Martin Luther King’s death

Something that really calls my attention in the texts about Martin Luther King was his death. His assassination it is not clear to me. Although there is information available on the topic, it does not fully explain King’s death. For this reason I wanted to explore the Martin Luther King’s murder, finding information about the details of his death, who was the assassin and why he was killed.

Martin Luther King is known because of his fight for the civil rights of the black people and also because of his famous speech “I have a dream”. If he was a good leader, why he was to be murdered? Sometimes life isn’t fair, and this case is a complete example about intolerant people. I am going to explain the unknown details about his death.

King was murdered at the age of 39, on April 4 of 1968, in Motel Lorraine’s balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. A bullet entered in his cheek at 6.01 pm, and he was pronounced dead at 7.05 pm. The assassin was James Earl Ray who used the name John Willard to rent a room in Bessie Brewer’s in front of the Lorraine Motel.

James Earl Ray had gathered information from newspapers and news to know about Martin Luther King. In addition he bought a binocular to see when Martin Luther King appeared in the Motel. When finally Martin Luther King arrived, Ray shot him. After the shot, James Earl Ray hid the rifle, the information and the binocular and left the room. When the police found the evidence, they organized an intensive search to capture him. 

Ray escaped and for two months he hides in different countries. Finally on June 8 he was captured by the police at the London Heathrow Airport. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 99 years in prison. Ray said that he had killed Martin Luther King to become famous. A time later, he said that other man had conspired with him in the murder of King, but this idea hasn´t been proved.

King’s murder scattered manifestations and protests in all the country. Some people died or got injured because of this. Furthermore, buildings and areas were destroyed. The most important black race leader in the US had died because of the not intolerance regarding about other race that wasn’t the white race. This situation was enough evidence to continue fighting for the black people’s civil rights.

I think Martin Luther King was an incredible person and his death is a really sad event. He died just because a racism problem in the society. Here I attach a video about King’s death and its effects on people.

About Martin Luther King's death... Do you think that James Earl Ray acted alone or the King’s murder was a conspiracy?

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Nugi Garimara, better known as Doris Pilkington

Doris Pilkington is the author of the book "Follow The Rabbit Proof Fence" (Which all the beginners have to reed)

This story is about 3 girls, Molly, Daisy and Grace, who were stolen from their aborigines families and then they scaped from a center in the south-west of Australia, called Moore River. These brave kids try to return to home. They walked along 1,500 milles, following the rabbit proof fence.

(Trailer "Rabbit Proof Fence")

Doris found inspiration to write this book in her mother's life, Molly, her sister Daisy and her cousin Grace. Those are their real names. 

Nugi, the original name of Doris, raised without her mom since she was 3 years old.

 

Doris with her aunt and her mother

She didin't see her mother until Doris was 25 years old. She was part of Australia's stolen generation. Nugi Garimara died this year on April 10th because of ovarian cancer, at age of 73.

There is an american movie called "Australia" and it shows australian kids being chased by the police and there is a woman who try to help them. So, here is the trailer:

I think that it was so frustrating for these families and they felt so despair when authorities gave the order to take away the children from them to "eliminate their race".

That is something you can't think just like that!!!!

What do you think about it, my dear reader?

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Shekhar Kapur and "Elizabeth, the golden age"

                                     The great director

    Shekhar Kapur is the director of "Elizabeth, The Golden Age". He was born on December 6th and        now he's 68 years old.

He started his carrer at Bollywood, as director of movies like Masoon or Mr, India, very popular movies with great reviews. Then, he directed Bandit Queen, another great movie. 

Elizabeth, the golden age.

This movie talks about the brilliant goverment of Elizabeth I, and it present the conflict between Elizabeth I in England and Felipe II in spain, who said that all the world would be catholic, even if he should figth.

When Elizabeth I of England ascended to the throne in 1558 as a Protestant Queen, almost half of the population of England was Catholic. However, with his usual cleverness, he preferred to see them all as their subjects regardless of faith. His reasoning was that the people wanted it, whether Protestant or Catholic. Even went on to say: "Do not want to open the windows to the soul of men". During his reign, Elizabeth I of England proved to be tolerant of their Catholics subjects, which protected against protests and persecution, many of them born in his own house. This film speaks of tolerance against fundamentalism, an issue with current resonance. 

Elizabeth's love: On a more personal level, ELIZABETH: the golden age goes beyond political conflicts to show a woman who is behind Elizabeth I of England, the conflict that causes your step of threatening divine Queen woman, due in part to his relationship with the soldier and adventurer sir Walter Raleigh. Explore the triangle formed by Raleigh, Elizabeth and her favorite Lady-in-waiting, Bess Throckmorton. The Queen is engaged in a hard game of chess with the dashing Raleigh and the beautiful Bess... to finish living relationship which denies itself through the young Bess. Somehow, Elizabeth expected to be able to keep the mind and spirit of Raleigh just for her, while she gives her body through Bess. But the wager is daring and ends up losing control of the heart of Raleigh.

With all this, we know that this big queen was more than a queen. She was and amazing person, with love, compassion and a lot of feelings, but she had a hard temperament, because like with all people:

                      Love makes people show the best, but it also shows                                                   the worst.

