... , but Gadhafi was shot in his right arm. As the car escaped, his supporters barraged the car with fire, shooting Gadhafi in the head, and ultimately killing him just before the car made it to the hospital. A grainy - but credible - video was released that showed a wounded Gadhafi making his way to the hospital, and second one showed his dead body with a head wound (Basu). According to three ... separate reports by the US, NATO, and French officials, Gadhafi's convoy, which was making its escape out of the city, was forced to pull over by an attack by French warplanes and a US drone ... ....

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... he failed, his life failed with him. This is why Fitzgerald killed him in the end of the book, because his life was over anyway. "But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly ... , toward that lost voice across the room."(Fitzgerald 142) The lost voice across the room is Daisy, and as the quote indicates, she is no longer tangible. The dream is dead. Jay Gatsby is dead. Gatsby was defeated once and o...

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... poor people than rich, or more power and wealth concentrated at the top, that the entire premise of the American Dream is dead? In fact, the safeguards of the wel­fare system, including the minimum wage and unemployment benefits, were long ago put in place to protect the poorest Americans. During the Great Recession, the federal govern­ment decided that raising the minimum wage would stimulate worker productivity and help close ... the income gap. In reality, however, it has done little to make the poor ... ...

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... and children (Dougan and Weiss, 267). The Tet-Offensive finally came to an end. The ARVN's 2nd battalion secured the main flagpole at the Midday Gate of the Imperial Palace. At 5:00am, they hauled down the NLF flag that ran up the yellow and red standard of the Republic of Vietnam. Although the battle was over, there were more than 5,000 NVA/ Vietcong dead in Hue, and about 90 captured ... . The ARVN had 384 casualties, and 1,830 wounded ... killed by communist and buried in mass graves in the inner city. The U.S. Army had 74 dead and about 500 seriously wounded. The U.S. Department of ...

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... During 1861, these men helped themselves to medicinal liquor or ignored the wounded to stay out of the line of fire. Surgeons treated only the soldiers who belonged to their regiment but the number of casualties became overwhelming. In the Battle of Fair Oaks, it was estimated that more than ten thousand men were lying dead or wounded upon a battlefield scarcely one square mile. Many had ... been mutilated by the trampling of countercharging soldiers. Often, injured soldiers were ... feared infection rank smelling "hospital gangrene," where a small spot of dead tissue appeared on the ...

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... mourning mixed anger quickly spread many other universities and fanned the flames of anti-war among students. Protests continued after the Kent State Massacre. Some schools were closed until fall that year. New York major John Lindsey ordered flags at New York City Hall to be flown at half mast to honor the 4 dead.6 On the morning of May 8, hundreds of young people gathered at ... Federal Hal in Lower Manhattan for a protest called the Hard Hat Riot.7 Hundreds of ... cities rebelled against the government. It could be said that the entire generation of young and middle age, especially ...

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... River to Emir Abdullah who then ruled as king over the Hashemite Kingdom of TransJordan. At the border of Jaffa-Tel Aviv, the first ever major intercommunal violence (which is a form of violence that is over ethnic or communal lines) between Palestinians and Arabs commenced leaving many jews and Arabs dead. Jews described the conflict as "pogrom" or "riots" while palestinians ... used the term "revolt". The second major intercommunal violence took place in Jerusalem, spreading throughout the country, especially in Hebron where sixty seven jews were killed because of ... , homes and even...

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... soldiers were killed, wounded, captured or missing during the Battle of Gettysburg. The Union suffered twenty-three thousand, and the Confederacy suffered twenty-eight thousand. Despite losing a large number of troops, the Union were considered the victors of this battle. Four months after the battle, President Lincoln used the dedication ceremony for Gettysburg's Soldiers National Cemetery to honor dead Union soldiers. Lincoln then went on to deliver one ... of the most famous speeches in American history. The bloody Battle of Gettysburg and the continuing disputes about slavery forced...

