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- 4061: The Life of a Jamestown Colonist
- ... chests and the word, CROATOAN, carved into a tree. Some believe that the settlers were victims of an Indian raid or that they were attacked by the Spanish. They also could have all starved to death because they arrived in Roanoke during the worst drought in seven hundred years. One of those theories may be true, but I choose to believe that Emily and the other settlers assimilated into the Natives ... in 1606. The funny thing about John was that he was a good leader and he was not afraid to brag about all of his exploits. He often told us stories about his brushes with death with the Turks and how a princess named Charatza Tragabigzanda had fallen in love with him. Although John’s stories were unbelievable at times, I will give him credit for establishing a little order in ...
- 4062: Destruction (holocaust)
- ... about half of them Jews were murdered. The murders were done by every means imaginable, but most of the victims perished as a result of shooting, starvation, disease, and poison gas. Others were tortured to death or died in horrible medical experiments. Adolf Hilter was the leader of the National Social party that dislikes Jews and Arab. Hilter, argue that the destruction of Jews had to come. He blamed the Jews ... this extermination over one million Jews and other people were mass murdered by military groups, which rounded them up and shot them. Gradually the emphasis changed to concentration camps, where the prisoners were worked to death as slave laborers, and extermination camps, where they were murdered in the gas chambers. The most famous of these was Auschwitz, which was both a labor camp and an extermination camp. The Nazis targeted many ...
- 4063: Harriet Tubman
- ... man named John Tubman. Harriet remained a slave, but was able to stay nights in Tubman’s cabin. Although she was married, Harriet lived in fear of being shipped to the deep South, a virtual death sentence for any slave. Her fears became reality in 1849, when the owner of the Brodas plantation died and many of the slaves were scheduled to be sold. After hearing of her fate, Harriet planned ... moved back to Auburn to live with her parents. There she married Nelson Davis, who she had met at a South Carolina army base, in 1870. They were happily married for 18 years until Davis’ death. In 1896, Harriet purchased property to build a home for poor and needy blacks. She was unable to raise enough money to build the house and gave the land to the African Methodist Episcopal Zion ...
- 4064: Definition Of American Democra
- ... Washington was America's hero. He was America's first president. He was a slave owner. He deplored slavery but did not release his slaves. His will stated that they would be released after the death of his wife (The Volume Library; 1988). Washington wasn't the only president to have slaves. Thomas Jefferson wrote, "All men are created equal" but died leaving his blacks in slavery. In 1775 black Americans ... when dealing with extremely cruel owners. The treatment of slaves became a frequent discussion amongst the Romans. There was those such as Cat the Elder, who believed that it was cheaper to work slaves to death and then replace them by buying new ones. Then the argument of slaves being very cognitive beings and the abusive treatment being a catalyst for conspiracy to revolt and kill their owners. When once free ...
- 4065: Nostradamus's Prophecies
- ... to help people through harsh times and did not even fear for his own life. In 1525 he received his Bachelor's degree for medicine, and He started to help the fight against the 'Black Death' that was feared throughout the Renaissance period. It was then that he began to treat victims of the plague in communities of southern France. “Nostradamus used inventive methods of treatment, and his success in curing ... and drank. Some people claim that a soldier drank wine out of Nostradamus's skull, and the next day the soldier was shot. Today many still asked the question: Do Nostradamus writings actually predict the death of popes, rise of tyrants, and natural disasters to come? The code in which the prophecies were written could be comprehended to mean many things, but if the people who claim to be able to ...
- 4066: Mark Twain and His Writings
- ... When reading these stories, it is important to know about the pioneer life; a life where murder, gambling, and stealing were common thresholds in society. Back then, murder occurred so frequently that newspapers mentioned the death in only a sentence or two. “The Killing of Julius Caesar ‘Localized’” reads notably sharp due to the hidden meaning that is represented. Twain writes this story about the details of Julius Caesar’s death. However, characters names are changed to fit the time period of modern day and the story plot strangely resembles a murder that might occur in a pioneering community; hence the work “Localized” in the title ...
- 4067: Martin Luther King, Jr.
- ... January 15th, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Martin Luther King was an eloquent black Baptist minister, who led the mass civil rights movement in the United States from the mid 1950's until his death by assassination, in Memphis, Tenn., on April 4th, 1968. He rose to national prominence through the organization of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, promoting nonviolent tactics such as the massive March on Washington (1963) to ... black freedom movement was that of a leader who was able to turn protests into a crusade, to translate local conflicts into moral issues nationwide concern. King was only 39 at the time of his death a leader who regarded himself as "drum major" for justice, peace and righteousness. Although he never gave up on his insistence that nonviolence must remain the essential tactic of the movement or in his faith ...
- 4068: D.h. Lawrence
- ... with his work. In his free time Lawrence wrote. In January 1911 his first novel, The White Peacock was published, but the suprise he may have felt from this success was second to the overshadowing death of his mother, from cancer, in the previous month. (Letters 46) In November of 1911 the poor health that had plagued Lawrence all year culminated in pneumonia. Once again, he fought his way free of ... time with the Lawrences remembered him in charades; he had a passion for the amusement - even as a youth - and would get everyone into the act. Indeed, in 1928, less than two years before his death from tuberculosis, he was still performing energetically, mimicking Navajo Indians complete with war-whoops; he delighted the visiting Americans but terrified his own party who feared that he would provoke another haemorrhage of the lungs ...
- 4069: The Impact of Frederick Douglass
- ... to Haiti. In 1882 he created the first edition of “Life and Times of Frederick Douglass”, his biography. But sadly in the same year his wife Anna Murray Douglass died. On the day of his death--Feb. 20, 1895, in Washington, D.C.--Douglass attended a convention for women's suffrage. The impact that Frederick Douglass had on American and African American history is that now African Americans are treated more ... he urged a black student to "Agitate! Agitate! Agitate!"(AOL: Afro American Quotes 13). As a result of Frederick Douglass’ events in life his house is preserved as a national memorial, when news of his death schools closed to take a look at a framed leader, and a United States postage stamp was made in memory for Frederick Douglass. Frederick Agustus Washington Bailey has accomplished many things in his life such ...
- 4070: Cuban Missile Crisis
- ... a choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war. To adopt that kind of course in the nuclear age would be evidence only of the bankruptcy of our policy- -or of a collective death-wish for the world" (Walton 142). -President John F. Kennedy Although it is regarded as a highlight of President John F. Kennedy's career, the Cuban Missile Crisis may not have been the heroic act ... place, Kennedy had effectively backed Khrushchev into a corner where the only ways out were by facing humiliation or by resorting to nuclear war. This is essentially the same situation Kennedy claimed would be a "death wish for the world" (see top quote). As Kennedy maintained his demand for an unconditional surrender, Khrushchev was granted a way to back down yet save face. It came in the form of a letter ...
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