Louis Riel Trial 1. Riels defense lawyer wanted to make Riel seem and look insane so his punishment wouldn’t be as harsh. If he was able to convince them that Riel can’t hold responsibility for his actions because he was not himself and he didn’t do it because he chose too‚ then they wouldn’t sentence him to death‚ but rather to an insane asylum or such. 2. Riels prosecutor was trying to convince the jury that riel led the rebellion sound mindedly. 3. Witness
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Have you ever been to camp? ““Rex! Alan! I want you to come say hello to Stanley. He’s the newest member of our team.”” (Sachar‚ 17). In the story‚ Holes‚ by Louis Sachar‚ Stanley is caught with stolen shoes. He’s sent to a camp‚ Camp Green Lake in fact. He dug holes there‚ in order to “straighten him out”. The theme of Holes is perseverance because he sows rebellion‚ displays overcoming failure‚ and also‚ represents the idea of survival. In the story‚ the counselor‚ Mr Pendanski was asking Zero
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Louis Riel was born in the Red River Settlement in 1844. He was a promising student. He was sent to Montreal to train for the priesthood when he was 13. Because of his father’s premature death in 1864‚ Riel lost interest in the priesthood and he withdrew from the college. An attempt at training as a lawyer ended similarly‚ and by 1868 Riel was back in the Red River area. Ambitious‚ well educated and bilingual‚ Riel quickly emerged as a leader among the Metis of the Red River. In 1869-1870 he
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Almost anyone who visits in the schools of East St. Louis‚ even for a short time‚ comes away profoundly shaken. These are innocent children‚ after all. They have done nothing wrong. They have committed no crime. They are too young to have offended us in any way at all. One searches for some way to understand why a society as rich and‚ frequently‚ as generous as ours would leave these children in their penury and squalor for so long-and with so little public indignation. Is this just a strange mistake
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Joseph-Louis Lagrange is usually considered to be a French mathematician‚ but the Italian Encyclopaedia [40] refers to him as an Italian mathematician. They certainly have some justification in this claim since Lagrange was born in Turin and baptised in the name of Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrangia. Lagrange’s father was Giuseppe Francesco Lodovico Lagrangia who was Treasurer of the Office of Public Works and Fortifications in Turin‚ while his mother Teresa Grosso was the only daughter of a medical doctor
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The Giver by Louis Lowry Chapter 1-2 1. What did the word "frightened" mean‚ according to Jonas? The word "frightened" meaning according to Jonas was a "deep‚ sickening feeling of something terrible about to happen." 2. About what were Jonas and the other children taught to be careful? Jonas and the other children were taught to be careful about language. 3. How did Jonas decide he felt? What was causing this feeling? Jonas felt apprehensive. The Ceremony of Twelve was causing
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When one reads the nonfiction work of Robert Louis Stevenson along with the novels and short stories‚ a more complete portrait emerges of the author than that of the romantic vagabond one usually associates with his best-known fiction. The Stevenson of the nonfiction prose is a writer involved in the issues of his craft‚ his milieu‚ and his soul. Moreover‚ one can see the record of his maturation in critical essays‚ political tracts‚ biographies‚ and letters to family and friends. What Stevenson
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Holes by Louis Sacher Theme Fate does play an important role in the lives of many of the characters in the novel Holes. Stanley’s great-great-grandfather was cursed with bad luck by Madame Zeroni because he did not carry her up the mountain as he had promised. The bad luck haunts his relatives for over a hundred years‚ until the day Stanley Yelnats the third fourth fulfils the promise of his great-great-grandfather by carrying Madame Zeroni’s great-grandson up a mountain and sing him Madame
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Davey Oetting 12/1/06 History of St. Louis St. Louis was acquired from France by the United States under President Thomas Jefferson in 1803‚ as part of the Louisiana Purchase. It was founded by the French in 1764 when Auguste Chouteau established a fur-trading post and Pierre Laclède Liguest‚ a New Orleans merchant‚ founded a town at the present site. They named it after King Louis XV of France and his patron saint‚ Louis IX. From 1770 to 1803‚ St. Louis was a Spanish possession‚ but it was ceded
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Louis XIV "L’Etat‚ c’est moi." Louis is the embodiment of an absolute monarch. He is the chief example of absolutism throughout the second half of the 17th century. Greed is defined in the dictionary as selfish and grasping desire for possession; especially of wealth for one self’s benefit. It is also described as a noun. This definition can be directly related and best describes Louis XIV‚ the king of France in the sixteen hundreds. Louis XIV‚ also known as the Sun King‚ was not indeed such a
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