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The beginning of the social democratic decade saw the first Labour government been elected in to govern New Zealand in 1935 with Michael Joseph Savage as Prime Minister. Peter Fraser then took over from 1940, however prior to this position, he was the Minister of Education from 1935 to 1940. Along with the new Government been elected in, Peter Fraser saw the election victory as an opportunity for social reforms to be implemented on the nation to build a viable nation state. Such reforms included…

The Canal district in Worcester, Massachusetts is most accurately described as emerging. Despite its name, Worcester covered the Blackstone Canal in the late eighteen hundreds according to the Preservation Worcester website (Preservation Worcester). The lacking presence of the physical canal provides a decent metaphor for the status of the neighborhood, an area of the city that is lacking in terms of what it wishes it could be. Lynch argues that legibility of a city is vital to their…

When we think of the ancient classical civilization of the Romans, what comes to mind? Perhaps it’s the amazing architectural feats, or rather the advanced forms of government that we still use to this very day? I submit that neither is as spectacular as the ancient underground catacombs that hold the mass graves of around 2000 skeletons. After watching the NOVA program (titled Roman Catacomb Mystery) on this specific catacomb, I found several interesting aspects of the graves that include, the…

Between the Ropes: Exploring the World of Professional Wrestling Introduction It is not a secret that professional wrestling is like a theatrical play, but it does not diminish its spectacle, melodrama, and theatrical aspects. If people know professional wrestling is not really a sport, then: What is professional wrestling and why is it so interesting to its fans? How is gender, race, and class characterized in and formed by professional wrestling? In which methods does professional wrestling…

Chronicling the fate of the House of Atreus - a bloodline destined to beget suffering and bleed until it is bled dry - the closing moments of Aeschylus’ Oresteia depict, more optimistically, the very best of what Aeschylus hoped society could be. Yet to ignore the issues of gender and sexuality - the binary opposition and conflicting gendering of its two female ‘heroines’ and their subsequent inversion of societal norms, for example - is to confine the text and its characters unnecessarily. It…

Norm referenced tests are used to compare and rank test takers to one another. This is determined by comparing scores against the performance results of a group of test takers with typically the same characteristics as same age or grade level, who have previously taken the exam (Great Schools Partnerships, 2015). These tests have been used for many years in education to assess children in need of special education services using best practices associated with norm-referenced tests. There are…

settlements of North America, it was recorded in a scholarly journal called “the First Autopsy in The New World” written by Fidelio A. Jimenze who is medical doctor did research on the first autopsy in America. Jimenze states, “the first postmortem examination of the American Continent was performed in Hispaniola in 1533 and recorded by Fernandez de Oviedo (Jimenze, 1978).” To summarize, Oviedo was curious of a report from a bishop report that a two headed child, therefore, this is what started…

forensic evidence. Fung states in his questioning on April 3rd that there were in fact clerical errors in some of the reports and notes regarding too the blood stains of Simpson’s car and the blood trail leading from the vehicle towards the front entrance of the residence (People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson, 1995). It is also mentioned that another blood stain on the property between a pile of blood-covered clothes leading to the west end of the property was also not…

Sempowski in 1994 carried out an investigation to understand social status within teotihuacan, in particular gender disparity, based on mortuary data. Examination of grave goods was used to determine the social ranking of men in comparison to women. While the data gives a strong indication of the higher ranking of men, it also shows that this was more significant in some residential areas than others, with…

Emile Durkheim’s Ideas on Suicide in the Modern World “Suicides, in short, are simply an exaggerated form of common practices,” once said by David Emile Durkheim, a great sociologist, social psychologist, and even philosopher. Emile Durkheim began his work with suicide in 1897 with a warning against “notiones vulgates, together with an insistence that our first task… must be to determine the order of facts to be studied under the name of suicide (Robert Jones)”. Though Emile Durkheim would…