History [pic][pic] Richard Sears Richard Warren Sears was a railroad station agent in North Redwood, Minnesota when he received an impressive shipment of watches from a Chicago jeweler which were unwanted by a local cube jeweler. Sears purchased them, then sold the watches for a considerable profit to other station agents, then ordered more for resale. Soon he started a business selling watches through mail order catalogs. The next year, he moved to Chicago, Illinois where he met Alvah C. Roebuck, who joined him in the business. In 1893, the corporate name became Sears, Roebuck and Co.
Taylor Braman Mr. Gross English 11 (A) November 17, 2010 Characters C. Gordon Gregg: The main antagonist of the novel, Gordon is a well known pharmacist and citizen in Chicago. Unknown to many though, his castle estate was built by checks received through shady business deals and one large check from a life insurance claim. A pale character which an odd appeal to most, Dr. Gregg is based upon the murder H. H. Holmes. Jim Frazer: A worker for Dearborn Mutual Life Insurance Company, Jim is the unlucky one to deliver the check to Dr. Gregg and become one of his target.
Bruno is a German immigrant carpenter who was at the time living in the Bronx of New York. The police went to his house and found $14,000 in ransom money as well as many other things and they arrested him on the spot, this trial was the biggest in America. The investigators were able to do a handwriting analysis and determine the handwriting from Hauptmann and the ransom letters were a match. A lot of people were starting to question whether justice could be served or if it was just a lost cause because of such a death. The trial started and had at least 700 or more reporters and other people trying to sneak a peek inside the room and find out the results of the trial.
(Pinkerton, 2012) At the age of thirty-five Pinkerton was deputy to the Cook County, Chicago sheriff. During this time Pinkerton was asked by six Midwestern railroad company representatives to aid in the establishment of the North West Police Agency. In addition to Pinkerton’s work with the railroad police, Pinkerton was under contract with the federal government. (Clifford, 2004) Pinkerton left his job with the Chicago Police force to start his own detective agency. One of the first contracts included investigation of counterfeiting and protecting the Post Office from robbery.
Dealing on the black market, he lived in high style. In 1942 and early 1943, the Germans decimated the ghetto’s population of some 20,000 Jews through shootings and deportations. Several thousand Jews who survived the ghetto’s liquidation were taken to Plaszow, a forced labor camp run by the sadistic SS commandant Amon Leopold Goeth. Moved by the cruelties he witnessed, Schindler contrived to transfer his Jewish workers to barracks at his factory. In late summer 1944, through negotiations and bribes from his war profits, Schindler secured permission from German army and SS officers to move his workers and other endangered Jews to Bruennlitz, near his hometown of Zwittau.
Hans and Rosa began to hide a Jewish man, Max Vandenburg, in their basement until Hans made a mistake that forced Max to leave before the authorities came and found him. Alex Steiner, Rudy’s father, also made a mistake that threatened the authority of the Nazi party and he and Hans were drafted into the military. Hans broke his leg and was allowed to come back home to Molching. Late one night, while Liesel was in their basement writing an autobiography, the poorer part of Molching was bombed, where she happened to live and everyone was killed, except Liesel. First of all, the book provided me with many, somewhat random out of context, but interesting facts about what went on outside of the fictional story of Liesel Meminger.
Al Capone was one of the most famous gangster who made a profits during Prohibition, it is estimated that he made $60 million from bootlegging alone, He took control of the whole Chicago liquor industry by killing off all the competition in the area, he had a good talent for avoiding jail. The St Valentine’s Day massacre is a good example of how extreme the organized crime became, on the 14th February 1929, two rival gangs, one led by Al Capone and the other led by Bugs Moran, 7 mob associates were killed out in broad daylight on the
EXPRESSIONISTIC TECNIQUES IN THE NOVEL Arthur Millerwas born on October 17, 1915, in New York City, the son of Isidore and Augusta Miller. His father lost his wealth during the Great Depression of the 1920s and the family, like many others, suffered economic hardship and could not afford to send him to college. Miller worked for two years in an automobile parts warehouse, earning enough money to attend the University of Michigan in 1934, where he studied history and economics. He graduated in 1938.Arthur MillerBenefitting from the U.S. Government's Federal Theatre Project, began learning about the craft of the theatre, working with such skilled writers and directors as Clifford Odets(Waiting for Lefty) and Elia Kazan (the famous film and theatre director who later produced Miller's best-known work, Death of a Salesman). His first Broadway production, The Man Who Had All the Luck, opened in 1944 and ran for only four performances.
He complies because “you couldn’t say no” to Amin. Garrigan writes this account of his experiences, he says, “to provide a genuine eyewitness account” of the strange things that happened to him and to others during Amin’s rule in Uganda. He explains how he decided to go to medical school and how his childhood love for adventure and interest in foreign lands put him on the road to practicing medicine in Africa. He is writing this story from his cottage in Scotland long after the events in Uganda have taken place. Garrigan arrives in Kampala, Uganda, on January 24, 1971, to begin his job as a doctor with the Ugandan Ministry of Health.
1) What were the individual factors that contributed to the failure of Enron? Briefly explain two key factors. In the repercussion of Enron’s bankruptcy filing, numerous Enron executives were charged with criminal acts. Those charges were fraud, insider trading and money laundering. Enron was described as “House Of Cards” as it was built over a pool of gasoline.