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- 2551: Ted Bundy
- ... items and told his mom that they were gifts. He was picked up at least twice by juvenile authorities for suspicion of auto theft and burglary, but nothing came of it. While Ted was on death row he once told an interviewer that he knew he was different from other people. He was quoted as having trouble knowing what appropriate social behaviors were. His own needs and desires were all that ... of venue from Tallahassee to Miami, and he managed to have his leg shackles removed so he could walk around the courtroom. In the end Ted was found guilty and sentenced to die. While on death row Ted conducted many interviews. Ted seemed surprised at the anger about the killings and that the women he had killed were mourned so deeply."What's one less person on the face of the earth anyway?"(Time Life) In October of 1982 Ted's daughter was born while he was on death row. It would be seven years later before Ted would die though. On the eve of his execution Ted told an evangelist that watching pornography had led him to commit his crimes. Theodore Robert ...
- 2552: Hamlet - Ophelia Character Ana
- ... her to be something she’s not. That weakness of mind and will, which permitted her obedience to her father and thus destroyed her hope for Hamlet’s love, finally resulted in her insanity and death. When her father had challenged the honor of Hamlet’s intentions, Ophelia could only reply "I do not know, my lord, what I should think" (III, iii). Used to relying upon her father’s direction ... and Hamlet. An example of hate is when she sings about a "baker's daughter"(IV, v). Ophelia is referring to the way her father used to treat her before the tragic incident of his death. The love within her madness is when she speaks about the events on "Valentine’s Day"(IV, v). When Ophelia speaks about Valentines Day she is referring to the events of romance that she was ... her family tried so hard to protect her from has passed. Her father’s admission of error might have embittered a more independent Ophelia. This explains Hamlets rejection of her. Being tormented of scenes of death and the burial, she reaches out to the beauty of hanging flowers in a willow tree and somehow drowns. Ophelia was never able to understand exactly what Hamlet was suffering from, and in a ...
- 2553: Rachel Carson
- ... world renown biologist wrote many books inspired by her work as an employee for the US fish and wildlife services. During her time with the wildlife services, Carson witnessed sever environmental corruption. Carson witnessed the death of animals due to pesticide spraying. Carson was very passionate about the effect of chemicals on the environment. The contamination case of Woburn, MA relates to her works because it is involved with environmental corruption ... born with a “seashell in her ear”. She graduated from the Pennsylvania College for Women in 1929 with a degree in Marine Biology and from John Hopkins University in 1932 with a masters degree. The death of her father and family was responsible for preventing her from pursuing any further higher education. She took a job from the Fish and Wildlife Service. She worked there from 1935 to 1952. "The next ... lawyers for Grace and for the families were in a quandary. Schlichtmann told reporters he was "bitterly disappointed," and well he might have been -- three of the eight leukemia cases, including two that ended in death, were diagnosed before September 1973. Keating, speaking for Grace, said he was "not necessarily surprised but a little disappointed." Perhaps the biggest problem was that the lawyers had to prepare for a second phase ...
- 2554: Julius Caesar: The Corruption of Power
- ... Flavius and Marullus removed ornaments from Caesar’s statues as a way to prevent Caesar from becoming a tyrant and to show their anti-Caesar sentiments. Caesar put the two men “to silence” or to death. This showed how he did not tolerate any nonsense. He did not like opposition or anyone questioning him, even though Flavius and Marullus had a right to express their beliefs. Caesar also presents his despotic ... said how he did not doubt their wisdom. He tells them how he is a friend of theirs and he agrees that Caesar was dangerous. He promised Brutus he would not blame him for the death. The gullible Brutus agreed. Yet, Antony was ambitious and lied so he could tell the towns people what really went on. Antony later decides to make a death list, and puts his nephew’s name and Lepidus’ s brother’s name on it. Sentencing their own family members to death signifies how far these men are willing to ignore humane and upright ...
- 2555: Macbeth-Gloomy Indeed
- ... there is violence, there is lots of it, including blood. With even a simple knowledge of the battle fields of the 1500’s to 1600’s you should be able to realize the amount of death and disease and rats that feast and gorge themselves on dead bodies. In those times if you got a wound, you usually died, many people got these wound as is explained in this quote “... they ... or memorized another golgotha,”(Act1,sc2). OUCH! reeking wounds?! They sound rather gloomy to mine ears. And the word golgotha (where Christ was crucified) is used to tell of how the battle was rife with death (usually when someone was crucified man were crucified along with them. In Christ’s case this was not so but it was a horrid sight , as he was stoned and poked with sharp objects.). Another testament to the magnitude of death is in this line, “Strange images of death as thick as hail came post with post, and everyone did bear”(Act1,sc3). Killing someone you don’t know is one thing, but killing someone ...
- 2556: John Dryden
- ... opportunity by his father to be educated at Westminster School and at the University of Cambridge. Around 1657 he went to London as a clerk to the chamberlain to the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell. The death of Cromwell in 1659 inspired Dryden to write his first important poem, Heroic Stanzas. After the Restoration Dryden became a Royalist and celebrated the return of kin Charles II. During the celebration he wrote two ... considered one of his greatest plays and one of the masterpieces of the Restoration tragedy. Throughout his career he wrote several occasional poems, which celebrated particular events of a public character, a military victory, a death, or a political crisis. What made these poems he wrote special was the fact that they were written not for the self but for the nation. In 1670 he was appointed poet laureate and royal ... he wrote the mock-heroic episode Mac Fecknoe. It is amazing that he did not learn that his best talent was writing formal verse satire until he was at the age of 50. After the death of Charles II and the succession of James II, Dryden and his two sons were converted to Catholicism. He quickly developed many enemies that accused him of opportunism. As a result of he was ...
- 2557: Auschwitz 2
- ... 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 ...
- 2558: The 26 Amendments of the US Constitution
- ... 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 ...
- 2559: Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
- ... than one hundred fifty bald eagles. The majority of these birds died due to hypothermia. After their feathers became soaked with oil, they lost their insulating ability, which then led to hypothermia. Another cause of death for the birds is anemia. When oil gets into the blood stream, it causes the red blood cells to "wrinkle" which causes anemia. More than seven thousand sea otters were killed also. This is a ... thinning, which then lead to infection. It could cause liver and kidney damage, because these are the organs which attempt to clean the oil out of the system. Damage to these organs would lead to death. It could also lead to emphysema which compromises the diving ability of the otters and eventually leads to death. Another cause of death is blindness. If oil were to get into an otter's eye it could cause blindness which would then cause starvation. Fish were also effected by the oil spill, however, ...
- 2560: Depiction Of The American Drea
- ... the American Dream, in it s modern form, generally fails to make that person happy. As for Gatsby s dream to win Daisy s love with elaborate material possessions, his attempts eventually lead to his death. Both the noble intentions and the resulting failures of the American Dream resemble the intentions and corruption of Jay Gatsby in the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. F. Scott Fitzgerald included many ... who was married to George Wilson, a low income mechanic, desired money and a higher social status. This desire, which is equivalent to the desire for money in the American Dream, eventually led to the death of Myrtle. Myrtle was having an affair with Tom Buchanan in spite of the fact that he was awful to her, for example, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand. But yet, Myrtle ... he would share his money with her, so she would become rich. Myrtle s dream of money, and belief that having an affair with Tom would eventually lead her to money, but instead, she met death. Another example of the American Dream is the dream of Daisy Buchanan. Daisy fell in love with Jay Gatsby before he went away to war, but her desire for money led her to Tom ...
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