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- 2431: Ceasar
- ... offensively reactionary measures of Sulla’s legislation. During Pompey’s absence from 67 to 62 BC during his campaigns against the Mediterranean pirates, Mithridates, and Crassus, his jealous rival. Caesar married Ponpeia after Cornelia’s death and was appointed aedile in 65 BC As aedile , Caesar returned to Marius’ trophies to their former place of honor in the Capitol, thus laying claim to leadership of the populares.(1 volume C), (2 ... danger if they sustained their veto and the proclamation of military law was passed. Caesar was told to leave his troops behind and cross the Rubicon into Rome alone. Caesar knew that this was a death sentence for him so he did not leave his troops but marched into the city and caused a civil war. He defeated Pompey’s troops in many battles and became the dictator of Rome. (3 ... the sixty member conspiracy which Marcus Brutus had organized to kill him. On the Ides of March , two days before he was due to leave Rome on his great eastern expedition, he was stabbed to death at a meeting of the senate in Pompey’s new theater. He fell dead at the foot of Pompey’s statue. Pompey was avenged, as well as Bibulus and Cato. After a provocative funeral ...
- 2432: The Catcher In the Rye: First Person Narration is Critical
- ... unrealistic, thinking that he has a foolproof plan, even though the extent of his plans are to "take a room in a hotel.., and just take it easy till Wednesday." Holden's excessive thoughts on death are not typical of most adolescents. His near obsession with death might come from having experienced two deaths in his early life. He constantly dwells on Allie, his brother's, death. From Holden's thoughts, it is obvious that he loves and misses Allie. In order to hold on to his brother and to minimize the pain of his loss, Holden brings Allie's baseball ...
- 2433: Neil Simon Utilizing Charatter Exaggeration
- ... 22 (1961)" (Geitner 257). The main character, Barney Cashman, who is the "last of the red hot lovers" is facing a mid-life crisis. For the first time in his life he is meditating about death. He feels as if he has missed out on many things during his lifetime. In an act of desperation before he gets too old, "He decides to introduce excitement into his life via adultery" (Martin ... don’t particularly enjoy sex” (Last of the Red Hot Lovers 55). Instead, she leads Barney into a debate about whether there are any decent people in the world. Jeanette asks him if he thinks death is terrible. This question catches Barney’s attention, for it was his intensified awareness of death that lead to his desire to have an affair. He says that he does think death is terrible. Jeanette follows up with: “You mean you enjoy life?”( Last of the Red Hot Lovers 60). ...
- 2434: The Vietnam War
- ... the aid of cameras and video equipment, relate the stories to the American at home. Every night for the length of the war news programs were saturated with reports of the happenings in Vietnam and death tolls for the day. Grossly eggzrated enemy casualty numbers were reported, giving the public a false view of happenings of the war. Suddenly on January 30, 1968 a Vietcong uprising, now commonly known as the ... us!... (Hersh, 12-13) November 17, 1970 Lt. Calley was tried for, and eventually convicted for, his part in the premeditated murder of 109 "Oriental human beings". In a court-martial, murder is punishable by death by hanging. After a long deliberation, the jury returned a sentence of life imprisonment, of which William Calley served three years. Calley is now a successful jeweler in Columbus, Georgia (Knappmar, 598-601). Whether or ... fighting was being done in vain. Eventually, a solider would lose care in what he was doing. His self worth would lower, thus lowering his view of worth of others. When he sees all the death and destruction in what has became his world and realizes he is partly responsible, he begins to regard himself as a killer, who himself deserves death. It is highly probable that even with the ...
- 2435: Joseph Stalin
- Joseph Stalin’s official reign of terror ended with his death in 1953, but the effects of his autocratic rule continued for many years to follow. His lasting hold on the people of the former Soviet Union still lingers in a few brainwashed minds. In the ... created a holocaust greater than Hitler’s.", which unbelievably is true. The horror of the crimes Joseph Stalin committed against his own people is appalling. For example, Stalin’s plan for collectivization resulted in the death of twenty million people. The great five-year plan to turn the peasant farmers into one, huge farming community brought on famine, starvation and eventually death to twenty million peasant farmers. Another atrocity that Stalin was responsible for was the forced labor camps known as Gulags. "...the murderous forced labor camps of the Gulag archipelago - victimized tens of millions of ...
