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- 4081: Central America
- ... period are a clear example of using violence and fear to repress change as seen in Skidmore and Smith (1997: 357) "One feature of this entire period… was the frightful abuse of human rights. Paramilitary death squads most notoriously Mano Blanca and Ojo por Ojo, carried on a murderous campaign against political dissenters. No fewer then 80,000 people were killed or "disappeared between the 1960's and 1990". Because people feared that if they spoke out against the government they would face death/torture, many would-be activists sat quietly as the government did whatever it wanted. The only weapon against this 'cloak of fear' was to bring in the help of outside nations and expose the atrocities ...
- 4082: Council Of Nicea
- ... Christians in the first century after the Council of Nicea than pagans had killed in the century before Nicea. One year after calling the Council of Nicea Constantine had his own son, Crispus, put to death. Later he suffocated his wife, Fausta, in an overheated bath. Then he had his sister's son killed and his sister’s husband strangled. It was also during the reign of Constantine that the cross ... church has resulted in the deaths of millions of martyrs. One of the last martyrs to die for the Faith before the end of the official persecutions was Saint Lucy. On the night of her death in 304 she prophesied that she saw the dawning of religious freedom for the Church and the end of the last and most dreadful of all the persecutions, that of Emperor Diocletian. Nine years later ...
- 4083: Scarlet Letter 2
- Scarlet Letter - Punishment and Death Hawthornes The Scarlet Letter deals with many themes, among those including punishment and death. Utilizing the theme of punishment, the central character, Hester Prynne, was forced to wear an embroidered scarlet letter on "her bosom" for the rest of her life as a sign of her sin of adultery ...
- 4084: Romeo And Juliet Vs. West Side
- ... Side Story that had to do with the types of people, their races and sex. Sometimes prejudice can be in small doses and can be meaningless, other times prejudice can be very serious and cause death. Prejudice was the theme of this story, there are many examples. For instance, an act of prejudice in West Side Story was the Puerto Ricans disliking the Americans and vice versa. The PR's diskliked ... was fumbling with something in the dark. This was clearly an act of prejudice against African Americans. Then the fact that white cops were beating on the blacks at the rally because of that mans death. People are allowed to have their opinions, but to act out in a violent way and to get away with it, now that is a disgrace.
- 4085: Jim Morrison and Susan Sontag
- ... to one of Jim Morrison's earlier life experienced where Jim sees the overturned truck of Pueblo Indians. As stated earlier it was known that Jim felt as if it was his fault for the death of the Indians because his father refused to pull over and let Jim out in order to help the Indians. The thoughts that Jim experienced as a result of the accidents are a good representation ... mother would go along with her father on the trips. When Susan was only six years old, her father died on one of his fur trading trips in the China. As a result of the death of her father and the absence of her mother Susan was often considered to be "a psychologically abandoned child" (Sontag). As Susan Sontag's life continued she became more isolated than when she was a ...
- 4086: John Quincy Adams
- ... out of office after one term. After his presidency, he and his wife Abigail moved back to Mass. where he lived for the next twenty-five years. Although the effects of old age and the death of his beloved Abigail troubled his final years, his mind remained sharp and his spirt buoyant until the end. He died on July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. He was 90 years old at his death. He was known by his countrymen as not only one of the founding fathers but also as a plain, honest man who showed the best of what the nation could hope of its citizens and ...
- 4087: Sergei Grinkov And Ekaterina Gordeeva
- ... and gentle words to him (in Russian). She removed his skates, and stroked his pale face. Ekaterina's passion and love for Sergei will endure always. Afterward, the doctors revealed the cause of Sergei's death. It had been due to severe blockages to two of his coronary arteries. In addition, Sergei had an enlarged heart, which causes an inability to pump blood to the heart in a level that meets ... flowers, not because of their beauty but for their significance. The flowers were first given to Ekaterina by Sergei, when they first fell in love. It was very hard telling Dasha about her father's death. Dasha would sit in the living room, sad and quiet. Then she would ask " Mama, when is father coming back from his trip?" Ekaterina would tell her that Sergei has become an angle and is ...
- 4088: Cleopatra VII
- ... Arsinoe, two younger half brothers (Ptolemy XIII and Ptolemy XIV). Her father was Ptolemy Auletes XII. Cleopatra's mother died shortly after her birth and nobody really knew who she was. After her mother's death, her father remarried. Cleopatra never really liked her step-mother. Now, the queen whom people thought was too flirtatious, was also powerful, smart, and unique, but there is even more to her sad enchanting life ... Cleopatra lived. It was maybe 1/10 of a mile from Cleopatra's palace. She could walk there in five minutes. The library had over 40,000 scrolls. The scrolls were contracts, history, birth dates, death dates, burial ceremonies, things about Rome, things about their civilization, novels, special dates, time lines, newspapers, clay tablets, and a whole lot more! Its name is the library of Alexandria. The writings there were probably ...
- 4089: The Life of Beethoven
- ... scholars say that Beethoven himself was very difficult to get along with. His brother Karl died in 1815, leaving a nine-year-old son. Beethoven won custody of his nephew, Karl after his brother's death. He wanted to treat Karl as his own son but his poverty and frenzy to compose music caused him to neglect the boy. This relationship also turned out badly. A year before Beethoven's death the boy attempted suicide. Beethoven began composing tremendously again in 1817. Most of 1818 he spent writing the colossal Hammerklavier Sonata and the years until 1824 he spent writing the last three Piano Sonatas, the ...
- 4090: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- ... what an accursed thing slavery is" (Faber 40). So began the arduous task of commencing her novel. According to Joan D. Hedrick, "The motive for Uncle Tom’s Cabin came from her grief over the death of her own infant son and her imaginative sensibility’s desire to show how much human feeling was present even among the ‘lowly’"(BBR, March 95). At first Harriet wrote weekly installments of her book ... fairly as possible to depict both sides of slavery. This did noting to ease the fury felt towards the end of the novel when a white slave owner, Simon Legree, viciously beat Uncle Tom to death for not revealing the whereabouts of two other slaves. "The South united in outrage over what it considered willful misinterpretation"(Faber 47). Inversely, the Northern States were influenced so immensely, converting almost every reader into ...
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