Cremation

What is the Holocaust? When did is started and why is this a major event in history? Holocaust comes from the Greek origin meaning “sacrifice by fire”. The Holocaust slowly began in January 1933 and ended May 8, 1945. In January 30, 1933 Adolf Hitler was Chancellor of Germany. Germans believe that they were superior to Jews. They began boycotting Jewish shops and businesses. The Jewish population in 1933 was over nine million. At first it started as discrimination and then the Jewish community…

Catholic Funeral Customs Human beings are scared of the unknown. We also don’t like to get out of our comfort zone or learn a religion that we do not practice. Those are normal traits for a human being. Here at Shipman Funeral Home we serve families no matter what the level of discomfort or disbelief we may have towards a person’s religion or beliefs. Today at the funeral home we had a family walk in and ask for our services, we later learned this family was Catholic. Jason Shipman the funeral…

Primary sources are documents and artifacts that come directly from the past. The Vinland Sagas are two Icelandic texts and primary sources that include the “Saga of the Greenlanders” and the “Saga of Eirik the Red.” Both sagas tell similar yet different stories of Norse voyages to North America, a place that Leif Eirikson named Vinland (wine land). The Vinland Sagas tell how the Norse people traveled to North America and created settlements there until a battle with the natives broke out. The…

printing and moveable metal type as well as a number of monuments, sculpture painting, metal works and ceramics.” (Chang, Jackson 187). The Sarira reliquary, which originated in India, were “made to enshrine the sari, or calcified remains, from the cremation of Buddha or renowned monks.” (Shin, 84-85). These relics are essentially caskets, made of Gilt Bronze, and…

The Nazis believed their actions resulted in “cleansing” the Aryan race of the mentally ill, although it just resulted in many lives lost (“‘Euthanasia’ Killings”). The euthanasia program prevailed as the Nazi’s first form of mass murder (“Euthanasia Program”). The main forms of euthanasia consisted of starvation, poisoning, injections, or gassing (“‘Euthanasia’ Killings”). The Nazis intended for the killings to remain painless and humane, but they carried on, nonetheless, neither painless…

Scientific discoveries both from the United States and Europe, during the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, heralded a dramatic break between public health services’ control and improvement of society. It was a moment of contradiction that created unmatched medical advancement that was accompanied by intense imperial force abroad. While these two centuries saw the advancement to infectious disease treatment, reform of individual and household hygiene, and collective health practices…

“He set an old army knapsack in the snow and held his bare bloody hands in front of him, and though they were cold, they weren’t impossibly cold” (Cornwell 11). This quote opens up the book with a jolt because the quote explains that the he in the quote was Temple Gault, a murderer. Temple Gault had just finished murdering his victim as the story began. The quote also explains the main theme of From Potter’s Field, which is a murder case. The book takes place in New York City as Temple Gault has…

Earlier in my life, I struggled with four things: family, friends, school, and myself, until I moved here to Texas for a second chance in my life. Throughout my life, I am always moving. Always adapting to new challenges. I do not do drugs nor smoke because I had learned it in a hard way in my early years. I always do the best I can to help others, and just try to do good. I am quiet and socially awkward and do not have many friends. That is why I am good with animals and children because they…

Introduction Health is one of the basic requirements of human beings. India is facing the problem of degradation of health standards in the face of a growing population and poverty. The Supreme Court performs the function of interpretation of provisions of Constitution. The framers of Indian Constitution have rightly inserted various provisions regarding health of public. The role of the Supreme Court is thus significant in protecting the health of people with the help of various decisions.…

The Birth of Siddhartha Siddhartha Gautama was born into a family in the Kshatriya caste in the kingdom called Shakya, found on the hills of the Himalayas (present-day Nepal). Siddhartha’s father was king Suddhodana and his mother was Queen Maya. Siddhartha’s birth was a miracle; his mother conceived when he descended from Heaven and entered his mother’s womb in the form of a baby white elephant (a symbol of purity). She carried him for ten months and could see the baby within her womb. She…