John Gotti
.... to develop his potential as a Mafia boss.
In the mid-1960's, Gotti's boss Carmine Fatico moved his headquarters out to Ozone Park near JFK Airport. Gotti, his brothers, Angelo and Willie Boy became relatively successful hijackers. That is, until they got caught in 1968 and landed in prison.
In 1972, when Gotti got out of prison and went back to Ozone Park, the headquarters had been imaginatively renamed the Bergin Hunt and Fish Club. Two important things happened in his life to significantly lift his status in the Cosa Nostra. The first was that his boss Carmine Fatico faced a loansharking indictment, so Gotti became Fa .....
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Charles Dickens
.... that this was Dickens father so they just said that those characters were part of his imagination. John Dickens moved around quiet a bit. When Charles was not even two years old they moved for what would be a short stay to London and then moved to Chatam for what would be a longer stay, there Charles started school but soon all of that would change.
Charles who couldn’t of hardly been ten years old when the household was again in trouble was forced to get a job in a shoe shining factory, to help support the family. You see his father had fallen heavily into debt and in 1824 he was arrested leaving his wife the mother of eight .....
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Frederick Douglass's Physical And Intellectual Struggles
.... in this most trying situation, -the situation in which I was placed, -then, and not till then, will he fully appreciate the hardships of, and know how to sympathize with, the toil-worn and whip-scarred fugitive slave." (70) Douglass felt that no one would ever know what slavery was like unless he or she had been a part of it.
As a slave, Douglass was not given many opportunities; although, through intellectual and physical struggles, Douglass developed into a very strong man. Douglass overcame many obstacles throughout his life, including some particular events that had a great influence on him. Autobiography can be thought .....
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George Washington
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His first real adventure as a boy was going to a surveying party to the Shenandoah Valley of northern Virginia and rising the Shenandoah River by canoe. An earlier suggestion that he should be sent to sea seems to have been discouraged by his uncle Joseph Ball, who described the consequences of a unknown colonial youth in the British Navy of that day as such that "he had better be put apprentice to a tinker. "When he was 17 he was made surveyor of Culpeper County, Virginia, the first public office he held.
In 1751 George had his first and only experience of foreign lands when he joined his half-brother Lawrence to the isl .....
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Wallace Stevens
.... Harvard Advocate under the peudonym's, including John Fiske and Carrol Moore. The recurring name of John is said to be part of Wallace's jealousy toward his older brother. At Harvard, Wallace also joined the Signet Society, and was soon after elected secretary. It was here where he met his good friend George Santayana.
After finishing school at Harvard, Wallace moved to New York and began writing for the New York Tribune. But in 1901 he abandoned journalism and went to New York Law School in 1902. It was here that he developed a professional relationship with W.C. Peckham.
After returning to Reading in 1904, he met Elsie Kache .....
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Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
.... around the city with her camera capturing citizens’ reactions to issues of the day. At a Georgetown dinner party, Jackie was first introduced to John F. Kennedy who was a newly elected senator from Massachusetts. From there, Jackie and John’s relationship progressed. Upon her return from Europe, where she covered the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth for the Washington Times-Herald, Jacqueline accepted John Kennedy’s proposal of marriage (24). They were married on September 12, 1953 at St. Mary’s Church in Newport. There was a crowd of 3,000 on-lookers who waited outside the church to see the newlyweds. Afterwards, 1,200 guests .....
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The Life Of Michael Jordan
.... players. On November 6, 1996, Michael scored 50 points for the 36th time in his career! Jordan eclipsed the 25,000 career points total, and he continues to dominate in that statistical category. He was the tenth player to score that many points, accomplishing the feat against San Antonio on November 30, 1996, with his 35th point of the game. He's also the Bull's All-Time leading scorer . His career scoring average of around 32 ppg is the best of all-time,even better than Wilt and Jordan never scored 100 points in a game. On 12/30/97, Jordan broke Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's record of scoring in double digits in 788 consecutive ga .....
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Thomas Jefferson
.... Revolution (1775-1783). His literary talents made him a highly valued member of committees when public papers were drafted. Early in 1774 the colonies were angered by the British Parliament's passage of what were called the Intolerable Acts. One of these, the Boston Port Act, closed the harbor of Boston, Massachusetts, in retaliation for a protest incident. Jefferson was one who controversially suggested that the day the act went into effect should be declared "a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer."
During 1775 and 1776 Jefferson sat in the Continental Congress. During this time the American Revolution broke out. In t .....
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Booker T Washington
.... Institute. This had been established the Freedman’s Bureau’s chief to educate former slaves. Booker T earned money by sweeping and dusting classrooms. After he graduated he became a teacher. Booker taught in Malden, W. VA and at Hampton.
When the board of commissioners asked the head of Hampton to send a principal of their new school which had expected a white person, but they got Booker T Washington, a black person, in June of 1881. He began class with 30 students in July, in a black church. Washington than borrowed money to buy an abandoned plantation where he moved the school. By the time of his death in Tuskegee .....
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Stephen King
.... After graduation, he worked as an English teacher and spent his free time writing and being rejected by publishers. Then came his break with Carrie and things have never been the same.
Today, Stephen King is the world's most successful writer. He has over a hundred million copies of his works in print and that number is climbing rapidly as he is translated into more languages and as he continues to release new books at a rate of almost one per year. At one point, he had an unprecedented five books on the New York Times Best Sellers List at the same time. King is also the richest writer; according to Forbes Magazine, he earned .....
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Al Gore
.... at the Tennessean . When he was later moved to the city politics beat, Gore uncovered political and bribery cases that led to convictions.
While at the Tennessean , Gore, a Baptist, also studied philosophy and phenomenology at Vanderbilt University. In 1974 he enrolled in Vanderbilt’s law school. Just two years later, he began to campaign for the Democratic nomination for Tennessee’s Fourth District congressional seat. When he won the nomination over Stanley Rogers, it was a big enough success to predict his win in the 1976 general election. After serving four terms, Gore jumped at the chance to fill the open Tennessee senator .....
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Malcolm X
.... of Lansing killed Malcolm’s father and laid him on a railway track, claiming he committed suicide. Alone and without money, Louise Little got more and more desperate, before the white authorities sent her to a mental hospital.
Malcolm attended school until eighth grade living with different families. When his teacher stopped him from trying to become a lawyer, he dropped out of school and went to his older half sister, Ella, who lived in Boston. There, he took a job as a shoeshine boy at the Roseland Ballroom. A career as a hustler seemed a more tempting option, and he was soon peddling narcotics. He met a white girl named S .....
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