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- 4361: The Extermination of the Jews
- ... He then started by making a group called the Nazis. The Nazis exterminated thousands of Jews and burned down their homes and businesses. Hitler then began to kill off more Jews by sending them to death camps, also known as concentration camps, where they would be sent to die. The concentration camps were terrible places to be. They had filthy conditions and many of the Jews were forced to starve and ... making Germany a dominate race of just Germans the "special treatment" and the answer to the "Jewish Question." After about a year or two 1.4 million Jews were killed by the Nazis or in death camps. Hitler's ideas also spread across Eastern Europe. Germany's army spread into the Soviet Union and the Netherlands. More Jews were killed there. During the whole time period of the Holocaust as many ...
- 4362: Witchcraft And Arthur Millers
- ... suspicious is accused of witchcraft and hanged. Arthur Miller wrote a play called The Crucible. It is based on the Salem witch trials. The Salem witch trials change many peoples lives and even led to death for some. The power of superstition and hearsay can distort from the truth. Four ministers of Salem joined Matther, and they spent a whole day in the house of the afflicted in fasting and prayer ... desire more than six months, and it was not decreasing for more than a year. During that time nineteen had been hanged, and Corey Giles who is killed by the horrid process of pressing to death with stones because he would say if was guilty or innocent. He continued to say "more weight" (Miller 1113); until he died. In doing so, his family could keep his land. Others had been tortured ...
- 4363: Spanish Conquistadors: Heroes or Murderers
- ... gather food freely. Nor could they farm just for their community. Strong men were taken as slaves either to Hispañola (Modern Day Haiti), Cuba or taken back to Spain. Such slaves were often worked to death, because of the seemingly endless supply of American Indians. Other Indians were forced to pay tribute to the Spanish by working on farms to feed the invaders when they themselves were barely nourished enough to ... mass suicides and not to have children, because they knew their fate if they were to go on living or to bring another child into the world only to see him or her worked to death (Collier, 63). Another very important factor in the demise of Native American Indians was disease, the native Americans had no immunity to the European diseases. A large percentage of the American Some natives died from ...
- 4364: Ancient Egypt
- ... the land of the dead. Horus, who was the son of Osiris and Isis, later defeated Set in a great battle and became king of the earth. The Ancient Egyptians also believed in life after death, in fact they have the world's most elaborate rituals. After a person dies the Egyptians believes that the soul or ka live in the kingdom of the dead, but the believed that the ka ... well treated people in the society, besides the pharaoh the preist were the most important people in the society because people thought that they cuold talk to the gods who controled everything from life to death. The priest often positions as governors of provinces, court officials, or tax collectors. The chief minister, who administered the business of the country in choosen from this class. The middle class were a small group ...
- 4365: Willy Loman Is The Cause Of Hi
- Willy Loman is the cause of his own misfortune Many characters in literature are the cause of their own misfortune. In the play Death of a Salesman by author Miller, Willy Loman is responsible for his misfortune as well as the misfortune of his two sons Happy and Biff. Willy creates his own small world in which he is ... but in reality he is not. He says that he went to Providence, met the Mayor, had coffee with him. Willy says: And they know me, boys, they know me up and down New England (Death of a Salesman 30). This comment illustrates how Willy shows off in front of his sons. He says he can park his car in any street in New England, and the cops will protect it ...
- 4366: Martin Luther
- ... never earn his salvation by leading a blameless life or by performing holy acts. Instead, man's salvation was a divine gift from God resulting from faith in Jesus, especially the saving power of his death and resurrection. This was known as the protestant doctrine of "justification by faith alone." The fact that Luther believed this, lead him into his first confrontation with the Catholic Church in 1517. All of this ... s comprehension and could only be accepted on faith alone. He didn't believe that humans could understand how God with all his greatness become man through Jesus and be susceptible to weakness, sin and death. His thoughts were that man could accomplish nothing without God's grace. Man could not gain his own salvation and therefore God had to send his own son to earth. While on earth his son ...
- 4367: US Intervention In Haiti
- ... system where one man ran almost everything in the country from military training to the writing of school exams. Papa Doc created the Tontons Macoute, a secret police force that acted as his own personal death squad, as well as the Volontaires de la Securite Nationale (VSN) to act as his personal militia that was more loyal then the FAdH to Duvalier. He also took control of exports, increased taxation and ... merchant-bourgeois who wanted free elections and not a bloody revolution. The initial candidates up for the UN supervised 1990 Presidential elections were Roger Lafontant: a former head of the Tonton Macoute (Duvalier's personal death squad), Marc Bazin: a former World Bank official whose campaign was financed by the US (to the tune of $36 million mostly from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED)(14)) and Professor Victor Benoit: a ...
- 4368: Marilyn Monroe
- ... who endured a childhood of poverty and misery, sexual abuse, and years in foster home and orphanages. Most people don’t realize that her disrupted loveless childhood may been the main reason to her early death. Norma Jeane Baker’s father, Edward Mortenson, had deserted her mother, Gladys Baker neè Monroe, before she was born on June, 1 1926, in the charity ward of Los Angeles General Hospital. Due to Gladys ... times the original amount. On August 5, 1962, she was found dead of an overdose of sleeping pills at the early age of 36. There has been much speculation about the events surrounding Marilyn’s death. "The drug overdose was probably accidental and possibly administered by someone other than Marilyn."(MarilynMonroeBiography,-http://tombtown.com/bios/marilyn.htm.) In conclusion, Monroe’s was a tragedy in which her public, the media, and ...
- 4369: The Repulsive Effects of Smoking
- The Repulsive Effects of Smoking Smoking has grown to be the leading cause of death in the 90's. Over the past decade, smoking has become very popular among young adults. Kids as young as the age of fourteen, have been exposed to cigarettes. The influence of false and misleading ... begin smoking, one in three of whom may die prematurely.” Doctor An tries to convince people that chronic smokers have a good chance of dying at an early age. One reason for this magnitude of death is lung cancer. Smoking causes severe damage to a person’s lungs. When you inhale cigarette smoke, you are depositing a great amount of tar on your lungs. Over the years, all this tar builds ...
- 4370: Psychological and Biological Slavery
- ... you just shell it out"(21). This father-son relationship is detrimental to them both. Pap's abusive nature controls Huck through fear, and it is the driving force for Huck as he fakes his death and flees down the river. The Widow Douglas and Miss Watson also try to put Huck under a kind of psychological slavery. They do this under the guise of trying to "sivilize" him. Huck believes ... their way of doing things, thinking that they are helping him. Though the ladies try hard, Huck doesn't listen to them and makes his own rules; he runs away after he fakes his own death, fooling his father, the Widow Douglas, and Miss Watson. This action sets his mind free. Biological slavery, which differs greatly from psychological slavery, deals with aspects of an individual which they can not help or ...
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