Al Capone

(noun)

Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone (1899 –1947) was an American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate. The Chicago Outfit, which subsequently became known as the Capones or Capone Gang, controlled smuggling, bootleg liquor sales, prostitution, and other illegal activities in Chicago from the early 1920s to 1931.

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Examples of Al Capone in the following topics:

  • The Ethics of Persuasion

    • Al Capone, an American gangster in the early 20th century, used coercion as a persuasive technique, which is unethical.

  • Prohibition

    • Many of Chicago's most notorious gangsters, including Al Capone and his archenemy, Bugs Moran, made millions of dollars through illegal alcohol sales.
    • By the end of the decade, Capone controlled all 10,000 Chicago speakeasies, illegal nightclubs where alcohol was sold, and ruled the bootlegging business from Canada to Florida.
    • Alphonse "Al" Capone headed the largest criminal organization in the Chicago area during Prohibition.
    • A colorful figure notorious for a multitude of crimes related to his illegal alcohol operation, Capone was eventually imprisoned for tax evasion in 1931.

  • Organized Crime

  • Conclusion: Cultural Change in the Interwar Period

    • Many of Chicago's most notorious gangsters, including Al Capone, made millions of dollars through illegal alcohol sales.
    • One of the most notorious gangsters of the Prohibition era, Al "Scarface" Capone made millions running bootlegging and other illegal activities in Chicago.

  • The Roaring Twenties

    • Gangsters such as Lucky Luciano, Al Capone, Moe Dalitz, Joseph Ardizzone, and Sam Maceo were involved in bribery, extortion, loan sharking, and money laundering.

  • Aluminum

    • $2Al\quad +\quad 3{ H }_{ 2 }O\quad \longrightarrow \quad { Al }_{ 2 }{ O }_{ 3 }+3{ H }_{ 2 }$
    • Its halides (AlF3, AlCl3, AlBr3 and AlI3) are common examples.
    • A variety of compounds of empirical formula AlR3 and AlR1.5Cl1.5 exist.
    • These species usually feature tetrahedral Al centers.
    • $4LiH\quad +\quad Al{ Cl }_{ 3 }\quad \longrightarrow \quad LiAl{ H }_{ 4 }\quad +\quad 3LiCl$

  • Basic and Amphoteric Hydroxides

    • One of the most common and familiar examples of an amphoteric hydroxide is aluminum hydroxide, Al(OH)3.
    • From our solubility rules, we know that Al(OH)3 is largely insoluble in neutral water; however, in a strongly acidic solution, the situation changes.
    • For example, consider the reaction of Al(OH)3 with HCl:
    • This is a classic acid-base neutralization reaction: the HCl completely protonates all three hydroxides per mole of Al(OH)3, yielding pure water and the salt AlCl3.
    • Consider the Lewis structure for Al(OH)3.

  • Sample Informative Speech

    • And so we went to war against al Qaeda to protect our citizens, our friends, and our allies.
    • In Afghanistan, we removed the Taliban government, which had given bin Laden and al Qaeda safe haven and support.
    • Meanwhile, al Qaeda continued to operate from along that border and operate through its affiliates across the world.
    • The death of bin Laden marks the most significant achievement to date in our nation's effort to defeat al Qaeda...
    • And going forward, it is essential that Pakistan continue to join us in the fight against al Qaeda and its affiliates...

  • The Mediterranean

    • In the Middle Ages, the Mediterranean Al-Andalus was a great center for culture and art, as well of philosophical and scientific thought.
    • The first Islamic dynasty to establish itself in Spain (or al-Andalus) was that of the Spanish Umayyads.
    • Al-Andalus was a great cultural center of the Middle Ages.
    • The pyxis of al-Mughira is a masterwork of the genre.
    • The Alhambra is a reflection of the culture during the last centuries of the Moorish rule of Al-Andalus, reduced to the Emirate of Granada.

  • The War on Terrorism

    • The campaign's official purpose was to eliminate al-Qaeda and other militant organizations.
    • It was typically used with a particular focus on Al-Qaeda and other militant Islamists.
    • In February 1998, Osama bin Laden, as the head of al-Qaeda, signed a fatwā declaring war on the West and Israel, and later in May of that same year al-Qaeda released a video declaring war on the U.S. and the West.
    • The remaining al-Qaeda and Taliban remnants fell back to the rugged mountains of eastern Afghanistan, mainly Tora Bora.
    • The insurgency, which included al-Qaeda affiliated groups, led to far more coalition casualties than the invasion.