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…’s. Oedipus’s admiration began when he killed the monstrous Sphinx who had been terrorizing the countryside by answering her riddle: “What goes on four feet at dawn, two at noon, and three at evening?” At that point the Theben people proclaimed him…

…Warren was a young girl evidently stricken with terror and inner conflict. Initially in this play, her character is perceived as a quiet and shy person. She was one who would never speak of her opinions. Proctor finds her where she was not supposed…

…As an internationally recognized terror, the Rwandan Genocide was nothing more than an act of brutality and murder. During the months of April through June of 1994, an estimated 800,000 Tutsi countrymen were tortured and killed all due to a planned…

…of the officers. He also describes in detail his experience of the holocaust as a fifteen-year-old boy terrorized by Nazi SS in Auschewitz and Buchenwald. Elie on the contrary, never stopped thinking about his father who works next to him until the end. He described…

…, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things. -Stendhal (1783–1842), French author.…

…of former slaves to a status of equality. The Klan became an illegal group committed to destroying the Reconstruction governments everywhere from the Carolinas to Arkansas. Wearing robes or sheets and masks with pointed hoods, the Klansmen terrorized public…

…has taken charge, snuck his mom ahead to be flown to a burn center, and in a sense saved his town from thirst. He truly survived the terror, shock, and danger of the bomb. The novel goes…

…can temporarily withstand pressures beyond his ordinary ability, there is the further stress of explosion," in "Why Soldiers Won't Talk" to stress the point of inner sickness opposed to the outer sickness. Another form of psychological harm is the terrors…

…weapons - an efficient propaganda machine which more and m promoted the idea of Stalin as a great, nearly god-like leader, and a secret p force which kept the country quiet through the use of terror. At one point dur his rule, he organized 'Show Trials…

…) In Malcolm"s eyes, the Macbeths are just tyrannical murderers who snatched the throne away from him and his father and reigned a rule of terror in all of Scotland. But looking carefully from a different point-of-view, we see that Macbeth is driven by the powerful…