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The Nuremberg Trials first took place November 20, 1945 on Nazi’s very own stomping grounds in the city of Nuremberg, Germany. The Nuremberg Trials was to prosecute all Nazi war criminals in the hands of the four biggest powerful allies the United States, Soviet Union, Great Britain, and France. The Nuremberg Trials was the first trial in history to ever be held for war crimes. Since this trial was first of it’s kind it was difficult to give a defendant a death sentence or certain time in prison…

drastically. This is especially useful for the introvert people who are unable to express themselves in a public platform. Writing in the above mentioned form helps to break their barriers and they can express themselves more freely. They start to face the closeted…

Introduction In 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States made the historical decision of legalizing same-sex marriage all across the nation, following decades of sociopolitical mobilization by members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community and their allies. However, many members of the LGBT community have criticized the disproportionate political-agenda focus of the national LGBT community on marriage equality, arguing that this narrow national focus sidesteps other…

From the 1960s to the 1980s the poetry of the Women’s Movement was something that defied the traditional conceptions of form and content. While there is no defining moment when feminist poetry began, the poets of the Women’s Movement were torn between the submissive pasts of their mothers and the hopefully liberated futures of their female offspring. Writers such as Sylvia Plath, Audre Lord and Sharon Olds broke the traditional norms in poetry with their intensely personal poetry. Their anger…

Statement of Intent Dennis Hisamoto, Applicant for the School Psychology Program In third grade, my teacher suggested I be considered for special education. Fifteen years later, with the financial support from my scholarship, I became the first in my family to obtain a college degree. Some would call this phenomenon sweet irony. I, however, call it a rush to judgment due to a failure to acknowledge that issues outside of school could adversely bleed into the classroom. While at the time I was…

The book Animal Farm by George Orwell is about a society of animals led by a group of intelligent pigs that start a revolution against the owners of the farm in order to prove their superiority among the humans. It all started with a pig named Old Major telling all the animals about his dream of taking the farm from humans and running the farm themselves, so that all animals can live in a state of equality. Old Major brings the animals together before he dies, and the two pigs: Napoleon and…

In all circumstances, there is an audience - be it a packed auditorium, with people pushing to sit close to the front of the room, spell bound by every word escaping the speakers lips, or a quiet setting, where the only audience is the individual, speaking to himself. Regardless of the size or location, words are impactful to whomever they’re delivered. Admired are the individuals who realize a moment to persuade and seize it readily. Harvey Milk is one such individual. Milk’s role as a…

Jerome Robbins was known as one of the great choreographers of all time, as a genius, as a friend to the rich and famous (and, indeed, “one of them”: He danced with Lauren Bacall at Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball), as one of the four closeted gay Jewish men who made West Side Story , as a person who enjoyed humiliating young male ballet dancers during rehearsals and referring to some of the female ones with the four-letter word that begins with a “c,” as an informer, and as co-founding…

The purpose of a gun to many is a tool used for ending another’s life, but to me it is a tool meant for protection and security. Around a year ago my apartment was broken into by a con artist who had tricked me into showing him my room, he had told me he was a repair man here to replace the old locks with some newer ones. At the time I was fresh out of my parents’ house so I was quite gullible unfortunately, and let him "fix" all my locks. He had planned to break in when me and my roommate were…

Langston Hughes was a private, mysterious poet, whose sexuality became the focus of curiosity by his critics and readers before and after his 1967 passing. While there was limited scholarly works that accurately biographed his life, there was indeed a plethora of critical reviews and analyzations of his writing itself by various writers and poets (Summers 3). His work was different in that it mostly remained gender ambiguous and defied stereotypes about what it meant to be a man, a woman,…