...Paper Al “Scarface” Capone was the ultimate american gangster. Not only did he run the streets by the time he was 15, Capone ran all of Chicago for multiple years by the time he was 30 (Chicago Historical Society 1). In 1929, what is known as Chicago’s most brutal day, The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre occurred when Capone’s rival gang was murdered because he had one goal and that goal was to run the streets, just as he did (History Channel 1). While the feds were hot and heavy on him, Capone fled to Florida to lay low for a bit. When he was at his highest point of control of most of the country he was making close to $100,000,000 a year. While going back and forth from Florida to Chicago, Capone had up to 5 gangster headquarters. Once the police started to catch on to his case, they decided to give Al “Scarface” Capone a new nickname, “Public enemy number one” (History Channel 1). Capone had a wild childhood. He was born in January of 1899 in a small house in Brooklyn, New York (Chicago historical Society 1). By the time Al Capone was 15 he was brought up from the “kids gangs” (Chicago Historical Society 1) into the notorious Five Points Gang by Frankie Yale in 1916. Capone had a couple jobs as a bouncer and a bartender at Frankie Yales’ gangster dive bars and the Harvard Inn. While working at the Harvard Inn, Capone acquired the nickname “Scarface” because of an incident when a girlfriends brother of his beat him up and the name stuck ever since. Al Capone’s most...
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...Al Capone Alphonse Capone is the son of Neapolitan immigrants Gabriel and Teresa Capone. They had nine children. He was their forth, born January 17, 1899, in Brooklyn, New York. This is where he attended Public School 7 from age 5 to 14 until an incident with his 6th grade teacher, he gave her a beating and was then beaten and expelled by his principal, never to return. Beatings were a typical form of punishment for public school in this age and young Al was known to challenge authority. Expelled from school and transplanted to a different neighborhood, Capone met notorious criminals like; Johnny Torrio and Lucky Luciano when he joined two street gangs, the Brooklyn Rippers and the Forty Thieves Juniors. Within a few years he was regularly involved in organized crime. Capone worked at a night club called the Harvard Inn for the crime boss Frankie Yale. One night at the Harvard Inn, Capone insulted a young woman which led to fight. The brother of the woman gave Al a beating and a new nickname “Scarface”. This incident also led to Capone’s first arrest “disorderly conduct”. Al met Mary “Mae” Coughlin, a young Irish woman at a dance in 1918. It must have been a tumultuous, whirlwind of a romance because she gave birth to their son Albert “Sonny” Capone on December 4th, 1918 and then they married on December 30th, 1918. Capone was the prime suspect of two murders and the brutal beating of a rival gang member that led to an extended hospital stay. Frankie Yale knew that the...
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...Professor Subject Date Title: Al Capone: America’s most famous gangster Abstract Al Capone: this name stirs up vivid memories in the minds of most Americans. It particularly mean much to residents of Chicago, Illinois, “the city of broad shoulders” so deservedly named after the gang leader who held an unquestionable grip on the its neighborhoods. Today, every gangster desires to be like “Scarface Al” as Capone was commonly referred. He is the epitome of what a gangster blueprint looks like that is engraved in the minds of those who had a first hand experience of his reign. Young as they may have been during Capone’s reign, they undoubtedly felt his power and effect. Al Capone’s background Alphonse “Al” Capone was born in Brooklyn on January 17, 1899. He acquired “education in petty crime” in the neighborhoods of Brooklyn. His name “Scarface Al” originated from a razor slash across his face (Bergreen, 1994). He later moved to Chicago where he survived several gang wars by having his rivals eliminated. In 1929, Capone’s gang, dressed in police uniform massacred seven members of a rival gang, the “Bugs” Morgan gang. This was revenge of his best friend’s death and abduction of a consignment of liquor from Canada. This became the infamous St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. By the end of the 1920’s Capone was in charge of bootlegging liquor. This brought him an annual income of over $20 million. The arrest and prosecution of Al Capone Despite his numerous crimes, including...
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...Breyden Coates Composition Period:3 Research Paper Al Capone (Scarface) (THESIS) Alphonse Gabriel Capone, better known as Al Capone, or “Scarface” was an American Gangster who acclaimed fame during the prohibition era. Born in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City by Italian immigrants, Capone was a Five Points gang member who became a bouncer in organized crime premises. He later moved to Chicago to become a bodyguard and trusted employee for Johnny Torrio, doing anything that needed to be done. Five Points gang was a notorious gang in Manhattan, run by Frankie Yale who was known for his violent means of getting what he wanted. Capone became part of the Five Points gang and worked in gangster Frankie Yale's Brooklyn dive, the Harvard Inn, as a bouncer and bartender. While working at the Inn, Capone watched Yale’s use of violence to...
