Infanticide

The way young Spartans were raised gave today’s Western Civilization many key elements that define and affect its way of life. Some of these things are going to school and retirement. How children were treated and raised in Sparta directly affected who they became later in their lives. Boys and girls would go to school and learn teachings which they would use their whole lives. Thanks discipline and vital life lessons, Spartan children carried on the Spartan tradition of being a great military…

Introduction Sir Walter Scott is considered to be the prime architect of historical novels in English literature on accountof his prodigious skill of romanticizing the dry historical events and presenting them in invigorating and exhilarating manner. In his well-known novel, The Heart of Midlothian, Scott has made sweeping changes in the original story and the bearings of historical personages but the final outcome of the novel is impressive and absorbing.Such deviations are the prerogative of a…

Discuss the changing nature of popular journalism in the second half of the nineteenth century? Northcliffe revolution, commercial journalism, new journalism, society journalism, and “massocratic journalism” are words generally ascribed to the emergence of popular journalism. Popular journalism can be defined as quick and cheap journalism, which appeased the whole population. Examples include tabloid newspaper companies such as the Pall Mall Gazette and the Daily Mail. Commercial journalism…

According to Ioannou and Hammond (2015), homicide is a violent crime when one human ends another’s life and can be seen as lawful, where state justifies killings, and unlawful, where killings are criminalised. Unlawful killing can divided into murder, infanticide and manslaughter (Ioannou and Hammond, 2015). Manslaughter is categories into voluntary, where an offender knowingly causing a death to another human being, and involuntary, when death occur as an accident or as a result of recklessness…

The novel, Beloved, by Toni Morrison is a multi-lane story which aims to highlight female identity, and especially black female identity, through the use of elements such as history, magic and the transformation of the self under the encompassing idea of motherhood in the context of slavery. The novel incorporates supernatural events as a manner of contradicting reality with the unnatural, and maintains this supernatural element in an often too close for comfort, realistic world. However,…

The long nineteenth century was undoubtedly the most unstable periods of French history which saw numerous varying regimes govern over the French people. However, as a result of a constant inability to represent the interests of its people, these regimes came and went in perhaps the most bloodiest of means, whether that was the horrifying events of la Terreur or the disastrous defeat by the new German state during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71. Arguably, the most interesting of these…

Reproductive Health Care Availability and Controversial Policies Reproductive health care services that are provided by government funding is a highly debated topic among citizens and policy makers alike. Providing reproductive health care services through government funded agencies has been argued for and against, based on the benefits to the social welfare of the population, and the allocation of government funding. Will defunding Planned Parenthood save government funding and prevent…

to write their story, Morrison sheds light on some of the tragic effects that slavery had had and still has. Bell makes the comment that Morrison was, “guided by the spirits of many thousands gone” (bell, 9). Sethe explains this horrific act of infanticide as “thick” love (Morrison, 194). This to show the level the realities that slaves went through. In this case, Morrison and Garner make decisions for their characters and for themselves whether death is better than a life of slavery. A real…

Joseph Bechard, Weronika Felczak, Michael Glasper Mr. Zemaitis June 4, 2015 Newscast Script Joey: Welcome to the New Britain High news with Mikey Glasper, Joey Bechard, and me, Weronika Felczak. Mikey: On today's show, we will be analyzing the abortion argument in America. Abortion remains a very divisive topic in both American politics and American society. Joey: Both pro-choicers and pro-lifers both adamantly feel their beliefs are correct. We will break down and objectively present their…

INTERPLAY OF SOCIO-CULTURAL FORCES AND PSYCHO-SEXUAL MOTIVATIONS IN THE PLAYS OF VIJAY TENDULKAR AND BALWANT GARGI Abstract: The purpose of the present paper is to study the plays of Vijay Tendulkar and Balwant Gargi to understand the tragic plight of suffocated individuals at the mercy of oppressive socio-cultural forces and hidden psycho-sexual desires. The plays of Tendulkar and Gargi depict the collapse of human life and desires under dysfunctional moral values and corrupt…