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Al Capone
<view this essay>.... to defend himself and the man wiped out a knife and cut Capone’s face three times, grabbed his sister and ran out of the Inn. The wounds healed, but leaving three long, ugly scars across his face. Scarface had an income of $105 million dollars, when the average income was only Twenty-four Hundred a year. He made his money from gambling, illegal selling and producing of alcohol, whorehouses, and the protection business. Capone encouraged publicity, he was ken to seeing his name and picture in the newspaper.
In 1919, Al now had a wife and a baby to support and care for and he needed a legitimate career. He moved his family to Baltimore and got a new job .....
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John A. MacDonald
<view this essay>.... him problems in his life.
John A. McDonald worked with a Kingston lawyer at the age of fifteen, and by the time he was nineteen he had his own legal practice, he was a good businessman.
He first got into politics in 1843 when he was a city alderman in Kingston, Ontario. He was elected to be the conservative person for Kingston in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada.
All through the 1860's, he worked in support of the Confederation, he made up an agreement called the British North American Act which was an agreement to united the five provinces in the Maritimes. After this he was appointed Prime Minister of Canada and then won the federal ele .....
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Albert Einstein
<view this essay>.... young; he got mad and hit his sister Maja in the head with a garden hoe
and cracked her skull. When he was in school, his teachers thought he was
mentally retarded because he ignored whatever bored him and attacked anything he
had interest in.
Einstein was twenty-one years old when he got married. His marriage
almost didn't take place because Mileva, his fiance, thought he had an affair.
Einstein decided to go to America to tell other scientists about his
theory of relativity. He brought his wife and several freinds with him. When
they got there, they were stormed with reporters and camera-men who wanted to
know about his theories. He went around to d .....
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Nathaniel Hawthorne Weaves Dreams Into Reality In Much Of His 19th Century Prose
<view this essay>.... into his tales. The dreams he refers to in many of his writings are heavily symbolic due to his Christian foundation, and they imply that he views most dreams as a pigmentation of reality. Hawthorne's ability to express and subsequently bring to fruition the true state of man's sinful nature by parallelling dreams with reality represents not only his religious beliefs but also his true mastery of observation regarding the human soul.
An examination of Hawthorne's own narrative in his short story, The Birthmark, published in 1850 during the latter part of the period of Puritanism expands his observations of mankind with keen insight.
Truth often finds its wa .....
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Hitler
<view this essay>.... from the Austrian Civil Service about the same time. This meant more supervision and discipline under his teachers and also his father, Alias. His father at the time was 58 and had spent most of his life in the Civil Services. He was used to giving and taking orders and liked his children to do the same. The children had many chores on their small farm outside Linz, Austria. Adolf's mother, Klara, was more attending to Edmund and soon Paula than to Adolf. The family now consisted of Edmund, Paula, Adolf and an older half brother Alois Jr., a half sister Angela and the two parents. Alois found retirement to be difficult around the noisy little farm. The o .....
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Grover Cleveland
<view this essay>.... Cleveland's father died, he had to help
support the family of nine on his wages as a clerk. He earned only $4.00 a
week! He was unable to go to law school like he wanted to do, so he studied by
himself and became an attorney in l859. Grover Cleveland became interested in
politics and held several small offices, including sheriff. He became Mayor of
Buffalo, New York, in 1881 and attacked corruption and dishonesty in govwenment.
He then became Governor in 1882 and was a huge success because of his reputation
for honesty.
Grover Cleveland got married in 1886 to Frances Folsom. He was the
first President to get married in the White House. Reporters pried .....
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Mohandas Gandhi And His Life
<view this essay>.... housewife, and spent most of her time at home or in
the temple.
Gandhi was brought up in a branch of Hinduism called Vaisnavism,
which worshiped the god Vishnu. He was a devoted and good Hindu. His family
followed the moral values of Jainism, this included the practice of ahmisa
(non-injury to all living things), vegetarianism, fasting, and tolerance of
other cultures.
Gandhi's teenage years were full of problems. He was not good at
school, or in sports, he also missed a year of school at age 13, when he
got married. Life got very stressful for him when his father became sick.
He was forced to take care of him. To cope with is problems he s .....
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Nikita Sergeyevich
<view this essay>.... helping to organize strikes in 1915 and 1916. In 1917, after the Russian Revolution had ousted the Czar, Khrushchev joined the Bolshevik forces of the Red Army in the Russian civil war, serving as a political commissar. He was now a dedicated communist.
After the war, Khrushchev was given a series of political assignments and received his first formal training in Marxism at a Technical College. After graduation he was appointed to a political post in Ukraine, where Lazar Kaganovich, a protege of Joseph Stalin, was head of the Communist Party. Khrushchev joined Kaganovich in supporting Stalin in his power struggles against Leon Trotsky and Nikolai Bukharin. W .....
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