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...the gangster myth ratifying the belief in the public enemy system. This would be seen as the result of the collapse of law enforcement in a society or loss of morality, and ultimately social disorder. William Wellman’s The Public Enemy (1931) starred James Cagney as the fast talking and cocky Tom Powers and his most famous line, “I’m on top of the world Ma!” This is an example of a well dressed man with street smarts who is a criminal bootlegger and womanizer. One of the films most controversial and pivotal scenes is when Tom Powers assaults his floozy girlfriend with a grapefruit by slamming it into her face at the breakfast table. Howard Hawkins “Scarface: The Shame of a Nation” (1932) starred Paul Muni as a Immature, power hungry, monstrous and beastly hood in prohibition era Chicago, whose character was loosely based on Al Capone. This is the first movie to use the machine gun by a gangster, depicted by Italian-American immigrants, who goes on a murderess spree killing 28 people in all. Enrico (“Rico”) Bandello who epitomized the rise and fall of the gangster. Edward G. Robinson was the first Gangster star in this genre. These career criminals live double lives as respectable business men, who defy the law, and are tough who also operate under...
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...Al Capone is known as the famous bootlegger. What people don´t know is his backstory or his actual name, which is Alphonso Capone born on January 17, 1899.[1]No matter what bad things a person does they are still people with feelings, that also applies to Al Capone. Al Capone is the Son of two Italian immigrants, Gabriele and Teresina Capone.[2] He also had 8 siblings Vincenzo, Raffalo, Salvatore, Amadeo Ermino, Umberto, Matthew Nicholas, Rosalia, and Mafalda. [3] His dad was a barber and his mother was a seamstress. In elementary school Al Capone was a good student, he went to Brooklyn Elementary School, then in 6th grade he fell behind and had to repeat that grade. He started to play hooky and hang out at the Brooklyn docks, he once got hit...
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...If you have learned about prohibition, chances are you have heard of Alphonse Gabriel Capone. If his name doesn’t sound familiar, it is because he is better known as Al Capone. He was an influence in the 1920’s for the abolition of prohibition. Al “Scarface” Capone was born on January 17, 1899, in Brooklyn, New York city to a poor immigrant family. The Capones lived with their eight children in a New York tenement (rented space). Capone was a very bright student, but he quit school in the sixth grade after associating with a street gang led by Johnny Torrio. In fact, he was a member of two “kid gangs”: the Brooklyn Rippers and the Forty Thieves Juniors. Between the scams he did with his group, he worked as a clerk in a candystore, a pinboy at a bowling alley, and a book bindery cutter. He soon became part of the notorious Five Points gang, and worked as a bouncer and a bartender in hideout of Frankie Yale, a famous New York gangster. It is here where he received the infamous nickname “Scarface”. After giving an insult to a female patron,...
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...Al Capone got his nickname scarface when he got into a fight at a saloon and was slashed in the face by a knife or razor in his youth. The height of Al Capone’s infamous criminal career was during the 1920’s. The 1920’s was a time of great crime partly because of the Prohibition, which was when alcohol was banned within the United States. Crime rose during the Prohibition because although alcohol was banned by the government it was still very popular and highly sought after by many Americans, and they turned to gangs to help them access it. Most of the famous gangs and gangsters who rose to power during this time were from Chicago, where Capone was head of the Mafia. Why was the law always after Al Capone? All of the crimes committed by Al Capone during his early life, while he was head of the Chicago mafia, and the crimes that eventually put him in jail were all of the reasons why...
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...Born to poor Italian immigrants, Al Capone rose from his humble beginnings to become one of the most infamous mobsters in the United States. Based out of Chicago, Illinois, Capone ran a multi-million dollar operation that dominated the organized crime scene. The well-known gangster, also nicknamed “Scarface”, took part in a wide variety of illegal activities to include: bootlegging, prostitution, gambling, and several brutally violent acts. Al Capone managed to finagle his way up from the life of a poor urban immigrant, to the most infamous American gangster, and as a result of his rise to power and life of crime he changed US History along the way. Alphonse Capone, Al for short, was born in 1899 to recently immigrated parents, Gabriele and...