- 2436: Shielded Consequences
- ... how people’s motives produce consequences far beyond their intentions. First, Putnam’s vengeance towards the town causes the imprisonment of George Jacobs. Also, Abigail’s attempt to win over John Proctor results in his death. Finally, Parris’s efforts to clear his name causes the deaths of many innocent people. Had these characters planned out their situation, this would have been a whole different story. First, Putnam’s troubled relations ... the accused and never considers the charge he is making-he just sees the impact it makes on him, which means more land. Next, Abigail’s passion to win over John Proctor results in his death. In the beginning, Abigail is angry that Proctor will not participate in their relationship. Abigail attempts to win him back: “I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in ... everything in her power to win John, while John does everything in his power to bring her down. Abigail never thinks rationally and causes John to take action. John's eventual actions result in his death, which is something that Abigail never wanted. Third, Parris’s efforts to clear his name cause the deaths of many people. First, Parris tells the judge to declare that Abigail is innocent of fraud, ...
- 2437: List Of Amendments
- ... not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President. The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors ... who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified. Section 4. The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the House of Representatives may choose a President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them, and for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the Senate may choose a Vice President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them. Section 5. Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on ...
- 2438: The Aztec Nation
- ... realized it was gone and that she was pregnant. When her children Coyolxauhqui, the moon, and Centzonhuitznáhuac, the stars, discovered this they became angry and decided to kill their mother. Coatlicue wept over her impending death, but the presence in her womb consoled her. When Coyolxauhqui and Centzonhuitznáhuac came to slay her, Huitzilopochtli was born, and with the aid of the serpent of fire(sun's rays) he cut off Coyolxauhqui ... Caso 75). The skins of the victims were often worn until decomposition occurred; the removal of the skin was a happy event. This served to remind the Aztecs of the bitterness of the experience of death. In general, however, human skins were worn to this extreme only after one occasion: The Feast of the Flaying of Men. Other sacrificial methods were practiced as well: some men were tethered to a framework ... important in the survival of the nation because so many males were killed in wars and in sacrifices. Also alliances were made in this way for diplomatic reasons. If you committed adultery the punishment was death by stoning or strangulation. The person accused had the choice between the two types of punishment. The social structure of the Aztecs is very interesting. A person called the Great Speaker was the supreme ...
- 2439: High Noon
- ... being is existence. This is the story of a man who creates his own choices and stands up for the right reason when he is confronting such limit-situations as chance, suffering, conflict, guilt, and death. He is the town's marshal, Will Kane, who marries a beautiful Quaker girl in the courtroom. The couple plans to move away to a new town and settle down to have a family. During ... also represent the imperfect - always weak, dependent and inadequate. Their existence is guided by an unauthentic practice, determined by habit and cultural conditioning. The "ordinary" townspeople are confronted by the limitation of freedom such as death, which is the source of their own dread, and as a result, they choose to avoid pain and experience pleasure. Kane is rejected by everyone in the nihilistic societal crowd. Some people from the church ... by the noon train's whistle. Kane writes his last will and testament in his office, and places it in an envelope on which he scrawls "To be opened only in the event of my death." This equates with an existentialist theme where Kane is confronted by the limits of freedom such as his own death. Kane, betrayed and alone, walks up the deserted street to meet the four killers ...
- 2440: Auschwitz
- ... Roman Empire and was the most worthy adversary of the British Empire. The most overwhelming and terrifying aspect of the Second World War has got to be the ghettos, concentration camps and of course the death camps. The camp that stands out in everybody’s mind has got to be Auschwitz. Out of the 6.8 million killed there were 6000 killed at Auschwitz a day. What some people may not ... factory in what is now the Czech Republic. A third group, mostly twins and dwarfs, underwent medical experiments at the hands of doctors such as Josef Mengele, who was also known as the "Angel of Death." The camp was staffed partly by prisoners, some of whom were selected to be kapos (orderlies) and sonderkommandos (workers at the crematoria). Members of these groups were killed periodically. The kapos and sonderkommandos were supervised ... and July 1944. In October 1944 a group of sonderkommandos destroyed one of the gas chambers at Birkenau. They and their accomplices, a group of women from the Monowitz labor camp, were all put to death. When the Soviet army marched into Auschwitz to liberate the camp on January 27, 1945, they found about 7600 survivors abandoned there. More than 58,000 prisoners had already been evacuated by the Nazis ...
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