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- 3311: A Timeline Of The Holocaust
- ... children, and other victims were thereafter killed by lethal injection and pills and by forced starvation. The "euthanasia" program contained all the elements later required for mass murder of European Jews and Gypsies in Nazi death camps: an articulated decision to kill, specially trained personnel, the apparatus for killing by gas, and the use of euphemistic language like "euthanasia" which psychologically distanced the murderers from their victims and hid the criminal ... outlying concentration camps. The Germans tried to cover up the evidence of genocide and deported prisoners to camps inside Germany to prevent their liberation. Many inmates died during the long journeys on foot known as "death marches." During the final days, in the spring of 1945, conditions in the remaining concentration camps exacted a terrible toll in human lives. Even concentration camps never intended for extermination, such as Bergen-Belsen, became death traps for thousands (including Anne Frank who died there of typhus in March 1945). In May 1945, Nazi Germany collapsed, the S.S. guards fled, and the camps ceased to exist as extermination, forced ...
- 3312: Aphrodite
- ... relief of Lilith from about 2000 B.C. is "the first voluptuous female nude known from antiquity" (Hartt 110). It is interesting to note that Lilith, in contrast to Aphrodite, was the Assyrian goddess of death rather than life. Despite being the earliest known female nude, this depiction of Lilith was far from realistic. In fact, she was shown with wings and taloned feet. Furthermore, her pose is rigid and her ... a common artistic theme in both places. In the Near East, there was even a funeral sarcophagus depicting Astarte with this gesture. This was meant to symbolize the goddess' ability to nourish the soul after death, "and to reaffirm that death as well as life is under the protection of the Goddess" (Getty 70). Another common gesture in both Greek and Near Eastern art is that which is known as the "pudica" or "modesty" pose. ...
- 3313: John Hancock
- ... in Lexington, Massachuchetts and son of Mary Hawke, born on October 13, 1711 in Hingham, Massachuchetts. Mary was once married before she married John Hancock Sr. Her previous marriage ended in her former husband’s death.(Rev.) John Hancock was well-liked by his parish, was paid well, and was provided a very comfortable home. In return of their generosity, he was a "faithful shepard." He kept an attentive watch over ... he learned the basics of reading, writing, and figuring.All things seemed to go well, until the spring of 1774. His father came down with an illness, that later would be the cause of his death. His sadness grew more because of the reason that they would have to move. Mary’s parents were both dead and a very difficult decision would have to be made by Mary. Her anxiety to ... the building , he suddenly collapsed. The Council members quickly carried him home, in which he would die two hours later.Thomas Hancock was a very wealthy man. Not many realized that he was until his death. He divided up money among his family , but gave all the most valuable objects to John. John got the business, got much of Thomas’ land, and a good portion of his money. At the ...
- 3314: Biography of Julius Caesar
- ... 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. When Caesar was a ... 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. From ... 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 ...
- 3315: Auschwitz-concentration Camp
- ... terrible concentration camp. It was established by order of Himmler on April 27, 1940. At first, it was small because it was a work camp for Polish and Soviet prisoners of war. It became a death camp in 1941. Auschwitz was divided into three areas: Auschwitz was the camp commander's headquarters and administrative offices. Auschwitz was called Birkenau and it was the death camp with forty gas chambers. Auschwitz was a slave labor camp (Funk and Wagnalls New encyclopedia). On the gate of Auschwitz was a sign in German which read, 'Arbeit macht frei', which means work makes you free. Auschwitz included camp sites a few miles away from the main complex. At these sites, slave labor was used to kill the people. The working conditions were so poor that death was a sure result (Gilbert “The Holocaust”) . In March 26, 1942, Auschwitz took women prisoners, but after August 16, 1942 the women were housed in Birkenau. When the Jews arrived at Auschwitz, they were ...
- 3316: Agony Ang The Extacy, Ethical Considerations Concerning Mich
- ... exactly that reason. So looking at it through the eyes of Michelangelo one can see that it was a huge decision including this social aspect as well as a huge moral dilemma, with a possible penalty of banishment or death. Michelangelo was also commissioned to work on several sculptures to be used in the tomb of Pope Julius II; this however was interrupted by the work to be done on the Sistine Chapel. The most ...
