Those times called for a catalyst to action in the South, a necessary infusion of innovation and spirit from the North, manifesting itself in the Freedom Summer movement during the summer of '64. ... They needed help from all of America, and that is where the Freedom Summer movement stepped in. ... Johnson's administration gained political capital when the civil rights workers were killed, politicizing their deaths in an effort to get the Voting Rights Act of 1965 passed; "Several congressmen invoked the names Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney, urging passage 'to insure tha...

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Summers, the villager responsible for conducting the lottery, often suggests having a new box, "no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box" (565). ... Summers had argued, had been all very well when the village was tiny, but now that the population was more than three hundred and likely to keep on growing, it was necessary to use something that would fit more easily into the black box" (566). ... Summers, a perfunctory, tuneless chant (566). ... Tessie Hutchinson dies for no reason but that it is tradition for someone to die every year, and ...

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The Relief Commission estimated that 4 million Irish would need to be fed during the spring and summer of 1846, since nearly 3 million pounds worth of potatoes had been lost in the first year of the famine (TGF). ... By December 1845, the price of potatoes had doubled, and by the summer of 1847, over 3 million people were being fed by government soup kitchens and those organized by Quakers (TGF). ... A passage to America on a Coffin Ship was approximately $10, but there was no guarantee that you would actually arrive there, considering how many died on those ships (LFI). ... Approximately 1 in...

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Reading the book "Into the Wild " by Jon Krakauer, a story about Chris Mccandless who goes off into the wild and decides to live his life according to the what the world dishes out at him comes across many tribulations that test his strengths and encouragement to continue his journey across amerce and eventually to Alaska, and then after reading this book as a class we watched the movie "Grizzly Man"" which was a story about Timothy Treadwell, a man who decides to spend his summers by going off and living in harmony with bears in Alaska to express his feelings on why bears are not our enemies...

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John Keats was an English Romantic poet who died in England at the age of 25 of tuberculosis. ... In the Ode to a Nightingale the speaker, which we could assume to be Keats himself, feels heartache as a result of listening to a nightingale singing its songs of summer. ... Suddenly, surrounded by the bird's song, the speakers thinks of Death and how he has always felt the temptation to die; it seems as if it was the perfect moment to die, but he figures that if he dies he will have ears in vain because he won't hear anymore. ...

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To work out contracts that could last up to seven years just to get their own land but most of the time the workers died before they could have the chance to own their own land. ... Wilmot Proviso - The question or slavery burst into the public spotlight one summer. ...

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Essentialism within Kate Chopin's The Awakening Kate Chopin's 1899 novel, The Awakening, takes place in the late 1800s in Grand Isle, a summer holiday resort popular with the wealthy inhabitants of nearby New Orleans. ... The conclusion of the book ended with Edna walking into the ocean to die, symbolizing that essentialism does in fact exist in this instance, as women roles were assumed correctly and Edna could in no way conform. ...

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Death states "Summer came for the book thief, everything was going nicely. ... In town bombings the sky has been described as blood red,  plane crashes explained to be black but for the death of Jews in Germany that summer, it was so severe that death has no color to associate with it. ... This quote is also ironic, as in one half it explains how summer was going nicely for Liesel the German child with her childhood progressing colourfully, when in contrast the colors are symbolic of all the deaths occurring and loss Germany is encountering. ... This expresses to the reader the mass scal...

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In the summer of 1846, it was apparent that this harbinger of starvation was consuming each and every farm throughout Ireland. ... Later, a conservative estimate of the death toll to the Irish immigration in 1847 to Canada alone was, "(out of) roughly 100,000 travelers, 25,000, or one in every four, died en route or within six months of arrival to their destination" (Gallagher 211). ...

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Decision to attack Soviet Union in the summer of 1941 taken in November 1940 intensified violent war with Jewish nation. ... Many of them were also forced to ghettos, where they died because of hunger, cold, and diseases. ...

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He remained adamant in his determination to stop working and due to this he became so poor in his old age that if he had not been helped by friends and many wealthy men who admired his genius, he would practically have died of hunger. ... He died in 1510 unknown and alone. Although Botticelli died in obscurity, his works were rediscovered and thus thrust him back into the art world; one of his most famous pieces is "The Birth of Venus"(1483). ... He painted onto canvas, which was less expensive and is known to have been the preferred material for the painting of non-religious and pagan subjec...

