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    reports, or do they release reports teeming with bias and unproven facts solely for money and satisfactory ratings? The massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympics shocked the world and its citizens, and newspapers

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    Sports have played a major role in society for as far back as dated history goes. Today’s greatest sporting events capture the interest of billions of people. No one sporting event is greater than the Summer Olympic games, for it brings together athletes from all across the globe to compete and represent their respected nations. Winning an Olympic gold medal can create a widespread feeling of patriotism and unite a nation. Unfortunately, the events of the 1972 Olympic Games were a catastrophic disaster

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    Award winning novelist, Holocaust survivor, human rights activist, Elie Wiesel in his influential speech, ‘ The Perils of Indifference,” emphasizes that indifference is a tempting yet inhumane quality that affects the success our new centuries to come. He develops this message by looking back upon the horrific memories of his Holocaust experience as well as looking back upon the countless assassinations, and wars that have created this “ dark shadow over humanity.” The memories of being “liberated”

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    September 5, 1972:Violence in the Village A Day That Changed Sports and Its Story in The New York Times "9 Israelis on Olympic Team Killed With 4 Arab Captors As Police Fight Band That Disrupted Munich Games," screamed the headline of the front page of The New York Times. The attack occurred during the wee hours of September 5, 1972, but news of the crisis, although widespread on television sets across the world, would not reach The New York Times until September 6. When it did reach the

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    There are various things that make up a piece of literature. For example: choice of diction, modes of discourse, and figurative language. Mary Rowlandson and Olaudah Equiano were great examples of authors that used these elements of literature. There are similarities and differences in A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson and From Africa to America. Though Mary Rowlandson and Olaudah Equiano shared similarities in experiences, they had different writing personalities

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    I chose to study and analyze J.M.W. Turner’s Slave Ship for this project and found it to be very interesting. Immediately while looking at the piece you get a strong sense of emotion and drama that is being portrayed. There is a lot of depth and warmth in the colors that are used and wide swift brush strokes to create the images. The first image that caught my eye was of waves crashing on the left side of the painting. The white tips of the waves are very noticeable against the softer shades of the

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    Introduction The Bosnian-Herzegovina genocide or “ethnic cleansing” went on from April 1992 to December 1995 around the end of the Second World War. When Bosnia became its own independent nation on April 5th 1922 it wanted to “cleanse” its country of any non Serbian residents. The killing of Bosnian Muslims during this time was stated by international tribunals to be an ethnic cleansing however the events that took place in July 1995 in Srebrenica was so horrific it was deemed a genocide. The United

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    Raif English Comparison Essay Red Jacket and Olaudah Equiano have different opinions on the people of the United States of America because they had different roles and were in different situations, they were in different locations, and they experienced different types of treatment and behavior. Olaudah Equiano was a captured African from Benin; his home in Western-South Africa. He worked as a slave in Barbados and Virginia but surprisingly bought his freedom and headed to England to support the

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    1. Equiano and his sister are kidnapped from their home while their parents are working in the fields. He is separated from his sister when he is sold into slavery; he later reunites with her for one night until she is ripped away to be sold again. He is sold to many different owners; the majority of them had a similar language and culture as his, a few were completely different. On the sea coast aboard the slave ship, Equiano faints; when Equiano regains consciousness he is forced below the deck

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    Nanking Atrocities

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    Nanking was not the only place of Japanese Army atrocities. Nanking held the distinction of allowing foreigners to witness and survive the atrocities. I learned from the story that the Japanese Army would take drastic measures to eliminate a people, to systematically use every means available to eliminate your enemy, people that may not have been involved, people that got in your way and people you just took pleasure in killing. To even invite fellow military personnel who were not even involved

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