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- 4261: Charles Manson
- ... kill seven wealthy white people and to blame it on the blacks would start his plan of a black/white revolution which he called "Helter Skelter." He attempted to frame the black people by writing "Death to Pigs" in the victim's own blood and carving the word "war" in the stomach of his victims. Manson denied allegations that this was the motive behind the murders but many of Manson's ... Texas to be tried under Texan law. Linda Kasabian turned state's evidence and got away with murder. All particpants in the murders, with the exception of Kasabian, were found guilty and were sentenced to death. This sentence was revoked and turned into life imprisionment. There was great concern for the possibility of the popular image of martyrdom being assigned to Manson and his "Family." Manson used suggestion and passive hypnotism ...
- 4262: Malcolm X
- ... a pioneer in articulating a vigorous self-defense against white violence--a precursor of the black power movement of the late 1960s. Born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Neb., he became a rebellious youth after the death (1931) of his father, who the family believed was murdered for advocating the ideas of Marcus GARVEY. Malcolm spent a few years in a foster home but became an excellent student and was voted class ... 1965) publicized Malcolm's ideas and became something of a classic in contemporary American literature. Bibliography Breitman, George. The Last Year of Malcolm X (1967). Clarke, John H. ed., Malcolm X (1969). Goldman, Peter. The Death and Life of Malcolm X (1973). Malcolm X, Malcolm X: The Last Speeches, ed. by Bruce Perry (1989). Wolfenstein, E. V., The Victims of Democracy (1981).
- 4263: Jane Eyre 2
- ... is told in first person, which is Jane Eyre. The first place Jane stays is Gateshead Hall. While at Gateshead, Jane is treated unfairly and is punished for things she did not do. After the death of Jane s parents, her uncle, Mr. Reed brought Jane into his house. On her uncle s deathbed Mrs. Reed promises to treat Jane like one of her own children. Jane s aunt, Mrs. Reed, does not like Jane and has a very hard time doing this. She feels Jane was forced upon her family after the death of her parents. Against her husband s request, Mrs. Reed does not treat Jane like a human being and is constantly criticizing and punishing her. In one example Jane was keeping to herself, reading a ...
- 4264: Autobiography on Ernest Hemingway
- ... have probably been writing." (Hemingway 283 (3)). Hemingway's stories were based on adventure, and different aspects of it. His love of spain, and his love of bullfighting, led him to write a book called "Death in the Afternoon". During the 1930's, Spain was in a civil war, still having ties in Spain, Hemingway made 4 trips their. He raised money, for a party called the "Loyalists". He wrote a ... As one critic put it "Hemingway was a cheerful, irascible, by turns generous, and selfish, expansive and egocentric. Hemingway was hedonistic and dedicated, in love with life and yet by his own admission obsessed with death." (Hemingway 221 (2)) By 1960, Hemingway was driven out of Cuba (Because of Castro), and moved to Finca, and then he moved to a house in Ketchum, Idaho. Hemingway was suffering from severe depression, and ...
- 4265: Anne Frank
- ... they would be killed. Women who had not been selected for extinction had to walk to the Birkenau womens camp. Edith Frank and her daughters were among them. This camp was known as a "death camp". They had a goal to get rid of all the Jews and Gypsies. By September 1944, almost two million people had been gassed. After the arrival of the last transport from Westerbork, there were ... German-dominated Europe. Jews in Germany were then forced to wear badges or armbands marked with a yellow star. Soon the Nazis deported tens of thousands to ghettos in Poland and to occupied Soviet cities. Death camps, or concentration camps, equipped with gas chambers were erected in occupied Poland. People were deported from the ghettos; although their destinations were not disclosed, reports of mass deaths eventually reached surviving Jews, as well ...
- 4266: Its A Jungle Out There
- ... The group first goes through many difficult trials and tribulations. The first big problem faced by the group is a marriage, which costs a great deal of money. The second ordeal is a very tragic death. After these one couple buys a house that is sold to them for three times its value. The parents and other groups then move into the house. One of the characters goes into the meat ... showed a lot about the strength of the human spirit. His character overcame so many obstacles. They overcame numerous financial difficulties such as the house, the wedding, and being out of work. The even overcame death which is one of the most difficult things to overcome. Sinclair himself overcame quite a lot. He came from a very poor family to being a famous author. He often published his own books. Sinclair ...
- 4267: The Henchmen: German Government Officials in WWII
- ... go, except members of the storm-troopers. They were all executed, and Roehm insisted that Hitler kill him. He felt any other person to kill him would be considered unfaithful to Hitler and an undignified death. Hitler killed him and in all of World War Two Ernst Roehm remained the only person to ever die by Hitler's bullets. Another henchman of Hitler's, Joseph Goebbels, born in 1897, in Rheydt ... an old era; they also light up a new!" During Germany's downfall, he poisoned his six children, and then at the request of Goebbels, a fellow Nazi shot him and his wife Magda to death in 1945. Adolf Himmler, born in 1900 in Munich, held many ranks in his busy political life. He ordered the deaths of millions, beginning with the 'blood purge' in 1934 and ending with the systematic ...
- 4268: Imagery Patterns In The Seafar
- ... face and cannot be escaped. The reference that the author to the freezing waves also represents the unavoidable difficult times in life. Here the word freezing brings to mind extreme coldness, being trapped, and even death. The next referral to the sea reinforces this theory, To a soul left drowning in desolation. The person in the lyric feels as though he is drowning, being pulled under because he can t cope ... illustrating the fact that hard times have not only short term effects, but long term effects as well. Beholding gray stretches of tossing sea, illustrates that this person still feels the pain caused by the death of his friend, even after the passing of time. It becomes evident to the reader that one cannot control the things that happen in one s life, and that life is seen as unfair and ...
- 4269: Philosophy - Plato
- ... political leadership and eventually became a disciple of Socrates. He followed his philosophy and his dialectical style, which is believed to be the search for truth through questions, answers, and additional questions. After witnessing the death of Socrates at the hands of the Athenian democracy in 399 B.C., Plato left Athens and continued to travel to Italy, Sicily, and Egypt. (Internet) In 387 B.C. Plato founded the Academy in ... for Plato and he returned to Athens in 360 B.C. He then devoted himself to teaching and lecturing at the Academy. He died at age 80 in Athens in 348 B.C. Before his death Plato completed the Sophist, the Politicus, the Philebus, the Timaeus and finally the Laws. (Internet) DIALOGUES The Symposium is the most widely read of Plato's dialogues with the exception of the Republic and it ...
- 4270: Queen Elizabeth I
- ... but I have a heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too." She then promised, "in the word of a Prince." Francis Bacon wrote, a few years after Elizabeth's death, "She imagined, that the people, who are much influenced by externals, would be diverted by the glitter of her jewels, from noticing the decay of her personal attractions." Bacon's cynicism reflects the darkening tone ... Raleigh remarked, "a lady surprised by time." On march 24, 1603, having reportedly indicated JAMES VI as her successor, Queen Elizabeth died quietly. The nation accepted the new King quite enthusiastically. But long before her death, she had transformed herself into a powerful image of female authority.
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