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One Of The First African Americans
1,524 wordsThe life of Robert Johnson, one of the most influential early blues artists, in shrouded by vague details and encompassed in mystery. His emotion filled playing and singing blends to form some of the most moving, original blues music ever produced. Ironically, despite being one of the top influences to blues music, little is known about the shy, mild mannered bluesman. "Almost nothing, is known about his life he is only a name on a few recordings. " Where did he come from? Who was Johnsons famil...
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S E Hinton E Hinton Hes
487 wordsThe novel I read was The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton. My copy of The Outsiders was published in 1997, but the original was first published in 1967, both by Viking Penguin. S. E. Hinton wrote this novel when she was just sixteen in the 1950 s. The times are different, so some thing were a little confusing, but overall the book was written well. The story takes place in a city in Oklahoma in the 1950 s. The storys main character is a boy by the name of Ponyboy who is fourteen years old. He is sensit...
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Bob And Randy Curtis To The Stand Pony
573 wordsThe following is a transcript of the recent hearing of the L: Randy were you there the night of Bobs death? L: What happened that night and how did it happen? R: Well it all started when we all saw the two Greasers (Pony and Johnny) in the park. We were completely drunk and had no idea what we were doing so I guess we all just wanted to beat the two of them up, no really big reason it is just that the we hate the Greasers and the Greasers hate us. So we got out of the car and started to gang bea...
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African American Poetry Nineteenth Century
1,010 words... bar called, The Colored Soldier depicts, as well as The Reason Why how African American soldiers fought bravely for the union. I think its horrible especially the line They were good to stop a bullet And to front the fearful fray. (African American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century) This shows how terrible it was on the blacks fighting for the south. It was terrible because the South, or the Union, was fighting to legalize slavery. They were used and abused as people. It seems they all stand ...
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Bugs Moran Johnny Torrio
1,544 words... temper stayed under control for about five weeks. But then, Joe Howard, a small-time thug, assaulted Capone's friend Jack Guzik when Guzik turned him down for a loan. Guzik told Capone and Capone tracked Howard down in a bar. Howard had the poor judgment to call Capone a dago pimp and Capone shot Howard dead. William H. McSwiggin, called "the hanging prosecutor, " decided to get Capone, but in spite of his diligence he wasn't able to win a conviction, mostly because eyewitnesses suddenly dev...
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5 7 97 Guest 5 7 97 Erik
998 words(Frank Poncherello) Erik was born on March 16, 1949 as Henry Enrique Estrada in NY City. Back around 1968, he was in a dance troupe and earned $ 38 a week with free lunches and all the acting lessons he could take. In return, he had to perform daily in downtown Los Angeles. He had a 10 -day hospital stay in August 1979 caused by on-set accident when he was thrown from his motorcycle and the 900 -pound bike landed on him. At 5 ' 10 '', 160 pounds, he was an inch shorter and 15 pounds lighter than...
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On The Waterfront And High Noon
1,357 words... of the law, and true good is shown instead to be in the in the individual character and his actions. Society is clear-cut, black and white, good and bad. It is a deliberately anti-intellectual film, emphasised by the constant repetition of how smart it is to give in and run. The gratification of traditional ideals is complete when the obvious rightness of siding with Kane is supplanted by the desire to bring big business to town. It just seems so narrow minded and egotistic that not one pers...
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Johnny Depp H 2
1,012 wordsh 2 >Information The Film: Chocolate United States/United Kingdom, 2000 Running Length: 2: 00 MPAA Classification PG- 13 (Sexual situations, mild profanity) Cast: Juliette Binoche, Victoire Thivosol, Johnny Depp, Alfred Molina, Hugh Oconor, Lena Olin, Judi Dench, Carrie-Anne Moss Director: Lasse Hall strm Producers: David Brown, Kit Golden, Leslie Holleran Screenplay: Robert Nelson Jacobs, based on the novel by Joanne Harris Music: Rachel Portman U. S. Distributor: Miramax Films
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Bugs Moran Johnny Torrio
1,080 words... Brewery. Knowing full well that there was going to be a raid, O'Banion arranged to close the deal with Torrio at the brewery. Not only did Torrio end up in jail, but O'Banion refused to return the money for a now padlocked brewery. Even worse, he bragged about how he had tricked Torrio. His fate was sealed. Dion's flower shop Mike Merlo, the head of the Unione Sicilana in Chicago, a group that provided national cover to gangsters of that era, died of cancer. A huge funeral was planned in whi...
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'paradise Alley ' 'paradise Alley Irish
1,295 wordsParadise Alley Until September 2001, three summer days in 1863 were the most frightening in the history of New York City. From Monday, July 13, through Wednesday, July 17, mobs held much of Manhattan. The rioters were working class, overwhelmingly Irish Catholic and filled with smoldering resentments -- at the Yankee Protestants who exploited and demeaned them, at the squalor in which they were forced to live, at inflationary prices and lockouts and strikebreaking. But the final spark was provid...
