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Rollindubeys Alphonse Capone was born in New York City by ...
The Life And Times Of Al Capone. The Life and Times of Al Capone by Bill
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The Life and Times of Al Capone
by Bill Rollindubeys
Alphonse Capone was born in New York City by two parents Gabriel
and Teresa Capone. Capone's parents immigrated to the United States in
1893 from Naples, Italy. Capone came from a large family and was the
fourth oldest of nine children. (Kobler 10). As a child, Capone was very
wise when it came to living on the streets of New York. He had a clever
mind when it came to street smarts. As far as school goes, Capone was a
near-illiterate. He came from a poor neighborhood in Brooklyn, so education
was not a top priority.
At about the age of eleven Capone became a member of a juvenile
gang in his neighborhood. While this was taking place, around the year
1900, about eleven percent of all the foreign born population in the United
States were Italian. Capone was forced to either deal with a miserable low
wage job with a hopeless future or make an improvement for himself by
committing first minor, then serious crimes. Al Capone's philosophy was
that laws only applied to people who had enough money to live by them.
While in the “Bim Booms” gang, Capone was taught how to defend himself
with a knife, and with a gun. By the time Capone reached the sixth grade he
had already become a street brawler. Capone never responded well to
authority and for this very reason his schooling would soon come to an end.
While attending school, Capone was responsible for beating a female teacher
and...
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