Cremation

tradition societies, the Dalit community is never allowed to live with the upper caste Hindus. They have their own locality on the outskirts of the villages and cities. However, they can be summoned by high caste Hindus for various tasks such as for cremation of dead animals, cleaning and sweeping streets and markets, and other such menial works. In most of the cases the community received either low wages or left-over food. This was the reality of the whole lower society. The socio-economic…

Hinduism is a diverse religion that is complex on many levels. Over one billion people in the world are Hindu which accounts for approximately fifteen percent of the world’s population. Although not as commonly known as other world religions it has a deep impact in the world. Hinduism has two different dates as to when it was founded, one is storied and the other is historical. The storied says according to the Rig Veda that Hinduism was founded around 10,000 to 12,500 BCE which is the…

The Holocaust: 12 Years of History World War II was just half of the story. The other half of the story was a very tragic event called the Holocaust. The Holocaust consisted of over eleven million people killed, for nothing but their background. The time of the Holocaust was a very tragic and devastating experience for many people who were killed for no reason but their background, and were treated very poorly; by torture, starvation, laborious work, and other cruel treatments. World War I…

Frida Kahlo, being physically handicapped, only produced about 200 paintings and sold a significantly low amount of works during her life. Despite all of this, Kahlo is seen as one of the largest icons in Mexican culture and continues to grow in popularity worldwide. In 1933, a painting appeared on a 34 cent postage stamp, in 2000, one of Frida’s self portraits sold for $5 million, and during November 2002, a biographical movie “Frida” was released (Smithsonian and Art Story). Frida Kahlo was…

located in west Poland, is referred by historians as a “modernized death industry.” Compared with other extermination camps, Auschwitz underwent a constant process of modernization, using the products of leading German factories for gassing and cremation functions…

When people donate their bodies to science one would believe that it would be used to train medical students in their desired fields. A human cadaver is what medical students live to work and study on to expand their career. On the contrary, people who donate their bodies to science have no idea where their body will go. Blindly accepting this fate, some bodies will go to cadaver labs, others may go to safety studies and in some cases environmental studies. In Mary Roach’s nonfiction novel,…

Due to recent events, one idea has come to the fore: With radical Muslims killing our troops everywhere they can find them, it is clear we need a stronger force. It is true that we can utilize one of the many powerful weapons in our arsenal, such as the nuclear bomb, yet the civilian and biological affects of this are not worth it. It is clear; we should increase the size of our infantry. And it is fortunate we have this surplus of people lying around, literally.…

planet handle this event, but there are several differences in the way the corpses are handled afterward. In our modern society, there are several ceremonies that accompany a person’s death, and the body is discarded in various ways, such as burial, cremation, and other methods. However, in the society of Brave New World, the bodies of former citizens are burned in a factory-like building, and they are used to create organic substances to assist in creating other things. This process involves no…

In the history of the world, many diseases surface among of the many such as the plague knows as Black Death. The tragic and exceptional experience of the Fourteenth Century showed a sharp population decline, bitter internal conflicts in economic area, and the exasperation of social struggles. This paper is to explore the Black Death phenomena, how this disease came about, the consequences, and the impacts that affected the society in the Fourteenth Century. The Black Death was endemic in…

Ambition. Many people say that ambition is a necessary trait not only to become successful, but also to overcome those with natural talent. But is it imperative? Is it ambition still when people will do all it takes to achieve it regardless of the repercussions? After all, everyone is human and will do whatever is necessary to survive even if it means ending another. This has occurred in history numerous times. Take the Jimmy Hoffa case, for example. He was one of the most influential people…