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- 4171: Hippie Culture
- ... 214). It wasn’t just the youth in America who was using these drugs. A statistic from 1967 states that "more American troops in Vietnam were arrested for smoking marijuana than for any other major crime" (Steinbeck 97). The amazing statistic wasn’t the amount of soldiers smoking marijuana; it was the amount of soldiers America was sending over to fight a war that nobody understood. Between 1965 and 1967, troops ...
- 4172: Anne Moody
- ... better than mine.” Soon after Moody entered high school, Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old boy from Chicago, was killed for whistling at a white woman. “Emmett Till’s murder had proved it was a crime, punishable by death, for a Negro man to even whistle at a white woman in Mississippi.” Although her mother refused to give an explanation of the organization, Moody learned about the NAACP from one of ...
- 4173: Richard Wright
- ... pay bill that she owed them. This was all new to Richard as far as first hand experience, because prior to this he had only heard stories of white brutality. As if seeing this ruthless crime against the woman was not enough for him, the real wake up call came to him in relation to the same job. Richard Wright was going back to town delivering packages riding the store bicycle ...
- 4174: Richard Joseph Daley
- ... communist." When Daley first ran for mayor, the Communist Party of Illinois "issued instructions to members that Daley must be elected for the Party to retain its strength in labor." The file also alleges organized crime figures found Daley sympathetic to them, at least before he became mayor. Later, mobsters like Sam Giancana complained about Daley's weakening of the ward boss system, which the mob relied on for political favors ...
- 4175: King of Babylonia: Hammurabi
- ... similar laws. Hammurabi had his laws recorded upon an eight foot high black stone monument. Hammurabi based his code on principles like, the strong should not injure the weak, and that punishment should fit the crime. As for punishment, "legal actions were initiated under the code by written pleadings; testimony was taken under oath. The code was severe in it's penalties, prescribing "an eye for an eye, a tooth for ...
- 4176: The Internet
- ... are no office buildings, no shopping centers, no arcades, no libraries, and no schools. These places all exist in a location called the Internet - "an anarchic eyetem (to use an oxymoron) of public and private computer networks that span the globe." (Clark 3). This technological advance not only benefits people of the present, but also brings forth future innovations. People use the Internet for many purposes, yet there are three popular ...
- 4177: The Life of Malcolm X
- ... Detroit and his hair was red. After a year in Harlem, Malcolm was officially initiated into hustler society. He returned to Boston in 1945 after falling out with another hustler, and continued a life of crime, forming his own house robbing gang. Arrested for robbery in February 1946, he was convicted and sentenced to prison for seven years. While in prison, Malcolm became a follower of Elijah Muhammad, the leader of ...
- 4178: Sister Helen Prejean
- ... where residents bring home an average yearly income of $10,890 …where one in every six persons is a food-stamp recipient, one of every three babies born has an unwed mother, and the violent crime rate is ninth highest in the nation…I am meeting seventeen-year-old girls who have had one sometimes two children. Without a chance for college… [they are] vulnerable to the first young man who ...
- 4179: Joan of Arc
- ... of Beauvais, to be tried for witchcraft and heresy ( Struchen 45). Much was made of her insistance on wearing male clothing. She was told that for a woman to wear men's clothing was a crime against God. Her determination to continue wearing it was seen as defiance and finally sealed her fate. Joan was convicted after a fourteen- month interrogation, and on May 30,1431 she was burned at the ...
- 4180: Nathanial Hawthorne
- ... line of Hathorne's. His ancestry included his great-great grandfather, John Hathorne who was a judge at the Salem witch trials 112 years before Nathanial was born. Judge John Hathorne charged many with the crime of witchcraft,and condemned them to their deaths. Nathanial was embaressed by this and changed the spelling of his last name from Hathorne to Hawthorne. Alot of his family history, life experiences and where he ...
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