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...Big time Italian-American mob boss Alphonse “Scarface” Capone was the infamous owner and co-founder of the notorious Chicago mob, the Chicago Outfit. Capone was the head honcho of the illegal production and transportation of alcohol during the prohibition days and grew in power very quickly due to his complete control over the city of Chicago. Throughout Capone’s 7 year reign of the Chicago Outfit he appeared in front of the Supreme Court of Chicago four times and went to prison three separate times. Capone was also known for committing over 33 murders and having total control over the police station, media and both Republican and Democrat parties in the city of Chicago. Capone acquired the title ‘Boss’ in the Chicago Outfit in the summer of 1925 the attempted assassination on his predecessor, Johnny Torrio. Capone then extended the gang’s expertise from prostitution and gambling to illegal distilling, brewing and distribution of beer and liquor. Alcohol prohibition came into play in the U.S. in the early 1920s and had a direct co-relation with the rise in gang violence and other alcohol associated crimes. Capone and Torrio used this prohibition to sling shot the Chicago Outfit to the head of the city of Chicago. He used to profit from...
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...Chapter I INTRODUCTION Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis iis an English word that refers to a lung disease that is otherwise known as silicosis. It is the longest word in the English language published in a dictionary, the Oxford English Dictionary. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it is "an artificial long word said to mean a lung disease caused by inhaling very fine ash and sand dust."[1] Silicosis is a form of occupational lung disease caused by inhalation of crystalline silica dust, and is marked by inflammation and scarring in the form of nodular lesions in the upper lobes of the lungs. It is a type of pneumoconiosis Statement of the problem 1. What is the couse of Pneumoconiosis? 2. How can it be prevented? 3. What are the symptoms? 4. How can affect in our body? 5. What are the treatment? Statement of the Hypothesis HO1: .A pneumoconiosis cause by inhalation of every fine silicate or quartz dust which is found in volcanic ash. HO2: Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is fairly easy to prevent. Most countries do not have any volcanoes or any other places where silica dust exposure is likely. In case you live in one of the countries that does, here are few ways how to prevent this disease: Do not go in or near an active or non-dormant volcano. Do not expose yourself to silica dust for long periods of time. If or long periods of time...
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...Al Capone was undoubtedly one of the most notorious mobsters of the 20th century given his fame, stellar public image, and business mindset. There were many factors that played a role in his immense rise and sudden downfall, which included business, crime, violence and to a certain extent, family. Business and family lead to his rise, however, crime and violence lead to his downfall. The first factor that played a role in his rise was business, in particular, his business mindset. Capone was always portrayed to be a non-violent person as he was mentored by Johnny Torrio who was also a non-violent person. This is evident when Capone moved to Chicago to work for Big Jim Colosimo with Torrio. After Torrio took over the liquor business, Capone...
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...1920s In the 1920s there were a lot of stuff going like crazy gangsters.One of the gangster name is Alphonse Capone also known as Al Capone.An interesting fact about Al Capone is that he had it’s own bullet-proof cadillac and the treasury department took and the president of the united states used it at Washington. Although there have been many gangsters in the 1920s but Al Capone was one of the most notable because he was an infamous gangster and he was a ruthless man especially during the St Valentine's massacre. Alphonso Capone was a great notorious gangster but as you guys always know all the famous criminals life always end early.This man was born in 1899 in brooklyn ,New York and his parents are poor plus he has two siblings.The...
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...Forensic accounting, sometimes referred to as investigative accounting, is a unique career field that combines accounting with information technology. A forensic accountant uses sophisticated computer programs to analyze financial data and find evidence that would be legally valid during a court proceeding. Forensic accountants are often asked to review financial records for mergers and acquisitions. They may also serve as advisers to a corporation’s audit committee or work to resolve shareholder disputes within a company. Increasing number of cheater people and organizations on accounting and result of its economic damages, economic and commercial disagreements and increasing number of misleading enforcements for the users of financial statements (such as Fuzzy Accounting and Creative Accounting) has been caused of existence of Forensic Accounting. It has widespread practice area in developed countries. Forensic Accounting uses techniquies of researching, accounting and inspecting. So Forestic accountants need to have abilities to do that job. In this research I am going to determine most important skills and legal responsibilities of forensic accountants and role of forensic accountants in courtroom. Required and Expected Skills According to AICPA’s CFF Credential Committee’s survey, the most important skills that a forensic accountant should have are; Thinking analytical (It is the main requirement, like medicine knowledge of a doctor.) , being detail-oriented (...
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...18th and 21st Amendments : The 18th Amendment was ratified on January 16, 1919 to forbid the making, transporting and selling of alcoholic beverages. In the 1830s, it was estimated that the average American of over 15 years of age drank 7.3 gallons of pure alcohol a year. This resulted in many religious groups promoting the idea of outlawing alcohol throughout the nation. The religious groups considered alcohol and the drunkenness as a threat to the nation. The prohibition of alcohol was known as the Noble Experiment. People believed the national experiment would reduce crime activity, improve health, decrease the need for prisons, solve social problems, etc. Unfortunately, the experiment backfired. Instead, the law encouraged large, pervasive...
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