The Sook Ching‚ meaning a purge through cleansing‚ was a massacre that happened when Britain surrendered Singapore to Japan‚ from February 18 to March 4 of 1942. Chinese males aged 18 to 50 were called to screening centers to be examined by Japanese soldiers. If they were deemed “anti-Japanese‚” they would be executed. While this massacre is not as well-known as other historical events‚ there is still debate on some of the causes. One idea that is widely disagreed on is that the Chinese were passing
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The My Lai Massacre and its Aftermath Resulting from the American fear of spreading communism in South East Asia‚ the Vietnam War was America’s longest and most exhausting conflict. President Lyndon B. Johnson inherited this problem of spreading communism in 1964‚ and was at first somewhat against the prospect of conflict having known it may hurt his reelection chances. However‚ as conditions worsened in South Vietnam Johnson began to slowly launch the massive war effort beginning with an unrelenting
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ending racism and equality. But it took a terrible turn of events by portraying a demonic cult led by the infamous Jim Jones. Jim had always grown up in a religious environment‚ he started his own church in 1955. The mystery behind the Jonestown Massacre can be summed up in two theories: mass suicide ad the CIA being involved. To begin with‚ Jim Jones completely eradicated so many lives‚ the answer to his thinking is still unknown. Jim Jones‚ founder of The Peoples Temple along with being a son of
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Jones town A tragic massacre took place on November 18‚ 1978‚ in Guyana. 909 members of Peoples Temple died in the middle of a jungle in Guyana and five people were killed on an airstrip. It has been called the largest mass murder suicide. The story of the massacre was told by survivors and relatives who happened to survive and know Jim Jones. According to Jim’s childhood friends‚ Jim was a weird kid‚ he was obsessed with religion and death‚ and he used to conduct funerals of small animals that
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Problem Statement: Lyndia Downie‚ Director of Pine Street Inn in Boston‚ Ma.‚ faced with ever decreasing budgetary constraints‚ is tasked with facilitating a paradigm shift in the future of operations within the Boston Homeless care industry. She must convince the Board of Directors that the corporation can best accomplish its mission of helping the homeless in Boston by providing less of the more expensive emergency shelter beds and more of the slightly more cost effective longer term less concentrated
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always will be part of our human behavior. Individuals have a choice over violence and for some they are able to channel these feelings into a nondestructive outlet. Others‚ like the two students who shot twelve people in the Columbine High School Massacre‚ it exhibits a frightening lack of control. There are many influences and outside factors such as gaming‚ music and psychological processes that lead to violence. Violence is an option that one can choose and therefore is part of our individual responsibility
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linked back to something that may have been done or planned days‚ months or even years before. Many of these can be traced back by looking at the journals‚ notebooks‚ or video entries that these people may have kept. The Columbine High School massacre was a school shooting which occurred on April 20‚ 1999 at Columbine High School in Columbine‚ Colorado. In addition to shootings‚ the complex and highly planned attack involved a fire bomb to divert firefighters arriving to the scene‚ propane tank
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along with twelve others. They burned down buildings and destroyed the settler’s precious orchards. Forty-seven people of the mission were than captured and later ransomed by the Hudson Bay Company. There were three main factors that led up to the massacre. Starting with the increasing number of settlers coming into the area. It was an issue for the Indians to continue living their traditional way of life while so many white settlers kept pouring in. The second factor was the measles outbreak‚ that
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Boston Beer—Is Greater Growth Possible? 1. Have you ever tried one of the Boston Beer brews? If so‚ how did you like the taste? Was it worth the higher price? I haven’t tried any one of the Boston Beer brews‚ so I’m not sure whether I will like its taste. I searched the key word “the Boston Beer” on the Internet‚ I found that there are three distinct characteristics of this brand’s beers: strong-flavor‚ unique package and high prices. Although a lot of beer aficionados will pay for the high price
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As a result many were recaptures and murdered by military guards and only few succeed the escape‚ this event became knows as the Trelew Massacre (Nino 1998‚ pp. 51). According to Montoneros there illegal executions consist of the detention and torture of approximately 500 people and the murder of 100 people (Soledad 2010‚ pp.4). This illegal repression leads to the creation of legal devices
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