The Watchtower

design was new and innovative and something no other prison had during this time. It had a center hub where there was a security station, then legs that protruded from that center area where the prisoners were kept. Then there was a large wall with watchtowers equidistance from each other to provide even more security that the prisoners would have no chance of…

The Great Wall of China The Great Wall of China is “the most awesome structure ever devised by man, one that “lies across the northern borders of China like some great sleeping dragon, stretching and sunning itself on the peaks and ridges of some of the most beautiful mountain scenery in the world…The Great Wall of China was more than 2,000 years in the building, and the only way man can look upon the sum total of handiwork is by viewing it from outer space (Waldron, pg 2).” The Great Wall…

Introduction This report describes what prisons were like in the 19th century in Australia: in particular, Port Arthur in Tasmania. Prisons were built based on 19th century theorists Bentham and Beccaria, using concepts of isolation, silence and hard labour as punishment. Punishments such as hangings, floggings, denunciation and transportation were all part of the classical theorist way of thinking in the 19th century, before punishment of the body changed to punishment of the mind. This…

Majdanek, was established in the autumn of 1941 as a POW camp and became a concentration camp in 1943. Thousands of Soviet POWs were shot or gassed there.A typical concentration camp consisted of barracks that were secured from escape by barbed wire, watchtowers and guards. The inmates…

In April 1945, US forces neared the camp. German troops began to evacuate the prisoners, many of whom died from exhaustion or were shot by the SS. On April 11, 1945, expecting the Allies to arrive shortly, prisoners stormed Buchenwald’s watchtowers and seized control of the camp. US forces arrived later that day and liberated Buchenwald. During its operational years, Buchewald had imprisoned around 250,000 innocent people from all over Europe. When the US military entered Buchenwald, it only…

Japanese-American internment camps had devastating effects in the United States by raising issues among the internees on how to reconcile their cultural identities amidst growing resentment and discrimination. .2 The camps were established by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Executive Order 9066 on February 19, 1942 and stated that fall people with Japanese ancestry living in the Pacific Coast region should be placed in internment camps.1 President Roosevelt justified the camps as a…

What used to be adjacent to the Mississippi River, Fort de Chartres is located roughly four miles west of the village of Prairie du Rocher, Illinois. The original fort that was Fort de Chartres deteriorated after the banks of the Mississippi consumed the fort piece by piece. The recreation of the fort lies further away from the Mississippi river today, and is as of 2016 not a complete rendition of how the site was. Fort de Chartres was also not a single fort but a succession of four forts. The…

I will present my research findings on the Berlin Wall, political activism expressed through graffiti in 1961 compared to graffiti during the 2008 presidential election. This paper will cover a brief history of the Berlin Wall and its intended social and political purpose. I will show how expression through art can change political space and majority opinion. I will conclude that the use of activist art in public space greatly affected the outcome of specific political events. The Berlin Wall…

Many people enjoy saying that a special somebody in their life, is their special hero. But for me, it will always be my mother. Yes, this lovely lady, of one of the three people who gave me life, is a special person in my life. But, that 's the case in this world, the whole 7.8 billion people in these cruel and selfish world. So what makes my own mother a special case, one that stands out by itself? Well, to start, I must go back couple of decades, all the way 'till she was not a mere child.…

Holocaust, many Jews, and other prisoners were sent to concentration camps. In the concentration camps, they were forced to work and do labor for Germany, such as making weapons. The camps were surrounded by electric barbed wire, along with guards and watchtowers to ensure that none of the prisoners escaped. The prisoners only had rags for clothing and a small portion of soup to eat. The living conditions were very poor, and the prisoners began rapidly weakening…