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Eighteenth Amendment Business Opportunities
845 wordsIn 1917 Congress passed the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution which prohibited the export, import, manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States. This new law is believed to have had the greatest effect on the twenties creating a feeling of rebellion and wild behavior. Many people thought this law violated there right to live by their own standards and have a good time. The Volstead Act passed by Congress set up penalties to all violators of the Eightee...
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Kill A Mockingbird Atticus Finch
1,348 words... , " he does not lie to her and tells her the truth. He also warns her that it might not end soon (Telgen 287). Atticus once warned his children that " [that a mob is always made up of people, no matter what]" (Johnson "The Secret Courts of Mens Hearts" 134). Atticus does not approve of the Ewell's because they are trash, and Scout never heard her father talk about people the way he did about the Ewell's (Lubert 2). "Atticus tells his children that any man who takes advantage of a black man i...
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Brutally Murdered British Soldiers
999 wordsThe Boston Massacre is considered by many historians to be the first battle of the Revolutionary War. The fatal incident happened on March 5 of 1770. The massacre resulted in the death of five colonists. British troops in the Massachusetts Bay Colony were there to stop demonstrations against the Townshend Acts and keep order, but instead they provoked outrage. The British soldiers and citizens brawled in streets and fought in bars. The citizens viewed the British soldiers as potential oppressors...
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The Tragedy Of Julius Caesar
1,294 words... up; I cannot drink too much of Brutus' love" (IV, iii, 158 - The diction in this passage shows how emotional Cassius is and how emotion-less Brutus is to his own wife's death. This passage helps define the character of the two men. 3 - "This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators save only he did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He, only in a general honest thought and common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements so mixed in him that Natu...
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Mafia Client Mark Sway Grisham
519 wordsIn a weedy lot on the outskirts of Memphis, two boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull up in the scrub near their house. Eleven year old Mark Sway and his younger brother were sharing a forbidden cigarette which was stolen from his mothers hand bag. The dangers of smoking rapidly escalate when Mark glimpses a man trying to commit suicide by carbon monoxide in his car nearby and tries to stop him. The guy is Jerome, a lawyer who tells Mark that his mafia client has murdered Senator Boyd Boyette and buri...
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Organized Crime And Its Stranglehold On The World
1,538 wordsOrganized Crime and its Stranglehold on the World Nuclear terrorism against the United States is one of the most likely outcomes of the post-cold war time period. At least according to Americans surveyed it is (United 1). These weapons are now readily available to anyone with enough money to purchase them thanks to the surplus of weapons located in Russia, and the Russian Mafias uncanny skills in acquiring these weapons (United 3). How organized crime was allowed arrive at this stage of power is...
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Third Estate National Assembly
845 wordsThe estates general were elected from the third estate also. But only propertied men could vote. 2. National Assembly - June 17 1789 They were a claim made by the third estate saying they represented the people of France, hence the name National Assembly. They decided to write a constitution and invited delegates from other estates. When the Natl. Assembly found their meeting hall locked, they moved their meeting to a nearby indoor tennis court. They swore never to separate and to meet wherever ...
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Societal Lessons In Julius Caesar
550 wordsMany authors try to convey different lessons that we, as individuals or a society can learn from their writings. William Shakespeare, in his play Julius Caesar, has definitely accomplished this goal. With the many lessons included in this story, society can learn from the mistakes of others made previously. It could be said that the actions of society are learned by the actions of our predecessors. In this incredible play, the major messages or societal lessons include mob mentality, respect, an...
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Jem And Scout Members Of Society
1,601 wordsCertain uncanny resemblances between Tom Robinson and Boo Radley's lives exist in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird. Often large groups of people misunderstand certain unusual individuals. Sometimes they stereotype the person; other times, they simply do not bother to find out the truth. When such circumstances occur, the ostracized person's actions become unfairly misinterpreted or not understood at all. Sometimes rumors circulate about the individuals, that might then be assumed as the truth....
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Boston Massacre British Soldiers
935 wordsJohn Hancock stated? Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear; let not the heaving bosom cease to burn with a manly indignation at the barbarous story... ? during his oration of the massacre on 5 March 1774. The? Boston Massacre? as it was called, was really not a massacre in the sense that a lot of people were slaughtered, it was a massacre in the sense that British government? s authority was not to be tolerated. During the next eighteen months, tensions between the Colonists an...
