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that are given to the citizens, these rights are a right to a grand judge and jury and no abuse of governmental authority, a speedy trial, the reservation of a defendant’s right to a trial with a jury, and forbidding cruel and unusual punishments. “In 1976 the Supreme Court tried to heal the constitutional infirmities, in the death penalty- 40 years years later a survey shows that this has failed and that it is a violation of the 8th Amendment,” as Juris Doctor, Stephen G. Breyer says (“Top”…

Mao understood what it was like to be in the “98 percent”. This allowed him to make a majority of the population feel connected with him as he once understood their struggles. Mao Zedong left a lasting legacy behind him as he died in the summer of 1976. Although millions of people died under his rule, many Chinese nationalists…

If you ever happen to visit Skagway, Alaska a good place to visit is the Klondike Gold Rush National Park. It is the gateway to the famous Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-1898 which happened in Yukon Territory. On August 19,1896, a man named George W. Carmak, along with his wife and brother in-law found gold in Yukon Territory. The location was suggested by Robert Henderson, a prospector grubstaked by a French-Canadian agent for Alaska Commercial Company, who previously found gold at this location.…

politically active organization was formed: the Buraku Kaihō Zenkoku Iinkai (All-Japan Committee for Buraku Liberation), which in 1955 was renamed Buraku Kaihō Dōmei (Buraku Liberation League).” (Britannica) More organizations came and went from 1960 through 1976, yet none of them were…

Alice Walker accomplished many achievements during her lifetime. She won the Rosenthal Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, received the Fred Cody Award for lifetime achievement in 1990, and was inducted into the California Hall of Fame in 2006 (African American Poets). Most of her short stories expressed the struggles of black women and their lives in a racist, sexist, and violent society (Poem Hunter). “To Hell with Dying” was published when she was just twenty-three years old.…

When the Parti Québécois was elected in 1976, Camille Laurin, the Minister of Cultural Development, proposed a bill that defined French as the official language of Québec and framed fundamental language rights. The Charter of the French Language, which has also been called Bill 101, has been amended six times since it was passed in 1977. The charter states that its purpose is “to make of French the language of Government and the Law, as well as the normal and everyday language of work,…

ideal, that can be seen in the Count, in a small village of New England, Jerusalem's Lot, which gives the title of the story: Salem's Lot (1975). In the same decade, Anne Rice brought back the literary vampire with her novel Interview with the Vampire (1976) together with other works of her own that ended to be known as the Vampire Chronicles, illustrating a monster that differs from the classical views of it; a beast that still maintained its photophobia and the destructive nature of sunlight…

ORLAN formerly (Mireille Suzanne Francette Porte) was born in Saint-Étienne, Loire in France on May 30, 1947. She started her career in the 60s where was she a major revolutionary activist during the early Feminist Movement in Paris. ORLAN changed her name in 1971 to reinvent herself. Her focus is to challenge society’s definition and objectification of beauty standards for women in which is what most of her art is comprised of. ORLAN does not abide by the normality of the world and she is dead…

The Iron Bank, co-founded by residents and the founder of Ironton, opened for business on July 11, 1851. After some changes in location and a merger, the bank, then the First National Bank of Ironton, settled in its current home on Third Street. In the 1970s, it was purchased by the First National Bank of Cincinnati, which subsequently became the Star Banc Corporation and finally the U. S. Bank National Association. After the town of Ironton began selling lots and constructed a railroad, many…

Indie rock was originated in United Kingdom in the 1980s and can be traced back to the burst of post-punk. The genre was said to have a lot of influence by the ethics and ideologies of punk music. The term “indie” had been around for a long time as it was is used to describe the independence of music. Indie rock is considered a genre of alternative rock, so the terms were used quite interchangeably. As much of alternative bands began to enter mainstream music, the term “indie” began to describe…