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The Cavalry During Civil War
878 wordsThe Civil War played a crucial role in American history. Many different types of soldiers fought in this war, such as Cavalry soldiers, who fought on horseback. The Cavalry played a strong role in the fighting and used many different weapons and tactics. One type of Cavalry weapon was the revolver. Only one hand was needed in the firing of this type of weapon. This was very important since the soldier's other hand was used to manage the horse. The Colt was the most popular brand of revolvers dur...
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Johnny Torrio Bugs Moran
1,511 wordster> The Rise and Fall of Al Capone Alphonse Capone was born in New York City by two parents Gabriel and Teresa Capone. Capone's parents immigrated to the United States in 1893 from Naples, Italy. Capone came from a large family and was the fourth oldest of nine children. (Kobler 10). As a child, Capone was very wise when it came to living on the streets of New York. He had a clever mind when it came to knowing his environment. Capone was not very bright when it came to school. Capone ...
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World War Ii Viet Minh
1,680 wordsThe Vietnam conflict began in the late 19 th Century. France forcefully took ownership of the islands and made the Vietnamese islands a protectorate of France. The Viet Minh, or the League Of Independence was formed sometime around 1940. They were a group of people seeking independence from France. The French Government opposed this action and decided to try and stop the Viet Minh from advancing their political ideals into the rest of Vietnam. In the city of Dien Bien Phu, the Viet Minh surround...
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Knocked Unconscious Barbed Wire
1,285 wordsJuly 1 st 2001 Sweat poured down my rugged unshaved face, bathed in my camouflage, and dripped on my MP 5 sub-machine gun. As I ran for my God-forsaken life I spit out my fresh chew and screamed at my division sniping in the nearby trench, GET THE HELL OUT! ITS GONNA BLOW! ! Once I gained their attention it was too late. BAWOOSH! I tried to glance at my four other companions but I only caught a glimpse their distraught visages a split second before debris covered my sight and I was luckily blown...
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Boxing Career Of Muhammad Ali
462 wordsAs an amateur boxer, Ali attracted notice in 1960 by winning the Amateur Athletic Union light heavyweight and Golden Gloves heavyweight championships. He won a gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome. He turned professional soon afterward and became world heavyweight champion by knocking out Sonny Liston in seven rounds on Feb. 25, 1964. Gifted with unusually fast reflexes, excellent hand-leg coordination, and finely honed defensive skills, Ali successfully...
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Lieutenant Jimmy Cross Bonnie And Clyde
1,716 wordsFirst Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rucksack. In the late afternoon, after a day's march, he would dig his foxhole, wash his hands under a canteen, unwrap the letters, hold them with the tips of his fingers, and spend the last hour of fight pretending. He would imagine romantic camping trips into ...
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Understanding Jumper Classes At A Horse Show
736 wordsThere are certain class conditions that are strictly followed in the jumper classes at all American Horse Show Association (AHSA) rates shows. AHSA's system works this way so that the organization can be confident no one will be confused about the rules or tables of jumper classes. There are four tables; this method is designed to make the horse show as fair as possible for everyone. These rules are enforced by every horse show's management, so that the different jumper classes will always go by...
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Rival Gang Police Officers
1,192 wordsAlphonse Capone was born on January 17, 1899 in Brooklyn, New York to Gabriel and Teresa Capone. His parents immigrated to the United States in 1893 from Naples, Italy. Capone came from a family of eleven and was the fourth oldest of nine children. He grew up in a rough neighborhood of Brooklyn and was a member of two Kid Gangs the Brooklyn Rippers or Bin Booms and the Forty Thieves. Capone had a good head when it came to street smarts, but school was totally existent. He was illiterate. He was ...
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Sports History Of Boxing Great Muhammad Ali
1,908 wordsFloat like a butterfly, sting like a bee! These were the famous words said by Muhammad Ali after his first title fight against Sonny Liston (Rummel 57). Muhammad Ali was one of the greatest boxers known today. Although Ali was a great boxer, he had to overcome many obstacles to get to where he wanted to be, like segregation, racism, the selective service, and being a Muslim. Cassius clay was born on January 17, 1942 in a working class family in Louisville, Kentucky. His father, Cassius Clay Sr w...
