John Stanfa was a Sicilian Mobster in Philadelphia and was born on December 7th, 1940 in a tiny mountain village of Caccamo, which was about 30 miles south east of Palermo, in a region of western Sicily long dominated by the mafia. He was the youngest of 4 children. Two of his elder brothers as well as his one brother-in-law were members of the Sicilian Mafia. John and his wife Nicolena Congialdi moved to Philadelphia. Stanfa’s main objective was to bring the Philadelphia Crime Family back to the top, but things didn’t work out the way he planned.
The first African American man to show armed resistance to racial violence and oppression was Robert F Williams . Robert Franklin Williams Was born in Monroe, North Carolina to Emma Carter Williams and John Williams on February 26, 1925. Robert was the fourth of five children out of his other siblings. Growing up in the deep south there were lots of murders because of all the KKK members and racesits. When Robert was young he was presented with his first rifle that his grandfather had.
Have you ever wonder how life was for people who did illegal activities, or what were the consequences of doing these illegal things. There once was a Mobster named Joe Bonanno. Bonanno learned how to become successful through illegal activities and, at the same time, cover them up by owning other businesses. He sold alcohol which was illegal to do during this time period.
February 3, 1959 will forever be known as “The Day the Music Died.” This marks the day when Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly, and J.P Richardson (also known as “The Big Bopper), were killed in a tragic plane crash. On July 24, 1957, Director Luis Valdez released his movie titled La Bamba. This movie told the story of Ritchie Valens life from when he was around fifteen until his death at age seventeen. In the film, La Bamba, director Luis Valdez kept some events from Ritchie Valens life the same, but changed the seriousness of his relationships in order to add drama and to add more poignant emotions.
Context In this analysis I will be talking about the amazing art work done by Leonardo Da Vinci Cecelia Gallerini from around the 1489–1490. Lady with an ermine shows a variety of techniques that were used in the Renaissance time. First was the use of chiaroscuro; the use of shadow to enhance the three dimensional relief of the figure which made it look realistic and stand out. Second, his use of sfumato; to create fine and very gradual tonal changes, specifically used around the eyes and mouth (a technique used extensively in Mona Lisa.
Fanny Mendelssohn is now considered to be one of the most important composers of the romantic era. This amazing composer’s birth date is November 14, 1805 and she unfortunately died 41 years later on May 14, 1847. She was the eldest of four musical children. Although all of her siblings were musical her and her brother Felix were both recognized as child prodigies. Fanny and Felix had a very close relationship because of their love of music.
Marchese Emilio Pucci di Barsento was born on November 20, 1914 in Naples, Italy to one of Florence’s most illustrious families. He was raised in the lap of luxury. Became an avid skier and scholar, earning his PhD in Political Science and joining the Italian Olympic ski team in 1934. Pucci earned a skiing scholarship and attended university in the United States in 1935. He served several years as a pilot for the Italian Air Force, and returned to his home in Italy because of health issues that kept him from flying.
Mordecai Anielewicz was born in 1919 in Wyszków, Poland. He was born into a relatively poor family. After finishing secondary school he joined the Zionist movement, and by 1940 he became a full time underground activist for Jews. He even set up and underground newspaper company called Neged Hazarem or ‘Against the Sun’. By the middle of the following year, he decided to focus more on armed-resistances instead of placid youth movements.
The book “ A Long Walk to Water” by Linda Sue Park has some Real characters and then there is some fictional characters. It takes place in Southern Sudan a place battered with war. There is this boy who lives in the village named after his grandpa and the war comes to his village he is forced to flee the rest of the story is about his hard and long journey to safety. A personal journey is a journey where you are on a long adventure and you always seem to feel alone or working through things by yourself. These pieces of text evidence both have to do with my thesis because in both he feels so alone.
Artist of the Renaissance During the Renaissance art was very important to many people. Art was very popular because it was how many people expressed themselves. People looked up the male artist most of all but, in the paper, I will be talking about one male artist and one female artist. The male artist is Leonardo da Vinci and the female artist is Sofonisba Anguissola.
Leonardo da Vinci is a very famous painter, not just for his artwork but his inventions too. He was born April 15, 1452. Leonardo spent the first 5 years of his life living with his mother. After that, he lived with his father. His father married many women.
Marquesas Thesis The early Marquesans did many things that are outrageous and extreme. Their views and takes on their environment and their existence seemed natural and common to them as their societal norm. What they believed in played a heavy role in their culture because they didn 't have much knowledge of their world. They needed to have faith in things such as religion.
Manasa Jannamaraju Mrs. Teslich P1 Farewell to Manzanar Essay 23 February, 2016 Dreams, Hopes, and Plans Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston, distinguishes the experience of Japanese Americans that were sent to internment camp during World War II. Japanese Americans were moved out of their homes into internment camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The Japanese Americans struggled in the internment camp and the camp changed their lives drastically. This book is all about dreams, hopes, and plans.
Introduction Marcus Dupree was a star high school football player who had a promising future in front of him. After being recruited by multiple universities and committed to the University of Oklahoma, he soon realized that he had made a mistake and started making bad choices. Thesis Describing experiences, and also stating the personal statements of Marcus Dupree and others in the documentary, injustice was done to Marcus Dupree but also to the head football coach of Oklahoma using “Letter from Birmingham Jail” as a source lens. Early age Marcus Dupree was a young, gifted running back on his high school football team.
Next came animals with muscles like barnacles at the bottom then insects, amphibians, reptiles water animals, avian animals, and at the very top mammals. Then came humans, here the more money and land you owned the higher up the ranking you were the. Next came angelic beings and finally the very top was