Prehistory

The term “war on graffiti” defined by Sherri Cavan in “The Great Graffiti Wars of The Late 20th Century”, she writes “authorities in communities throughout America have used the rhetoric of “war” to define the “threat” posed by graffiti and to justify the mobilization of community resources to eradicate it. In the article “The Making of Space, Race and Place”, Maggie Dickinson goes on to explain how in New York City, the mayor has tried to stop the practice of graffiti by making laws. She…

Mound City is located next to the Scioto River in Chillicothe, Ohio. It is made up of a rectangular earthen enclosure bordering 13 acres which has 23 earthen mounds within it. This earthen wall is about four feet in height and has a gateway on the eastern and western sides. This site has undergone multiple archaeological digs and investigations. The mounds within the enclosure are domed shaped mounds with the exception of one, which is in an elliptical shape. The most impressive and largest…

astatine’s initial inspiration for discovery was to fill-in a missing part of the periodic table. In 1872, Dimitri Ivanovich Mendeleev wrote a paper on the periodic table which included the element francium. As noted in Astatine: Atomic Number 85, “The prehistory of astatine resembles and is closely associated with that of francium” (Berei 1985). Astatine, in Mendeleev’s 1906 edition of Principles of Chemistry, was first alluded to…

Women in Science, the Revolution has Begun The history of women from the Middle Age until now, had continuous periods of emancipation, and depending on the time in history, different roles and different considerations. In the Medieval society women could only work in the fields or at home taking care of the family. In the first decade of the ‘800 women started to be able to access to jobs in factories even though they still couldn’t have an instruction that could put them at equality with men.…

Characters and Positions (Announcer): A debate between two philosophers on whether the nature of man is good or bad overall will occur in this evening as if it were a basic and simple debate on a university campus. So, as a result, nothing will be off the table. Taking the place that humanity is evil is Eric, who will point to the past about humanities failures. On the opposite side of the debate is John, who will use evidence of humanities highest achievements to argue his place. This will be…

Introduction “All men by nature desire to know” (Aristotle, Metaphysics Book I). Curiosity is an instinct of human beings in that they would wish to be closer to the acquisition of true reality. With the invention of science, human beings at the time have pondered the genesis of species in the world. There are two prevalent, albeit contradicting, beliefs which can be applied to elucidate the origin of life, namely creationism and evolution. In the following, this paper is going to elucidate that…

Writing an object biography means looking at the object 's history, from the moment it was made to the moment it disappeared, or to the present if the object still exists. Object biographies are passive narratives, because objects are inherently inanimate. An object biography will consequently not look at what the object 'accomplished ' during its lifetime, but rather, how the surroundings of the object transformed it through time. A biography can thus concentrate on several themes, or several…

COLONIAL HISTORIOGRAPHY The systematic history writing in the Indian subcontinent started with the coming of the Europeans, who, for their administrative compulsions were required to know the land and its inhabitants whom they were going to rule. But the history produced by them was always imbued with the notions of oriental despotism and self-sufficient village economy, the main characteristic of which was the changelessness from the earliest times to the coming of colonial rule. Hence, all the…

Introduction: Hunting is a past time enjoyed by friends and family. Hunting gives people, a sense of adventure, accomplishment, fun and bonding; however, does hunting question the morality of how humans treat the lives of other living species? Should hunting animals be put to a stop for the brutality of the nature or be continued for the better and inevitable death of the animals? Kelley & Rule (2013) talk about how hunters use two types of patterns. The two different patterns are love and kill.…

The “Game” that is not about joy by Laura Kasischke. Do you remember the times, when you were a child? Times, when you could enjoy every second of your life for no reason? Childhood is awesome, since small people, who have not yet experienced the painful side of our life, are ready to share their joy with everyone around them. But author of this poem describes feelings of a kid in an unusual situation. She points out that any “game” has to meet its end eventually. Laura shows a short moment of…