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At the time of his trial, he initially tried to simulate a mental illness, but later dropped the act, showing no remorse for his actions. His trial resulted in a death sentence, which Baczyński tried to appeal in the Council of State, but his request was rejected. On 17 May 1960, he was executed by hanging. [1]
Gordon laughed himself helpless. The girl screamed herself hoarse. Resultatives are distinct from depictive constructions, though often both a resultative and a depictive reading is possible from the same sentence. For example, in "John fried the fish dry", a resultative reading suggests that as a result of John's frying, the fish became dry.
Learned helplessness is the behavior exhibited by a subject after enduring repeated aversive stimuli beyond their control. It was initially thought to be caused by the subject's acceptance of their powerlessness, by way of their discontinuing attempts to escape or avoid the aversive stimulus, even when such alternatives are unambiguously presented.
The 22-year-old was given six life sentences for targeting Brick Lane, Soho and Brixton in 1999 in a 13-day nail bombing campaign that left three people dead and 139 injured.
A poster for The Perils of Pauline (1914) Romania as a helpless "damsel in distress" threatened by the brutal Imperial Germany, in a French World War I caricature A U.S. World War I poster (Harry R. Hopps; 1917) invites prospective recruits to symbolically save a "damsel in distress" from the monstrous Germans.
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Orphaned children, left to fend for themselves, are common as literary protagonists, especially in children's and fantasy literature. [2] The characters Catherine in Emily Brontë's 1847 novel Wuthering Heights and Jo, the crossing sweeper in Charles Dickens' 1852 novel Bleak House are waifs.
Helpless, a 1996 film by Shinji Aoyama; Helpless, a South Korean thriller "Helpless" (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a 1999 TV episode; ...