Al learned many things from Torrio, like leading a respected life, and how to separate his career from his home life. ... With a baby and wife to support, Al decided to get a good job. ... He did a very good job, and was good with figures. ... Shortly after opening up a brothel in Cicero, Torrio took his elderly mother back to live in Italy, leaving Capone in charge of the business in Cicero. ... He was aware that his life was on the line. ...

• Word Count: 3078
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

Accounts Livy, "Not without good reason did gods and men choose this spot as the site of a city, with its bracing hills, its [spacious] river by means of which the produce of inland countries may be brought down and inland supplies obtained; a sea near enough for all useful purposes, but not so near as to be exposed to danger from foreign fleets; a district in the very center of Italy, in a word, a position singularly adapted by a nature for the growth of a city." ... Romulus later said he regretted killing his brother, but life goes on. ... The previous king appointed someone, and that perso...

• Word Count: 4232
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He adds that she was his true love in life. ... Not even the famous Biblical interpreter of dreams, Joseph, who read dreams for Pharaoh (see  Genesis, Book 41), nor Macrobius, the late Roman author who wrote a famous (in Chaucer's day) commentary on  Cicero's  Dream of Scipio, would have the skill to read the fantastic dream the narrator had that night. ... When Morpheus is described in his dark cave, he has "good leyser for to route" (line 172; "plenty of time to snore"), so he sleeps all day and does no other work. ... The story of Joseph from the Hebrew Bible would have been kn...

• Word Count: 5753
• Approx Pages: 23
• Grade Level: High School

Carl Gustav Jung argued that a person is born with both good and evil personalities that are gradually differentiated from one another as he/she develops. ... On the other hand, healthy individuals will integrate their good and evil sides on a conscious level. ... Cicero employed lares (deified ancestors) for daimones and Apuleius tried genius (a guardian angel) for daimon. ... Good and evil proceed from Zeus, the one God, of whom the numerous other gods in the Greek pantheon are manifestations. ... This Homeric daimon, which can affect thoughts and dreams and can be responsible for both misfo...

• Word Count: 2828
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

These words marked a change in the American way of life forever. ... War time also meant a shortage of good workers and grain (Thorton 71). ... The media reinforced an image "of the underworld as a natural manifestation of ethnic urban life," (Kelly 78). Alcohol went from being a small insignificant part of daily life to a major social event (Kelly 80). ...

• Word Count: 2736
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

In a taxi on the way to the Dresden slaughterhouse that served as their prison, Vonnegut and O'Hare strike up a conversation with the cab driver about life under communism. ... He travels randomly through his own life with no control over his departure or destination or chronology. ... The one who is not, the antitank gunner, Roland Weary, is a cruel, insecure character that saves Billy's life repeatedly in acts that he thinks will make him a hero. ... He swings through the extremes of his life: the violet light of death, the red light of pre-birth. ... All his life people have ditch...

• Word Count: 5323
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School

Numerous problems present themselves in reconstructing the life of women in ancient Greece. ... There is good evidence to indicate that priestesses were more important than priests on Crete. ... Homer's works became the Greek "bible", outlining for the Greeks their heroic past, and how they were to feel, think, and behave, including what was the most important facet of their life, fighting. ...

• Word Count: 7196
• Approx Pages: 29
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The library is a good resource for health information and knowledge. ... There are very few community health centers, the Ingalls medical center along Lincoln highway and WellGroup Health Partners LLC along Cicero road by Lincoln highway. ...

• Word Count: 3462
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

However, individual consumers and their lifestyle choices ultimately drive the economic activity of industry, food production, traveling, and manufacturing of good, to name a few. ... Borgar Aamaas of the Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research, Oslo (CICERO) says that there is almost a direct correlation between income and the amount of kilometres driven. ...

• Word Count: 3668
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School