It would take more than a decade—and thousands of deaths in Vietnam, countless anti-war protests, and untold socioeconomic strife—for a true, concerted effort to lower the voting age to manifest. And this time, it couldn't be ignored. ...
The best sad death scenes in movies prove him correct. When a film is really working and the audience is engaged with the characters, tragic movie deaths can pack a real wallop. Anyone who claims they haven't cried at the passing of someone onscreen is either lying or has no emotions. ...
Many, though not all, terrorists exhibit a lack of empathy for the suffering of others, which may be signs of antisocial personality disorder or psychopathy [source: Wilson]. Overall, however, the dichotomy of "us vs. them" serves terrorist efforts perfectly. The more foreign and dehumanized ...
grain production fell and was not nearly enough for a growing population. The result was afamineof unconscionable severity; the Great Leap Forward was responsible for tens of millions of Chinese deaths —maybe as many as 45 million— from the time it started in 1958...
In the end, the military campaign was called Operation Ranch Hand, but it originally went by a more appropriately hellish appellation: Operation Hades. As part of this Vietnam War effort, from 1961 to 1971, the United States sprayed over 73 million liter
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He baldly welcomed many of the deaths, especially when it came to enemies of the state, "kulaks," and "idlers" (those who did not work on the collective farms). He quoted Lenin in saying that, "He who does not work, neither shall he eat." Many consider the Great Famine nothing ...
When did 1 millIon COVID-19 deaths become accepted and normalized? When this should be a moment of reckoning for the U.S., why have so many people moved on?
1, 1968, early in the Tet Offensive. The famous photo remains a defining image of the Vietnam War. AP Photo/Eddie Adams If establishment terrorism follows a top-down model, then revolutionary terrorism is the bottom-up version (though it's sometimes sponsored by foreign states)....