History of Singapore

Capital punishment is the legal authorization of state sanctioned execution as punishment for a crime through various means; electrocution, decapitation, lethal injection and hanging. It is seen as a form of ‘retribution’ for the inconvenience of victims and thus need to be compensated for such actions. Capital punishment was set in Australia during the 19th century as used for crimes such as sexual assaults, murder, manslaughter, burglary, forgery, however, during this time the Australian…

The rights of both adult and teenage transgenders are more accommodating than the rest of the adults and teenageers. The decision to change genders is a hard one and can sometimes be influenced by outside sources. The new decisions regarding where the transgenders go to the bathroom has raised a lot of concern throughout the transgender community. The controversy over the robe change color in Ashland, Massachusetts has brought up questions for the general public regarding if this process was…

1.0 Introduction The dash 8-Q400 is a high wing aeroplane manufactured by bombardier aerospace with shared intrests from several parteners. It is powered by two 5071 shaft horsepower PW 150A turboprop engines. Each engine drives a six bladed propeller. 2.0 Fire detection The fire protection system includes components throught the aeroplane to provide detection indication and fire extinguishing capabilities. The fire protection system provides fire detection and…

I took over three college-prep U.S. History classes, one English as a Second Language (ESL) U.S. History class, and team-taught an Advanced Placement (AP) U.S. History class. When I joined the AP U.S. History class, the course was essentially finished because the AP test had been taken, and students were working on final projects. The college-prep and ESL classes , on the…

When I first heard about the Oral History project I did not know what to expect. After reading the assignment in more detail, I was excited to start the project. I immediately knew I would pick my mother for the project. She is my best friend and I wanted to learn more about her growing up with such a big family. After going over the assignment, I called my mother and asked if she would participate in the project and she said yes. I was delighted to hear her say that because I instantly started…

Canadian historian Donald Creighton. Hufton later published these lectures as Women and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolution. Prior to her shift towards women’s history in the 1980s, Hufton was primarily interested in poverty and social relations; her previous books focused on social history and political history, one of which attempted to place the French Revolution in a broader historical context. Partially in response to the plethora of publications that emphasize specific…

In the distant of times from the time we are in the days of old. We often reminded ourselves mentally and physically through a process called memories. In the article “Trying Not to Forget Forgetting” the author M. Zeki Duman mentions the importance of memories. In a period of time through a series of event in the days of our forefather to currently now present days. Over times legitimate record written forgotten and replace by false memory through idealism causes doubt in the mind of many…

History is a composition of past events. It is real and honest. However, the materials used by historians (which are called sources) to study history are only records of history, so they need not to be absolutely true and unbiased. If a group of scholars were to evaluate a set of clues surrounding a play, they would mainly use texts and written records of the play and all these evidences are considered sources which therefore need to be carefully examined before put into use. To these scholars,…

story from 17 century “China as an abyss of semi-imperial and semi-feudal society” to the “Road of socialism with Chinese characteristic” in the People's Republic of China. First few sessions of the exhibition meant to emphasis particularly on the history of the Communist Party of China’s fight for the people’s liberation and independence of every…

has been anything I have learned throughout this semester in literally all of my classes, it is that we must learn History to keep it from repeating itself. Many critics say that there is nothing you can learn from History or that it is doomed to repeat itself. Personally, there is a choice, but it takes a lot of researching to be able to understand what needs to be altered so History does not repeat itself. I have walked through many steps of bouncing through topics, researching each one,…