Looting

culture in Europe History has proven that when culture mix some tend to have a stronger impact on the others and in so giving birth to stronger new communities. The Vikings have proven that they were more than the barbarians they were described to be. Looting was not exclusive to them and their warrior culture and ethics perhaps contributed to the atrocities they committed (although there is nothing that can really justify that). The changes that occurred in Europe during the Viking era and way…

By January 1348, the plague was in Marseilles. It reached Paris in the spring, 1348 and England in September, 1348. Moving along the Rhine trade routes, the plague reached Germany in 1348, and the Low Countries the same year. Historians agree that 1348 was the worst of the plague years. In May, 1349, an English wool ship brought the plague to Norway. The Great Mortality then made its way to Greenland and after killing a large proportion of the population there encountered the towering ice…

Part II: Nihilism and its Relation to War, Modernism, Religion, Socialism, Marxism and Communism War and Nihilism While war can be profitable to those in power as a way of strengthening their power and auhority, but its outcomes is nothing but misery and poverty for the people. The loss of lands, the establishment of new territories, displacement, depopulation, separation of the family members, death and devastation, the destruction of economic and social structures of the country, famine,…

For Chinese Empire it began when a civil war broke out and for the Ottoman Empire it began with a fight with the Western forces. When these wars ended, nether state was able to survive it. This did not bring peace to their states, in fact it just began to get worse until the eventual fall of both Empires completely. The fall of the Chinese and Ottoman Empires was due to them not modernizing quick enough, their unwillingness to reform to what the rest of the world was doing and their…

The Battle of Sluys resulted in utter devastation for the French. Hindered by the crowded inlet, they were unable to maneuver effectively. Edward, capitalizing on the situation and with the wind in his favor, launched a relentless attack. English longbowmen rained arrows down on the French ships from elevated platforms, while English prows rammed into the immobile French hulls. The longbowmen paused their barrage to allow men-at-arms to board and engage in fierce hand-to-hand combat. The battle…

references a popular picture at the time of a man running during the riot with looted items. The riots were a product of police discrimination and violence against an African American family in August 11, 1965. The event incited mobs and soon large scale looting took place. The reason Scott-Heron claims there will be no pictures of this riot for his revolution was largely because the broadcasted riot was warped on television to only show acts of vandalism and did not mention the cause that…

other a white couple, both carrying trash bags of stuff through floods from the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. The captions that went along with each photo were claimed be racially biased. For instance, the African American man was claimed to be “looting” while the white couple “found” the items they had. The controversy came about how were these words chosen, by assumption or fact creating the primary issue of basing people off of un-factual information. This can relate to people from Irvine…

“I see America through the eyes of a victim. I don’t see any American dream. I see an American nightmare.” – Malcom X 52 years ago Martin Luther King Junior stood on the steps of the Lincoln memorial and became the face of a revolution. The civil rights movement saw African Americans finally gain a sense of equality amongst their white counterparts. Despite America priding themselves on being a post-racist society, they live in a society that is anything but post-racial. We live in a world that…

Equating Race with Poverty, Why Poor and Violent Equals Black and Just Walk on By provide evidence that the media has a negative influence on the way we view each other. This is a result of the articles explanations of the misinterpretations whites have towards minorities stemmed from incorrect media coverage. These articles portray examples of a bias American media along with the effect that it has on the American population. Unjustifiable media racism has led to an unequal society along with a…

victim to brutal terrorization by the newly separated Savage tribe. The brief conflict, described as “a complication of snarls and crashes and flying limbs”(Golding 167), results in Piggy’s glasses being stolen by the savage pillagers, similar to the looting and seizure of goods during the German raid on the Jews. The both cases, the seizure of property was a violation of their security, and served to demoralize the affected parties. The Nazi Youth involvement in the Night of Broken Glass…