Horrible Histories

blackness and racial discrimination in the stories. While The Arabian Nights presents stories about the Islamic empire, it foists stories of slavery and blackness. Unlike the Atlantic trade slaves, slaves in the Arabian Nights “inhabit a different history from plantation slaves, and do not fit easily into abolitionist discourse: they were more frequently domestic or military.”(Slavery, blackness) In The Arabian Nights, there is not a single black hero in either the Syrian or the Bulaq versions.…

Analysis Slavery is a huge part of the history of the world. Almost every continent has participated in the enslavement of some sort of people. Even though today slavery is illegal in most countries, one can draw similarities to sweatshops as modern-day slavery. Men, children, and women still work for pennies a day in horrible conditions. Just like the Atlantic Slave Trade where the Kings sold their own people for large amounts of money at the time, today, companies use the people of a country…

Young points out in her article, she talks about how terrible the conditions were and its after effects that it has had on those that served (515). She also discusses how it is hard to imagine what happened. It might be due to the fact of the horrible events that took place such as the way “the war was something that happened among Americans” (Young, 516). There was such a cultural gap and misunderstandings of the land that it created many errors throughout the war. The horrific conditions…

Emperor Hirohito was Japan's 124th emperor who is vital to the history because he played a major role within world history. He was known as the Showa Tenno emperor. Showa is translated into "enlightened peace" and Tenno is translated into "heavenly sovereign." This is exceptionally ironic because he was the emperor during numerous disasters. When World War 2 started, Hirohito decided to ally Japan with Germany and Italy to form the Axis Powers. Exactly how large of a role he played in World War…

Slavery is an institution that has existed throughout Western history. Slavery is known as one of the world’s biggest abomination, it diverges through many cultures, ethnicities, and religions. However, by studying slavery as an institution in areas all around the world one will learn that the political, social, and economic factors of slavery vary at different periods of time. Slavery is the act of enslaving people, treating them as lesser human beings and forcing them to commit to work labor.…

deal of time and effort. The system of education is something the most of the public believes in is to make young children educated and ready for the world but that’s not true. The school setting is not what it seems and what is actually does is a horrible. Two individuals by the name of John Taylor Gatto and Richard Louv have spoken out against the current system people hold as infallible in the book Rereading America. Gatto is a retired teacher who has taught in schools for over thirty…

Art is a great topic to converse and talk about because art is everywhere and it defines us all whether we realize it or not art is upon us and describes our ways and the story of our live's. Throughout art's history in old Spain there were two famous painters who enjoyed art known as the great and famous Picasso and Velázquez. As a matter of fact these two famous painters painted things for a reason and that reason was to tell the world the stories of their live's through drawing and paintings…

Olaudah Equinao was born in 1745 in Guinea, where most slaves African slaves were taken. He begins his story by describing where it is he came from. He goes into great detail about his homelands culture, discussing the women, the men, the children, including the slaves. He tells us that his father is a well respected elder who set policies for the area. Slavery was not uncommon in Africa, however, the idea of white men was. When the europeans, mainly the British founded the African Slave Trade,…

horror stories of medical failures and tend to forget about all the good things that could be going on in the medical field. That could be a huge issue for people with life threatening illnesses. They will become upset and depressed reading all the horrible stories. Going to the doctors and ignoring the internet is sometimes the better thing to do, especially if you are a…

England continued to ship tens of thousands of Irish slaves for more than a century. Records state that, after the 1798 Irish Rebellion, thousands of Irish slaves were sold to both America and Australia. There were horrible abuses of both African and Irish captives. One British ship even dumped 1,302 slaves into the Atlantic Ocean so that the crew would have plenty of food to eat. There is little question the Irish experienced the horrors of slavery as much (if not…