Genealogy

One may get the diseases through hereditary means whereby if one people in his or her generation suffered from the disease, another person in the same genealogy may come to be affected by the same disease. Other causes of the disease are social psychological processes (Nimh.nih.gov, 2014). This cause is linked with one’s mental functioning and his relationship in the area where he or she resides. A person…

The Aeneid’s Impact on Augustus’ Rome Nearing the last decades of the Roman Republic there were many underlying tensions. Much of the political unrest was due to the civil wars that caused great divides between the population and also due to instability of the government. When Augustus officially came into power and ‘restored’ the Republic to its former glory one of his major projects was to create parallels between the current era and the beginning of Rome. He wanted Romans to be proud of…

of a colonial history; nevertheless at once portray women who suffer from subordination and oppression within their own communities; and /or portray women as being doubly or triply colonized. This proposal will rely on postcolonial, feminist and genealogy methodologies and aims to prove that those women’s different experiences of double colonization and their multiple postcolonial identities lead to a multiple representation of post -colonialism literature. The three novels show the oppression…

with differences, asking, “How do you know who shall come from the offspring of his offspring through the centuries? Who might you find you have come from yourself, if you could trace back through the centuries?” (I Sing 115-116). Reproduction and genealogy, similar to the mind seem to hold vast complexities and as a result, hold no surprise at an author’s awe and gratefulness over such. In addition to promoting…

A Bat Mitzvah is the celebration of a Jewish girl’s coming of age. When a girl reaches the age of 12, it is expected that they become a ‘daughter of the commandment’. This means that they become responsible for observing the commandments and to know right from wrong. As a Jewish Girl, it is important to reflect on the most influential women in the Tanak and seek guidance from their actions and decisions. The focus of this article is one woman from the Tanak who displays virtues that are…

evolution and the beginning of Homo sapiens in the Pleistocene approximately 500,000 years ago. The author continues by elaborating on our genetic change over time. He cites specific examples of this evolution: fossil evidence (Australopitucus), archaic genealogy analysis, and so on. Shepard implies that this slow evolution led to the emergence of speech and social organization. The author transitions into…

Crystal Fire written by Michael Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson is a historical non-fiction novel detailing the discovery and subsequent invention of the transistor. Written in 1997, and published by W. W. Norton & Company in 1998. Crystal Fire’s authors, Michael Riordan and Lillian Hoddeson, both graduated from prestigious universities, MIT and Columbia respectively, with deep interests in physics. Through that shared interest they came together to create an account of the birth of the…

In one article by Imani Kazini, entitled, Black Springfield: A Historical Study 1977 describes legal laws that sanctioned slavery as acceptable practice. Such laws the Puritans believed that they were employed covenants throughout their society including the act of marriage, church construction, to the development of towns, and establishing further levels of government jurisdiction. Such laws, gave acceptance to punishment for infractions especially around behavior. Such laws for instant…

World War II impacted the American film industry through the influences of the war effort. Films that were made during this time often worked in line with this effort by projecting messages of unity, where racial and class differences amongst Americans were put on the backburner in order to fight one common and external enemy. Scholar Anna Everett asserts that during the war the film industry temporarily suspended its usual racist and stereotypical depictions of Black Americans for the war…

Gospel means the good news, there is no genealogy or birth narrative but the good news of ‘the career of Christ as well as his death and resurrection’(Aune,1987, p. 17).As the second book of the New Testament, Gospel of Mark is one of the four canonical gospels and the three synoptic gospels. Originally, it was considered as ‘an epitome of Mathew’ (Perkin, 2009, p.57), and accounts for the position as ‘the earliest of the gospels’ (Brown, 1997, p.164). It mainly tells the ministry of Jesus, from…