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My Secret Confessions From The Grave: Al Capone
Number of words: 906 - Number of pages: 4.... uncle did not agree with this idea but within the next month he was shot and killed. Torrio and I took over Torrio’s uncles business and added the selling of illegal alcohol, see I always get what I want. After Torrio was gunned down and almost killed by a rival gang, he retired from the underworld, which left me to run the empire alone. At the age of 26, I was managing more than 1,000 employees, which included a payroll of more than $300,000 a week. I demanded total loyalty from all of my numerous employees. During this time I became so rich that I gave out free food for Chicag .....
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George Bush
Number of words: 2569 - Number of pages: 10.... According to the June 21, 1999 issue of Newsweek 65% of voters they polled still knew nothing or little of George W. Bush.
When looking at a possible future President of the United Sates of America it is not uncommon to start with their past and work forward to see their progress and failures. George W. Bush attended a preparatory school at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Like many young men he was interested in sports and he selected to the men’s basketball team at Phillips Academy. Envied by his peers the young man was chosen to be part of a team that was excl .....
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Steven Spielberg
Number of words: 716 - Number of pages: 3.... cult movie Duel.
His first feature, The Sugarland Express, was released in 1974, and he was soon
offered the chance to direct a thriller about a great white shark terrorizing a
small New England beach town. Jaws cost $8.5 million and grossed $260 million.
Spielberg followed it up two years later with Close Encounters of the Third Kind,
earning a Best Director Oscar nomination and proved to the world that he was one
of the best directors of the time.
However, he followed Close Encounters with the disastrous Movie, 1941,
which was his first attempt at comedy and his first true failure. He did .....
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Michael Jordan
Number of words: 824 - Number of pages: 3.... work harder to be “The Next .” This, however, seems a tad less likely to happen than the latter.
Michael was more than just a basketball player, he is also a talented businessman. This man has the ability to sell $100 shoes to kids in the ghetto and then possesses the genius to turn around and sell cologne to Wall Street stockbrokers. This is a man who is so recognizable that some people know the shape of the shadow of his head. Michael is also so diverse that he can sport Armani suits, $50 cigars and a gold hoop earring one day, and the next star in a major movie with the likes o .....
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Galileo Galilei
Number of words: 1410 - Number of pages: 6.... was the traditional theory of Aristotle, who believed that heavier objects fall more quickly than lighter ones.” (4:2) In order to prove Aristotle wrong, Galileo would perform an experiment. “It was at Pisa, of course, that the famous leaning tower might well have suggested Galileo's most famous experiment.” (4:1) “What the leaning tower of Pisa type of experiment demonstrates, when actually performed, is that Aristotle was wrong, and that no matter what the difference in weight, two heavy objects will fall simultaneously at virtually the same speed.” (4: 2-3)
Recently it has been .....
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Charles Dickens 4
Number of words: 1377 - Number of pages: 6.... by the works that he wrote, which provided progress to the battle for the poor. All of Dickens’ novels show the battle between upper and lower classes. He portrays the lower class in a respectable way, but he portrays the proletarian people in such a dishonorable way that the reader in some books despises them. One example of this is in Tale of Two Cities. This book shows how most people were poor during the French Revolution. The aristocracy consisted of about 3 percent of the population, and everyone else was poor in the lower class. This book shows the admirable qualities of th .....
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Upton Sinclair Paper
Number of words: 732 - Number of pages: 3.... their hearts. Although he certainly wanted to give the public a view from the inside, public uproar was his among lesser expectation. The details regarding the unsanitary and disgusting conditions in meat packing factories appear to be background details of a much larger picture. Sinclair's main fight in his "Conditions at the Slaughterhouse" was to bring about the ideology of Socialism and how government needed to step in and take control.
The grotesque ways in which the meat was being processed in these plants also relates to the ways in which workers were being treated as well. People w .....
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Albert Einstein From Start To Finish
Number of words: 1114 - Number of pages: 5.... He wanted him to take over the family business and study
electrical engineering. He and his mother would practice the piano for
hours. He mastered it! He then moved on the violin. He took his violin to
school and everywhere he went. Albert's father had business problems as he
was growing up. His father was never around to love or help Albert. When
he was home he drank and had no patience for poor Einstein.
When Albert was going through high school he had many problems. He
didn't get any recognition for his efforts in math or science. He felt
hopeless. He did not do the subje .....
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Robert Frost 2
Number of words: 1044 - Number of pages: 4.... Dartmouth college by his controlling grandfather, who saw it as the proper place for him to train to become a businessman. Frost read even more in college, and learned that he loved poetry.
His poetry had little success getting published, and he had to work various jobs to make a living, such as a shoemaker, a country schoolteacher, and a farmer. In 1912 Frost gave up his teaching job, sold his farm, and moved to England. He received aid from poets suck as Edward Thomas and Rupert Brooke, and published his first two volumes of poetry, A Boy's Will in 1913, and North of Boston in 1914. These .....
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ADOLF HITLER
Number of words: 1948 - Number of pages: 8.... was very sure of
success. To his surprise he failed again. In fact the Dean of the academy
was not very impressed with his performance, and gave him a really hard
time and said to him "You will never be painter." The rejection really
crushed him as he now reached a dead end. He could not apply to the school
of architecture as he had no high-school diploma. During the next 35 years
of his live the young man never forgot the rejection he received in the
dean's office that day. Many Historians like to speculate what would
have happened IF.... perhaps the small town boy would have h .....
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