Use of capital punishment by nation

For the last one hundred years, the Armenian people have existed as a diaspora spread around the world. This is due to the fact that in 1915 the Ottoman Empire began a campaign with the intention of ethnically cleansing the nation of all Other. The Armenians have long held a position of “Otherness” in the world. Being a Christian people in a Muslim empire, sharing a religion but not a cultural history with a northern neighbor, and appearing white but having traits of the “Oriental” has made…

reconciling the nation her number one priority, as she was then the command behind her sixteen year old son. She requested that all her opposition to Prempeh I meet in Kumase. She gave in to all three of their demands; the return of captured wives, the release of land that belonged to them and general amnesty be rewarded to them all. She had observed and understood the loss of lives the 4 year civil war had caused and was quick to set up policies that acted as a healing balm to the nation. As…

students who are also minorities or also come from lower-socioeconomic status backgrounds. In schools that are located in poorer communities, many factors affect the students ' academic achievements. Not only do these schools have less social and capital resources, but the students also may come from families with a single-parent household, and parents and older siblings who may not have college degrees (Boschma & Brownstein, 2016). As a result, the schools do not attract highly-qualified and…

Berlin, like most capitals, is the jewel of the German nation. Located is a relatively centralized location of the country, the political, social and technological trends were almost always first noticed in this quickly growing city. Similar to other growing and established cities, it attracts tourists, historians, journalists and everyday people who want to document as well as experience the historical changes. This was also the case for Joseph Roth. His document on Berlin from 1920 to 1933…

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a futuristic work of fiction that takes place in a nation called Panem that consists of a wealthy Capitol and 12 destitute districts. The novel centers around Katniss Everdeen, a 16 year old and also the female protagonist who volunteers to fight in the 74th games. The story begins on the day of reaping where two young adults between the ages of 12 to 18 are chosen and sent to fight in a dangerous life or death match. The purpose of the games is to…

and the Confederacy made extensive use of spies. Harnett Kane, a Southern historian asserts that, “This war between Americans probably saw more espionage, involving more people, than any in our history” (Kane 11). The nature…

derives from their literature, which includes several major myths of western civilization such as the Great Flood in the book of Genesis and the Garden of Eden. Gilgamesh contains a lot of religious symbolism. Religious rituals involved sacrifices, punishment, celebrations and sex. In these rituals, piety…

1929, and the Great Depression, Germany became defenseless as it was built upon foreign capital. As German workers…

delineated a picture of united humanity through the symbolic presentation of the river Nile. The Nile is a confluence of two tributaries-the Blue Nile and the White Nile. The poet says the two rivers undergo a long and difficult journey to reach Sudanese capital Khartoum where they meet. This very confluence serves a great “mission” (12) for the betterment of human civilisation. The “beautiful message” (14) of the confluence should reach the humanity. The present world is segmented each day on…

The different methods of mass murder in the Holocaust include gas chambers, mass shootings, starvation, and forced labour. The Nazis were the first to use the concept of ‘working to death.’ This was when the prisoners of the concentration camps would literally work without food or water. They eventually died of starvation, hypothermia, or dehydration. The most notorious method of killing used in the…