The people accused the Emperor Nero for the devastation claiming he set the fire for his own amusement. In order to deflect these accusations and placate the people, Nero laid blame for the fire on the Christians. The emperor ordered the arrest of a few members of the sect who, under torture, accused others until the entire Christian populace was implicated and became fair game for retribution. As many of the religious sect that could be found were rounded up and put to death in the most horrific manner for the amusement of the citizens of Rome. The ghastly way, in which the victims were put to death aroused sympathy among many Romans, although most felt their execution justified.
Louis Riel and his Métis followers felt threatened by Thomas Scott, an Irish Protestant who was against Métis and Roman Catholics being involved with the Government. He began to spread his views in the Red River. Angered and scared, with Riel’s approval, the Provisional Government arrested Thomas Scott and executed him by firing squad. Both men were hated by many people and were in danger of getting killed. Martin Luther King gave many speeches about racism and how people should not be judged by the colour of their skin, but on the basis of their character.
The Bad Emperors Josh Gogol History 10 Mr Tomlin June 13th, 2011 This is an essay written about the bad emperors. The bad emperors were the worst of the worst they make murderers look not bad. They ranged in ways of being psycho from dementia to just plain pure cold blooded killers. Nobody liked them only a few maybe relatives or friends but nobody else they made certain killing machine for their own pleasure and raped innocent people for their own personal gain. Although some were blood thirsty men with very high and sick libidos they were not all that bad some tried to do the right thing but ended up failing which ultimately lead the dark ages of Rome.
Word of the fire reached the King and he called for Pepys. Whereupon Pepys related to the King and the Duke of York what he had seen. Houses burning, wind whipping up the fire. Pepys also expressed his concern to the King that if an order was not made to pull down the houses still standing nothing could stop the fire. The King ordered Pepys to go the the Lord Mayor and tell him to have all the houses pulled down to which the Lord Mayor replied ‘I am spent.
But Ridley was not as lucky as the fire started to burn his legs, a friend set alight the gunpowder, instantly killing Ridley. The Burning of Bishop John Hooper Bishop John Hooper was condemned for heresy, but after he was given several opportunities to say he had no Protestant beliefs. When he refused all these opportunities his burning was announced. Hooper’s burning was in the winter of 1555, therefor causing the wood to be damp and hard to burn. When John Hooper was at Smithfield to be burnt, he forgave the man who was making the fire and then helped to build his own fire.
Parrot Fever spread throughout America, and eventually brought death to one of five people that were infected.” There were a total of a hundred and sixty-nine cases of psittacosis nationwide. This disease took thirty-three lives and left everyone devastated. This epidemic made it clear that diseases can kill anyone and
On the night of November 9, 1938, violence against Jews broke out across the Reich. It appeared to be unplanned, set off by Germans' anger over the assassination of a German official in Paris at the hands of a Jewish teenager. During the Holocaust, six million Jews were murdered while others were thrown out of their homes with nowhere to go, hundreds became homeless and sick. One of the most significant events that took place during this time is called Kristallnacht. This is better known as, "the night of broken glass".
So one of the first things Hitler did after becoming Chancellor was to dissolve the Reichstag and call for a fresh election on the 5th March 1933. But disaster struck when the Reichstag building in Berlin was razed to the ground by a massive fire. The Nazis immediately blamed the blaze on the communists who denied it. The man who was accused of setting the fire was a Dutch born communist called Marinus van der Lubbe. He was beheaded.
The poet has described the gruesome reality of the first nuclear explosion and its power to destroy the whole human race. This bombing wiped out two cities and millions died. However, Japan endured the calamity, rose up, (bit by bit my strength/Seemed to revive) and rebuilt their shattered city and their world. Thus, we can conclude that “A Doctor’s Journal Entry for August 6, 1945” is an anti-war poem. It talks about
So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them; and he sold them into the power of their enemies round about, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies. God was disappointed because he had already warned Israel of their wrong doing and they disobeyed him. So he had to revoke his promise to them. NKJV Holy Bible (Judges 2: 12&14) Now that they understood how bad they hurt God, they cried out to the Lord for deliverance…for