Vanzetti

Upton Sinclair, the famous American author, wanted to be a great influence on society. He was born in 1878 in Baltimore, Maryland, from a family of Southern aristocracy. His father was an alcoholic and his mother came from a wealthy family. When Sinclair was ten, the family moved to New York. His father sold hats and spent his evenings in bars coming home drunk every night. As a child, Sinclair was an excellent reader and scholar. By the age of fourteen, he began writing in his spare time.

the reasons for the Great Depression, people couldn't pay off their share of credit. Fitzgerald see the reactions to the events in 1919 as a landmark and a new way of life and thought. When the news of the Harding and the Ohio Gang or Sacco and Vanzetti scandal were released by the news people’s “idealism flared up”(14). People did not believe that the government was dealing with the situation in the correct way and believed that they could show the government by going against them. The government

Sacco & Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind by Bruce Watson takes a look at history and tries to give us all of the details of what happened in this case. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo were Italian immigrants that stood trial and were executed for robbery and murder, despite the fact that many did not believe they were guilty. They were most famously known as the “good shoemaker and poor fish peddler,” which made it hard for Americans to believe that they could of done it.

American Modernist writers experimented with a new type of fictional writing in the 1920’s through the 1930’s during and after the war. One of the most important of these writers was John Dos Passos. Dos Passos was a creative novelist where in his writing he analyzed his love/hate relationship with the traditions of American life and consistently questioned the American dream (Wagner-Martin). His full name was John Roderigo Dos Passos. He was born on January 14th, 1896 in Chicago Illinois. His father

A notable incident of scapegoating from the U.S. is the Sacco and Vanzetti trials in the 1920s. In 1920, two men were killed in Boston and the suspects were described as Italian men. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, both Italian anarchists, were accused of the murders and sentenced to death. Although there was little evidence against these two men, during the time period there was a stigma

John Dos Passos Almost every one writer can say that they are influenced by their childhood and past. Memories flood back to them as they encounter a similar experience or similar situation in their earlier years. No doubt a significant factor in their writing, the past from a specific writer's life usually adds more depth and complexity to their works. Because these previous experiences are from the author's actual life, the scenes and subjects related to the theme are more accurate

In 1927, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were condemned to death for the robbery and murder of two men who were carrying a large deposit of money from a company. Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested in 1920, and put on trial in 1921. They were tried in a small, quiet suburb with a lawyer who was deemed an outsider compared to his peers. These men were unfairly taken out of their comfort zone during their trial. They even needed to use a translator because they could not fully understand the questions

In the small city of Tangent, Oregon where there is an estimated population of 1,176, lies a murder case involving a Hispanic male identified as Jorge De La Rodriguez. Mr. Rodriguez’s body was found inside of Asher Finance offices located on 3502 Riverland Drive. The body was discovered by the Asher Finance cleaning crew around 4:47 am in front of the storage room door. Tangent authorities arrived on the scene at 5:00 am after being dispatched and they immediately measured the body temperature. Right

The murder of Bob Shelton occurred because earlier that night Johnny Cade and his friends had been flirting with Bob’s and the Socs’ girlfriends. Bob and four of his friends confronted Johnny Cade and Ponyboy Curtis early the next morning around 2:00 am at a park fountain. David, one of the Socs, began to drown Ponyboy Curtis in the fountain. Johnny Cade lost all sanity and knifed Bob Shelton, who was doing no harm to Cade or Curtis, in order to stop David from drowning Ponyboy Curtis. Johnny is

You probably never heard of Don Henry and Kevin Ives. Don was 16 when he was murdered and Kevin was 17. These boys had family and friends that probably will ever know who killed them. On Sunday, August 23, 1987, at around 4:00 a.m. Don and Kevin was spotted by the crew of a Union Pacific train near Alexander. The bodies were lying between the tracks, wrapped in a pale green tarp; there was a gun nearby. The train was unable to avoid running over the bodies. The train’s crew immediately reported the