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... rock singers became even more popular in the eighties. Madonna was a rock singer of the eighties that became a sex symbol for the whole generation. Rock world was drastically changed in the nineties. In the 1990s the continuing popularity of older bands, such as the Grateful Dead and the Rolling Stones, bore audiences to the continuing appeal of this form among both the young and the increasingly middle-aged. Once being original, older ... bands lost their edge and gave way for the new generation of Rock bands. Most of the new bands turned out to be ... ...

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... soldiers were killed within the Sioux camp. The U.S. soldiers under Lieutenant Colonel Custer made a last stand on a near by ridge, where they were destroyed. By the end of the day, Custer and his army of more than 200 troops were dead. Public outrage at the military cataclysm brought tons more cavalryman to the area, and over the next year the U.S. army relentlessly pursued the Sioux, who had ... split up after the Battle of Little Bighorn, forcing chief after chief to surrender. However, ... Sitting Bull remained defiant. "Sitting Bull thought by winning [the Battle of Little Bighorn]...

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... it together." (O'Brien, 192) This bond of friendship helps the men of Alpha Company survive on a day to day basis. The men have the same experiences, fears and hopes. They rely on each other for support to face the new day. The men show this support as they talk about home, their sweethearts and their dead friends. The men come together to joke about death, making light ... of a situation that surrounds them at all times. The men of Alpha Company trusted each other with their lives. Dave Jensen and Lee ... he remembered Kiowa leaning in for a look at the picture - "Hey, she's cute," he...

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... in protest and four thousand Talabehs in Qom demonstrated against the regime. They were violently broken up by the police, causing the death of seventy Talabehs and the wounding of about 400. Because of the involvement of the Ayatollahs, the revolution became a largely religious movement, causing Ayatollah Khomeini to become the leader. The traditional commemoration of the dead 40 days after the day of their death helped to create greater numbers of ... responded by imposing martial law in twelve cities. On September 8, 5,000 anti-Shah protesters gathered in Jaleh Square. Soldiers opene...

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... eventually the soldiers learned word of the encirclement and the morale of the NKPA broke. Out of the150,000 original NKPA soldiers that crossed the 28th parallel on June 24th only 30,000 made the retreat to North Korea. The rest were dead, deserted, or captured. By September 31st the first units of the 8th army linked up with the X Corps and the first major decision came. Should the U.N. cross the ... 38th parallel. ROK units already started crossing north and soon the U.N. forces were ordered north also ... . Unknown to the U.N. however was that a secret deal ... ...

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... the tools to commit suicide. The doctor "provides lethal pills or sometimes a carbon monoxide gas mask so the person can easily terminate their own life". Lastly, involuntary euthanasia is the act of killing a person who has not requested aid in dying. This is often done to patients who are brain dead ... or in comas that will probably never become conscious again. There are many different arguments surrounding the ... issue of assisted suicide.Some people fear that if made legal in the United States, many severely depressed people will seek ... of time. Some can not afford pain killi...

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... of culture burdened when pursuing the American dream. By choosing to leave Afghanistan and relocate to the United States, Amir and Baba guarantee themselves a life of hopeless aspiration. Immigrants expect to find opportunity for growth, but soon realize a sad truth: immigrating to the United States turns out to be not a lustrous new beginning, but a dark and desperate dead end. The land of wishes and ... dreams becomes the doom of their existence and inhibits any chance for success. This novel serves as a warning ... -the American dream is only a figurative, hallucinatory fantasy. Few a...

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... certain opinion or attitude. In "Doubts About Doublespeak", William Lutz explains that "Doublespeak", or propaganda, "is a language which pretends to communicate but doesn't. It is a language which makes the bad seem good, the negative seem positive, the unpleasant seem attractive, or at least tolerable" (185). For example, when watching television people see companies using commercials to advertise against their competitors. In addition, reading ... form of glittering generalities. This is when someone uses words that trigger certain emotions and makes an audience feel better than they...

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... this view on marijuana, I immediately questioned is life that stressful for a young adult that they must turn to a drug to stimulate the stability of their life. Are there no other coping mechanisms for these teens to use to get through life, or are these teens' ... The term stoner is slang for a person who is constantly and habitually intoxicated or high off drugs. In an LA Weekly article a writer Michael Goldstein interviews a guitarist for the band Graceful Dead, Warren Haynes, who talks about how the term stoner has been around for about five decades. The honest ... truth is no on...

