James J. Braddock

Cinderella Man is a movie that tells the story of James Braddock, a boxer living in the time of the great depression. Throughout the movie James Braddock goes through many trials and tribulations because of his financial situation which is greatly affected by the great depression. The film “Cinderella Man” is an accurate representation of the great depression because they properly represent the economic instability, Hoovervilles, and relief offices that existed in that time period. The great…

Upton Sinclair. James Braddock is the other character that goes through a fight to be successful. He is the main character in the movie/book of Cinderella Man. Throughout the novel and the movie, the physical, relationship and emotional traits of both Jurgis Rudkus and James Braddock will be compared. In the beginning, both Jurgis and James are very similar. Jurgis is tall, strong, dark complexed and Lithuanian. On the other hand, James is tall, strong, dark complexed as well but James is…

“With hard work, talent, determination, and some luck, just about anyone can make it.”(Higginbotham, Elizabeth and Lynn 420) We, as United States citizens, have been brainwashed by this mindset which is not infallible. In view of past and present reality, one would see several tiers of immobility through mobility. Social immobility is terminology society has chosen to refer to economic stagnation. While Social Mobility would refer to a change in standard of living mainly generational ( child…

All Souls Essay The book All Souls written by Michael Patrick MacDonald is a fantastic family story from South Boston that grabs your attention from the first page till the last. The MacDonald family story is told through the eyes of Michael MacDonald. He was born in Columbia Point housing project at 104 Monticello Ave, on the South Boston waterfront. He was the ninth child of Helen MacDonald. The family grew up in a black neighborhood and at this time it was an embarrassing situation. The…

What do James “Whitey” Bulger, Al “Scarface” Capone, and George Celino “Machine Gun Kelly” Barnes all have in common? The first thing that comes to mind is they are all leaders of Crime families and gangs, but they were all prisoners of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. Alcatraz is one of the most famous prisons in the country if not the world for what happened there and for its notorious prisoners. “The Escape of Alcatraz”, the LSD trails, and the life on “Uncle Sam’s Devil Island” are all…

Morris and the Anglin brothers started preparing for their escape months prior to their escape in June 1962. The intelligent men began their strategy with saw blades and sharpening spoons from the prison cafeteria to widen the air vents in their cells until the openings were large enough for them to shimmy through. The inescapable prison was starting to deteriorate and the three inmates used the crumbling walls of the building to their advantage. They covered their digging by crafting a…

One of the FBI’s “Ten Most Want Fugitives” for more than 16 years before his arrest in June 2011, James Joseph Bulger Jr., popularly known as Whitey Bulger, accounted for over 19 murders, federal racketeering, extortion, conspiracy. He accomplished this all while working as an FBI informant in his days as part of Boston’s Southie Irish gang, the Winter Hill Gang. Whitey Bulger was born into a large Irish-American Catholic family on September 3, 1929, in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He was one out…

Early Atomic Experiments Joseph John Thomson conducted an experiment that is known today as the CRT Experiment. The outcome of this experiment was JJ’s discovery of the electron. CRT is an acronym for Cathode Ray Tube, this gives a broad concept of what the experiment is about. The basic components of the experiment include, a glass cylindrical tube with most of the air inside vacuumed out of it, and inside the tube is Electrode for each side. One of the Electrodes is negative and entitled the…

John Thomson had a successful life, made important scientific discoveries, and impacted the world through his discoveries. Sir Joseph John Thomson was born on December 18, 1856 in Cheetham, a part of Manchester, England to Emma Swindells and Joseph James Thomson (Dahl, 1997). His family wanted to send him to an engineering apprenticeship working with locomotives, however there were complications with this plan so his father instead sent him to Owens college in Manchester to study engineering at…

Phlogiston theory The phlogiston theory states that the every combustible substance on this planet contains phlogiston. When a combustible substance is burned, phlogiston is released into the air. The people behind the phlogiston theory believed that the whenever a substance sets on fire, the fire gives off phlogiston. The phlogiston was believed be the kind of gas which causes fire. Without phlogiston, the combustible substance won’t be able to set on fire. In the late 1660’s a scientist…