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- 1661: The Return To Mecca, Muhammad
- Muhammad, whose full name was Abu al-Qasim Muhammad ibn 'Abd Allah ibn 'Abd al-Muttalib ibn Hashim, was born in Mecca around 570 AD after the death of his father, 'Abd Allah. Muhammad was at first under the care of his paternal grandfather, 'Abd al-Muttalib. Because the climate of Mecca was considered to be unhealthful, he was given as an infant ... and four daughters. The best known daughter was Fatimah, the wife of Muhammad's cousin 'Ali who is regarded as Muhammad's divinely ordained successor by the Shi'ah branch of Islam. Until Khadijah's death in 619, Muhammad took no other wife. The marriage was a turning point in Muhammad's life. By Arab custom, minors did not inherit, and therefore Muhammad had no share in the property of his ... Gabriel) and heard a voice saying to him, "You are the Messenger of God. " This marked the beginning of his career as messenger of Allah, or Prophet. From this time, at frequent intervals until his death, he received "revelations"; that is, verbal messages that he believed came directly from God. Sometimes these were kept in memory by Muhammad and his followers, and sometimes they were written down. About 650 they ...
- 1662: Holocaust-concentration Camps
- ... 10,000 unburied bodies, and 40,000 sick, starving, or wounded. Thus proves this camp was one of the most horrifying camps of the Holocaust. Another camp called Treblinka was a pure killing center. This death camp opened in 1942, making it one of the last death camps to open. The whole purpose of this place was to kill Jews. They did this with 13 carbon-monoxide chambers. The people were sent to the camp by trains, unloaded, and sent into changing ... the most efficient concentration camps ever made. This made Treblinka a pure killing center. The most notorious concentration camp ever was Auschwitz-Birkenau. Auschwitz was opened in April of 1940. It became the first Annihilation death camp. It was also the largest death camp. It was so big, it was split into three parts. This place was called "hell on earth", because the prisoners were forced in, and killed almost ...
- 1663: The Salem Witch Trials
- ... was taken, verbatim, from the original court document of her deposition: Sarah Good most violently pulled down my head behind a Cheast and tyed my hands together with a whele band & allmost Choaked me to death and also severall times sence the Apperistion of Sarah good has most greviously tortored me by biting pinching and almost Chaoking me to death: also William Battin and Thomas Buffincgont Juner ware forced to cutt the whele band from afe my hands for they could not unty it. Perhaps the most peculiar was the testimony of Good’s own ... hanging, Good was still not remorseful for being in connection with the devil. She continued to spew hate-filled remarks at the crowd, which fully convinced them that a woman that would not pray before death must automatically be a witch. Goody Good, at age 37, was executed with Rebecca Nurse on July 19, 1692. Tituba The first witch accused was an Indian slave named Tituba. Samuel Parris, a merchant ...
- 1664: George Bernard Shaw and His Short Story About the Cremation of The Narrator's Mother
- ... spirit lives on. He imagines how she would find humor in the bizarre event of her own cremation. The quality of humor unites Shaw and his mother in a bond that transcends the event of death and helps Shaw understand that her spirit will never die. The reader is also released from the horror of facing the mechanics of the cremation process when “ Mama's” own comments lead us to understand ... he observes two “cooks” picking through “Mama's dainty little heap of ashes and samples of bone” the mood of dark humor is the only way he can handle the horror of his mother's death and cremated body. He has remained an unemotional observer on a journey through the crematorium with humor as the buffer between reporting the event and expressing raw emotion. Humor is the device to release himself ... chronological structure to his process of release. These details also provide an emotional way out for the reader who can share Mama's sense of humor about her own cremation thereby replacing personal fear about death with a feeling of the continuation of life and ones spirit. The first person narration of this letter hightens the focus and insight of the principal subject. “I went behind the scenes,” and “I ...
- 1665: Billy Budd
- ... dead with one blow to the head. In an effort to uphold military law and regulation, Captain Vere holds a trial in which he manipulates the reluctant court into convicting Billy and sentencing him to death. But his death was not agonizing or tortuous. It was instead, majestic. “At the same moment it chanced that the vapory fleece hanging low in the East was shot through with a soft glory as of the fleece ... Lamb of God seen in mystical vision, and simultaneously therewith, watched by the wedged mass of upturned faces, Billy ascended, and, ascending, took the full rose of the dawn”(80). Such glory and beauty in death can only be achieved by those who are truly ready and without regret, as Billy was. The question, then, is presented. Innocence or wisdom? Which philosophy, which way of life is more correct? Claggart, ...
