Abomination

Like most of the societies in the ancient history and the current world, the act of witchcraft was and still is considered a harmful practice. Thus many communities would fight against it today. Because, witchcraft was considered an abomination, Salem village had to do all it could to eradicate the vice from their community. According to Summers (2014), the presence of witchcraft in the region of Salem is attributed to different ideas with the most influential one being cold weather theory…

for its residents to be comfortable with their circumstances, and to not be curious as to the “trivialities” of their origins or the science behind how things work. However all of this can be found in the text that the society finds to be such an abomination and is, therefore, outlawed in order for people to remain ignorant. In our present society, there is an entirely different reason for the negligence of books in this…

Chimamanda Adichie in her TED presentation talks about the dangers of a “single-story”, she warns us to against using a “single-story” to understand questions of identity. To understand what “single-story” is Chimamanda Adichie narrated a story when she was nineteen years old, she was leaving Nigeria to go to a university in the United States her American roommate was surprised by her because she spoken English very well. Her roommate wondered how she spoke English so well; she told her Nigeria…

December 7, 1941, is a “date which will live in infamy” by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. On this day, a heart wrenching event took place on a Hawaiian Island, Oahu. The bombing of Pearl Harbor drew the United States into the worst war in American history, and changed the United States Immensely. Japan’s motives and reasoning for attacking, how it all happened, and the aftermath are all factors that made this day tragic beyond all belief. The Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service was behind the…

The annexation of Texas emerged as an important political issue because of the South’s (Democrats) insistence of expanding slavery and the North’s (Whigs) attempts to prevent the expansion of slavery. As soon as the Republic of Texas went into existence it unanimously voted to be annexed by the United States. The Texans also legalized slavery and to make it worse, also outlawed free blacks in the state. With Sam Houston as the Texans’ first president and Andrew Jackson in the White House, the…

From the Bible, Leviticus 18:22 “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it [is] abomination” (The Bible: King James Version). The Christian faith uses this verse as the headline of debate against same-sex marriage, but this verse can be interrupted in many different ways. Hinduism and Buddhism are more lenient of the topic, while the Christian…

ensure that their culture is seen as the most dominant and desirable choice (Padget, 2000). This concept was depicted in Besson’s article when the planter class established Anglican as the only accepted religion and considered other regions abominations that should not and cannot be practiced at all (Besson, 1995). I believe in doing this the planter class prevented the potential for the African Caribbean people from passing down their African religion and religious practices to their…

Thomas Jefferson, one of the most popular founding fathers, the main author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third president of the United States of America was revered by his contemporaries and is still to this day a well respected figure in American history. But, this does not mean that the man had no faults. Often in todays world Thomas Jefferson is looked back upon and has been scrutinized by many for his apparent hypocrisy on matters such as slavery and on what he believed…

"The death penalty in the United States has never been anything but an abomination—a grotesque, uncivilized, overwhelmingly racist affront to the very idea of justice” (Parks). According to “Capital Punishment” the main reason that minorities or mentally ill people go directly to the death penalty is because they can not afford…

Understanding history is crucial to the way our modern society operates on an economic and political level. One of the greatest controversies of recent history displayed itself in the form of World War Two, in which hundreds of thousands of men and women around the globe were killed in unimaginably horrible ways. The political issues behind this major war are widespread. However, one particular aspect of the war, which has become especially popular today, is the nuclear development of the time…