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- 891: Mrs. Cage (a Play)
- ... sees in her Elizabeth. When she is in the police station, she basically draws a character sketch of Phyllis Dean although she never knew her, based on what she's observed in Elizabeth but cannot control-unconventional (the divorce), career-minded (she's an attorney), rule-breaking (she has lots of parking tickets). However, at the grocery store, she is for a brief moment, given the power to control the situation-the gun. In one brief moment, she is released from her cage. As human beings we live in the paradox of our need for freedom and independence and our desire for security and safety. We must ...
- 892: Benito Mussolini
- ... September 15, Mussolini approached him and said, “I have come for my instructions.” The instructions were very harsh: A new Fascist republic would be established in Northern Italy under Mussolini, but the Germans would assume control of its foreign policy and many of its economic resources and would govern part of the country. Also, all the members of the Grand Council that had voted against Mussolini would be tried and executed ... be reunited with Mussolini. The next day the communist partisan drove both Claretta Petacci and Benito Mussolini to a nearby villa. He ordered the both of them out of the car and stuck a machine gun in their guilty as sin faces. This gun jammed but he got another one and quickly shot at Claretta Petacci and killed her instantly. Mussolini holding back the lapels of his jacket, said “Shoot me in the chest.” The partisan shot him ...
- 893: An Increasing Problem On High
- ... everyone has an opinion on why the two boys walked into school that day and opened fire on their classmates. "By the time our children leave school at the start of the summer," announced Handgun Control, Inc. Chair Sarah Brady, "they should know that the lawmakers of this country have done something to protect them from the type of gun violence that occurred at Littleton." They also looked towards the internet to find reasoning behind the tragedy. Eric Harris had his own Web Page, and there was an investigaton that looked into whether the boys ... together a list of warning signs, despite the fact that the two boys had no affiliation ith this movement. Tipper Gore called for more therapy. The movie, "Basketball Diaries," in which a student brings a gun to school and kills his classmates, was blamed more than any other movie in Hollywood, even though every movie in Hollywood was blamed. Some even thought it was a sure sign that the apocalypse ...
- 894: Benito Mussolini and His Impact on World War 2
- ... September 15, Mussolini approached him and said, “ I have come for my instructions.” The instructions were very harsh: A new Fascist republic would be established in Northern Italy under Mussolini. but the Germans would assume control of its foreign policy and many of its economic resources and would govern part of the country. Also, all the members of the Grand Council that had voted against Mussolini would be tried and executed ... had begged to reunite with Mussolini. The next day the communist partisan drove both Clarette and Mussolini to a nearby villa. He ordered the both of them out of the car and stuck a machine gun in their guilty as sin faces. This gun jammed but he got another one and quickly shot at Clarette Petacci and killed her instantly. Mussolini holding back the lapels of his jacket, said “Shoot me in the chest.” The partisan shot him ...
- 895: Cuban Revolution
- ... be communists in the Army or in labor", or "Cuba's approach to the Batista trials is totally unacceptable, too casual, too nonchalant" on this "forming" leader? Castro was like an inexperienced murderer with a gun in his hand: any rustle in the background could set off his nervous trigger finger causing death, destruction, and liaisons with the U.S.S.R. When America expressed dislike of the trial procedures Castro ... could not retaliate when the U.S. cut off sugar imports. America was just too sure of itself thinking it could get away with criticism and acts like that when an "immature" leader was in control. Cuba was not totally dependant on the United States and proved itself so. If Cuba could not find help and support in America, it sought elsewhere for those who smiled on its actions and ideals ... undergoing change, where there are many poor and these poor co uld get hurt by the industrialization, communism is appealing in every way. The United States has to learn that it is not in total control. We cannot go around condemning countries which hold procedures different than our own. The developing count ries in Latin America must struggle through economically and politically hard times to reach their own maturity; this ...
- 896: I Was With ______ When ......
- ... the head and died right there. I yelled . I jumped at the man standing closest to the door and punched him with my left hand, he went flying through the door. I picked up his gun from the floor and slid under a couch. Using the mirror on the far wall i aimed my gun towards it's. My computer-aided reflexing caused me to shoot a perfect shot which rebounded off the mirror and hit the man. I yelled to George " Let's get out of here! ". He got ... be!. Your lying." She ran up to me and started pounding on my chest. I grabbed her by the shoulders and shook her. i said " The guards took him away!, they also got my buddy!. Control Yourself!.. I'll think of something!". She put her head on my shoulder and started to cry uncontrollably. I kept on reassuring her that i'll do my best to save them but she ...
