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- 4431: The Khent
- ... hands of our merciless rulers in Turkey. And some of us owe our very existence to the generous philanthropy of the American people who have come to our aid and snatched from the claws of death our half dead and buried bodies from the burning sands of the Arabian desert, where our age-long persecutors, the inexorable Turkish authorities had driven us during the dark days of the First World War ... in docility by the clergy for centuries with the Biblical exhortation: "If they smite thee on the one cheek, turn the other also to them." Raffi having seen the Armenian refugees who had escaped certain death at the hands of their pursuing enemies, the Turkish soldiers, in the province of Alashgerd during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877, set his imagination into motion and gave us a novel of great merit ...
- 4432: Animal Rights
- ... writhe and moan before falling silent. This experiment meant to simulate what happens to human beings in a car crash or a violent head injury. It isn't right to cause pain, suffering, and certain death to animals just for our benefit. Many scientists also agree that this experimental procedure was wrong but only because primates have higher intelligence. I don't think it is right for any animal of high ... as spears. These animals are trapped. They have no hope of escape. People pay to take home a trophy, in one way or another they get their so-called trophy. These animals meet a merciless death. How can people consider this a sport? I firmly believe in animal rights. God created the world with both animals and humans. To both coexist peacefully. Each bringing benefit to the other, but not at ...
- 4433: Segregation and The Civil Rights Movement
- ... In 1968 King was supporting striking garbage workers in Memphis, Tennessee when he was assassinated. The march on Washington for the Poor People's Campaign took place in the spring of 1968 after King's death, but it failed to achieve greater congressional commitment for addressing black poverty. It became clear that race problems in the Northern cities were serious and perhaps harder to address than segregation in the South because ... Oakland. Several of its leaders were killed, and others were imprisoned for killing policemen. End of the Civil Rights Movement For many activists and some scholars, the civil rights movement ended in 1968 with the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. Others have said it was over after the Selma march, because after Selma the movement ceased to achieve significant change. Some, especially blacks, argue that the movement is not over ...
- 4434: The Flaws Of Hamlet
- ... and there is no suggestion that she is saying it as one who does not know. It is the accepted opinion. The king fears him, and he shrinks form bringing him to account for Polonius death, he says because of the great love the general gender bear him. This sinful Queen quails under his rebuke, and yet loves him too well to betray his confidence. And as often in Shakespeare s ... dilemma, such as Ophelia, the King, and the Queen? What was his delay? Could it be that Hamlet was not so much afraid of killing the king, but hurting his mother, mentally, emotionally, after the death of her King and her abrupt marriage to Claudius. Was Hamlet afraid, that maybe the ghost of his father wasn t really his father s ghost at all, in that it was a trick of ...
- 4435: William Lyon Mackenzie
- ... life can best be understood if man and legend are separated. William was born on March 12, 1795 in Scotland. Three weeks after his birth, his father, Daniel, supposedly died, but no record of his death has ever been found. William and his mother were said to gone through great hardship, having to move off of Daniel s land. After moving to Dundee, William, who went by the names Willie or ... appeared erratically. The jail, which was set in a bog containing factory effluent, made Mackenzie very ill. In November, he got word that his family wasn t well, either. One of his children was near death, his wife was sick, and a month later, his mother, his greatest supporter, died. In May, 1840, due to his constant bouts of depression and letters of complaint, Mackenzie was pardoned and let out of ...
- 4436: Circus Animals
- ... The effect of cruel animal treatment in circuses is becoming more and more apparentIn 1994 the Fox Show Animals fighting back an African elephant killed her trainer and injured 13 people before being shot to death. A few years ago a Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey trainer was mauled by a tiger leaving him paralyzed for life. The tiger was shot to death. However this isnt the end. Those who out live their usefulness as performers are usually sold to smaller circuses, private managers, or game farms. The lucky ones are given to zoos. In the past ...
- 4437: Book Report The 13th Warrior
- ... a punishment. Soon, the Arab leaves the City of Peace and starts his travels to the city of Yiltawar. Soon, though, Ibn Fadlan, the pages and guides encounter trouble with the Oguz Turks, but escape death and continue their travels. When Ibn Fadlan is traveling along the Volga River, he comes into contact with the Norsemen, or the Vikings. He describes them as gigantic people carrying broad swords, axes, and daggers ... new leader. Then, one of Buliwyf's kin, Wulfgar entered the camp and informed Buliwyf of a dread and unnamed terror that was terrorizing his father, King Rothgar, and his kingdom. Then the Angel of Death came in, and stated that Buliwyf and 12 other men had to go help, but the 13th warrior had to be foreign. It was stated that Ibn Fadlan was to go with the Vikings on ...
- 4438: The Crucible 2
- ... rest of Act I Betty and Abby in feverish ecstasy cry out the names of their enemies. Here two young women, usually powerless in that day s society, find the ability to grant life or death and what sprang from a want for revenge came to a frightening lust for power. Abigail uses the fear within her community to cultivate and expose more and more of the conflicts in that town ... Warren. He is saying that all the masks have been melted away in this crucible and the true person shall be seen naked underneath. Proctor sees that his time of reckoning has come before his death and the failings that have twisted his soul, that affair with Abigail must now be said. Proctor realises he must sacrifice his integrity to save the lives of others, but it has come too late ...
- 4439: Venomous Creatures of the West Pacific
- ... multiple linear wheals with transverse barring. The purple or brown tentacle marks form a whip-like skin lesion. Painful muscular spasms, respiratory distress, a rapid weak pulse, prostration, pulmonary edema, vasomotor and respiratory failure, or death may result. The pain is said to be excruciating, with the victim frequently screaming and becoming irrational. Death may take place within from 30 second to 2 or 3 hours, cut the usual time is less than 15 minutes. The cough and mucoid expectoration that are present in some of the other forms ...
- 4440: The Connection Between Ernest
- ... simple, it was beautiful, it was clean. It was perfection. For Hemingway, nature was good. It epitomized all that he stood for. Places with the clutter of men invariably led to pain and suffering or death. Hemingway was really big on simplicity in his works. Everything was simple, from his style, to his characters (ie: Catherine - simpleton if I ever saw one). I think that he likened civilization to a giant ... any sense. Bats have been harbingers of doom in many cultures, and I think that that particular element was incorporated into this story. Of course, nature is not limited to being a chronicle of a death foretold. It is something that one can touch. In A Farewell to Arms Hemingway attacked the ideals of honor, valor, loyalty, and other like-minded things. These things, Hemingway argued, were nothing. Honor is incapable ...
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