Sunday Massacre in January 30th‚1972 Derry‚ Ireland was the turning point in the Northern Ireland conflict. It marked the point where IRA gained the support of the catholic community allowing them to continue their fight against the british. The Irish saw the attack as an unjust massacre against their people and incited fear and hatred in the Irish people. This anger and fear turned the conflict from mostly peaceful to violent ending all peaceful negotiations. The Bloody Sunday Massacre was responsible
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Thomas 1 Greg Thomas WR 121 Profesor Aurora Del Val 2/14/2013 Wayne LaPierre’s speech on Newtown Massacre One week after a elementary school shooting rampage that took place in Newtown‚ Connecticut‚ that left 26 children dead. Wayne LaPierre‚ the Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association gave a speech to the media. On December 21st‚ 2012; Lapierre stood up and told reporters and fellow viewers that we need to protect our children‚ by placing armed guards in the schools
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Essay: What Events Caused the Massacre at Wounded Knee? On December 29‚ 1890 the United States Army opened fire at a group of three hundred Sioux men‚ women‚ and children. Commanded by Colonel James W. Forsyth‚ the Seventh Cavalry attempted to unarmed the Sioux when a shot rang out. The first gunshot led to many more‚ mostly from the Cavalry‚ who killed many defenseless people with a rage-like assault. At the time of the massacre‚ Lakota Sioux Indians were living peacefully on a reservation
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Our planet is ruled by technology. For many people texting is as natural as breathing and children know how to use a computer properly by the age of ten. Letters are only written at Christmas and even then many people prefer an e-letter. Technology has changed our lives entirely. It often can have a bad influence. Kids don’t spend as much time outside anymore because they prefer playing videogames. Social contacts are often made through the internet rather than in person. But this can also be a benefit
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gunshots were heard; Five men were found wounded on the ground. Although the Boston Massacre seemed to be the colonists’ fault since they started off by hurling insults‚ we must remember how the British Soldiers treated the colonists before. For example‚ the Quartering Act forced families to have open their homes to British Soldiers in order to shelter and feed them. Nevertheless‚ the news about the Boston Massacre spread quickly throughout the colonies.; Many of the colonists were shocked and angered
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The Boston Massacre‚ the said “start” of the revolution. What really happened? We know 5 died‚ 2 injured‚ and 2 mortally injured. And even before the Massacre‚ there was a fight between a colonist ropemaker and a solder. What we don’t know‚ is who shot first? Did the Captain order fire? According to a Theodore Bliss‚ “I did not hear any Order given by the Captain to fire”. This is a debated theory. Some colonists say they clearly heard the Captain call fire; while others say they didn’t even hear
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The tale of the great cat massacre of the Rue Saint-Séverin depicts how a group of workers in a printing shop slaughtered hundreds of cats and performed burlesque ‘re-enactments’ of the massacre at least twenty times during subsequent days for the sake of laughter. The source of this disturbing incident comes from Nicholas Contat‚ who fictionalized himself into the character of Jerome. Jerome‚ along with his friend Léveillé‚ were apprentices at the printing shop of Jacques Vincent and both of them
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The Massacre at El Mozote as told by Mark Danner takes place El Salvador. El Salvador is the smallest country in Central America. It shares borders with Guatemala and Honduras. El Salvador is divided into 14 departments and El Mozote is a village in one of the Departments called Morazan. According to the author‚ the Salvadoran Civil War 1979-1992 was a conflict waged by the Military led Government of El Salvador and coalition of left-leaning militias or guerillas called the Farabundo Marti National
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St B | What were the Immediate Causes of the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre? | Document Sources 15‚16‚17‚18 | | Travis Bontorin | 10/24/2012 | The immediate causes of the Saint Bartholomew’s day massacre‚ 1572 using the sources from Barbara Diefendorf’s “The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre‚ A Brief History with Documents. | Since the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre there has been a great deal of controversy over the causes and blame of the historic crisis. Any religious dispute
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Was the Chinese government justified in the Tiananmen Square Massacre? On the fourth of June 1989‚ thousands of students died in a massacre that has come to be known as the June Fourth Incident in China. It was a horrifying occurrence built up after five weeks of protesting‚ demonstrating and speaking out against the Chinese government and its regime‚ carried out mainly by university students‚ but also ordinary workers and older intellectuals. The core of the protesting was done in Tiananmen Square
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