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- 4321: The Titanic - History of a Disaster
- ... allowed to board. In many cases this meant many lifeboats were not filled to maximum capacity. Officer Murdoch put men on the lifeboats when there were no women around. Therefore, a man's life or death, depended on what side of the ship he was standing on (Lord, Lives on 116). On a luxury ship, lifeboats for everyone would mean less room for games and sports on the upper decks. Passengers ... the Titanic had wrenched itself away from the rest of the ship in its descent to the bottom. (Ward 186) The last survivor of the Titanic recently died in her home in Massachusetts. With her death, many of the unanswered questions of the Titanic may have also died. Hopefully, a tragedy like this will never have to happen again. As stated before, ships are now expected to have enough lifeboats for ...
- 4322: The French Revolution
- ... Assembly, they were imprisoned. They called for a national convention to write a new constitution. The National Convention met in September. The National Convention tried and convicted Louis XVI of treason. He was sentenced to death. News of his death spread all throughout Europe. Monarchs of European nations feared that the Revolution would spread. By 1793, the French armies occupied the Austrian Netherlands and were about to invade Prussia. But, in 1793, Great Britain, the ...
- 4323: The Ninth And Tenth Century Dynasties
- ... sending his nephew Salah al-Din Al-Ayyubi to capture Alexandria, thus opening the way for the Ayyubid Dynasty. Ayyubid Rule (1171-1250) Salah al-Din Al-Ayyubi ("Saladin") assumed control of Egypt upon the death of the last Fatimid Khalif in 1171. When the Crusaders attacked Egypt, burning part of Cairo, Salah al-Din fortified the city and built the Citadel. His reign was a golden age for Egypt and ... as mercenary soldiers. Under Salah al-Din and his successors the Mamlukes were given a measure of freedom to own land and raise families and some rose to positions of power and influence. Upon the death of Salah al-Din in 1193, he was succeeded by his brother, al-Adil, following a protracted succession dispute. Al-Adil died in Syria, upon hearing the news of the crusaders' seizure of the chain ...
- 4324: The Dropping of The Atomic Bomb: Was It The Best Way to End The War?
- ... 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 ...
- 4325: The Marshall Plan
- ... World War II, there were no spoils. In London, coal shortages left only enough fuel to heat and light homes for a few hours a day. In Berlin, the vanquished were freezing and starving to death. On the walls of the bombed-out Reichstag, someone scrawled "Blessed are the dead, for their hands do not freeze." European cities were seas of rubble--500 million cubic yards of it in Germany alone ... Russia growled at just the right moment. In the winter of 1948, Moscow cracked down on its new satellite state of Czechoslovakia. Jan Masaryk, the pro-Western foreign minister, fell--or was pushed--to his death from his office window in Prague. At the Pentagon, the generals worried that Soviet tanks could begin to roll into Western Europe at any moment. The atmosphere in Washington, wrote Joseph and Stewart Alsop, the ...
- 4326: The French Revolution
- ... Assembly, they were imprisoned. They called for a national convention to write a new constitution. The National Convention met in September. The National Convention tried and convicted Louis XVI of treason. He was sentenced to death. News of his death spread all throughout Europe. Monarchs of European nations feared that the Revolution would spread. By 1793, the French armies occupied the Austrian Netherlands and were about to invade Prussia. But, in 1793, Great Britain, the ...
- 4327: The Major Cause of the French Revolution
- ... Assembly, they were imprisoned. They called for a national convention to write a new constitution. The National Convention met in September. The National Convention tried and convicted Louis XVI of treason. He was sentenced to death. News of his death spread all throughout Europe. Monarchs of European nations feared that the Revolution would spread. By 1793, the French armies occupied the Austrian Netherlands and were about to invade Prussia. But, in 1793, Great Britain, the ...
- 4328: Holocaust Revisited
- ... order for their nation to survive. The functionalist, however, argue that the Holocaust’s uniqueness “stems from the unprecedented institutions created gradually by the Nazis-institutions that eventually became devoted exclusively to the production of death.” (Roth & Berenbaum, p. 3) I feel that the intentionalist view makes more sense. I agree completely that the Holocaust is a unique historical event, unprecedented and since untouched by anything else. But the idea that ... mention those unsuited for road-building-the elderly, children, the handicapped-the implication is clear: useless, they would be annihilated immediately. The workers would be decimated by “natural selection,” that is, by working them to death. Historians and scholars debate when Hitler and the Nazis decided on a program of annihilation of the Jews. Some have argued that is was something he planned to do long before he came to power ...
- 4329: Novel Outline Of The Pearl
- ... gain hope and a way to get out of the poor life they are living. Also, though not knowing it, the doctor, that Kino and Juana went too see, had already sentenced their son to death; if he had helped them earlier, they would not have looked to the ocean and been led down the road to hardships. Kino and Juana think that wealth is the answer to all their problems ... find that characters go through more suffering because they imagine themselves in their place. Every so often someone wants to lose touch with reality and become absorbed into a book like The Pearl. The near death experiences and loss of love attracts readers like me to books. If Steinbeck wrote the story in the point of view of a middle class person, it wouldn’t be much of a life changing ...
- 4330: Night Essay
- ... fact I was thinking of how to get farther away so that I would not be hit myself.” (page 52) This is his father he is talking about. His father is getting beaten nearly to death, and all he can think about is getting farther away so as to not get hurt too. This really shows how survival can change your judgment. It’s either his father gets hurt, or you ... high at this point, since the prisoners could hear the Americans quite near, it wasn’t. The prisoners had already been through so much that all of their hope of ever getting out of those death camps was drained from them. Now they were just along for the ride. At one point the prisoners are shoved into big caravans. Although they should be fearing for their lives and grieving for the ...
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