Andrea Yates, mother of five boys killed each of her sons one by one by drowning them in the tub. Andrea was suffering from post-partum depression. Andrea was tried in a court of law and found guilty. The guilty verdict was overturned sometime later on appeal and was changed to not guilty by reason of insanity. Instead of prison time she was sent to a high security mental health facility.
In detail, Zinn wrote about My Lai massacre like the most terrible side of Vietnam War. It was known as “search and destroy” missions – “men of military age in the village were kill, the home were burned, the women, children, and old people were sent off to refugee camps” ( Zinn 477). Journalist Seymour Hersh, in his book My Lai, estimated that between 450 and 500 people-most of them women, children, and old men-had been slain and buried there. Agreed with Zinn’s belief, Tindall and Shi support that twenty-five army officers were charged with complicity in this massacre and subsequent cover-up, but only Lieutenant William Calley, who ordered the murder of 347 civilians in the village of My Lai in 1968, was convicted. Richard Nixon, president of the United States from 1969–1974, later granted him parole (Tindall
Everyone had seemed worried and scared. After days of exhaustion and starvation they had arrived at Auschwitz, where the men and women had been separated. The next camp that they arrived at was Buna where they were forced to work. The only thing that the prisoners had to eat was soup and bread, therefore many died. Prisoners were also forced to watch others get hanged.
In reading 9, (Romain, 1991, 61), it says that we are “in an age where women are prominent in all spheres of public life”. By acknowledging this means that Reform Jews believe that this should be extended within synagogue rituals as well. In a Reform synagogue there is no divisions between the sexes like there are in Orthodox synagogues. This means that men and women sit together. Unlike Orthodox synagogues, women participate in all aspects of the service such as leading prayers, performing Mitzot and they also take some responsibility for reading from the Torah.
My mother had a best friend whose husband was killed in the attacks; apparently he was trapped in the first tower when it collapsed. So, we were visiting that family a lot, and comforting them whenever we could. But what really hit me hard was that this was just one family. After the attacks that day, hundreds and hundreds of people lost loved ones to one of the most brutal and barbaric attacks in human history. I was only in the 2nd grade at the time when the attacks happened, but I still knew how awful it would be to come home from school and find out that one of your parents were killed in a mass murder.
“The mother was beaten to death. She has dozens of broken bones, a fractured skull, and as you can see, she is not recognizable at all.” The detective was shocked by the brutality of the beating, “Jesus Christ!” he exclaimed. “What about the rest?” “Jim, the father. He was slightly starved, but the cause of death is dehydration.” “It’s like he just neglected him completely… left the bastard to die while killing the rest of ‘em.” The coroner moved to the next set of corpses. They stank and made the air smell rotten.
Clora generation's family has suffered for many cruel thing slave masters did for Clora mother's family, the family of Clora, and children families of Clora. Clora committed suicide because she could not take no longer to live. Although, Clora's family extended and spread out many
The welfare state people tried getting more of the children to leave the house also. At this point, Malcolm’s mother had a complete mental breakdown. Resulting in her being sentenced to a mental institution in Kalamazoo. She remained in the institution for twenty-six years until Malcolm and his siblings got her out. Institutional racism picked apart Malcolm’s family piece by piece because of the color of their skin and because of his father’s involvement in the
It is documented that on February 6, 1481 six individuals suspected of a crime were burnt alive at the stake and several other were condemned to different kinds of penances. During the initial first 8 years in city of Seville there were more than 700 people who had been burnt alive and over 5000 people we sentenced to some type of punishment (Kamen, 500 Years of the Spanish Inquisition 1981). An example of the type of torture the accused would receive was shown in a clip from “The Day the Universe Changed” . The clip showed a woman who had been tortured for days until she confessed to crimes she had not actually committed. She was so tired and exhausted she just wanted to be done with it.
Some were forced labor, medical experiments, then later death/extermination camps. Transition camps were set up as holding places for death camps. When the camps were finally opened , families who stayed together , got separated. The train ride there was horrible. Jews were starved of food & water for days.