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The British Raj was the colonial and official rule of the British Empire in India between 1858 and 1947. The British rule had started unofficial when the East India Company ruled large parts of India with its private armies, exercising military power and assuming administrative functions. Company rule in India began effectively in 1757 and lasted till 1858 when, following the Indian Rebellion (1857), the Government of India Act 1858 led to the British Crown assuming direct control of India in…

Ancient athletics were not exactly welcoming to women participants, but there are a few text sources and artistic evidence that a few instances did occur, and were even encouraged. It is evident that women not only did not participate in the Olympic sports, but they were banned from even spectating. This was due to the fact that men competed in the nude as a religious ceremony to honor Zeus, and in history there is a common theme of women not being allowed in order so that it goes well (think…

“Desiree’s Baby” is a fiction based short story written by Kate Chopin. The short story is set during the time of slavery on a Louisiana plantation, going through what it was like during racism. Desiree, who was taken in by wealthy landowners, falls in love with a man named Armand. Armand falls deeply in love with her also, but has a reputation for having slaves or mistreating them like they weren’t human. The young couple soon have a baby boy, but something seems strange about the adolescent.…

The Greeks believed in cremating and funeral pyre as way of honoring the dead by disposing of them in this way whereas the Callatians believed in eating the bodies of their dead fathers as a way of honoring and disposing of the dead. Now one time people of both cultures were summoned by king Darius…

activists have achieved many great things. For example, Russia outlawed forced marriages in 1722, India banned sati (a funeral ritual within some Asian communities in which a recently widowed woman sacrifices herself, typically on her husband’s funeral pyre) in 1829, and China abolished foot binding in 1902. Unfortunately, not every country has stayed with the times. In Saudi Arabia and Vatican City, women are still not even allowed to vote. India had a female president from 2007 to 2012, yet…

her rule, because how dare a Queen be more powerful than those surrounding her. Dido is consumed with a passionate love of Aeneas this becomes her downfall causing her to lose all the since she had. Dido`s love for Aeneas was the fire that lit her pyre. Later in the Aeneid we see a Queen named Amata who is used by Juno and a fury named Allecto to cause havoc in her kingdom along wit her other mothers joined her. This was all caused because Aeneas is prophesied to marry Amatas daughter but Amata…

If there are two words that do not belong together, they are feminism and India. The stringent, traditional culture that encompasses the majority of India has no place for feminism. It is a male-dominated society where the value of a woman is measured by her dowry. Feminism in India tries to create a voice for women, where their value is measured in their intelligence and willingness to succeed rather how much money she can bring to her husband’s family. It also allows problems like female…

Schlageter Square, where they stood until dawn. In the center of the anxious crowd stood a massive collection of sacred Jewish objects collected from the Jewish community house and the synagogues. Then, as the sun began to rise, the Nazis set the pyre and a synagogue alight. As the Nazis destroyed centuries of Jewish culture, thoughts of a pleasant future for Fürth’s Jewry went up in smoke (Confino 1-3). The heinous events in Fürth were repeated that night in countless towns and cities across…

For some time the papacy’s home was in France “for nearly seventy years, while still claiming to be bishops of Rome, the popes would generally remain in Avignon”. This contributed to the Great Western Schism, which was a political fight between Italy and France. Both of these countries wanted the pope to live in their own country to skew the power of the papacy in favor of their country and its goals. The election of Urban the VI was the tipping point, he seemed at first a good choice but soon…

The denial of self-sacrifice on the funeral pyre of her dead husband is treated with contempt and the society will consider her as a living example of nuptial ingratitude however, the British colonial administration used the body of the widow as an ideological battle-ground for colonial…