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    Even the boys’ journals are filled with mock schedules, equipment lists, and instructions on how to build pipe bombs and molotov cocktails. They planned first to set off bombs in the school cafeteria to kill perhaps 600. They would then shoot the survivors as they fled. Then their cars, carrying more bombs, would explode amid the rescue workers and parents rushing to the school…

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    Ma Nu, a Rohingya residing in the state of Rakhine, witnessed as the barbarity transpired (Otis, 2013). Molotov cocktails were set on fire by a group of Buddhist and thrown into the village completely demolishing around 800 homes, along with 3 villagers getting their throats slit (Otis, 2013). During the raid, the Rohingya lost their fishing equipment, clothes and…

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    When discussing the history of Germany, it’s impossible not to bring up the topic of the Nazi’s. Nazi is short for the National Socialist German Worker’s Party, which was a political party that started in the early 1930’s and ended in 1945. This party was ran by Adolf Hitler that believed the Aryan race was the perfect race, and took out anyone who disagreed with their views. They saw the Jewish people as their biggest threat and tried to eliminate all Jews. This is what led to the…

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    In his last speech, Dr. Martin Luther emphasizes that the civil rights movement had to be in a nonviolent nature with statements like, “We don’t need any bricks and bottles; we don’t need any Molotov cocktails,” and, “We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces.” In other words, because of King’s remarks, he maneuvered the civil rights movement toward a positive direction. Using a violent method creates more conflict, but Martin…

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    Many people assume that a community is just the people who live in a certain area. In reality, a community is much more than just a population of people. It is a group of individuals who work towards a common goal. A community positively influences individuals by trying to solve an obstruction that the individuals must face together. The following sources will be used to explain how a community influences an individual : Steinbeck’s Cannery Row, King’s My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr., CBS…

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    Holocaust Survivors

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    rest of the inhabitants would be transferred to a place where they would be killed. As German SS and Police units had entered the ghetto, members of the Jewish Fighting Organization, and other Jewish groups began to attack German tanks with Molotov cocktails, hand grenades, and a fair amount of small arms. Although the Germans were shocked by the revolt, it only took them a matter of days to end the major fighting, though it did take nearly a month to pacify the entire ghetto and deport…

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    Sylvia Lee Rivera was a Venezuelan/Puerto Rican Stonewall veteran and transgender activist. Born in July of 1951, Sylvia Rivera was born in New York City as Ray Rivera. She was abandoned by her father, José Rivera early in life and became an orphan at three years old when her mother committed suicide by ingesting rat poison. Rivera was then raised by her grandmother, who did not agree with her behavior and fretted her femininity and sexuality and often beat her for being a “trouble maker” . At…

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    audience feel like he working with them, not against him. "For it grows out of my experience in the ghettos of the North over the last three years........as I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problem”(Paragraph…

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    He organized many protests and many boycotts. But, they were never violent. He said, “ Our power, does not lie in Molotov cocktails. ... Our power lies in our ability to say nonviolently that we aren't gonna take it any longer.” He believed that words said much more than violence. What you spoke is what people listened too. Fighting got you nowhere. Reverend Mays supported…

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    a police raid on that fateful evening of a blind pig that was serving about eighty blacks. As the police rounded up the offenders, some black men who were outside observing them decided that this was not fair and attacked the officers with Molotov cocktails. The riot had begun. For five days, this riot raged on, first with the looters breaking into stores, then the fires that were started and finally the National Guard came in to stop it all. Forty-three people died, and more than 1100…

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