- 1666: The Theme of Isolation in Various Literature
- ... with isolation. {1} When people have been isolated they don't see other people for a long time and this can lead to make a person stronger or make them weaker. In a live and death situation in can give them the extra will to live that you didn't have before. It can make him stronger and become his ally or it can beat him. When you are alone it ... had done. He was able to climb over mountains in blizzards and sleep without shelter in -40. He had found a way to live by himself and he didn't want to break that pattern. "Death on the Ice" by Cassie Brown is a compelling reconstruction of the "Newfoundland" disaster in which 78 sealers died. It tells how the captains of the sealing ships did not consider the men in their ... personality. Lavery joins forces with Konala and they continue on there journey for civilization. As Lavery begins to show sufficient evidence of recovery, Konala begins her journey into dire straits. On the eve of her death, Lavery began to nurture her, as she once did. Finally she handed him a pair of skin boots and spoke, slowly and carefully so he would be sure to understand. "They are not good ...
- 1667: A Good Man Is Hard To Find - Foreshadowing
- ... story, O’Connor uses strong imagery to foreshadow the people and the events in this story. There are three significant times she uses this technique. They are the description of the grandmother’s dress, the death of the family, and the conversation between the Misfit and the grandmother. The grandmother did not want to go to Florida; she ironically dresses in her Sunday best. She was dressed very nicely with, "A ... the reason for the grandmother’s beautiful dress, "In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady." (11). She herself predicts her own death. Unfortunately, she does not know this yet. Not only does O’Connor foreshadow the grandmother’s death, she foreshadows the deaths of the rest of the family. The foreshadowing of the family’s death is very evident when they "passed by a cotton field with five or six graves fenced in ...
- 1668: Joesph Mengele
- ... event occur? It occurred because the Nazis party was in control and Adolf Hitler was the Fuhrer and he wanted a perfect race. "Right, left", what kind of a man could send people to their death with a flick of a cane, without one scent of remorse or one inkling of guilt? -his name was Josef Mengele. (Nazi304) Hitler gave Mengele all the resources he could and this is the main reason why he went to Auschwitz, because the of the availability of the victims he could do his work on. The stories and pictures of Auschwitz tell a gruesome tale of death and torture. Josef Mengele performed horrific experiments on twins, justified by official Nazis party policies to try and create the "perfect human being". To this day, he serves as a warning signal of the evil ... twins, dwarfs, giants and some of the other abnormal races that were not fit to live, because of their lack of normal human characteristics. During his stay at Auschwitz he was nicknamed the "Angel of Death." When the trains arrived at Auschwitz they would sit i the cars for days before being herded out like cattle. After this hellish journey, the first thing that people saw when they left the ...
- 1669: Howl & Kaddish By Allen Ginsberg
- ... in fact is a Kaddish (a Jewish prayer recited by mourners). Even though Ginsberg may portray his mother in very vulgar terms he is still paying homage to her and expressing his sorrow at her death. "He lets the appalling story speak for itself" (Alvarez, Page 92) Her life was indeed a horrible one, and maybe it was better off it she was dead. Allen missed her anyway. The first part ... All the accumulations of life- that wear is out-clocks, bodies, consciousness, shoes, breasts, begotten sons, your communism, "paranoia" into hospitals". This is a list of all the things that Ginsberg says aided to the death of his mother-time, age, awareness, fatigue, womanhood, childbearing, personal views, and society’s beliefs. In saying this, Ginsberg partly blames himself for the death of his mother. This thought ties the first to the second part, which details a trip to the metal hospital and Allen taking his mother to New Jersey where she believes that the spies ...
- 1670: Hamlet: Live by the Sword, Die by the Sword
- ... Polonius and Laertes avenges his father by killing Hamlet. The lives and deaths of these three individuals are inextricably interwoven. Their destinies are forged by the others actions. To attempt to separate the life and death of each separate character would be impossible because their destinies are so closely tied together. Each one's destiny is determined by the actions of not only their life but also the reactions of others ... thus condemning Hamlet. “A hit, a very palpable hit.” (p 142) Hamlet then plunges his sword through Laertes. Laertes admits that the king had planned to kill Hamlet. Upon hearing this, Hamlet kills Claudius before death finally takes him too. In Hamlet's case, he devotes his own life to destroying Claudius. He accidentally kills Polonius in the process. Hamlet lives quite recklessly and doesn't pay close attention to his ... own brother the plans to murder Hamlet much the same way. He lives a live of deception and trickery. In the end, Claudius is turned in my his own follower, Laertes. Claudius suffers the worst death of the three people because he must watch his wife die at his own hand, and he can do nothing to stop her death. He lives his whole life leading people on and controlling ...
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