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    eyewitnesses said nothing and Capone was not proven guilty. There are also many other times he has done illegal things and not been caught. His business was one of those things. Because his business was gambling, prostitution, bootlegging, and killing other gangs, he was almost always doing something illegal. Although most people would tell you that Capone was a gangster and a racketeer, he would call himself a businessman. The Capone mob was the most notorious mob at the time. They were built…

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    (Epps 24). “The police knew Malcolm was selling drugs and were after him. He traveled on a train to keep moving. Several months later he was drafted into the army but pretended he was crazy to get rejected. He then turned to robbery, but he and his ‘gang’ were caught, and Malcolm received ten years sentence in prison.” (Davies 34-41) “Malcolm X and Shorty Jarvis were assigned to the Charlestown State Prison. This…

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    Famous People 1920s

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    Famous People in the 1920s Douglas Fairbanks - He was an American screenwriter, producer, and actor. He starred in many silent films, such as “Robin Hood” and “The Mark of Zorro”. He was a founding member of The Motion Picture Academy and was the host of the Oscars in 1929 (the first). he was often referred to as “The King of Hollywood”, but his career declined after talking was introduced to movies. Charles Lindbergh - An American pilot who flew the first solo , non-stop flight from New York…

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    Raising Arizona Analysis

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    “Raising Arizona” met raised expectations This film by the renown Coen brothers is a quirky, fast paced, and comedic adventure where an odd couple, a former convict played by Nicolas Cage and a police officer played by Holly Hunter, who can’t conceive their own child decide to kidnap a boy and raise him as their own. Its the 1980s, H.I McDunnough meets and falls in love with a police officer, Ed, while being arrested for armed robbery, after he is freed, he repeats his offense two more times,…

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    A costume in a regular film is a style of dress for the different character. Meanwhile this is in not a traditional film so the characters don’t have on different clothes to be considered a costume. The cute of the hair is different, body shape, and something as simple as glasses or a scarf. The main character, Romeo, costume was uppity and rich because that’s the way he owners kept him up and stayed that way the entire movie. As for his friends that had been on the streets for a while costume…

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    into other living things. He also shares a unique bond with Velocity that comes with both good and bad complications. Sinister is a mysterious character who has a bad history with Velocity and a big secret about Carter and him. Thorn is the notorious gang leader of the Bloody Roses who is half man and…

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    S.E. Hinton wrote The Outsiders and introduced many unique characters. Each individual had their own situation, problems, and struggles which shaped them into the people they were. Two members of the gang, Dallas Winston and Johnny Cade, are different from what they seemed in the first half of the book. Dally was known as a hardened thug, but deep down, he cared about others. Johnny Cade was a boy who seemed meek, but was actually one of the strongest characters mentioned in the story. Their…

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    as the United States has experienced renewed immigration, evidence has also begun to point to similar problems among other groups of immigrants from Asia, Europe, and Latin America. This evidence, for the most part, comes from studies of youthful gang members and drug dealers (Bourgois, 1995; Chin, 1996; Moore, 1978, 1991; Padilla, 1992; Pinderhughes, 1997; Sullivan, 1989; Vigil, 1988; Vigil and Yun, 1990). Although there is a strong relationship between neighborhood poverty and crime over time…

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    was a barber. Even though he grew up in a relatively nice household, he lived in gang-infested Brooklyn. He had 8 siblings: James Vincenzo, Ralph, Salvatore “Frank”, John, Albert, Matthew, Rose (who died within a year of birth), and Mafalda. Some of these siblings played an important role in Capone’s life as they helped him with his gang activities. He went to school until sixth grade, when dropped out to join a gang. Capone gained the famous nickname “Scarface” when he worked at a bar. He…

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    There are many fires around Chicago, but one of the most popular fire is THE CHICAGO FIRE is the biggest fire in Chicago. They say that the fire started at the o'Learys barn but who did it actually . Luis M Cohn was a heavy drinker and gambler. He gambled with the o learys sons. He turned over $35,000 to a school to say that the O'Learys was a fake. The O'learys had a son that was a part of the cause of the fire. To this day scientists don't know what cause the fire but they know that it happen…

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