The Acoma Massacre seems to be having great effects long after the dates of its events. In the document “The Mystery of the Sawed-Off Foot‚” an incident took place on one January evening in 1998 at New Mexico’s Juan de Onate Monument Visitor’s Center where unknown individuals vandalized the statue of Juan de Onate by cutting off its right foot. The individuals opposed to the statue viewed the actions of the vandals as justification towards Onate’s involvement in the Acoma Massacre where his soldiers
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1968 Tlatelolco Massacre During the Gustavo Díaz Ordaz government‚ the people were repressed‚ offended‚ and abused. Also‚ President Diaz wanted an absolute government in which he could have complete power and authority over the country and Mexican citizens. On October 2nd‚ in the region of the Plaza de las Tres Culturas a thousand students were gathered to protest against the government ’s actions. Things started to slip through his iron fist and this turned into a nightmare of horror and grief
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The streets became ‘streets of blood’ as a result of the two-day annihilation” (Basic Facts On the Nanking Massacre). Japanese military exhibited no mercy and terrorized the city for weeks. In addition to the killing‚ Japanese inflicted incredible destruction upon the city of Nanking physically. “The Japanese looted all the storehouses and seized virtually everything
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The Montreal Massacre was one of the most tragic events of Canadian history. On December 6th‚ 1989‚ a twenty-five year old man walked into the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal and shot to death 14 woman. He separated the men from the women and before opening fire on the classroom of female engineering students he screamed‚ "I hate feminists." The gunman then moved through the college corridors‚ the cafeteria‚ and another classroom‚ specifically targeting women to shoot. By the time Lépine turned the
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accusation of being involved in a communist revolution in 1981. With this‚ it led to many deaths of the Mayans and millions being dragged out of their homes. In what had seemed a typical civil war‚ fighting for their rights‚ it turned into a deadly massacre of the poor Mayans. During this time period‚ a civil war was undertaken. The cause for this was the rebellion of guerrilla forces trying to overthrow Miguel Yidigoras Fuentes‚ who was the president
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The artist‚ Mike Luckovich created this impactful political cartoon‚ titled as Taking a Knee. The message conveys that owners of the team should force players to stand and show respect towards the national anthem or they will earn consequences. The author’s argument of the political cartoon exhibits how owners want their team players to follow new policy rules to demonstrate honor towards the national anthem. This protest started in the 2016 preseason games by the former 49ers backup quarterback
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------------------------------------------------- Khojaly Massacre In 1991 the small village of Khojaly‚ situated in the Nagorno Karabakh region of the Republic of Azerbaijan‚ had a population of just 6‚300 people.The Khojaly Massacre was the killing of hundreds of ethnic Azerbaijna civilians from the town of Khojaly on 25–26 February 1992 by theArmenain.The death toll provided by Azerbaijani authorities is 613 civilians‚ including 106 women and 83 children. The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict had
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boycotting began‚ you were honored more if you were wearing your own homemade clothes‚ looking as if you were poor. Even the upper-class colonist stopped buying luxurious goods from the British‚ and began living a cheaper lifestyle. 2) The Boston Massacre was an incident on a cold night in Boston‚ MA‚ on March 5‚ 1770‚ where a fight broke out between British soldiers and Boston civilians. The British soldiers had been stationed in Boston since 1768‚ and the people of Boston did not like this one
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The Maguindanao massacre‚ violent as it already was‚ is a source of more violence. But the task of helping bridge groups and transcending biases of tribes and of roles in society (military vis-à-vis CSOs) have been a source of energy for us to continue our peacebuilding work. Balay Mindanaw as an institution is steadfast in its vision of peace even with the changes in the political and peace terrain in Mindanao. The work we are doing in Maguindanao may seem to have stretched Balay Mindanaw’s scope
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The Iraq war has ended as of December 2011. Osama Bin Laden has been killed as of May 2011 and yet the war in Afghanistan is still ongoing. The jihadist terrorism threat that our nation once feared from Al-Qaeda has diminished. Many question the justification of the United State’s involvement in the Middle East over the past decade. What have our intentions been this whole time and have the lives of those brave military men and women lost been worth the fight? What more do we have to show
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