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    for me that was unacceptable but now that I had the support from most people in India, it would be easy to change things and be able to win all those rights again. So in 1919 I asked for national strike which consisted that all people in India should stop working until we get the freedom of speech rights back, and for my surprise almost all people in india stopped working but unfortunately there was a lot of violence meaning that Indian people had a long way to be able to understand what satarahaya means. In 1920 we learned that we could not trust the british in the saddest way possible, the Amritsar Massacre occurred in which a total of 379 lost their lives by the hands of the british. After that event they named me leader of the Home Rule League which is a government rule by their own citizens. Because of what the British did in the Amritsar Massacre I called for non cooperation with the british in any form. What I asked my Indians compatriots was to boycott all type of clothing made in foreign countries and return to the use of homespuns so we can show pride and also to show british that we do not want to support their economy. I also introduced a new program which I called swadeshi which purpose was to encourage indian villages to become self-sufficient and by self-sufficient I mean that those villages will be able to produce their own goods ,but Sadly in february of 1922 I was arrested and sentenced to 6 years of prison because british people accused…

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    The first problem that Diana and pilot need to face before they work together is multiculturalism. They grow up in completely different world. Diana have not seen male before she see the American pilot and pilot haven’t see an island only have male. Diana is inquisitive about everything of pilot. When they back to the modern society, Diana is highly incompatible with new world. She always holds her shield and doesn’t understand why female in the modern society need to dress so complicate.…

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    School shootings are something that we know about, in Canadian history they are something we aren 't oblivious to. The Montreal Massacre significantly affected Canada in terms of equality, justice and safety. Numerous individuals had differentiating perspectives on the massacre that took place. Many questions were raised: Why did Marc Lépine shoot and murder fourteen women, while leaving the men alive? Why was Lépine yelling "You’re all feminists?", yet shooting at women who guaranteed they…

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    Fact or Fiction: The Effects of Misrepresentation Literature appears in many forms from fiction to non-fiction to memoirs with each providing a different purpose for the intended reader. Often, authors will write their memoirs in order to give the reader new knowledge of events through personal experience rather than to entertain them as a folk tale might. Consequently, those in search of gaining knowledge through personal experience on a particular event will most likely choose to evaluate the…

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    the beginning of a huge revolution. Crispus Attucks played an important role in the American Revolution by his role in the Boston Massacre. On the night of March 5, 1770, Private Hugh White, a guard on duty outside Boston’s customs house,was surrounded by a jeering crowd.He reacted by hitting one of them his musket. The crowd grew larger, and eight redcoats came to rescue White. A redcoat fired into the crowd, possibly by accident, and the people panicked. In the chaos that followed, five men…

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    seen in the lonely figures of the Massacres at Chios along with the “Greek Families Awaiting Death or Slavery”. The bodies are painted in a traditional style, their magnitudes close to real life but slightly romanticized. The theme of the painting is based on the real life event that had occurred two years earlier to the conclusion of this works. For almost four centuries the Greeks has been under occupation by the Turks but it wasn't until 1822 that the Greeks decided to fight for freedom. The…

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    In the early hours of September 5, 1972, an awful event occurred in the most unimaginable place. The Olympic Games in Munich, dubbed “The Games of Peace and Joy” quickly became known as the “Munich Massacre”. At 4 o’clock in the morning, a group of eight Palestinian terrorists, disguised as athletes, climbed over the fence into the Olympic Village in Munich. Meanwhile, the Olympic team from Israel was asleep in their apartments in 31 Connollystrasse. The terrorists walked straight to 31…

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    Olympics became one of the greatest human tragedies in the history of counter terrorism. The paper reviews the principal aspects of the security response to the Munich massacre in 1972. Some of the issues considered include Germany's response to the incident, pre-attack warnings, the level of security preparedness during the Olympics, as well as the role of fusion centers in counter-terrorist operations. The lessons learned from the 1972 Munich Olympics provide effective guidance for the…

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    The Rape of Nanking The Rape of Nanking was a horrific and brutal massacre. It shows the world’s failure to acknowledge the cruel acts of people who take advantage of their ranks in government, meaning this went on for six weeks, thousands of people were killed, and no other countries even noticed or helped all of those people. is a human rights violation because pretty much all of the human rights were violated especially 3-5. “Article 3: Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security…

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    The Boston Massacre shouldn’t have been called a massacre since only a total of five people killed in the event. The word “massacre” indicates the brutal slaughtering of a large numbers of people. The Boston Massacre was more like a riot than a massacre, but it was called a massacre by the use of propaganda. The Boston Massacre Historical Society clarifies that “Paul Revere wasted no time in capitalizing on the Massacre to highlight British tyranny and stir up anti-British sentiment among his…

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