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The other side of Henry VIII

Henry was an intellectual. I can say he was the first English king with a modern humianist education, he read and wrote English, Frech, Latin and was throroughly at home in his well-stocked library. He personally wrote many books and published one of his own. He wrote the song "Helas madame". He founded Christ Church Cathedral School, Oxford, in 1546. To promote the public support for the reformation of the church, Henry had numerous pamphlets and lectures prepared. For example, Richard Sampson'sOratio (1534) was an argument for absolute obedience to the monarchy and claimed tht the English church had always been independent from Rome. 

The glorious king was hailed as a brave and heroic defender of the true faith. Henry worked hard to present an image of unchallengeable authoity and irresistible power.

The Kingdom of Edward VI

In the third marriage of Henry VII, he finally had a son with his wife of that moment, Jane Seymour. Their son was named Edward VI, he was born o 12 October 1537at Hampton Court Palace.

Edward's parents Henry VIII and Lady Jane Grey

Edward was very educated and intellectual. But, also he was a very sickly child; it is believed that he suffered from syphilis or tuberculosis. His fragility made Henry VIII will marry three times more, but he hadn’t more children. 

When his father died in 1547, Edward became the King with only ten years old. But Edward's uncle, Edward Seymour, took power and established himself as a protector. He and the archbishop of Canterbury wanted to make an England Protestant state, supported by the young king. In 1549 there was a rebellion centered on economic and social injustices. Also, France declared war to England. But the mainly conflict was the “English Prayer Book”, because this brought manifestations like the destruction of religious images. The political situation of Edward VI was very unstable.

Edward was diagnosed tuberculosis and hadn’t much time to live. He passed the throne to Lady Jane Grey who was more distant of Henry VIII and declared illegitimate at Mary and Isabel because they were catholic (and Edward was protestant). Edward finally died on 6 July 1533 at the age of 16 years old. However, Jane was queen for a few days until; Mary took the throne, because the people because the people weren't getting along with the Queen.

Is incredible that a child was the king, I think at that time the maleness was very strong, because an old woman couldn't be the queen but it could be the king a boy of only ten years. This is a clear sign of patriarchy and the importance of the man in the old society.

Finally, Mary become Queen

There have been many Kings and Queens, and many stories in the world that could be say.  Many centuries ago, the Tudor dinasty ruled England. Henry VIII was known because of his 6 marriages and the implement of the Anglicanism.  

I'm watching a serie called  'The Tudors' that is about the Henry's Kingdom and is really good!!!!!! I'm in the season 3 and this serie has 4 seasons. It shows the life that this King had with his wives, the relationship that he had with his two daughters  and  the desire to have a son, that was really important in this age.

      (This video is like the opening of the seasons, but it shows Henry and his wives)

After Henry married to Anne Boleyn, one of the things that allowed him to go with his plans was the doubt about the virginity of Caterine, because she had been married to the king's brother but he died and to keep the alliance England-Spain they got married.

The story of Mary, the first daughter of Henry and Catherine of Aragon, caught my attention. She suffered so much. When his father left her mother, she had to choose who she wanted to support. She, just like her mother, always wanted that the Catoliscism return to England. Mary was declared illegitimate daughter.

When her parents got divorce and her new sister, Elizabeth,  came to this world (Anne's daughter) , she was sent to be her sister's lady and serviced her. She was not allowed to visit her mother and when Catherine died she couldn't go to her funeral.

With the help of the 3rd wife of Henry, Jane Seymour, Mary and Elizabeth (who also had been declared illegitimate, after Anne's death), they could be part of the royal family again and with their brother they could have their own rule. 

Once Edward VI (Jane's son) got the crown, he wanted that Mary never become Queen because she could bring the Catoliscism to England again. Even when Edward had  allies, and made plans to keep his sisters away, Mary became Queen after his death and was the 3rd woman to be queen.

After Mary, Elizabeth turned Queen and she was the last of the Tudors.




I hope you like my post and I recommend you 100% this serie!  

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Nelson Mandela :"We know what needs to be done all that is missing is the will to do it"

He was an activist, lawyer and politician.It fought pacifically against the racial segregation in South Africa(Apartheid).He restored A political democratic model in South Africa.He was the first president chosen democraticly in South Africa and It  won the nobel prize of peace These are some of all the things that this great leader achieved.

In 1944 began his political career in earnest, joining the African National Congress, ANC. Finding the existing leadership of the ANC to be "a dying order of pseudo-liberalism and conservatism, of appeasement and compromise.", Mandela, along with Tambo, Sisulu, and a few others formed the African National Congress Youth League, ANCYL. In 1947 Mandela was elected as secretary of the ANCYL.

 Apartheid was a system of racial segregation in South Africa enforced through legislation by the National Party (NP) governments, the ruling party from 1948 to 1994, under which the rights of the majority black inhabitants were curtailed and Afrikaner minority rule was maintained.

"During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." (Mandela.)

Nelson Mandela was arrested by the charges: "high treason and a countrywide conspiracy to use violence to overthrow the present government and replace it with a communist state." in a countrywide police swoop on 5 December 1955, which led to the 1956 Treason Trial.

 it was liberated on February 11, 1990. Three months after his liberation it was chosen to lead the CNA and from his position of power it fought for the democracy, achieving that in 1994 there were celebrated the first democratic choices of the history of South Africa by him as victor, turning this way into the first black president of South Africa.

This great leader died but it left a valuable lesson: We must to fight for our ideals. I hope that many persons will try to be more like Nelson Mandela. I hope that they are interested in this great personage and if they want to see more: 

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