- 897: The Labours Of Mendevolin
- ... for the right words) I'm.....ummm.....sorry.....ahh.....I didn't see you there. You haven't offended me, you don't need to worry about that. As for attacking you, that would involve control over my body, which moments ago I didn't have. LOWELL: Then you didn't want to fight me? DEREK: (appears confused) No. I'm not sure what I wanted to do. LOWELL: What do ... at hand, in your mercy. DEREK: (pulls out cross from under tunic) If I was a minion of evil, would I be wearing this? LEON: No, I suppose not. SPRUCE: C'mon Leon, put the gun away. We can't be fighting with each other, we have a ship to find and a mission to complete. LOWELL: Yeah, this'll be cool! A flying ship, wow! We'll be flying above ... re not the only one with ideas worth listening to. In fact, I'm not sure that you've had one good idea yet, and still you shoot down everyone else. Keep your ego under control and your mouth shut. LEON: (aside) I can't wait for an opportunity to shoot you down.... LOWELL: (Jumps up) Wait a minute!.....I mean, ummm, excuse me. We can't leave yet. LEON: ( ...
- 898: African-Americans In The Civil War
- ... or leased by their owners. They lacked any voice in the government and lived a life of hardship. Considering these circumstances, the slave population never abandoned the desire for freedom or the determination to resist control by the slave owners. The slave's reaction to this desire and determination resulted in outright rebellion and individual acts of defiance. However, historians place the strongest reaction in the enlisting of blacks in the ... the war some Confederate states accepted blacks into their units, much to Jefferson Davis’s opposition. Black workers found their way into armament factories and into the Confederate Army doing anything short of handling a gun. Throughout the war effort in the South, blacks willingly dug field fortifications, mounted cannons and built entrenchments to fortify cities and towns. Wilson cites an article in the Charleston Mercury on January 3, 1861, which ... grown up knowing only the black as portrayed on the stage - grinning, big-mouthed, carefree 8 loving possum and watermelons and eating fried chicken. What they found was a real human - struggling to be in control of his destiny. He describes a Wisconsin soldier’s feelings by saying, "The black folks are awful good, poor miserable things that they are. The boys talk to them fearful and treat them most ...
- 899: George S. Patton
- ... was accomplished. With this Patton could convince of what he and his 304th were capable of. A few weeks later Patton was wounded in a mission that had the objective of taking over a machine gun nest. Because of this he had to spend the rest of the war at the hospital. He received the Service Cross and Medal, and the Purple Heart (Appendix). Patton spent his years after the war going from base to base as a control officer for mechanized maneuvers as a brigadier general. Patton was so harsh to everyone that during this time he got nicknamed “Old Blood and Guts”. Patton joined the Second Armored Division at Fort Benning, Georgia ... through the line. After this, Patton was very frustrated, but he was back in action when Eisenhower assigned him to plan Operation Husky, the invasion of Sicily. By May 20, Northern Africa was under Allied control. Allied forces landed on Sicily’s coast on July 20, 1943. Patton’s was moved to the Seventh Army and while making plans, he was asked to double check with the British. Montgomery criticized ...
- 900: Civil War 4
- ... was to be abolished it would have a large effect on the economy. The South felt it had the upper hand against the North. The south was also very independent. It did not like government control. The south wanted no part in being a country. But they were in the Union. They could not get out. The south decided to form it’s own country. The Confederate States of America. The ... Because the South had left the union they felt it should be abandoned. The south felt it did not belong there since they were their own separate country and the fort was still under union control. Davis had been threatening to attack the fort for a long period of time but waited for Lincoln to enter office. Major Robert Anderson was in command of the union army at the time. He ... the fort. He felt that he needed an upper hand against Davis, and Fort Sumter was that ace in the hole. Lincoln wasn’t totally ready for the shots to be fired. Cannon fire and gun fire was exchanged by the to forts. Lincoln sent the ships full of supplies out the same day. It was on it’s way to the port when it could not make it. The ...
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