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historic event. This is because of the weather the night of the escape, the water of San Francisco Bay, and the overall construction of the raft that they took to escape from the Alcatraz. On June 11th, 1962 Frank Lee Morris, John William Anglin, and Clarence Anglin finally put plans in action for the greatest escape in history. There was a fourth person in the grand scheme, but later backed out and did not dig out. (Alctraz History, 2016) All of the thirty-six other attempts have been ruled…

It was the crime of the century in the 1920’s, it was committed by two wealthy college men, Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr. and Richard Albert Lobe. They wanted to prove that they were smart enough to get away with murder. They said it would be the perfect crime and went on to perform the crime for the thrill of it, “To kidnap a child would be an act of daring—and no one, Loeb proclaimed, would ever know who had accomplished it.” (Baatz 1). It was indeed not the “perfect crime” they imagined. On…

John T. Scopes John Thomas Scopes was born 3 August, 1900, in Paducah Kentucky. At a young age, Scopes family moved to Illinois, first to Danville, then eventually settling in Salem. Johns father, Thomas, and mother, Mary, made sure to educate their five children as much as possible. They often made the children read literature and philosophy. Thomas Scopes, an Englishman, was said to have stepped off the boat in Galveston, TX with four books, including Darwin’s Origin of Species .Thomas Scopes…

should be taught in public schools. In fact, there was once a court case, the Scopes Trial, in which many issues had arisen and were resolved about this controversy. One of the main issues discussed was a debate on evolutionism being taught in school. Clarence Darrow, an atheist lawyer, asked William Jennings Bryan, a devout and vocal politician and a Christian, a series of questions in regards to what Bryan believed to be true about the Bible. Darrow later then explained that science had said…

they drowned on their way. Evidence has shown that Frank Morris and Clarence and John Anglin survived their escape (Hopkinson 6). This paper is going to explain why it is that they did in fact escape. According to an article by (Escape from Alcatraz by Hopkinson, Deborah) three men managed to escape Alcatraz on June 11, 1962 leaving no evidence whether or not they’re alive. Those three men were Frank Morris, and John And Clarence Anglin. They were more clever than any other escape attempts,…

Morris and the Anglin brothers started preparing for their escape months prior to their escape in June 1962. The intelligent men began their strategy with saw blades and sharpening spoons from the prison cafeteria to widen the air vents in their cells until the openings were large enough for them to shimmy through. The inescapable prison was starting to deteriorate and the three inmates used the crumbling walls of the building to their advantage. They covered their digging by crafting a…

Back in 1925, the school board had a law (Butler Act) that evolution (the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth) or any theory of creation other than the biblical Creation could not be taught in public schools. This law was targeted at English scientist Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, which was that human had ascended from apes. Some people did not agree with this law but others…

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…

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…

My first semester here at MSU was everything like I imagined it would be, but at the same time nothing I imagined it would be. I knew it was going to be stressful, but I was not prepared for all the stress that was to come. I did not know that I was going to stay up until 2AM every night doing homework or that I would have a 25 minute walk to my 8AM class. All in all, it has been both crazy and fun but mostly crazy. I am so relieved to be done with my first semester of college because at first I…