The Battle of the Alamo took place between February 23 and March 6, 1836. The battle consisted of a thirteen day siege proceeding an all out attack from the Alamo Mission near what is now San Antonio, Texas. The battle left an estimated 300 of the Mexican forces killed or wounded and just two of the Republic of Texas surviving. I believe that this battle really helped to cement the idea of secession into the minds of the Texians and pushed them to revolt. President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the president of Mexico at the time, started to move the governmental system of Mexico towards a dictatorship.
Andrew Carnegie and his Theories of Wealth – “Wealth” – essay arguing the wealth had a god given responsibility to care out charity to benefit society, put over $350M into support for libraries, universities, and other public institutions 9. Haymarket Incident – Knights of Labor participated in a Chicago strike to achieve an 8 hr workday. Police attempted to break up meeting, someone threw bomb that killed 7 police officers. 8 anarchists were sentenced to death. Led Ams to believe the labor mvmt was radical and violent and also led to the decline of the Knights of
Brian Bauersfeld Book Review of: The Massacre at El Mozote The Massacre at El Mozote is a brilliant piece of writing that illustrates mankind’s brutal way of life, and the recklessness of Latin American countries, while questioning the United States’ lack of intervention during the end of the Cold War. Mark Danner’s first addition of The Massacre at El Mozote was published in the United States by Vintage Books in 1994 and it consists of 304 pages costing $15.00. This book takes the reader through the reasoning, planning, killings, and aftermath of the destruction of Salvadorian civilians, hamlets, and cities by Salvadorian army forces. The book demonstrates in detail the multitude and severity of the killings along with eyewitness accounts of the killings from survivors at El Mozote. Danner worked to illustrate the story from a variety of viewpoints, including how the United States came into the picture, how the guerilla rebel forces reacted to the mass killings of civilians by the Salvadorian army, along with how all of these relationships interacted with one other.
A series of mass murders, for example, the Columbine High School mass murder in Colorado in 1999, which left 13 students dead, widely reported and debated in the Medias, help expert gun laws in the past 20 years. Despite Republicans hesitancies, Congress has been working on bills that would extend the probation period, prior the purchase of guns, that would better control sales to minors and would reduce speedy sales. The debate is still raging on, between defenders of gun control and protectors of individual freedom. The Government
But it is the Haymarket tragedy of 1886 where anarchists and a bomb exploded killing police officers that we find the inter connection of local police agencies, robber baron business leaders, cash payoffs to law enforcement officers and the privileging American values of family flag and church as the beginning stages of a network towards the repression of the political left. We do see in the 1930s a Communist Party more Americanized than other scholars indicate. With the Communist Party’s involvement in the civil war in Spain against anti-fascists forces and with helping to unionize in America during the Great Depression the CP according to Schrecker was beginning to build a following, they were on the Scottsboro boys court case in Alabama and soon became the,” unofficial left-wing of the new deal.”” Placing Jefferson Jackson Lincoln alongside Marx Engels and Lenin.
Arnaud Vidricaire 6285138 TERM PAPER OUTLINE Submitted to Professor Joshua Kilberg For the course SCS 1150 N University of Ottawa February 13, 2012 Outline · Introduction (250 words) Background: (1) The Khmer Rouge's Ideology of one single working class was achieved, but through violence so excessive that their success was short lived; (2) Terrism is defined as the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion (Webster) (3) Khmers Rougesis a radical communist movement that ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 after winning power through a guerrilla war. An estimated 1.5 million (and possibly up to
The Black Guerrilla Family was founded in 1966 by a Black Panther member George Jackson and was originally know as the Black Family or Black Vanguard. It was formed as a Marxist revolutionary organization with goals to eliminate racism, maintain dignity in prison and overthrow the United States government. These gangs have leadership and organizational structure similar
His former running mate, Raúl Cubas, became the Colorado Party's candidate, and was elected in May in elections deemed by international observers to be free and fair. One of Cubas' first acts after taking office in August was to commute Oviedo's sentence and release him from confinement. In December 1998, Paraguay's Supreme Court declared these actions unconstitutional. In this tense atmosphere, the murder of Vice President and long-time Oviedo rival Luis María Argaña on March 23, 1999, led the Chamber of Deputies to impeach Cubas the next day. [citation needed] The March 26 murder of eight student antigovernment demonstrators, widely believed to have been carried out by Oviedo supporters, made it clear that the Senate would vote to remove Cubas on March 29, and Cubas resigned on March 28.
Bianca Neri April 26, 2011 The “Northern Triangle”: A History of Violence and a Future of Urban, Youth Gangs Compounded by Drug Trafficking On December 24, 2005 a group of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang members opened fire with their AK-47s killing 28 passengers in the city of Chamalecon, Honduras. The massacre was aimed at random victims and was meant as a protest and a warning against the government's crackdown on gang activities in the country. MS-13 and rival gang 18th Street trace their origins to the Rampart neighborhood of Los Angeles, California but the reach of their brutality has grown to span dozens of countries and has developed into a recognized transregional threat in the Americas. Central America’s neighbor to the north
Violence; The Real Deal On April 20, 1999 there was a massacre at columbine high school twelve students and one teacher died that day. Even though there have been many incenses. Columbine has changed the way we view school violence. Can we stop someone from any king of violence? As a country we try by adding cops at school ,metal detectors by the front door entrances, and even separate schools, one for the good students and another for the bad.