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    Alcatraz Alcatraz was the most remote prison in the world. The worst criminals that no other prison could hold were sent to Alcatraz. It is supposed to be nearly impossible to escape.There are only three prisoners in the world that have proven that theory wrong. The problem with these three is that no one has complete proof that they survived or if they drowned on their way. Evidence has shown that Frank Morris and Clarence and John Anglin survived their escape (Hopkinson 6). This paper is going to explain why it is that they did in fact escape. According to an article by (Escape from Alcatraz by Hopkinson, Deborah) three men managed to escape Alcatraz on June 11, 1962 leaving no evidence whether or not they’re alive. Those three men were Frank Morris, and John And Clarence Anglin. They were more clever than any other escape attempts, they used spoons and many other tools to dig a hole in their cells up into the air vents. They hid their progress by making a fake wall of cardboard for when guards were walking by. They got past freezing water by making a raft out of raincoats. First off the three…

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    How To Stop Prison Escapes There were two prisoners, David Sweat and Richard Matt, that had escaped from a New York Prison in Clinton. They accomplished it by, using hacksaws that were hidden in meat and sawing through the cells to the catwalks behind their cells. Then David Sweat used a saw to cut into fellow inmate Richard Matt’s cell to the same catwalks. They then had weeks to look through the maze of tunnels that were hidden below the prison. The men had one obstacle in their way, a cement…

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    Learning about the crimes that Robert Garrow committed, his ingenious and successful plan to escape prison, as well as the facts that he disclosed to his lawyers Frank Armani and Francis Belge, is important in putting both the concept of attorney-client privilege today and the recent escape of Richard Matt and David Sweat from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora into context. Robert Garrow was a disturbed man that was faced with terrifying violence and maltreatment by his parents at a…

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    When people do bad things and get caught get punished. Sometimes they go to jail or prison. There is a prison that was meant to be escape when it was in service because it took very bad criminals. Alcatraz was suppose to be the escape proof prison, but has anybody escaped this “escape proof prison”? Alcatraz is a very high security prison off the coast of san francisco, california built in 1847. they used this prison from 1934 - 1663 to house the worst criminals in the san francisco area.…

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    Humans tend to create temporary methods of escape to break free from the true reality of life. In “The Glass Menagerie”, by Tennessee Williams, the main characters are trapped in a difficult life during the depression, which leads them to seek mechanisms of escape from the real world. This desire for escape from reality is an underlying message throughout the play. Laura, Amanda, and Tom each explore different methods of breaking away from the confinement, and they try to transcend the reality…

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    In both Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” and Freire’s “The Banking Concept of Education”, the two authors focus on a similar topic: education and delusions. In Plato’s Allegory, Plato discusses a scenario where prisoners, except for one who escapes, are inside a cave that impairs their ability to view the outside world. His writing is an allegory discussing his views of education and false beliefs with the use of the cave and the prisoners. Freire discusses two different styles of education: the…

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    narratives, I noticed that murder recurred throughout the texts as a catalyst for change the protagonists use to their advantages. The protagonists in Thelma & Louise and Arya in Game of Thrones all use murder to flee existing structures which seek to wrongfully punish them. The murders they carry out also disassociate them from the typical depiction of women during their respective time periods, as well as empowers them to go on their own adventures they would have been incapable of going on…

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    Hurricane Joaquin was just a tropical storm when the ship name El Faro was leaving Jacksonville, Florida to Puerto Rico on Thursday. As Joaquin started to get bigger and stronger El Faro started to get 30 to 35 foot waves by the time the hurricane was category 4 they had lost all type of communication, the coast guard believes the wind could have destroyed the ship’s communications equipment and lost contact with the ship. El Faro had 33 people on board 28 of them were U.S. Citizens and five…

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    The law anticipates an objection to further intensify his arguments; the city wronged Socrates and it was not right. The laws respond with three main arguments: the patron argument (Crito, 51e), the parent argument (Crito, 51a-51c), and the agreement argument (Crito, 52e). Let us explain the logical steps or statements Socrates takes to answer the parent argument: first, the state is Socrates’s parent, everyone ought to obey their parents, if he were to escape Socrates would be dishonoring his…

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    (I think this is the reason Sharon Draper's book is called Copper Sun, like a setting copper sun as they escape.) Amari is restless for adaptability and wishes just to escape. Polly, Amari and Tidbit, somewhat dim child escaping with them go up against starvation and peril. At one point Clay, Amari's proprietor, tails them and about gets Amari again, and tries to take her back. Customarily in the midst of the impeding and testing enterprise Amari contemplates whether Cato, a slave on the farm,…

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