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- 7001: Michael Collins Biography Figh
- ... soldiers stormed a Gaelic football match shooting dead 14 people. On 6th December 1921, Collins signed a peace agreement and after signing the agreement he turned to "Lord Birkenhead," and said "I have signed my death warrant." De Valera decided to reject the Treaty and a civil war broke out. Many of Collins close associates were now dead and Collins was distraught. On August 22, Michael Collins was on a tour ...
- 7002: Mafia
- ... even sure where the word first originated or what it really means. One of the theories as to where the word came from is from Sicily, where people would yell “ Morte alla Francia, Italia anela!” (Death to France, Italy groans!), therefore forming the acronym MAFIA. Others claim the word derived from the battle cry of rebels who slaughtered thousands of Frenchmen after a French soldier raped a Palermo woman on her ...
- 7003: Myths Of Meaning
- ... We think we understand and then discover that we indeed do not. The stone is traditionally seen as a punishment and a curse. The stone can also be seen as the burden of life or death in a world without meaning. (Mersault in Camus's "The Stranger".) Sisyphus (man) fails again and again for all eternity. Yet if the carrying is seen as the struggle, then it is also possible to ...
- 7004: Media Effect
- ... a gigantic industry in the entertainment business. And it is growing bigger all the time." Not only was radio initially disapproved of, the vaudeville community actually ordered its acts to stay off the air under penalty of contract cancellation. Musical, concert, and operatic managers also shunned radio fearing that "songs plugged too strongly over the air would lose their sales value," Billboard reported on March 1, 1930. Eventually, however, both vaudeville ...
- 7005: Meaning Of Illusions
- ... a long nap rather than facing the devastated lost. Faulkner is making us understand that maybe because she was raised only by her father, that the most reasonable way of not feeling alone after his death was by keeping the body in her house: We did not say she was crazy then. We believed that she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away ...
- 7006: Its Never A Womans Fault
- ... eventually evolved into a replacement of her mother. As a result of living her life this way, Emily was never able to form healthy relationships with men, other than her father. After her father s death, Emily s lovers repeatadly left her. Though she was a grown woman now, she was unable to handle the relationships that normal women could. In the end, her emotions and feeling were so mixed up ...
- 7007: Male, Female, And Religion
- ... head to toe in the burqa, with only a small, mesh-covered opening over the eyes through which to see. "Women are prohibited from going to most hospitals and are severely beaten or stoned to death for violating the Taliban's harsh edicts." According to the Quran, women should not expose themselves to public view with lack of modesty. It does not say that they should be covered specifically from head ...
- 7008: Modern Torture
- ... to the UN Convention Against Torture in 1988, the government has not taken effective measures to diminish the risk of prisoners being tortured or ill-treated. Despite strong evidence of torture in several cases of death in custody, state prosecutors have refused to release autopsy results to families or to initiate investigations. In many detention centers, beatings, inadequate food and poor hygiene appear to be a routine part of the process ...
- 7009: Inhalants
- ... to those of anesthetics, which are slowing down the body functions. Depending upon the dosage, the user may feel a slight stimulation, less inhibition, or lose consciousness altogether. There is also something called Sudden Sniffing Death Syndrome. This means that the user can die after one inhalant use or after many. Immediate effects inhalants offer are nausea, sneezing, coughing, nosebleeds, feeling/looking tired, bad breath, lack of coordination, and loss of ...
- 7010: Indonesia Crisis As An Example
- ... and China has banned its officers from business. Now Beijing is creating international tension to soak up the military s energy and resentment. But in the end, the guarantor of the regime can bring its death, leaving warlords poised to take power. ANALYSIS We have long argued that the Asian economic meltdown, as its ultimate legacy, would politically reconfigure Asia. We meant this in both the international and domestic sense: Nations ...
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