Infanticide

Cynara Collins Phil 230 02/04/2018 Abortion is a serious issue that has been going on for years, many people don’t fully understand abortion, and why people choose to do it. Abortion is the ending of pregnancy by removing a fetus or embryo before it can survive outside the uterus. This usually is performed during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy. There are different views on abortion, some agree and some don’t. abortions take place every single day, and yet public opinion remains at a standstill…

that the unbalanced gender ratios in both pagan and Christian societies and the charitable nature early Christianity offered to women would create the ideal scenario as to why Christianity rose so quickly in the Roman empire. In the Roman empire infanticide was practiced heavily amongst pagans, they would mostly target “unwanted female infants and deformed male infants” (Stark 231). Furthermore, many females died from extremely painful abortions. However, only the pagans partook is these…

Gender roles have historically been fairly standard, men provide for their family and the women are simply their husband’s property. Many old-time plays and stories embrace this simple concept, men over women. However, Euripides’ Medea shatters the concept of gender roles by having a woman, Medea, triumph over a man’s tyranny. Euripides description of Medea is that of a clever sorceress who will stop at nothing to achieve her goal. At the beginning of the story, Medea is depicted as a woman…

Territoriality can be defined as a site-specific dominance, where dominance contains on social interactions including both overt defence and mutual avoidance (Ims, 1987). At least one of the sexes of microtine rodents is said to be territorial in the social organization. However, microtines territoriality is usually inferred from space use patterns alone without any direct evidence about the social interactions (Ims, 1987). The spatial organization of microtines has explained the variation by…

adults trying to find education and universities. According to Dr.Lalvani the British created great cities like Bombay, Calcutta and Madras and also banned suttee which was the practice of burning widows at their husband’s funeral pyre and female infanticide. The British also unified several different states into one unified Indian (Lalvani). By mid-19 century India had a postal system that helped spread the English language and it spread knowledge of different cultures(Lalvani). They also…

In 1810, many Latin American countries gained independence from Spain’s American empire, customs and allegiances that had been established since 1492. In Toward Independence, Fuentes notes that in 1810, eighteen million people lived under Spanish rule between California and Cape Horn (Fuentes). In total, there were eight million indian’s, one million blacks that were brought through by slave trade and four million caucasians (Fuentes). Late-Colonial Latin America was filled with many types of…

muffle the sounds of crying. His theory was that this method of parenting would allow the baby to cry itself to sleep and eventually condition them to fall asleep on their own. Co-sleeping was also banned in the catholic religion in efforts to stop infanticide due to starvation. Another reason could be because parents did not want their children to be exposed to sex or masturbation in the bedroom (Mckenna, Ball, & Gettler…

In On the Mundane Significance of Bike Lanes, author Luis Vivanco delves deep into the “mundane significance” of bicycle lanes. What Vivanco means by the “mundane significance” of bike lanes is how on the surface level, bike lanes can seem very dull and insignificant, especially in comparison with many other anthropological topics. Vivanco however utilizes a different definition of the word mundane to help explain the truly “earthy” and “world-making” possibilities of everyday human life that…

A higher literacy rate is an essential requirement for any nation to bring it at par on a global platform with other nations. No nation looks a promising nation if it has a stable economic growth rate but poor literacy rates. Education after all is a fundamental right which is ensured to the citizens. It needs to be highlighted that India is a country where the extent of disparities is such that one nation has achieved a literacy rate higher than 90 percent. Illiteracy can be termed as the…

opposition as well as the church and other conservative groups. This lead to the creation of legislature in 1983 to increase restrictions in the state Illinois on abortions that have been publicly funded . Which in general, produced the recognition of infanticide on a larger scale even though it was a relatively small step forward. In 1973 it was completely illegal for any form of abortion to take place in 30 states and in that same year the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision…