1966

The Sapphires, a film directed by Wayne Blair released in 2012, is a comedic drama based on a true story set in 1968 about four young, talented singers from a remote aboriginal reserve, who call themselves The Sapphires, get discovered by an unlikely talent scout. The Sapphires grasp the chance of a lifetime when they’re offered to travel to Vietnam where their all-girl group will perform for the American troops. Based on a true story, Wayne Blair brings us a story about four young Aboriginal women

The first case was Kent v. United States (1966) and it initiated a wave of cases that had the effect of reforming juvenile courts. The case involved Morris Kent, a resident of the District of Columbia, who was 16 when he was arrested and detained for a number of charges, including "housebreaking," robbery and rape (Kent v. United States, 383 US 541, 1966). Kent was summarily transferred to an adult court to be tried, not as a juvenile, but as an adult. Kent’s attorney argued that the procedure employed

others from Mick and Jimmy, Lisa fully leaves the spirit world. Once she leaves, the crows leave her. She says, “Somewhere above my head, a raven grumbles as it hops between the branches of the tightly packed trees. The crows have disappeared” (Robinson 374). Lisa has heard all the messages that she needed to hear from the spirit world and thus the crows disappear. In The Lesser Blessed, by Richard Van Camp, ptarmigans are symbols of the main character’s spiritual state. The ptarmigans appear at

I Am You, You Are Me In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, from the moment Victor Frankenstein creates a being that he neglects to even name, it is left to live and grow alone, feared and detested by all of mankind. Victor hates the creation for his existence, and the creation hates Victor for bringing him into the world, in addition to his refusal to take responsibility and help ease the anguish he feels as a result of complete exile from humans. Victor Frankenstein’s creation acts as a doppelganger of

handclapped during his performances. The tour became a confrontation between Dylan and his audience, especially during one of his concerts at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in England on May 17, 1966. A recording of this concert was released in 1998: The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966. Near the end of the concert, and during the the climax of the evening, a member of the audience, who was apparently angered by Dylan's electric backing, shouted directly to Bob: "Judas!" to which Dylan

Crazy diseased people known as cranks fill the abandoned streets of the sun flared city. The maze was not the end. Thomas and his friends as well as others have to make it through the Scorch Trials in two weeks that their enemy WICKED has set up. Disease, cranks, heat, and the evil people called WICKED. This is step two of the trials and it will not be an easy one. In the beginning of the book the Gladers wake up in a base where they find hanging bodies and cranks all outside. They also find out

Founded in 1966, Best Buy is an American multinational electronic store for technology and entertainment products and services that have stores in countries like Canada, Mexico, Turkey, UK, but it no longer does in China (Fang, 2012). China’s economic environment has gone through major ideological reforms. Their economic policy went from a centrally planned socialist economy to more of a socialist market economy during the 1970’s. With the reforms enabling rapid industrialization, this pushed

State Mass Killings in Indonesia 1965 to 1966 In order to develop a general framework with which to understand collective political violence, I examine state mass killings in Indonesia 1965-66. While acknowledging the importance of historical/cultural factors, I identify elements within the sociopolitical sphere that influence actors of collective political violence at national, local, and event- specific levels. Elements discussed are elite interests, justification for violence, formal organizations

This is a very important case in the criminal world, it is the case that the Supreme Courts ruled law enforcement has to advise a suspect of their Fifth Amendment right to be free from self-incrimination. The case was Miranda v. Arizona (384 U.S. 436[1966]). From our book it states, "The prosecution may not us statements, whether exculpatory or exculpatory, stemming from custodial interrogation of the defendant unless it demonstrates the use of procedural safeguard effective to secure the privileges

The Black Panther Party was created originally in 1966 and was initially known as the ‘The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense’ but is now mostly known as the BPP or the Black Panther Party. It was created by Dr. Huey P. Newton alongside five other individuals who were the founding members; Bobby Seale, Bobby Hutton, Elbert Howard, Reggie Forte and Sherwin Forte (David Cunningham 87). The initial mission of the BPP was to act as a police force to oversee the actual police force in Oakland, California