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    the biggest racketeer in the Bronx and longtime friend of Johnny Farrell, an important figure in Tammany Hall. Touhey was a well known criminal and sympathizer to the Irish Republican cause, selling the Irish Republican Army guns and providing their men with daytime jobs. After many years of prosperity, Touhey’s reign hit a patch of turbulence when an Italian mobster known as the Dago began to move in on his territory, looking to usurp his title as the most powerful crime lord in the Bronx. To make

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    In the novel Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, Trumbo uses excessive description, repetition, and flashbacks to develop the theme in times of distress, humans uncontrollably remember the better times in their lives. In the novel Joe has went off to fight in the army. He has been very badly injured however, he doesn't realize it. He falls in and out of consciousness as he is confined to a hospital bed. Joe constantly fall into flashbacks of his childhood life. While Joe was in the hospital, he

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    The 16 year olds Defense was that she was only trying to protect herself and cyntoia believed when she saw all of these guns Johnny owned and also around the time when she climbed into bed with him he turned his back to her to lean off his bed to get what she thought was a gun, she quickly grabbed a gun and shot him in the back at least 4 times. Her plead? She decided to plead guilty for her actions because she didn’t want to lie to the jury of her actions. Even

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    personal fortune estimated at $100 million and was responsible for countless murders, His most famous one was the St.Valentine’s Day Massacre. Al Capone was born in Brooklyn, New York, on January 17,1899. He was the fourth of seven sons and two daughters. His parents, Gabriel and Theresa, were one of thousands of Italians who arrived in New York in 1894 for a better living. The early Capone was slashed with a knife across his left cheek by a young hoodlum in a restaurant , For harassing a woman, prompting

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