Synopsis José Rizal was born on June 19‚ 1861‚ in Calamba‚ Philippines. While living in Europe‚ Rizal wrote about the discrimination that accompanied Spain’s colonial rule of his country. He returned to the Philippines in 1892‚ but was exiled due to his desire for reform. Although he supported peaceful change‚ Rizal was convicted of sedition and executed on December 30‚ 1896‚ at age 35. CONTENTS Synopsis Early Life Writing and Reform Exile in the Philippines Execution and Legacy QUOTES
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soon and couldn’t stand to watch his friend suffer on the ground wounded. The Major’s motivation to kill the Captain though was due to his hatred for him. When he saw the Captain put his sword through his brother’s chest‚ he ordered him to face a firing squad. If these characters were not related in this specific way‚ the outcome
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Aminatta Jagne English 2030-050 Experience of Literature Response One Letter to Mr. President Dr Martin Luther King’s letter from Birmingham jail used all angles of the rhetoric triangle to address the civil rights movement in Alabama and the rest of the US. His audience was not just the clergyman that has accused of being an extremist and outside agitator‚ but a broader audience. He focused mainly on the moderate
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Battles of WW2 Battle of Midway: The battle of Midway was fought in June of 1942. It effectively destroyed Japan’s naval strength when the Americans destroyed four of its aircraft carriers. Japan’s navy never recovered from its mauling at Midway and it was on the defensive after this battle. Yamamoto’s plan for the attack on Midway was complex and relied on perfect timing and diversionary tactics to lure parts of the American force away from Yamamoto’s main battle fleet. Many Naval attacks occurred
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It is not just super important and/or famous people who commit these war crimes. “An 88-year-old man was charged in Germany for crimes committed in 1944 Nazi-occupied France” (Staff 7). They say that he shot 25 people as part of the firing squad. After that he burnt a church down killing a lot of people. These people may not be bad people themselves they may just be trained to be this way. "Most of the time‚ soldiers who commit atrocities are not sadists or ’bad apples’.... These soldiers
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The gas chamber method has killed five hundred and ninety-three people since 1608. Firing squad is the method that has been applied the least amount of times over history‚ one hundred and fifty-six times. This method usually consists of the inmates being bound to a chair with leather straps‚ across the body‚ then a black bag being pulled over their head. A doctor will locate the inmates heart with a target‚ and five armed shooters point their guns at the inmate and shoot. Death row is something that
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Maya Guedouar Mr. Forsyth ENG 3U October 7‚ 2014 Ta-pocketa-pocketa: the analysis of Mitty’s character In The Secret Life of Walter Mitty‚ by James Thurber‚ Walter Mitty desires dominance‚ but knows that he cannot achieve his dreams due to the constant put down by his controlling wife. Walter‚ a middle-aged man has daydreams to assert his dominance which he does not have in his real life. Mitty starts to daydream that he is a “commander” of a “navy hydroplane” and he is trying to save his
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The Third of May 1808 (also known as El tres de mayo de 1808 en Madrid‚ or Los fusilamientos de la montana del Prìncipe Pìo‚ or Los fusilamientos atled tres de mayo) is a painting completed in 1814 by the Spanish depicter Francisco Goya‚ now in the Museo del Prado‚ Madrid. In the work‚ Goya sought to commemorate Spanish resistance to Napoleon’s armies during the possession of 1808 in the Peninsular War. Along with its coadjutor fact of the same largeness‚ The Second of May 1808 (or The Charge of
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Death by Lethal Injection 1 Death by Lethal Injection Nicole Beer Axia College of University of Phoenix Death by Lethal Injection 2 The first state introducing legislation allowing lethal injection as a legal method of execution was Oklahoma. On May 11‚ 1977 the state of Oklahoma permitted this form of execution to be legal. Five states had executions by lethal injection permitted by legislation by 1981. Charles Brooks was the first
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Miguel Hidalgo was a Roman catholic priest‚ activist‚ and folk hero to some and revolutionary leader who is called the father of independence due to the major role he played in the wars of independence. It all began when Hidalgo was born‚ 8th of May 1753in Penjamo‚ Guanajuato.He was the second born son of Cristóbal Hidalgo y Costilla and Dona Ana Maria Gallaga‚ born into the social class as a criollo. In his teen years Hidalgo served in the army and a professor at the college de San Nicolas Obispo
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