Nanking Massacre

was a command and all soldiers started to fire. Five colonist were shot and died some others were injured. The men who died were Samuel Gray, James Caldwell, Crispus Attucks, Samuel Maverick and Patrick Carr. What Is The Bloody Massacre Engraving? The Bloody Massacre is an engraving by Paul Revere. Paul Revere drew this because he wanted to show the soldiers treating the colonist badly. This engraving was important because the engraving had so many mistakes. Paul Revere did this so it could…

Both Rowlandson and Equiano were sold to a series of owners. Rowlandson was sold to various “husbands” while Equiano was sold to a chain of owners taking him from his home to the West Indies. Describing his physical confrontation with multiple overseers, Olaudah Equiano writes, “These overseers are indeed for the most part persons of the worst character of any denomination of men in the West Indies. Unfortunately, many humane gentlemen, by not residing on their estates, are obliged to leave the…

On March 5, 1770, there was a massacre in front of the Old Customs House. This awful incident is the Boston Massacre. This was most definitely caused due the actions the colonists had been taking. Here is why the colonists are at fault for the Boston Massacre. It all started when a crowd of colonists became angry and started rioting. First off, this crowd of colonists were not just peacefully protesting. They started off by throwing chunks of what they called “snowballs”, but were actually…

On March 5, 1770, in Boston, Massachusetts, there was a shooting of five colonists by seven British soldiers and their leader, Captain Preston. The five colonists that were killed were Crispus Attucks, Samuel Gray, James Caldwell, Samuel Maverick, and Patrick Carr. It started when one winter night, a few of Prestons men were getting ice balls and snowballs thrown at them. Colonists were daring those soldiers to shoot and were calling them dirty lobsterbacks. Some colonists were even grabbing at…

In Australia, this inciting event was a massacre in 1996 in the town of Port Arthur which left 35 people dead and 23 wounded (Klieve). This violent shooting spree was carried out by Martin Bryant, an Australian man who before the attack had been labeled as mentally unstable (Klieve). Before the Port Arthur incident there had been 13 other massacres in 18 years within the country (Chapman). Following this incident urgent pleas were made and eventually…

A terrible tragedy happened on March 13th, 1996 at an elementary school in Dunblane, Scotland. At approximately 9:25 A.M. Mr. Thomas Hamilton entered the gymnasium of Dunblane Primary School, where he took the lives of sixteen innocent souls of the ages five and six along with their teacher.( Jackson and Bruton) Dunblane, Scotland wasn’t known for this type of crime. According to the news article “Death in Dunblane” this town’s definition of crime was stealing someone’s garden ornament. In…

national interest and security in committing itself to the Vietnam War. The opinion polls taken during 1965 to 1968 clearly show that most Australian’s were in favour of the war, with the opinion polls only starting to change after the horrifying My Lai massacre, the invasion of Cambodia and later the Kent State…

tensions, the crippling and terrifying environment, drug use, unwillingness to fight, and the sense that the war was for nothing. Also, there was no doubt that battlefield atrocities were being committed by Americans, especially after the Mai Lai massacre. Finally, even more chilling and demoralizing was the practice of fragging. Fragging is military slang for the killing or wounding of a soldier or officer deliberately. Debate about their seriousness and frequency of incidents continues to…

disagreements among the soldiers as to what to do with the children in the schoolhouse. Finally, they strafed the schoolhouse with bullets from their American automatic weapons and burned the schoolhouse and everything inside of it. So ended the massacre at El Mozote, everything dead and decimated, with corpses strewn about the town. They were some survivors. Rufina Amaya recounted a unbelievable story about how she was able to escape from the soldiers, in a crab tree (Donner 73). She…

The 2nd Amendment was put into act on December 15, 1791. When we study the 2nd Amendment there are two arguments relating to this Amendment. The first one is the individual’s rights and that this Amendment adopted to preserve individual rights and to keep and bear arms. Secondly it adopted the rights to preserve the states militia and or military. Our states’ rights to regulate fire arms have basically been nearly absolute due to case law. The 2nd Amendment has been interpreted to keep the…