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North And South Back To Africa
2,587 words? If our fundamental principle is right, that no man can rightfully hold his fellow man as property, then it follows, of course, that he is bound immediately to cease holding him as such? Every slaveholder is bound to cease to do evil now, to emancipate his slaves now? ? This quote by Angelina Grimke represents the feelings of abolitionists towards the idea of slavery (Hawkins xiii). Over the course of America? s history were many wars that helped shape it into the society it is today. One of th...
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Le Bon Los Angeles
1,880 wordsOn April 29 th, 1992 night was turned into day by over 5000 fires set by an mob of protesters in response to the verdict of People vs. Powell. Hordes of angry citizens, mostly from the low income areas of inner-city Los Angeles, ignored social norms, livonia state laws, and the Los Angeles Police Department; they created utter chaos only hours after the verdicts were announced. Over the course of three days, 58 people died, millions of dollars of damage was incurred, and the citizens of Southern...
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George Dawes Greens House Was Bugged Annie
899 wordsGeorge Dawes Greens The Juror: Annie I have sustained some of the most appalling trials of this century. Over me I have felt distress, bleakness, sorrow. However none of them were as smashing as Annie's. Have you ever heard about Annie? Oh yes Annie Laird, one of the most kind jurors I have ever met. In George Dawes Greens The Juror, He summarized the events and, thoroughly explained the pain and anguish Annie had to go through. The woe in which her life revolved after mentioning those lousy wor...
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Enemy Of The People Mob Psychology Town
452 wordsEnemy of the People The book I read was written by Ibsen and called Enemy of the People. There were nine characters in this book but only five main characters. Dr. Stockmann, Hosted, Aslaksen, Peter, and Billing. The protagonist was Doctor Stockmann. He has just discovered that a bathing complex that is crucial to the towns economy is seriously contaminated. He alerts several members of the community and receives generous support and thanks for making this discovery in time to save the town. The...
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Juvenile Justice System Juvenile Offenders
2,032 wordsToday, there is a great concern about gang activity and youth violence. Every day, we can open a newspaper or turn on the evening news and see that another child or victim was killed in gang or youth related violence. Teenage crime and violence has existed for many years. Many people have become more aware of the violence committed by todays youth because of the media coverage of the viciousness of these crimes. The public is also aware of the new breed of criminal and many people want to change...
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Ku Klux Ann Arbor
694 wordsHe was a white man in a Confederate flag T-shirt come to a rally of the Ku Klux Klan. She was a face in the crowd, a black teen-ager who wanted to verbally harass him. But the crowd became a mob. They descended upon him, pummeled him to the ground, started stomping him with their feet and hitting him with signposts. And Keshias Thomas faced a decision: to join the mob or to be a human being. This was Keshias choice: She fell atop the prostrate man, used her body to shield him from the blows. Ask...
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Act Iii Scene Act Ii Scene
1,102 wordsNoble yet troubled. Intent on achieving righteousness yet committing immoral acts. Admirable yet ruined. Honorable intentions lead to downfall. These seemingly contradicting qualities are all present in all tragic heroes. In Julius Caesar written by William Shakespeare displays Brutus, a tragic hero, whos blinded loyalty and devotion lead to his destruction. Brutus heroic belief of honor and virtue was so powerful that it drove him to perform villainous actions. The tragic hero is presented as a...
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Happy Ending Black Market
1,717 wordsMad, bad and dangerous to know Theres a disclaimer at the beginning of the Bowling brothers 1947 film Brighton Rock that assures us the town it depicts is of the past, another Brighton of dark alleyways and festering slums crime and violence and gang warfare now happily no more. The film was based on Graham Greene's 1938 novel, which in turn, the author insisted, drew on a background that was already passing into social history. The Brighton race gangs were to all intents quashed for ever as a s...
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Dark Figures Freder Father Workers
1,699 wordsSet around the year 2000, Metropolis is a depiction of the future, yet it is viewed more intensely in the twenties style. In this view we can truly appreciate the work, without the cynicism of todays standards, for the marvel that it is. The costliest and most ambitious picture ever screened in Europe (Jensen) the film was premiered on January 10, 1927 at the UFA Palace, in Berlin, before an enormous audience which included many members of the political and artistic hierarchy. Initially Metropol...
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Scout And Jem Kill A Mockingbird
2,658 wordsTo Kill A Mockingbird To Kill A Mockingbird is a story about racism, ignorance, fear, intolerance, hate, injustice, learning, heroism, and growing up. It is set in Maycomb County, an imaginary district in Southern Alabama. The time is the early 1930 s, the years of the Great Depression when poverty and unemployment were widespread in the United States. The Finch family contains of Atticus (The head of the household), Aunt Alexandra (Atticus sister), and (Jem) Jeremy (The older of Atticus two chi...
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