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Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Suez Canal
5,121 words... -joined in their purpose of returning home are the crowds, who arouse genuine curiosity on the part of the poet. The costume-attired crowds become meaningful to Whitman in their crossing from shore to shore, to eternity (a hundred years hence, or ever so many hundred years hence, others will see them as they cross), they share with the poet the weakness, the doubt and the suspicion (The best I had done seemed to me blank and suspicious, My great thoughts, as I supposed them, were they not in...
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Spectator Violence Cincinnati Reds
1,219 wordsThese people want to hurt you. Its frightening. You feel like youre in a cage out there. Reggie Smith, (Berger, 1990). Spectator violence at sporting events has been recorded throughout history. People who have power over the events, often team owners, indirectly influence the amount of spectator violence by encouraging the factors contributing to violence, in order to benefit themselves. Sale of alcohol, encouraging crowd intensity, creating rivalries, and targeting social groups, are factors a...
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Afl Cio Tear Gas
2,649 words... lament seeks to embarrass Mayor Schell and Chief Stamper and appoint a new chief more favorable to the criminal business establishment. The initial approach by the opponents of police accountability was the circulation of mutinous talk regarding the "softness" of the official strategy for dealing with the demonstrators. In October at a crowd control training session, Assistant Chief Ed Joiner had answered questions about protester violence by saying that there was nothing to worry about and ...
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Tear Gas National Guard
1,332 wordsThe Vietnam War marked an era of heartbreak and tragedies. On of the most significant of these is the crisis at Kent State University in Ohio. This was a direct result to President Richard Nixon's decision to send troops into Cambodia without interacting with congress. Protests were held before the crisis at hand and rallies followed. The Mayor of the city of Kent, Leroy Stratom, called in the National Guard, who, on May 4 th, killed four students. The question that remains unanswered is why the...
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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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President John F Kennedy Governor Connally
2,635 wordsMotorcade Witnesses On November 22, 1963 John F. Kennedy, 35 th President of the United States, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. President Kennedy rode in the back of an open top limousine through the downtown area of Dallas. Thousands of people lined the designated route of the planned motorcade, hoping to catch a glimpse of their President. As the motorcade slowed to its end, traveling through Deals Plaza, shots resonated through the city, and through the hearts of the American public, ultim...
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Capital Punishment Death Penalty
1,308 wordsThe last public execution in England took place in 1868. The transition of penal practices from torturous public executions to less barbaric and somewhat more humane practices aroused many suspicions in historians. For a better understanding of such changes, one must focus on the ways historians have accounted for this fundamental change. Randall Mc Gowen in his account focuses on the fact that society is becoming more civilized and illustrates the need for more civilized penal practices. Histor...
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King Louis Xvi Tennis Court Oath
1,950 wordsThroughout the English revolution of 1688, and just after the establishment of the freedom of the press in 1694, the conditions were perfect for a development of a new understanding of knowledge. John Locke, who, in the field of theology, found his starting point, like most prominent thinkers of the age, in the conflict of systems, beliefs, and practices. Out of his reflections on the known facts of experience, he developed new abstract and ethical ideas. In spite of his supernaturalist tendenci...
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National Hockey League Social Control
1,118 wordsOn March 17, 1955, more than 10, 000 crazed hockey fans from inside the Montreal Forum and from the streets outside gathered together to protest the suspension of Maurice The Rocket Richard. An outraged fan slapped and punched the president of the National Hockey League, Clarence Campbell who was quietly sitting among the spectators. This seven-hour rampage of destruction and looting was a result of this attack that occurred during the game that opposed the Montreal Canadians and the Detroit Red...
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