Looting

a century. The ancient city of Benin in Southern Nigeria has been revered as a source of bronze and ivory sculptures so elegantly crafted that Meyerowitz (1943) describes them as technically perfect. However, after the Benin Massacre and artifact looting of 1897, thousands of these sculptures were…

consisted of two pictures: the first picture of a young African American man, and the other picture of a white male and female. The picture of the black male carrying a big plastic bag is captioned as, “…walks through chest-deep flood water after looting a grocery store…” (Harris, Carbado 524) and the picture of the white male and female are captioned as, “…wade through chest-deep waters after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store…” These two pictures, published in different presses,…

land as much as to raid towns of other countries. That was their tactic. Come in quick boat, raid, loot and disapear. Due to the era they did this, their tactics worked. When people of Europe thought about the vikings at that time, Pillaging and looting was what came to mind (and it still does). At the end of the 8th century Scandinavians began raiding other parts of Europe. Then, in the 9th. and 10th centuries they turned to conquest. This new raiders and invaders were known as Northmen,…

Johnson brought vastly different strengths to the presidency then Kennedy did. Johnson was the third consecutive president to enter without anyone business experience. Johnson fought in WWII and was the first congressmen to enlist in the armed services. Johnson also had many scandals both sexual and not. Johnson in a speech promised “upward to the Great Society”. The campaign of 1964 was merely a speed bump for Johnson on the highway to that Great Society. Running against Johnson was Berry…

How did police brutality for African Americans socially changed then and now, particularly in Rodney King and Laquan McDonald's case? How did the news media capture the event, what were the consequences of the police officers involved, and how the public responded? The film L.A. Riots Revisited examined Rodney King's police beating and how South-Central Los Angeles community was affected. A&E Television Networks created the film in 1999 which provided the original video footage of Rodney…

The genre of the prank “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift is it is a satire. The prank ironically mocks the poor individuals in general and he states that individuals who are born poor must take initiative to help themselves out of their own troubles. The satire is expressed in the the subtitle “For preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland, from Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for making Them Beneficial to the Publick” (60). The sub-title indicates that the writer…

La Vendée Militaire La Vendée was the center of the counter-revolution. The people rioted against the republic to stop this wave of new ideas. The repulic’s answer to this uprising as cruel as it can be was the massacre of every single person supporting the Kingdom of France. This massacre is still a debate today. Some calls it genocide, and other calls it a history mistake. To understand what happen we have to know who they were, and why they were uprising. The leaders of this…

Communism Today Communism was just a term which appeared in many books written by famous philosophers and writers back in the 16th century until it became a reality later on in society. Back in those days, the thought of Communism was adopted by small groups such as the Puritan religious group abolished the private ownership of land. Karl Marx also mentioned it in his book, “The Communist Manifesto” and says this should be advocated in society and defines it as the abolition of property.…

“During the Nanking Massacre, the Japanese committed a litany of atrocities against innocent civilians, including mass execution, raping, looting, and burning.” This quote fits perfectly with the definition of massacre. The victims were innocent and they were killed brutally. The Chinese people were burned, raped, executed,buried alive and beheaded.The term massacre fits perfectly in this situation…

EXCESSIVE FORCE 8 was receiving, Superior Court Judge Stanley Weisberg agreed to move the case from Los Angeles to Simi Valley, California a predominate white residential community which is located thirty miles from Los Angeles. The prosecution in this case motioned to have the case be tried in a more diverse county like Alameda. Since Simi Valley is where police officers are known to reside, Judge suggested that moving it to Simi Valley will guarantee a fair trial in their own…