Al Capone

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As soon as Capone reached the legal age of fourteen, he
dropped out of school to live this economic dream of making money as a gangster
on the streets. 1.Al Capone was convinced that the opportunities for personal
advancement and material success were not available through legitimate means,
and so Capone turned toward the crime profession of bootlegging. Capone was a
smart man with a mission. 2.His mission was to succeed as a criminal in a
business like matter. Although prohibition was clearly illegal, Capone used his
prohibition as a business. His attire was that of a rich business man, along
with his ways of talking were also that of a business man. Everything Capone did
was set to flow like a business, and prohibition help him act out his business
ways.
Capone used prohibition to 3.make over a modern city for his own use, and
lived off it as blatantly and richly as a caesar of Rome. This edict that Capone
presented, seem to have establish the standards for the ways of ...

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other people were doing just to get by life. the Mafia today still follows the
same route as Capone did then because of the large amounts of money that can be
brought in through crime with business. Its all really common today to see a
white collar individual use their professional look to bring about money to
themselves.
Money was an immense thing and was always needed in the years of Capone's
lifetime. With the depression and war, it made it difficult for people to even
cut even with the cost of living. People always saw themselves in contention
with life, and it wasn't becoming easier. For Capone, cutting even with the cost
of living was not even in his way. Capone realized ...

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