Word Count: 842. This biography talks about the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi was going to a afternoon prayer meeting when a man, in the crowed, rushed him and shot him three times with a revolver. Right then the shooter was taken into custody and two hours later Gandhi had died. Hysteria spread over the people as they found out that their Hindu spiritual leader who had contributed so much toward India’s independence had died.
News May 05, 2011 THE DEATH OF OSAMA BIN LADEN EFFECTING EVERYONE? By: Kawenvir Singh As Americans learned the death of Osama Bin Laden, the leader of Al-Qaeda, the streets of America had begun to flutter with celebration. The US Special Forces had been the ones who shot Bin laden. They had a lead from a courier in Pakistan that distinguished where Osama Bin Laden was hidden. A few of the Pakistan Citizens felt threatened and notified the US Special Forces right away that also knew.
Analytical Essay On April 25th, a Sunday in 1999, Al Gore addressed the grieving families of the numerous victims of the Columbine High School massacre. This worst of all shootings ever to happen on American soil had occurred just five days previous. While the shocked nation looked on, Gore attempted to make sense of a senseless act, and bring solace to a community wild with grief and confusion. Gore’s first words to the assembled crowd were simple and straightforward: “Nothing I can say to you can bring you comfort.” This was a very powerful use of an intricate rhetoric, for Gore went on to call on a Higher Authority than himself, the Lord God, as the only Source able to provide the kind of comfort needed in such a terrible crisis. Given the incomprehensible events of the massacre, this was an emotionally sensitive as well as logical stance.
Until there attempts finally worked. On February 21,1965, at the Audubon ballroom Malcolm X was about to deliver a speech when he was Shot to death. He was killed by several men that wre part of the Black movement. With the sudden change of his beliefs Malcolm X was killed. Malcolm X himself believed that he would die in that manner he even said, "To come right down to it, if I take the kind of things in which I believe, then add to that the kind of temperament that I have, plus the one hundred per cent dedication I have to whatever I believe in these are ingredients which make it just about impossible for me to die of old age."
Though Kennedy was a young president he was one of very few presidents to show concern towards racial inequality. As he led the nation with hopes of equality, freedom, morals, and principles the hopes of Americans died with Mr. Kennedy. Americans during the 1960 election saw Kennedy as a young influential president, especially towards the subject of racial inequality. President Kennedy publicly committed his administration to the cause of racial equality in the summer of 1963 when he proposed the Civil Rights bill to Congress and offered his endorsement to the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The assassination shocked America and soon after led to counterculture and rebellious teenagers during the late sixties early seventies.
At the White House, Clinton spots Bubba on the tour and motions him and his boss over, saying, "Bubba, what a surprise, I was just on my way to a meeting, but you and your friend come on in and let's have a cup of coffee first and catch up." Sure enough, half an hour later Bubba emerges with President Clinton. But by the time Bubba returns, he finds that his boss has had a heart attack and is surrounded by
Saagar Patel 3/13/12 Research rough draft Malcolm X “The Ballot or The Bullet” Freedom, this was the ideal that that America founded on, yet only half a century ago America was one of the most oppressive nations of the time. During that time few civil rights activists were as influential and as crucial to the civil rights movement as Malcolm X. due to his first hand exposure to poverty and violence along with the fact that his father had been killed by a white supremacy group, further fueled his hate for “whites.” His speech, The Ballot or the Bullet, is a well-crafted argument and call to arms against any government that is oppressive to law-abiding citizens. Born May 19, 1925, to Earl Little and Louise Norton
The Journey to the White House: Barack Obama Whenever a new president of the United States is elected, history is made. But never has it been made so dramatically as it was on November 4, 2008, when American’s voters chose Barack Obama as our 44th president. With his election into the White House, Obama defeated much apprehension by becoming the first African American president of the nation. So how does a man become the leader of one of the most powerful nations on earth and break all odds along the way? Barack Obama explains with the following quote: “If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress” (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors /b/barack_obama_2.html).
With this extensive history of gun related tragedy, and a gun favoring majority population, Colorado has become a testing ground for new laws on gun control. Source A concludes by saying “ ‘It’s different now because children are being butchered in schools,’ said Dave Hoover, a police officer in Lakewood, Colo., whose nephew A.J. Boik was one of the 12 people killed in Aurora. ‘Because kids were killed at a movie. Because families went to church and were gunned down.’ ”(Source A).
Martin had an enormous effect in social America. He led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama that was noticed world wide. In 1963, Dr. King directed a peaceful march in Washington D.C. when he delivered the speech, “I have a dream…” He was also named Man of the Year by Time Magazine in 1963. Martin led a social reform movement for civil rights that unified the middle class African-Americans. At age thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr. was the youngest man to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.