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    Anita Hill Research Paper

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    Committee during the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. She was born Anita Faye Hill on July 30, 1956, in Morris, OK; daughter of Albert and Irma Hill. Education: Oklahoma State University, BS, 1977; Yale University School of Law, LLD, 1980 and excelled in her studies, gaining admission to the Yale Law School. After brief employment in a private practice, Hill accepted a position working for Clarence Thomas at the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil…

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    that it could have been their child that was kidnapped. The murder itself took multiple weeks for the police to uncover. Perhaps the biggest reason was the trial. The trial itself was a massive event, but what brought attention to the trial was Clarence Darrow, the most famous attorney during the time. Darrow’s orations and efforts helped Leopold and Loeb escape the death penalty. In present day, it is still debated whether the murder of Bobby Franks is deemed worthy of the title, “Crime…

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    Justice, Clarence Thomas, spiked political and social debates during his confirmation hearings in the 1990s. Justice Thomas is a conservative judge appointed by former President George H.W. Bush. (Anita Hill vs. Clarence Thomas: The Backstory) Prior to his judicial appointment, Clarence Thomas was the head of U.S. Department of Education 's Office of Civil Rights in Washington and the Equal Employment Opportunities Committee, where Anita Hill worked as his subordinate. (Anita Hill vs. Clarence…

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    first prisoner to escape the horrible island. The year is 1962, Four of the most popular prisoners are sent to Alcatraz, like Frank Morris, Clarence Anglin, John Anglin, and the most horrible prisoners are being sent to the most dangerous, and are wishing they never broke the law. prison in the U.S. One day on Alcatraz Island, Frank Morris, Clarence and John Anglin were gathering all the materials they needed for this huge escape attempt. According to,”Scholastic.com,” they gathered nail…

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    world, Alcatraz, Escaped. The three men that ‘escaped’ Alcatraz names were John Anglin, Clarence Anglin, And Frank Morris. There is a lot of controversy behind the great escape, Like if the three men really made it out of the prison alive, Or if they are still alive today, so in this essay, i’m going to explain who these men were, What they did, and if they are still alive today. John William and Alfred Clarence Anglin was born in 1930 to a family of 13 children in Georgia. Their parents were…

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    Alcatraz Research Paper

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    were rare, and the ones that happened all became very famous. An example is the escape of John and Clarence Anglin and Frank Morris. Frank Morris arrived at Alcatraz in January 1960 after convictions for bank robbery, burglary, and other crimes and repeated attempts to escape various prisons. Later that year, a convict by the name of John Anglin was sent to Alcatraz, followed by his brother Clarence in early 1961. All three knew each other from previous stints in prison. Assigned to adjoining…

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    prisoner was Frank Morris. He was the first prisoner to escape the horrible Alcatraz. Many people around the globe think the prisoners died while trying to escape, some evidence proves that they are still alive. The year is 1962, Frank Morris, Clarence and John Anglin escaped the worst prison of all Alcatraz, and lived to tell the tale. According to,”History.com,” the FBI did an investigation on Alcatraz to figure out if the three escapists lived or died during the riskie escape attempt. June…

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    Alcatraz Prison

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    conditions. One of the most famous cases of escaping involves Frank Morris and brothers John Anglin and Clarence Anglin. The men meticulously planned their escape by preparing life-like dummy…

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    Morris and Clarence and John Anglin died trying to escape Alcatraz, but considering key points of evidence they most likely survived the escape. Alcatraz was a prison in 1934-1963. Alcatraz was designed to obtain some of the worst criminals such as Al Capone, George “Machine-Gun” Kelly, Alvin Karpis (the first ‘Public Enemy #1), and Author “Doc” Baker. Most of the 1,576 other prisoners held at Alcatraz incarcerated there were-not-well known gangsters. The main question is, did the Anglin…

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    criminals ever escaped because the prison had very high security on an island in the middle of the cold and dangerous San Francisco Bay. Only three had the brains and ability to escape. The prisoners who escaped were Frank Lee Morris, John Anglin, and Clarence Anglin. Their escape is one of the most famous in history and is known as the “Great Escape”. It took over one year of planning. They collected saw blades and other tools they could dig with. They also collected raincoats that they made…

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