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Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade, And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour, Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch. ... Response Immediately, the epigraph emulates Eliot's view of the withering world through his referral to the Satyricon; the Sibyl of Cumae was once a beautiful woman, who was granted near immortality but had forgotten to ask to retain her youth, and in turn she grew old and decayed with the ability only to 'wish to die'. ... E...

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McKinley, who explained, "In hard summers, the newborn children were all eaten by the Kaura tribe in the neighborhood of Adelaide- (Here be Cannibals 1). ... When about half of the group had died of starvation or infections, the rest decided to eat the dead. ...

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The Summer Before the Dark is another novel that looks at emotional change and its societal causes, but this time focusing less on love and more on emotional stability as we age and the changes that comes simultaneously. Kate is on an emotional journey in The Summer Before The Dark. ...

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Mary Shelley may have written ideas like this into her novel due to the fact that her mother died when she was young, and that she had a miscarriage. ... Mary Shelley may have included the idea of a lack of female role in reproduction due to the fact that her mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, died just eleven days after giving birth, and so Shelley had very little female influence during her upbringing. ... At the end of chapter four, Frankenstein says "winter, spring and summer passed away during my labours ", and this is a period that lasts three seasons, which adds up to nine months. ...

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During the summer of 1944, the Allies were closing in and the Nazis began a desperate attempt to cover their tracks (Holocaust, 586). ... Over 15,000 died while the remainder were forced on uncovered railroad cars, where most perished (Holocaust, 586). ...

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The summer temperatures in the region could reach very high levels it was not uncommon for the temperatures to reach as high as 120 degrees and also the very hot temperatures made it that much more unbearable for the people who lived in the region when there was a drought involved. ... Sadly, a lot of the people who decided to pack up and leave didn't make it to California alive and a lot of them died while making the trip which was a long one. ...

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A sweltering Texas afternoon and an overbearing, insensitive, chauvinistic coach, eternally hurting from his missed vocation in life, savagely throws two nave, freshman into an alliance expected to shrivel and die rather than blossom into a beautiful flower of life. ... Voluntarily spending long hot grueling summers together in uncomfortable and sometimes dirty tennis academies far away from other friends and family further tested and solidified this bond. ...

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Others try to relate their lives to the plot of the movie, which is typical for a romantic drama: two young people fall in love from the first sight, but when the summer is over parents build a barrier between them, mostly because of the social class difference. ... It shows to the middle aged couples, that relationship can stay strong and tender "Until your dying day" as long as you treat it with respect and really appreciate every minute of it. ...

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When we enter our house after a long day at work or a summer's vacation, we never think twice about how our physical environment plays an extremely significant role in our lives. ... It is also in his tomb where Porfiry Petrovitch, a detective, discloses that he knows Raskolnikov is indeed the murderer; Raskolnikov's insane personality then "dies" upon hearing that he has been revealed. ...

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In Act IV, scene 2, he compares Desdemona to a "reservoir for foul toads, To knot and gender in," and says that she is as honest "as summer flies are in the shambles."" ... Although suicide is immoral and wrong, it actually highlights the true benevolence in his nature as he decides he would rather die than to live with the thought of the evil he has done. ...

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He used the shocking images of tabloids, as in "129 Die in Jet" to money, in a series of screenprinted paintings representing rows of dollar bills, and to the products of consumer society, including Coca-Cola bottles and tins of Cambell's Soup. ... Death And Disaster In the summer of 1962, Warhol's friend Henry Geldzahler laid out a copy the Daily News while the two were having lunch. On the cover, the headline was "129 Die in Jet." ... This notion was characteristic of Warhol, who once said "I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish and everything could just ...

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Finally, In America Emerson has written a complete essay about immortality, he said "the soul is not born, it does not die; it was not produced from anyone ..."... We can say that this practice as a mean of souls never die as opposite to bodies. ... It's much like the cycle of seasons spring , summer , autumn , and winter , where everyone born in a complete beauty , power and youth ,but through years and passing of time he will change ; he will fight the ravages of time which it carry with it diseases , wrinkles , harms and weakness ; as a result of his desire to live an eternal life ....

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Morselli's studies showed that suicide rates were high during summer because excess energy builds up during summer as life is easy during the season unlike in winter. ... He alternatively believed that the correlation is due to increase in daylight in the summer. ...

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In the six months following Operation Barbarossa, 66% of the mobilized Red Army died or were taken prisoner and 90% of its mechanized strength was lost. ... Hitler suffered his "greatest loss of the war" in the summer of 1944. ...

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