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... it is a way to expand a family. It is a lifetime decision that should be made very carefully. Adoption is a process where parents are provided for children whose biological parents are dead, or for those children whose biological parents are unable or unwilling to provide for their care. Adoption has a significant legal, emotional, psychological and social consequences for everyone involved ... surprise and joy is what is normally carried along with adopting. This process includes strong connections and bonds throughout a lifetime. It is a three faced entity. The circumstances in any ado...

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... from factories, fertilizer and pesticides, oil spills, and sediments from construction sites are all huge contributors to water pollution. If water pollution increases throughout the years, people and other living things, such as plants and animals, are more likely to suffer from illness, diseases, and eventually even death. ... quot;red tides" or "brown tides" because of their appearance in the water. Once the algae eventually dies off, bacteria can suck up all the oxygen from the water as the algae decomposes. This creates a "dead zone" where fish and marine life cannot live. Algal bl...

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... or not to risk the public safety of foreign countries to save our country's soldiers. According to Eugene Robinson in his article "The emerging 'drone' culture" from the Washington Post editorial, "It is known that for every one enemy a drone may kill, it is also killing 42 other innocent bystanders...". Videos or pictures of dead children, mothers, fathers, brothers ... , sisters and the elderly could be very eye-opening to the American society if they decided to ever ... show the negative side-effects of these drone use. Drone fired missiles could possibly wipe out tourists visit...

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... to not only control all political power, but also courts, churches, universities, social clubs, sports associations and youth groups. In Italy, Mussolini's regime built billboards with slogans like "The Duce ["Leader", i.e. Mussolini] is always right" and "Believe, obey, fight."(RoSo, 2002). Fascism rejected Marxism, parliamentary democracy and liberalism. Fascists were very clear about their hatred ... immigrants, particularly Muslims, who, according to Le Pen, were responsible for high unemployment and crime, and threatened French national identity with their presence (Elliott, 2002). ...

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... being a living head attached to a lifeless body," said Ramon Sampedro to the ABC news camera in his hospital room in Spain. He then took a sip from a glass of a water and cyanide mixture and was dead twenty minutes later (Brown). Sampedro was well known throughout Spain for his work ... to legalize euthanasia after he was paralyzed in a terrible diving accident. He wrote a book about his life after the accident, called Letters from Hell. Because of his ... had also aided in Sampedro's suicide (Brown). Although this particular case happened half a world away, Sampedro's words echo those o...

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... into their weapons (Stanley 4). This could result in a wounded, or even dead, soldier. Catherine Aspy, a Harvard graduate who joined the Army after graduation, stated that " in final tests on two-mile runs, the average woman took 18 minutes, the average man about 14"(140). Women also could not perform as well as ... suffer stress fractures than men, and they are more than twice as likely to suffer leg injuries than men (Reed 2). Stephanie Gutmann, the author of The kinder, Gentler Military: Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars?, states that women are also more likel...

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... hedonistic because they just have no imposable limits because they do have SO much money, and with money comes power. So, the void in their pathetic existence never truly fills, and so, they buy more and more and more and more "stuff" ... An excellent example of this inherent societal truth is Wilson. Wilson lives in the valley of ashes, representative of the land past the river Styx in Greek mythology, more commonly known as the Land of the Dead. He owns a beat-up, run down garage that's just squeaking by ... as this quote shows, "I followed him over a low, white-washed railroad fence, ...

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... citizens, if only to keep the entire country in a state of perpetual alert and agitation. This is true of both anti-American Americans and anti-American foreigners. Timothy McVeigh, the main party responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 which left 168 dead, is in the end not too far from Osama bin Laden, the Afghani terrorist allegedly behind the embassy and USS Cole blasts: ... both hate the United States" government and have settled on terrorism as the most effective means of redressing their grievances. One terrorist ... in the United States, however, stands out among this ...

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