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- 471: Modern Torture
- ... to engage in warfare For many adolescents who have been exposed to torture there is a gap between their age and level of maturity and their academic knowledge and skills. Consequently, many youth who have lived through violent and oppressive regimes are older than their years. The longer one has lived in one culture, the more difficult it can be to settle into another. Refugee survivors of torture who are seniors have a particularly difficult time adjusting to a new culture and are at increased risk ...
- 472: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
- ... older and you know the time is coming you haven’t shown a sign of death you ‘re still have life so fight against death. Then in third stanza the poet describes someone who lived a good life but doesn’t want to let go "Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright their deed might have danced in a green bay, rage rage against the dying of the light." It was as if he was saying had he lived longer things could haven been better. In the fourth stanza " Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, and learn, too late they grieved it on its way, Don not go gentile into ...
- 473: Babylon Revisited
- ... a successful author during the Great Depression and the Stock Market Crash, managing to make 40,000 plus a year. In 1939 his reputation and income went downhill and eventually in 1940, he died. He lived a life much like the characters he wrote about, especially that of Charlie Wales. In this story there is a man named Charlie Wales that has come to regain the custody of his daughter Honoria ... privilege to be a father. After realizing what he has done, he makes a change in his life and wants to come back and take care of his daughter. I believe even though Charlie Wales lived an unpredictable lifestyle at one point, he should still be able to raise his daughter. Despite what some may believe, being the biological parent of a child has a lot of value. Charlie Wales realized ...
- 474: The Legend Of Baby Doe
- ... of dollars at a time on investments he believed would prosper and, more that once, he was conned out of millions. During this time, he and Baby had two daughters and a son who only lived a few hours. Their first daughters name was Elizabeth Bonduel Lillie Tabor and the second was Rose Mary Echo Silver Dollar Tabor. Less than a decade later, Tabor had exhausted almost all of his investments ... got appendicitis. The disease was allowed to get infected because doctors were afraid to do surgery on a 69 year old man. He soon slipped into a coma and died a short time later. Baby lived alone with her two daughters in a small cottage next to the Matchless mine. The last thing Horace told Baby to do was to hang on to the Matchless. Elizabeth, Horace and Baby's first ...
- 475: The Life Of Alexander Hamilton
- ... age at 13 in 1768 when his mother died. What is known, however, is that Alexander, his brother James, and their mother, who had been abandoned by their undependable father in 1765 on St. Croix, lived on the bottom rung of white society on the mercilessly stratified island. Having to fend for herself and her two children after James left, Rachel opened a store, and employed her youngest son as clerk ... he might have been the cause of the quarrel, immediately tried to repair the breach. Washington swallowed his pride and made overtures to Hamilton, but Hamilton remained impervious. He stayed at headquarters until April, but lived in a separate building. He and Washington dealt with business by dashing off icy letters to each other. Oddly, Hamilton made one more request for a command at the end of April. That rebuffed, he ...
- 476: John DeLorean And His Acomplishments
- ... immigrated from Salzburg in Austria-Hungary as a young child. Together, they held an assortment of manufacturing jobs, Kathryn as a tool assembler, and Zachary as a millwright in a Detroit Ford factory. The family lived in a small house, and for most of Johns childhood they were relatively happy. Zachary's drinking problem eventually led to a divorce when John was 17. Even as a young child, he was exposed ... plant on Jefferson Avenue in Detroit. After graduation from Lawrence, John took a job as a door to door insurance salesman in order to overcome a fear of shyness. Before long, he took a short lived job at a distributor of transmission supplies. He then decided that his real interests lie in automotive engineering, and applied for admission at the Chrysler Institute. He was accepted on the co-op plan, which ...
- 477: Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
- ... older and you know the time is coming you haven’t shown a sign of death you ‘re still have life so fight against death. Then in third stanza the poet describes someone who lived a good life but doesn’t want to let go "Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright their deed might have danced in a green bay, rage rage against the dying of the light." It was as if he was saying had he lived longer things could haven been better. In the fourth stanza " Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, and learn, too late they grieved it on its way, Don not go gentile into ...
- 478: American Revolution 4
- ... it would succeed or the United States would go bankrupt. In the North, a gradual abolition was placed in effect but that did not make any difference for two reasons. First, the vast majority slaves lived in the South so a few freed slaves in the North do not make much difference for the whole cause. Second, freed slaves lived as second-class citizens and still remained living in conditions like those of slavery or worse. Another issue is women's rights. The revolution gave now new political rights to women and still treated them ...
- 479: Mahatma Gandhi
- ... fearlessness. He called his autobiography, My Experiments with Truth. Gandhi overcame fear in himself and taught others to master fear. He believed in Ahimsa (nonviolence) and taught that to be truly nonviolent required courage. He lived a simple life and thought it was wrong to kill animals for food or clothing. In his religious studies, he happened upon Leo Tolstoy’s Christian writings, and was inspired. It stated that all government ... He would later use this tool in fighting the British for India’s independence. He started his first two ashrams in South Africa, one was named Phoenix and the other, Tolstoy. Men, women, and children lived at the Tolstoy Farm where they were schooled about fearlessness, self-reliance, self-denial, self-sacrifice, and suffering; and embracing poverty and living in harmony with other people and with nature. Once educated they could ...
- 480: Diamonds Are My Best Friend
- ... stopped. Then with two more quick and swift movements he finished off what was left to remind him of his past. What would have been witnesses were nothing more than cold and bludgeoned heaps. Ryan lived on the outskirts of the city. Wandering from house to house throughout his childhood he knew not much of the meaning of family. His parents were constantly sending him to foster families for a few ... hell on earth for the children which you brought here. Now I will bring you to a hell away from earth for you to endure the same that they do each and every night. I lived through it and now I free the abused, maimed and murdered. Any last words?" He cocked the shotgun one more time and stared deep into the mans eyes. "I’ll see you in hell!" The ...
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