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Form Of Punishment Corporal Punishment
584 wordsCorporal punishment has been a part of family life for thousands of years, taking its place in societies all over the globe. From wood switches to thick leather belts, all sorts of tools have been used to discipline naughty children. No one has ever really examined the question of whether or not this form of punishment is productive or counterproductive. In examining the situation of whether or not this form of punishment is warranted or even what one might consider proper, a sample situation mu...
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Solving Problems American Dream
1,307 words&# 65279; People have always had the need to share their stories. From cave drawings to the drums, smoke signals to the telegram, telephone to the radio, television to the computer, people have found many ways to entertain and communicate. Communication has brought information to people about values, trends, and cultural norms. Whether it is oral tradition, dances, parties, plays, or letters, communication has played a big role in keeping historical records. Television reflects people. With tele...
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Organized Crime Johnny Torrio
828 wordsOf all the things Chicago is known for, organized crime is the most widely recognized. Even though it has been nearly fifty years since the rattle of tommy guns has died in the streets, all over the world when people think of Chicago, they think of gangsters (Lombardo 1). Organized crime in Chicago began in the 1870 s and is still around today. During the roaring twenties, it reached its climax not only in Chicago, but all over the US. This rise in crime was attributed to Prohibition and the inc...
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Made Her Feel Marriage To Logan
1,374 wordsIn Their Eyes Were Watching God, Janie battles to find Individualism within herself. Janie, all her life, had been pushed around and told what to do and how to live her life. She searched and searched high and low to find a peace that makes her whole and makes her feel like a complete person. To make her feel like she is in fact an individual and that shes not like everyone else around her. During the time of Their Eyes, the correct way to treat women was to show them who was in charge and who w...
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Janie Tea Cake
857 wordsLovely People Do Stupid Things How is love to influence our lives? Love-struck people do crazy things to express how they care for that particular person yet it is a long and windy road to these actions. It is down this path that experience spawns and trouble and happiness are felt. Janie Crawford of Zora Neale Hurston? s Their Eyes Were Watching God, shows the road through the steps of her three relationships. These relationships, though not fulfilling ones, conclude in bettering Janie? s searc...
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Perform Everyday Functions Living Piece Of Meat Live
550 wordsJohnny Got His Gun is by Dalton Thumbs. The main character is Joe Bonham. He went to war in the 1917. While there he got his arms, legs, and face blown up; he was a living piece of meat. The doctors thought that there was no feeling, no thought in his body. However, they were wrong, but they let him live with no sense of time and not being able to see, hear, speak, smell, or even touch without it being on his chest. The right of living is a privilege to many, but being hooked up to machines to l...
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Johnny Got His Gun Joe
754 wordsJOHNNY GOT HIS GUN? Johnny Got His Gun? was about Joe Bonham, a young man who was sent off to World War 1, sharing a feeling with most of the other youth of America, that he was invincible. Joe gets hit by a shell and goes unconscious; not knowing what has happened. As the novel progresses, Joe realizes that he is never leaving the hospital, and that he would rather be dead. The factors that unfold during Joe? s hospital stay is that he has no idea where he is, other than the fact that it is a h...
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Started Smoking Didn T
722 wordsLittle John and Tall Sue She was, still is, and always will be sixteen. That s how I will always remember her. I was twelve and hopelessly in love. She called me Little John. That was her joke. Little John was also a character in Robin Hood, but he was quite big. I was, still am, and will be till the day I die, small. The doctor said that my height was determined by genetics. Mom said it was because I started smoking. My Rabbi said that it was G-d s will. Nobody admitted my height resulted from ...
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18 Th Amendment Volstead Act
999 wordsII. PROHIBITION I. Introduction II. Early prohibition A. During 1800 sB. During 1920 III. The 18 th Amendment A. Who came up with it. B. How and when it was enforced. IV. Mob involvement in Prohibition A. Sherman Billingsley 1. Early years 2. Later years B. George Remus 1. Early years 2. Later years C. Mob in Chicago D. Mob in Detroit V. The art of Rum Running A. Who founded it. B. How it was enforced. VI. Steps toward repeal A. Who wanted it. B. Why they wanted it. VII. The End of Prohibition A...
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Pied Piper Childrens Books
1,199 wordsThe rat in the hat The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett 269 pp Doubleday &# 163; 12. 99 A talking rat is fighting for his life against a terrier, inside a circle of excited men who whoop and roar and snarl. Another rat bungee-jumps down from the rafters to rescue him. In the instant of astonishment before both rats are whisked skyward, the human onlookers just have time to notice that the rescuer is wearing a tiny boater on his head. He lifts it. Good evening! he squea...
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