe in. Anne wrote in a diary called kitty and treated it as a real person. It was her little friend who she could tell anything to. Almost everything we know today about the Frank family is known because of her diary. She named the diary 'kitty'. After many months of hiding the Frank family was found in their hiding place, The Secret…

The film The Wall is directed by Doug Liman which he also directed the film “Mr. & Mrs. Smith.” The Wall is led by three actors Aaron Taylor- Johnson as Sgt. Allen Isaac, John Cena as Staff Sgt. Shane Matthews, and Laith Nakli the voice of Juba an Iraqi sniper. The film is set in 2007 in Iraq at an oil pipeline where Sgt. Isaac and Staff Sgt. Matthews were called on to secure the area after they were informed there was a shootout. When the soldiers arrived, they encountered a sniper that was…

Everything a person encounters influences them in some way. Frank Norris, the author of McTeague, was continuously influenced throughout his life by works of other authors and people around him. Norris’ childhood life, college professors, the Sarah Collins murder, and the theory of Social Darwinism all influenced his works. Norris’ studies as a child contributed to his knowledge and inspiration for his many works. As a child Norris studied painting for two years at Academie Julian in Paris.…

There is a thirteen pound seven ounce baby that grew up to be a fantastic singer and actor. His name was Frank Sinatra. He had left behind iconic songs like Love and Marriage, Strangers in the Night, My Way,and lastly ,New York, New York. He was nicknamed The Voice, Sultan of Swoon, Ol’ Blue Eyes, and The Chairman of the Board. Frank Sinatra was born in Hoboken, New Jersey on December 12, 1915. He was born thirteen pounds and seven ounces in breech position. The doctor had to use forceps to get…