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- 271: The Reaper's Image
- ... into the future, where it turns out that the over wieght sister became a crime boss and was responsible for the death of theGreek boss, and overturned two other rival gangs. This was the one story that was really different from the other ones. He wrote this story in a more understandable fashion. I think that the main theme to this ...
- 272: Zinn's A People's History of the United States: The Oppressed
- ... men of leisure back in England, who were so little inclined to work the land that John Smith... had to declare a kind of martial law, organize them into work gangs, and force them into the fields for survival..... “Black slaves were the answer. And it was natural to consider imported blacks as slaves, even if the institution of slavers would ...
- 273: The Heart of Darkness: The Horror!
- ... corrupt though to all appearances established to last for a long time" (Dorall 309). The conditions described in Heart of Darkness reflect the horror of Kurtz's words: the chain gangs, the grove of death, the payment in brass rods, the cannibalism and the human skulls on the fence posts. Africans bound with thongs that contracted in the rain and cut ...
- 274: Heart of Darkness: Cruelty
- ... and were then thrown to starving dogs or devoured by cannibal tribes." (Meyers 100.) Conrad's "Diary" substantiated the accuracy of the conditions described in Heart of Darkness: the chain gangs, the grove of death, the payment in brass rods, the cannibalism and the human skulls on the fence posts. Conrad did not exaggerate or invent the horrors that provided the ...
- 275: Zinn's A People's History of The United States of America
- ... men of leisure back in England, who were so little inclined to work the land that John Smith... had to declare a kind of martial law, organize them into work gangs, and force them into the fields for survival..... "Black slaves were the answer. And it was natural to consider imported blacks as slaves, even if the institution of slavers would ...
- 276: Malcolm X
- ... a situation that continued in some states until the 1960's). Any black standing up for equality would either end up in prison or risk getting Iynched by white-racist gangs like the Klan. Indeed, as recently as 1980 several Klansmen who were actually filmed by T.V. cameras shooting to death half-a-dozen antiracists were set free by an ...
- 277: Biograpghy On Lois Duncan - Author of “I Know What You Did Last Summer”
- ... department dubbed Kait's death a random shooting, ignoring evidence to the contrary, Duncan began her own investigation. Her search for the answers took her into the underworld of Vietnamese gangs and led her to seek the help of the nation's top psychic detectives, who, along with a courageous newspaper reporter, provided information that proved to her that Kait's ...
- 278: Al Capone
- ... in history, had quit school at fourteen after he lost his temper and struck his teacher. He was soon after accepted into a notorious street gang, Johnny Torrio was the gangs leader. Later Capone was hooked up with a job at the Harvard Inn as a bartender and a bouncer were he was popular with the bosses and customers. Until one ...
- 279: Charles M. Manson
- ... believed in peace, love, and sharing with others, were like a primitive tribe suddenly exposed to civilization. As the media spread their story, the hippies became overwhelmed with teenyboppers, motorcycle gangs, and a wide variety of the mentally deranged. Manson's probation officer remembers he was “shaken” by the friendliness of the hippies, but before long Manson learned how to exploit ...
- 280: John Gotti: The Man Behind the Mob
- ... to take his lunch money. He soon got the reputation as one you didn't cross for fracturing an older boys skull in a classroom. Gotti began running with smalltime gangs at the age of twelve, after noticing a mobster named Albert Anastasia. He soon joined a street gang called the Fulton-Rockaway Boys (Davis 61-63). At the age of ...
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