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Ringo Starr George Harrison
1,479 wordsA Brief and Hopefully Accurate Summary of the Life and Times of Ringo Starr. I, Ringo Starr, was born on July seventh, 1940. I was named after my father. I was the only child of Richard Starkey and Elsie Gave. The two had met while working together at a local bakery. They eventually married in 1936. My family resided at 9 Mary Street, a six-room terrace house in a poor and rough working class section of Liverpool known as the Dingle. My father had left home when I was 3 years old. In 1944, My mo...
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Jump Rope Hand Wraps Boxing
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College Degree College Education
769 wordsA college education is suggested to be the most heavily judged form of qualification to be looked at when looking for career opportunities. But what is a college education? Is it something you go out and buy at the most prestigious of College University's? Do you simply hand over 25, 000 dollars a year, and at the end of 4 years, give or take a few, you are handed a diploma that says, Educated? In my opinion, this is todays view on what education is. It is less of a conquest of knowledge then it...
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Confederate Troops Confederate Forces
1,340 wordsTHE GRAND FABRICATION It is almost as difficult to find consistent information about the incident at Fort Pillow as it is to determine the moral significance of its outcome. Scholars disagree about exactly what transpired on April 12, 1864 at Fort Pillow, when General Nathan Bedford Forrest captured the fort with his 1, 500 troops and claimed numerous Union lives in the process (Wyeth 250). It became an issue of propaganda for the Union, and as a result the facts were grossly distorted. After cl...
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Bonnie And Clyde Organized Crime
1,113 words? The Roaring Twenties, ? ; what a perfect aphorism. It was certainly roaring with music and dance, but it also was roaring with gangsters. In the aspect of gangsterism, the thirties were also roaring. Americans in this time period tolerated criminals, especially those involved in bootlegging. Bootlegging is the smuggling of illegal substances. Bootlegging could have possibly been tolerated because of the recent outlaw of alcohol during this time period, known as the Prohibition. Gangsters were ...
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Fight Promoter Million Dollar Rickard
396 wordsThe man who was known as Tex Rickard, was born on Jan 2, 1870 with the became of George Lewis Rickard. He led a life of different jobs, I guess you could say he was a jack of all trades. His life, or the part of it that dealt with the gold rush, was what I would say as, short lived. After raising cattle in Texas, and ruling a little town as the town marshal he decided to move on to something different. He moved to a small city in Nevada called Goldfield. Goldfield was a boom town, which came abo...
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Semi Automatic Major Differences
588 wordsWhen it comes to guns, there are some major differences that are taken into consideration when grouping them into categories. Handguns are smaller, cancelable weapons, while Riffles are larger, non-cancelable weapons. When looking at a handgun (or pistol), it is small, can fit into your hand and some models are able to add a silencer to it. There are two main types of handguns. The first is a revolver, and then you have an automatic. A revolver can hold anywhere from 5 to 6 rounds, while a semi-...
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Gun Control Laws Stricter Gun Control
1,003 wordsGun control is an issue that plagues out nation. It is a test of the very liberalism our great nation was founded on. Throughout time, many people have fought to have tougher gun laws, while groups like the NRA fight to have more lenient laws. This essay will discuss arguments for both those in favor of gun control and those who oppose. It will then discuss the current laws in effect now to control gun issues. Finally, the author will share his opinion on the subject. Proponents of stricter gun ...
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Assault Weapon Ban Background Checks
970 wordsThe problem with guns is fairly obvious: they decrease the difficulty of killing or injuring a person. In Jeffrey A. Roth's Firearms and Violence (NIJ Research in Brief, February 1994), he points out the obvious dangers. About 60 percent of all murder victims in the United States in 1989 (about 12, 000 people) were killed with firearms. Firearm attacks injured another 70, 000 victims, some of whom were left permanently disabled. In 1985, the cost of shootings was an estimated $ 14 billion nation...
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Make Their Rounds Long It Takes Johnny
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Muhammad Ali Cassius Clay
1,006 wordsBorn Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. In Louisville, Kentucky on January 17, 1942, Cassius took his first boxing lessons from an Irish-American cop who thought he was giving lessons to a boy that wanted to protect his new bike from older neighborhood kids. But by the age of 16, Cassius had won the Louisville Golden Gloves tournament as a light heavyweight and advanced to the quarterfinals of the regional championship in Chicago. After graduating to the Louisville Central High School in 1960, he won t...
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