- 3317: Assassination Of JFK
- ... prove that Lee Harvey Oswald is not the killer. The Warren Commission consisting of "various outstanding citizens" was created to "ascertain, evaluate and report upon the facts relating to the assassination ... and the subsequent violent death of the man charged with the assassination Lee Harvey Oswald. The purpose of the Commission was to examine the evidence developed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and any additional evidence that may hereafter come ... backed coup, against his express wishes, he was outraged. Kennedy was no fan of Diem's, but he did not want to see him murdered. General Maxwell Taylor wrote that upon learning of Diem's death JFK "leaped to his feet and rushed from the room with a look of shock and dismay on his face". Kennedy blamed the CIA for Diem's murder. Kennedy said he had to "do something ... mentioning again that E. Howard Hunt of the CIA was able to blackmail Nixon for a million dollars. What did Hunt know? As discussed earlier, several researchers have accused Hunt of complicity in Kennedy's death, and Hunt has given conflicting accounts of where he was on the day of the shooting. Also several of the people who were hired or considered for employment by the Nixon White House during ...
- 3318: Weakness of Women in Hamlet
- ... characters in Hamlet seem to have very few redeemable qualities. Shakespeare effectively demonstrates how dependent women are on men by showing that, without men, women cannot function as emotionally stable or sound individuals. After the death of her husband, the King, Gertrude hastily remarried the late King’s brother, Claudius. Gertrude’s marriage to Claudius was a deplorable and sordid disappointment to Hamlet who was appalled by the speed with which ... Gertrude in that she is incapable of maintaining a state of emotional stability when she does not have a man playing a significant role in her life. Ophelia’s descent into madness directly follows the death of her father, Polonius. Shakespeare immediately makes it obvious to the reader that it is her father and brother, rather than Ophelia herself, who make the important decisions in her life. She is first introduced ... they were willing to betray Hamlet. As previously mentioned, Gertrude’s marriage was disloyal and dishonoring to her late husband, but it was also a slap in the face to Hamlet. After his father’s death, Hamlet should have been next in line for the thrown. Instead, Gertrude’s marriage gave Claudius reign of Hamlet’s rightful thrown. Also, because Gertrude is weak, she is not willing to accept Hamlet’ ...
- 3319: The Crucible
- ... possessed by witches and that Abigail Williams had lied about his wife being a witch. But when they went to court Mary Warren was given the ultimatum of once again lying, or being sentenced to death. So Mary Warren accused Proctor of working for the Devil and forcing her to clear his wives name. Proctor was put in jail until he was ready to be put on trial once again, where ... with that one sentence he completely changed all that he stood for as a character. He was seen as a man with dignity and determination who was firm in his beliefs but when faced with death he went back on his beliefs to save himself. Finally, he realizes that Danforth and Hawthorne want him to confess simply to save their own skins so he rips up his confession and goes to his death. Throughout the play we see how John Proctor changes in two ways. First he lets his strong beliefs be overshadowed by his cowardice and then he triumphantly goes back to his beliefs with a ...
- 3320: Leon The Movie Review Essay
- ... life makes him responsible for it so he'd better get used to her. When Mathilda discovers that Leon is a "cleaner", her course of action becomes clear. Through the motive of revenge for the death of her little brother, Mathilda decides to become a cleaner. At first Leon refuses to teach her his trade but eventually he allows himself to be worn down. The two of them move out of ... but to face them alone. After providing a route for Mathilda to escape to safety, Leon sacrifices his own life in order to kill Standsfield for Mathilda. Upset at hearing the news of Leon's death, Mathilda try's to get a job working as a cleaner for Tony. But he doesn't relent to her plea like Leon did and demands that she go back to school. Leon is a ... Leon's nearby apartment after her family has been wiped out by a crooked top DEA enforcer named Stansfield (Gary Oldman), who wants to kill her too. Matilda wants to hire Leon to avenge the death of her little brother; in payment, she offers to do his laundry. Leon wants nothing to do with the girl, but she insists, and attaches herself like a leech. Eventually she develops an ambition ...
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