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The controversy surrounding Christopher Columbus and whether he should be recognized on a federal holiday indicates that his legacy has not escaped historical scrutiny. Arguments on both sides of the debate focus on topics such as genocide, racism, multiculturalism, land rights, and cultural superiority. In Michael Berliner’s article titled “The Christopher Columbus Controversy: Western Civilization…

Julius Caesar was a calamity written by William Shakespeare. Julius Caesar was a great Roman general and senator born in 100 B.C. He has a married woman named Calphurnia but no kids. Though he was an celebrated leader, Caesar was a physically weak adult male; he suffered from epilepsy and was deaf in one ear….

An Introduction Into the Dynamics of the Founder EffectPopulations are divided by geographic boundaries, confining a specific region/group of people to share and distribute its genetic traits within themselves without outward influence. The size of these populations is dependant upon whether certain mountains, rivers, deserts, oceans, or other extreme geographical, cultural, or technological conditions determine…

“Let other give to Caesar Caesar’s own: I have begrudged the old ages the right exorbitant to revenue enhancement me to the bone. ” A line from the verse form I have begrudged the old ages by Angela Manalang-Gloria. This line has to be my favourite beacuse I could truly associate to this. It is…

The South African activist and former president Nelson Mandela helped bring an end to apartheid, and has been a global advocate for human rights. Mandela was a member of the African National Congress party beginning in the 1 sass, and he was a leader of both peaceful protests and armed resistance against the white minority’s…

Black Nationalism refers to empower movements within the black American community. These movements emphasize African origins and identity, pride in being black, the desire for community control, and occasionally the yearning to establish a black nation in Africa or parts of the United States. By exploring the origins, beliefs, strategies, and goals of these movements,…

In Modernity and the Holocaust (1989) Bauman identifies the role modernity played in bringing about the holocaust. He argued that one of the conditions that impacted the occurrence of the Holocaust was the advancement in technology during the Enlightenment period. Which contributed greatly to the destruction of innocent people, thus mass extermination, as weapons were…

In the passage “Puritans and Sex” Edmund S. Morgan discusses the puritans in an unusual way, instead of just explaining all the laws and beliefs the Puritans were expected to follow, Morgan also tells the readers the way the Puritans disobeyed and rejected their government. In 1630 John Winthrop lead and settled a small group…

Psychomachia is a literary concept named for a Latin poem by Prudentius. The poem dealt with the inner conflict within one’s soul, between virtue and vice, through allegorical representations. This concept of an inner struggle became key to the developing Christian religion, and was refined dramatically in the medieval morality plays. Works such as Everyman,…

In Steven Stoll’s Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia, Stoll recasts the nature of both agriculture and land ownership and likens Appalachia’s early settlers to those who depend on access to a “commons”- in this case the forest as an ecological base. “The base gives everything but costs nothing.” Economy was self-created and self-supported through…