The Bombing of Dresden The bombing of Dresden was a major military action by the alliance of the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force. Taking place in World War II‚ their target was to take out a popular area that was used as a major rail communication and transportation centre. The territory was known to contain housing for one hundred and ten factories and fifty thousand workers. This accumulation of people contributed to and supported the Nazi group. Both British
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Birmingham Campaign – Essay notes Cause • Underlying cause of history of slavery‚ emancipation‚ segregation/ Jim Crow laws. • Long term cause of growing Black Civil Rights movement building momentum and raising awareness of issue. Previous Black Civil rights campaigns that inspired and sparked e.g. Events such as Montgomery Bus Boycott which gave MLKing his first big leadership role. Also Freedom Riders‚ Brown VS board of Ed. • Birmingham was one of the worst segregated big cities in the
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segregation was the rule of law in almost all public facilities in the City of Birmingham. Since the mid-1950s‚ Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth‚ pastor of the Bethel Baptist Church‚ had been waging a war against segregation. Due to his efforts‚ he may hold the distinction of being a named petitioner in more Supreme Court cases than any other person. On April 2‚ 1963‚ Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ arrived in Birmingham to join Shuttlesworth in a direct action campaign to end segregation. Non-violent
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Marcella Patton November 25‚ 2013 Soc.9a.m “Letter From Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King‚ Jr. King spent eight days in his cell. During that time he composed his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." The letter was ostensibly conceived in response to a letter that had recently run in a local newspaper‚ which had claimed that the protests were "unwise and untimely"; however‚ King also quite deliberately wrote his letter for a national audience. The letter reveals King’s strength as a rhetorician
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Dudley Randall’s poem “Ballad of Birmingham” refers to the bombing of a church in Birmingham‚ Alabama in nineteen sixty-three. His poem illustrates what it was like during the sixties; all the turmoil and destruction there was. Randall takes a real life‚ devastating situation that occurred on the day of this terrible explosion‚ and turns it into a beautifully written poem that expresses just how awful it was during the Civil Rights Movement. He describes a circumstance in which a little girl asks
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Cleopatra in the 1963 film with representations of her in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century as discussed on the DVD Video ‘Cleopatra’. What aspects of her portrayal have changed or stayed the same‚ and why? Throughout the 21st century Cleopatra‚ we have been presented with both a “historical figure and a legend” (Cleopatra‚ AA100 DVD‚ Title 7‚ Chapter 1‚ The Open University). Portrayal of the Hellenistic queen shall be examined from the films in eras 1934 and 1963. We shall take
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Ballad of Birmingham In the poem Ballad of Birmingham‚ by Dudley Randall‚ written in 1969‚ Mr. Randall uses of irony to describes the events of the mothers decision‚ and also her concern for the welfare of her darling little child. It seems odd that this child would even know what a freedom march is‚ but this would be considered normal back in the early 1960’s‚ when Mr. Martin Luther King Jr. had rallies and freedom marches to free the African American people from discrimination and segregation
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“Ballad of Birmingham” In the poem‚ “Ballad of Birmingham”‚ Dudley Randall depicts the real historical events of the 1963 bombing of Martin Luther King Jr.’s church by white hate criminals in Birmingham‚ Alabama. Although this is the background and basis to the poem‚ I believe there is a deeper meaning that just that. Beneath the talk of innocence by the child and the protective nature of the mother‚ there lies an ironic situation. This poem is not only about the tragic events of a hate crime during
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Letter From Birmingham Jail By: Brendan Southern Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK)‚ was one of the most influential and memorable of that of the civil rights movement. Being a well-educated black christian he appealed to many people of many demographics throughout America. Aside from this‚ he was highly persuasive‚ and properly motivated to lead the movement that helped form this country into what it is today. In his letter From a Birmingham jail to his fellow clergymen‚ he answers questions to clergymen
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Southeast Asia: The Bali Bombing October 12‚ 2002 would become a decisive turning point for foreign and domestic politics in Indonesia. On that day‚ the lives of over two hundred and two people were claimed after three bombs were denoted simultaneously in Bali and one in Sulawesi. This act of violence was to become the most devastating act of terrorism on Indonesian soil. The Bali bombing can be viewed as the most devastating act of terrorism not only because the bombing was the first attack against
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