The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race Essay

the planet. It is so much easier to make a mistake now a day then it was thousands of years ago. A study by C. Ronald Huff, Arye Rattner, and the late Edward Sagarin suggests that of 1,993,880 convictions, 0.5 were wrongfully convicted, that is about 9,969 innocent people convicted for crimes they didn’t commit, including murder, rape, robbery and many more. If those numbers are for your common criminals, how many innocent people have we murdered? A mistake that we cannot come back…

Nero the Empire Emperor Nero is the rotten tomato in a garden of sublime heroes and malevolent villains. He is, undeniably, a milestone that history would happily hand over to someone else. However, his essence has lived on for centuries since his reign ended in 68 AD. He is depicted as an opulent and tyrannical man in many cultures. Nero is recognized mostly for his luxurious performing arts activities, his personal life drama, and his association with the Great Fire of Rome. Nero was…

Poverty has affected Great Empires and Nations throughout history. Poverty has even affected cultures, different races, and genders. This is an issue that has been around since the beginning of time and most likely will never end. Some like to think that people are choosing to be in poverty, or ignore just how significantly poverty can destroy nations as a whole. The Roman Empire are remembered for their power, leaders such as Julius Caesar, and their crumbling society which leads to their…

In the entire history, no other person has managed to have personified the notion of the self-made man more than Henry Ford. Henry Ford is best remembered as the one who single-handedly created the US automotive industry. What Ford had only a limited formal education, born in a farm, and was expected to take over the farm when he grows up. Instead, Ford left home at the age of seventeen and joined as an apprentice at a machinist in Detroit. A career choice that left him wildly famous and…

In a world of over 7 billion people, there tends to only be two characteristics one can have: kindness or cruelty. Yet the power of both kindness and cruelty are underestimated. In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, the kindness and cruelty of humans is displayed through people like Liesel Meminger, Adolf Hitler, and Max Vandenburg. The Book Thief’s name herself doesn’t sound appealing, but Liesel truly had a heart of gold. During WWII, going to a bomb shelter was a weekly event. In this…

It’s important to note that the idea of globalization is a false ideology that has little bearing on reality or rationality. While the idea of global unification or global commerce has been around in some form or another for millennia, it has generally been in hegemonic form. The “golden triangle” of British Imperialism, or notably the attempted unification of Europe and North Africa by the Roman Empire, preceded by Alexander “the Great” and his grand conquests, and followed by the Golden…

that he discriminated jews.“Hitler blamed Jews for all the bad things that happened in Germany” (theholocaustexlained.com). Hitler believed that a group in Germany who 's known as Aryans. His perfect race was a blue eyed, blonde haired, white male. Hitler thought that they were the best race of humans. Hitler was a very powerful leader that led Germany to many victories. Hitler helped the Germany 's economy immensely. However Hitler 's childhood was as cruel as he is. Hitler was born on Easter…

Defense attorneys, as well as prosecutors, require more pay because of the hours spent on these cases. Also, the defense attorneys have the right to call experts, such as psychiatrists. The reason for the psychiatrist is to give a total mental history of the inmate. Extended trials, expert witnesses also contribute to the high cost of death row inmates (Dye). Most of all, the taxpayers money is being used for this execution. Instead of giving prisoners the death sentence, the United States…

Germany in January 1933. During his rise to power, he successfully convinced the people to believe that Germans with fair skin tone, blond hair and blue eyes were the superior form of human which was also known as the master race of the Germans. Besides, they were also convinced that the Jews were the inferior form of human which they would be labelled under the German racial community. The population of the Jews in Germany was about 55 million people. They were mostly cosmopolitan…

ecological processes that occurred in nature, but with a crucial difference. Whereas the natural ecosystem tended toward a patchwork of diverse communities arranged almost randomly on the landscape- it's very continuity depending on that disorder- the human tendency was to systematize the patchwork and impose a more regular pattern upon it (33). As soon as both the Native Americans and the Indians reached the New World and started learning how to inhabit it and grow as a culture, the ecosystems…