1962

The first attempt occurred when she overdosed on sleeping pills in 1953. Her next suicidal pursuit took place in June 1962 when she purposely drove her car into a river (Kirk). Her third and final attempt was successful. On the morning of February 11th, 1963, Sylvia set out bread and milk in both of her children’s bedrooms. She also cracked a window open in their rooms…

How should one relive history? For many, the greatest moments in history were the most excruciating to relive while others reveled in the moment to tell you about their past. At least until questioned about his or her barbaric actions towards another human being. Dating back to the 1800’s, Mississippi has been the most consistent at reliving and recreating racism and its history. Whether this is by happenstance or by the utter hatred of those who are born and bred in good ole sovereign…

portraying negativity towards pride and revenge (Zagorin, 2009). Similarly, Hobbes also received recognition for his idea of sovereignty (Strauss, 1952) as well as his idea about, the state of nature as it was described as a logical process (Macpherson, 1962). Thus, one could theorise the laws of did receive importance within political authority. Moreover, Hobbes argued that politics created a moral consensus thus, moral disagreements of the state of nature would overwhelm any attempt of…

is one of the few places we can find his signature. He wrote his signature three times on it.) Shakespeare simply gave his belongings to his wife and daughter. It was rumored he had one of the biggest libraries in England. As McMichael and Glenn (1962) explain, “...If he had his own library, surely this would have been one of his most valuable possessions.” (p.125) And yet, there wasn’t a word mentioned about it in his…

Fifty years ago, Harper Lee had the kind of success that most writers only dream about:Shortly after her novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, was published on July 11, 1960, it hit the best-seller lists. In 1961, it won a Pulitzer Prize, and in 1962, it was made into an Academy Award-winning film. It has never gone out of print. Lee stepped out of the limelight and stopped doing interviews years ago -- and she neverwrote another book. Still, her influence has far outlasted most writers of her…

was one of those people who didn’t care what people thought of her. Bishop was usually the main target for gossip. Bishop was arrested in April of 1962 and as she was taken into the courtroom and two girls Ann Putnam and Mercy Lewis they howled that Bishop was causing them pain Bishop denied and saying she was innocent. Bishop was hung on June 10 of 1962 she was only one of the nineteen people that were executed during the…

The Cuban Missile crisis was a time period during the cold war between the Soviet Union and the United States. It was a political standoff between these two countries that lasted for a total of 13 days in took place between October 16-28 1962. It was called the Cuban Missile Crisis because it was all about the United States finding out that the Soviet Union had put nuclear missiles in Cuba, 90 miles off the coast of America. In 1959 Fidel Castro took control of the island Cuba located in the…

So these bombers were constantly refueling and flying about 48 hours (2 days aprox) constantly in the air. On October 27 - 1962, a U2 spy plane was shut down by the Cuban army. The commanders of the United States Army and the majority of the ExComm members, demanded an offensive response, but Kennedy decided to solve it diplomatically avoiding war. On that same day, 27 Oct 1962, a United States ship which had in quarantine to the Cuban Island spotted a Soviet Submarine and they deployed charges…

The concept of speech act was firstly introduced by the British philosopher John L. Austin in a lecture delivered at Harvard in 1955, later published as a monograph titled “How to do things with words” in (1962). This concept captures an important feature of language: saying something can also involve doing something. Austin differentiates between two separate parts of speech: constatives and performative. Constatives are sentences that describe something as true or false, and performatives are…

individuals who feel that school prayer should be allowed in the school system, on the other hand, there are several individuals who feel that school prayer should not be allowed in schools. Daily prayer was eliminated by the the Supreme Court in 1962. In 1962, the supreme court officially sponsored school prayer. “In 1963, the Court said that schools cannot begin each day with Bible readings and recitations of the Lord's Prayer.” The problems is that the debate over student led prayer will…