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- 4311: Is Perception Reality?
- ... Additionally, I assumed they had virtually no contact with the outside world. I completed some training in self-defense, first aid, conflict resolution, Radio Communications, etc. I was then sent to Cell Block 6 AKA Death Row. This is where my perceptions began to give way to reality. I found that almost every inmate (as called by officers and staff) had a Television and that free cable was provided with many ... account for future purchases. If an inmate had no money he could apply for welfare and get money from the state. Family members were also allowed contact visitation on a weekly basis. Several individuals on death row were actually married to pen pals in the contact visitation room. Finally, The inmates had access to the courts and legal process right there on location. To appeal their case or file whatever lawsuit ...
- 4312: The Conflict in Chechnya
- ... the Caucasus, who proclaimed, "I desire that the terror of my name should guard our frontiers more potently than chains or fortresses, that my word should be for the natives a law more inevitable than death." (Herze, P. B., The Chechens: Perennial Rebels of the Caucus.) As the Chechen resistance persisted, official Russian media reverted to the traditional Soviet practices of falsifying information. Yeltsin appeared to be endorsing this practice during ... of 1994-96 and the conflict that started in 1999 is the fact that there are more Chechen fighters. Nowadays, after many years of complete incapacity to resist they face a choice of surrender or death. Chechens live on small territory, which in various periods of history, has been the target of ambitious interests of various peoples who were powerful at the time. Each contact with the strangers caused a cataclysm ...
- 4313: Reason's For Japan's Aggression
- ... this period of unjustified aggression, Japan committed horrible war crimes against its enemies. An example is the horrible atrocities committed in POW camps or the gutless and coward-like barbarity of such events as the Death March of Bataan. In response to Japan's wrongful assaults and brutalities, Western powers dealt justly with these Japanese criminals. By doing what was necessary and unavoidable, the U.S. ended this destructive war, saving ... America decided to invade, over a million lives would likely have been lost. Most critics erroneously believe that Japan was on the verge of surrender. But in fact, to a Japanese, surrender is worse than death. During the island hopping period of the war, countless Japanese civilians committed suicide rather than being taken prisoner. Some even killed their babies and then dove off cliffs. Furthermore, Japan rejected surrender after the first ...
- 4314: World War 1: Forever Wounded
- ... could get a full breath of fresh air. Even then, fresh air was a mix of ash, rotting corpses and smoke. Bombs fell left and right and surrounding the soldiers were limbs of fellow soldier. Death and the dying were everywhere on the battlefield. The hell of fighting in the war was simply indescribable. The mental pain from the war was less obvious, but evident still. Men suffered dramatic reoccuring nightmares which woke them up screaming in the middle of the night. Soldiers were surrounded by death so often that they became numb and used to it. They even began customs like hanging hats on soldiers blown-off limbs as a sign of respect. Paul describes his constant suffering when he heard ...
- 4315: Life in 18th Century Europe
- ... During the Old Regime, Europeans were almost constantly bombarded with disease. Diseases like tuberculosis, typhoid fever and Smallpox were the great killers of the 18th century. (3) A study of the city of Edinburghs death records for 1740 revealed that tuberculosis or smallpox that year caused almost half of the recorded deaths. (4) This study illustrates that disease was the most common killer of 18th century Europeans. Roughly 30 percent ... living during the 18th century suffered from severe malnutrition. Most of the ordinary mans calories came from bread. This meant that if grain famine was to occur that there would me widespread starvation and death. (9) Malnutrition also led to weaker immune systems, which made people more susceptible to disease. This lack of food was not found among the European aristocracy during the 18th century. Unlike the common man, the ...
- 4316: The Vietnam Era
- ... a division within families. Parents and children often disagreed over the war. The Vietnam War caused a rift in public opinion that led to social unrest and violence. Many war protests resulted in violence and death. They began as peaceful demonstrations but police often attacked protestors becase they disagreed with or misunderstood their intentions. The U.S. intrvention in Vietnam had a disastrous effect on Vietnam. We did not stop the ... social outcasts. Very little emotional support was offered to soldiers returning home. Thye experienced isolation, loneliness and anger and suffered from post traumatic stress syndrome. Many felt guilty for surviving the war and acquired a death wish. Veterans often became alcoholics or commited suicide. Disabled veterans faced the worst problems after the war. They were often severely disabled and had to live in hospitls. In these places, tehy were nglected and ...
- 4317: The Invention of the Atomic Bomb And Its Use
- ... there were a lot of people who suffered from an incurable disease. Kenzaburo Ohe represents those hopeless fights with the disease to be "not the fight which leads to the new life against the tragic death, but the fight which leads to the tragic death".(51) Some of the inpatients, whose disease was actually diagnosed as an atomic bomb disease, committed suicide or went mad. It is not too much to say that these situations were the hell itself. And ...
- 4318: THE STORY OF AN HOUR
- ... marriage is an institution that oppresses, represses, and is a source of discontent among human beings. Mrs. Mallard loved her husband. She wept at once This was her first response to the news of his death. She would not had grieved over someone she did not love. Even in the heat of her passion she thinks about her lost love. She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked safe with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead. Her love may not have been the greatest love of all time, but it was still love. Marriage was ...
- 4319: The Hundred Years' War
- ... of the English Channel and a few years later, the town of Calais surrendered to them on September 28, 1347. For the next ten years, fighting was slowed. This was due mainly to the Black Death which killed more than a third of the population. 14 Initially, England feared they would never be able to defend themselves against a French invasion. France had enormous wealth, military prestige and a dominant position ... the French, recapturing the Gascon territory. 16 Also, with the marriage to Charles VI's daughter, King Henry V achieved the goal of French sovereignty. He became the French regent and upon Charles VI's death, the King of England would succeed to a dual monarchy. However, when Charles VI died, the King of England was a child. 17 Henry VI was too young and inexperienced to supervise a kingdom and ...
- 4320: The Baroque Era
- ... royal governor had appointed a special seven-member court. The defendants, chained, had no counsel. By September 22, twenty-seven people had been tried and convicted. Nineteen had been hanged, and one was pressed to death by stones. Fifty people had confessed, and a hundred were awaiting trial in prison. Two hundred other people had been touched by accusations. Cotton Mather delivered a sermon against mass convictions, resulting in the rescue ... Benjamin Franklin was born. Franklin invented bifocal glasses, the Franklin stove, and helped to shape the American Revolution. In 1750, Johann Sebastian Bach died. His fame rested heavily on his playing and improvisation. Historically, his death concluded the Baroque era.
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