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    American revolution. WIth major influences such as the tea act and some not so influential parts, but enough to move us towards the actions that got us here. In this book he doesn 't just focus on the main points like other books such as the Boston massacre, the Quartering act, he doesn 't even make a reference to the Declaration of Independence. Knollenberg goes into great detail and depth in the writing to make sure…

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    Introduction The Boston Massacre also known as the “massacre perpetrated in King Street” is quite possibly the most misnamed event in American history. What was in 1770 considered a massacre, would today by historians be seen as merely an angry mob gone awry. A massacre, as defined by Webster's Dictionary is an act or instance of killing a number of usually helpless or unresisting human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty. But were those citizens involved in the massacre really…

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    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…

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    Zones Community built a safety zone. Not long after it was built more than 200,000 people move into it. Thanks to the International Safety Zones Community’s effort, this left a legacy in the Chinese history in standing up to the Japanese. Before the Massacre started, the Japanese first have to settle in China. Japan wanted access to more resources as well as land and so they conquered Manchuria. Manchuria was counted as a puppet state due to it’s weak emperor who follows the Japanese’s every…

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    This horrible event, known as the Nanking Massacre or the Rape of Nanking, included brutality that rivaled the infamous Holocaust. “Many thousands of [the women] were killed after gang rape, and...others brutally injured and traumatized. Meanwhile, approximately a quarter of a million defenseless Chinese men were...murdered en masse, used for bayonet practice, or burned and buried alive” (Jones). This savagery, as written in the “Case Study: The Nanjing Massacre, 1937-38”, is not even the full…

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    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…

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    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…

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    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…

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    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…

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    compliance with an order, request, or law or submission to another's authority. Following the orders of authority blindly can have many negative effects. My Lai Massacre, Jonestown Massacre, Millgram Experiment and Nanking Massacre are some incidents that have caused negative consequences as a result of obedience to authority. My Lai Massacre took place in 1968. On the morning of March 16, 1968, soldiers of Charlie company, arrived in the hamlet of My Lai in the northern part of South Vietnam.…

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