"The History Place - Genocide in the 20th Century: Rape of Nanking 1937-38." The History Place - Genocide in the 20th Century: Rape of Nanking 1937-38. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 08 May 2013. * Jones‚ Adam. "Gendercide Watch: The Nanjing Massacre." Gendercide Watch: The Nanjing Massacre. N.p.‚ 2002. Web. 08 May 2013. * "The Rape of Nanking‚ 1937." The Rape of Nanking‚ 1937. N.p.‚ 2009. Web. 08 May 2013.
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The Fetterman Massacre The Fetterman Massacre‚ also known as the Fetterman Fight‚ the Battle of the Hundred Slain‚ and the Battle of the Hundred in the Hand‚ was a battle on December 21‚ 1866 between Indians from the Lakota Sioux‚ Cheyenne‚ and Arapaho tribes and soldiers of the United States Army during Red Cloud’s War. This battle was at the time the worst military disaster to have ever been suffered by the by the U.S. on the Great Plains and is known as a massacre because all 81 men‚ under the
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By romanticized I mean the images are from a subjective perspective‚ appealing to the imagination of the artist‚ and provoking emotions through the spectators with the use of exaggeration or partiality. The Massacre of Chios is a response from Delacroix to an actual event in 1822 during the Greek’s struggle for independence from the Ottomans. The Turkish troops took revenge for the rebellions by killing 20‚000 innocent people on the island of Chios while selling
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Topic 6: Art as Response to War The paintings: Guernica‚ the Massacre at Chios‚ and the Living Dead are intimately akin‚ considering that these masterpieces depict the horrors of the war; and the blindness of the leaders who value most money and power than human life. The themes are war‚ ambition‚ genocide‚ rape‚ tyranny‚ civil unrest‚ looting‚ and lack of respect for human life. First‚ Picasso’s Guernica was painted to express the consequences of the uncalled bombing of the Nazis on the Basque
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parliament ruled England. 16th August 1819. The Peterloo Massacre. Peterloo gained its name by combining the place the battle happen‚ St Peters Field‚ and the previous battle’s name ‘Waterloo’. Peter-loo. Originally people had gathered at St Peter’s Field to listen to a well known speaker Henry Hunt to share his ideas on reforms such as giving all the men a right to vote and ending bribery and fraud at elections. At the massacre the soldier that came in killed 11 people and wounded over 500
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slavery. The south answered with border ruffians‚ pro-slavery Missourians who crossed state lines to vote in fraudulent elections and raid anti-slavery settlements. One northern abolitionist‚ John Brown‚ became notorious following the Pottawatomie Massacre of 1856. When he and his sons hacked to death five pro-slavery farmers with broadswords. In the end‚ more than fifty people died in Bleeding
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Another Bostonian said after the tragic murder‚ “Are the inhabitants to be knocked down in the streets? Are they to be murdered…?” Leaders such as Samuel Adams and Paul Revere are spreading the word of this horrible encounter‚ known as the Boston Massacre‚ throughout the colonies‚ calling for more resistance against the redcoats. We must fight these tyrants! We cannot let them take control of us and so we must do whatever we can to stop
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Bibliography: Reeve‚ Simon. One Day in September: the full story of the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre and Israeli revenge operation "Wrath of God". New York: Arcade Publishing‚ 2001. Print Richards‚ Huw. A Game for Hooligans: The History of Rugby Union Wise‚ Mike. “Clenched fists‚ helping hand."Washington Post 10 May 2006: Section 7. Print Anne Applebaum
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• This documentary focuses on the accounts of the Central Park Five‚ Raymond Santana Jr.‚ Kevin Richardson‚ Antron McCray‚ Korey Wise‚ and Yusef Salaam; who were all accused of assaulting‚ raping and sodomizing a women in 1989 who was out for a jog in Central Park. At the time of the crime all 5 men were between 16 and 14 years old. The boys at the time had gone out together with their friends to Central Park and were causing ruckus‚ the friends who were about a group of 25 boys were assaulting
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Due to the frustration‚ lack of belief and low morale of US soldiers in post-Tet Vietnam‚ a village named My Lai had been massacred in March 1968. The village had been a stronghold for Vietcong troops and most of the villagers had been communist‚ Vietcong sympathizers. During a routine search and destroy mission‚ Charlie Company‚ led by Lieutenant William L. Calley‚ was ordered to destroy the village. Charlie Company had lost a total 28 men which is almost 1/5 of the companies original size. While
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