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- 5201: Antigone and A Few Good Men: Doing What Is Right
- ... King Creon believed that Polynices, Antigone's dead brother, should be left out in an open field where animals can feed upon the body, and anyone who tried to bury him will be put to death by stoning. The reason he believed this is because Polynices was a trader. He succeeded, but is faced by an opposition. Antigone opposed him because in her religious laws, all corpses had to have a ... knows no such law. I did not think your edict strong enough To overrule the unwritten unalterable laws of God and heaven, you only being a man". Antigone buries her brother and is sentenced to death. Her fiancee Heamon, and Creon's son, then opposes Creon but doesn't succeed either. In "A Few Good Men", Colonel Jessep also did what he believed even though he faced opposition. He ordered Dawson ...
- 5202: Eleanor Roosevelt
- ... City, October 11, 1884, and died November 7, 1962. She was an active worker for social causes. She was the niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, and was raised by her maternal grandmother after the premature death of her parents. In 1905 she married her cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt. They had six children, but one of them died in infancy. Although she was extremely shy, Eleanor worked hard and became a well ... towards the survivors of those concentration camps and gas chambers, made her take part in a memorial service of protest about it. She did what she could to help the survivors of the holocaust escape death, including getting visas for the refugees who managed to get to Spain and Portugal. The issuance of visas to children was another thing that she tried to do to help the younger people escape the ...
- 5203: The Children Left Behind
- ... after the communist assumed control South Vietnam. The families of these children destroyed any information and pictures that linked them with the Americans in order to protect them and their families from persecution or possible death. It was rumored that the North Vietnamese would kill anyone with ties to Americans, but being placed in re-education camps or New Economic Zones (NEZ) was certain. Here the children and their families were ... Before the Amerasian Homecoming Act was implemented, Vietnamese and Amerasians desperate to flee Vietnam after the communist take over, risked their lives attempting escapes. Many fled in small boats on the ocean, almost a certain death, in order to gain their freedom. Others were swindled out of everything they had with false promises of passage to America. People caught by the police trying to flee faced imprisonment. Trung and his mother ...
- 5204: Concentration Camps
- ... of South Africa. Concentration camps were well organized and run very orderly. In order to do this they had to be run by specially trained individuals. These people have complete control over the life and death of the inmates. These men had to be ruthless and cold hearted a machine. Perhaps the most famous breed of concentration camp Military camps have been seen many times throughout history. They serve a purpose ... camps were scattered all across northern Russia, many of them took already established buildings and turned them in to camps. One such camp was once a monastery filled with monks but was later filled with death and torture. Thousands of people were taken from their homes and shipped to these camps. In these camps the prisoners were shot, beaten, starved and exposed to the elements and poor sanitary conditions. Over thirty ...
- 5205: Comentary For English
- ... for example, the person mentioned in the poem that "they keep their distance in case i breath and by saying four little letters stand for so much". A for alone I for ignorance D for death S for suspicion Personel Choice because he or she made a choice to trust people in the blood transfusion and because of that mistake the person got the deadly disease called AIDS . He or she made the choice to have the blood transfusion take place, it might be for a life or death situation and so the person had to make that decision. Like it mentions in the issue " I made a mistake, two in fact, a blood transfusion and I trusted people I'm different now, I ...
- 5206: A Medical And Moral Look At Ectopic Pregnancy
- ... uncompleted, however. When this is the case the parents are face with one of the more serious, and potentially deadly conditions known to medicine: the ectopic pregnancy. Ectopic pregnancies are the number one cause of death of women in the first trimester of pregnancy. There are many aspects that have to taken care of when an ectopic pregnancy is identified. Not only are there the symptoms, the diagnosis, the treatments, and ... is done, the developing baby is already dead and often times it its destroyed by the hemorrhages that occur inside the mothers body. In any case, the surgery is done primarily to prevent the death of the mother. This is good medical practice because there is no chance for the baby to survive. Even if a yet-alive, tiny baby were removed from the tube without the procedure both mother ...
- 5207: Comparing Edgar Allan Poe and Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Comparing Edgar Allan Poe and Ralph Waldo Emerson "I had but escaped death in one form of agony, to be delivered unto worse than death in some other." Tormented throughout his life by painful loss, bitterness, and depression, Edgar Allan Poe found escspe in writing stories and poems, in which he portrayed haunted lives even darker than his own. There ...
- 5208: Carpe Diem Dead Poet Society
- ... Dead poets society the movie focuses on this phrase. Suck the marrow out of life according to Mr. Keaton this phrase meant to not ever let a day pass with out you. Problems such as death of a student Neil Perry, the expulsion and Keaton fired were all the bad things that happened because of carpe diem. There were some good things such as Todd learning to speak publicly, and Knox ... father because Mr. Perry had withdrawn Neil from school. Later that night the two had argued this was a factor leading to Neils suicide. The dead poet society had some more problems since the death of a dear friend such as the expulsion of Newanda and the dismissal of Mr. Keaton . Newanda was a radical student who didnt like the idea of an all school boarding school and let ...
- 5209: OJ Simpson
- ... jealous that Ron Goldman was with Nicole. Although there is no proof that Ron and Nicole ever dated, O.J.s history of abuse is strong enough to give motive and probable cause to the deaths of Nicole and Ron. In Killing Time, a timeline is laid out, and the timeline shows the events that occurred together on one chart. On one side, the events which occurred at Rockingham (O ... O.J. there, they began a search for O.J. as well. They were then alerted that O.J. had gone to Chicago on business. Upon finding O.J., the police informed him of the death of his former wife Nicole. Police were trying to piece together evidence as O.J. returned from Chicago. All of the key pieces of evidence seemed to point towards O.J. Simpson. Defense team members ...
- 5210: Crime And Punishment .
- ... callous to the point of inhumanity" (Crime and Punishment, V, 2). In order to defeat evil one has to start with the assumption that there is goodness . To rebel violently because of a child's death only brings greater evil. Ivan does not love others nor does he love himself. He does not accept the most important of all, and what is crucial to Sonya and Alyosha: forgiveness. He cannot forgive himself, for he is accusing himself of Fyodor's death, and he goes mad. The Grand Inquisitor and Ivan come very close together in their hate towards humanity. They hold the opinion that Christ made a mistake when he sacrificed for the human race. What ...
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