In today’s society, there is a great deal of discussion on what behavior is civilized and what is barbaric. Consider the actions of our president, Donald Trump. The majority believes that his behavior with women and his tactics for being elected extremely barbaric. There is even a chance that he cheated during the election. Some consider his behavior normal, calling it “ locker room talk”, and therefore consider it civilized. You can also consider the behavior of ISIS and their treatment of non-muslims and even Muslims that don’t worship the same way they do. In most people’s eyes that is extremely barbaric and an awful thing to do, but, they think they are carrying out Allah’s work. The example provided are showing that actions are not truly barbaric, it is all individual perception. In the books …show more content…
On pages 62 and 63, Hugo states “One day they (Thenardiers) wrote to her (Fantine) that her little Cosette was entirely destitute of clothing for the cold winter, that she needed a woolen skirt, and that her mother must send 10 francs for that … “What beautiful hair” exclaimed the barber. “How much will you give me for it?” said Fantine. “Ten Francs” “Cut it off.” She bought a knit skirt and sent it to the Thenardiers. It was the money they wanted. They gave the skirt to Eponine. The poor lark still shivered.” This quote shows how barbaric people the Thenardiers were when it came to trying to con people out of their money. They truly saw this little, sweet, innocent girl as a money opportunity and cared nothing about her well being. The majority of the people on this planet would be disgusted at how barbaric the behavior the Thenardiers exhibit. To them, they do not see it as barbaric, they just want money and do not care how they get it. The Thenardiers appalling treatment of Cosette continues beyond this and will cause her to turn from the beautiful girl she once was, to a malnourished and hideous
(290). This insinuates that he is sadistic and utilizes the suffering of others to advance his objectives. To carry out heinous crimes and be a dictator of citizens, he exploits his extremely biased ideas as a justification. The Prophet has been driven to delusions and insanity as a result of prejudiced ideologies, causing him to commit awful crimes and become an evil member
Currently Donald Trump is the GOP frontrunner with over 13 points more than his closest competitor Ted Cruz and has about 34% support in the large political mess of the Republican Party Presidential Race. This is no more a joke that we can just laugh at and Trump needs to be looked at seriously as a contender and he should not be able to run for presidency when his political platform is based on insulting others due to their religion or country of origin and using vague and eccentric promises that break the backbone of this nation in order to fix these “problems”. The two demographics that have faced the brunt of these attacks are the Muslim and Mexican Communities however Trump has not resisted insulting women, multiple newspapers including
With the prohibition of the Indian Act, it restricted Aboriginal people in order to obtain their rights, due to being unable to obtain a lawyer, which could represent them to order to prosecute the government to gain their rights that were stripped from them, due to being the “Others”. The government in many ways made sure to alienate the Aboriginals in order not have a voice which could be heard and allowed the support of people in order to help them, but the Aboriginals were barbaric people they needed to be civilized, this is where “The government took for itself the power to mould, unilaterally, every aspect of life on the reserve and to create whatever infrastructure it deemed necessary to achieve the desired end — assimilation through
Therefore, strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them". But this is an ironic thing to think as the Bible has 842 verses that are cruel or violent (roughly 3%). Christians feared the Muslims because of this teaching calling for war against non-believers and as a result of this teaching Muslims were killing Christians and other religions in the Middle East. So the first justification was that the Christians should retaliate and kill them in return. The second justification was that these “barbarians” had taken territory belonging to the Christians especially holy sites such as Jerusalem.
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“The savage in man is never quite eradicated.” - Henry David Thoreau Society as a whole can be a very oblivious community. We as a whole like to block out the horror of the world and focus on the good things in our life, such as a stable life and a good family. But what happens when one day, all of that stability and happiness isn’t there anymore. We are left to our own devices to defend for ourselves and that’s when the real basis of humanity shows.
The Mongols were a clan of people who showed their barbarism through inflicting ruthless fear tactics, killing hundred thousands of people, and living by a set of uncivilized rules and barbarous body of laws. Mongols had countless ways of forcing fear not only on their enemies but among their own people as well. The Mongols number one method in ensuring that their people will stay in line is by threatening death upon them. If a few, in battle, flee from the enemy the entire group gets killed, unless they return back and in this case only the ones who originally fled are killed. If one or two from a group goes bravely towards the enemy, and others don’t follow, they are killed.
1 Introduction Marie-Sophie Germain, more commonly known as Sophie Germain, was born in Rue Saint-Denis in Paris, France on April 1, 1776 to a wealthy French family. Her father, Ambroise-François Germain, was a thriving silk merchant and Sophie grew up lacking for nothing. When the French Revolution began in 1789, Sophie Germain was thirteen years old and the political and social upheaval of the Revolution caused her and her family to remain indoors for much of that time period. In order to entertain herself, Sophie began reading books from her father’s library. Figure 1 shows Sophie as a young teenager [13].
The Mongols would also cut the heads off of there opponents in battle and make a pile of them in the battlefield. Thats where psychological warfare comes in not only were they brutal in war but they also did some messed up things to try to trip up the enemy so they were an easier kill. All of these things are all signs of being barbaric and brutal.
The killings display barbarism as there is a lack of compassion or sense of sympathy. For example, after Lemon´s death when Rat Kiley randomly started to shoot at the water buffalo, ¨He shot it twice in the flanks. It wasn't to kill; it was to hurt.¨( O'brien 75). There was no remorse for the baby buffalo as it laid their suffering from the pain that was inflicted on him, Although, this is how Rat releases his emotions from the death of his best friend and is the only way he knows how, it has a negative outcome on living things surrounding him. This concept of dealing with pain is unorthodox as in the real world and doesn't usually happen.
In France, the people wanted revenge against the oppressive leadership and luxurious lifestyles of the rich in society. Upon finding out that the aristocrats have lost their property, they decide to take action by invading one of France’s most tightly guarded prisons, the Bastille.
Acts such as killing others went against the Bible, the war
AS ANOTHER YEAR PASSES BY, ANOTHER OF CAPULET’S FAMILY FEASTS DRAWS TO A CLOSE AND SOME BIT OFF MORE THAN THEY COULD CHEW. Capulet’s daughter, Juliet Capulet, had been spotted by an eye witness mingling with Romeo Montague towards the end of the masquerade Sunday evening. It was said that Romeo and Juliet had briefly talked and then exchanging a kiss before Juliet had been swiftly taken away by the Nurse of the house. Many other witnesses we had asked, including the Nurse, come forward and said “Romeo was quite distraught after finding out that Juliet was a Capulet.
This essay will examine the historical accuracy of the film Les Miserables in terms of the social, economic and political conditions in French society post French Revolution. The film Les Miserables depicts an extremely interesting time in French history (from about 1815-1832.) Even though the story line does not depict every detail and event that occurred during the time period as well as the fact that some aspects are dramatized for entertainment purposes, the film effectively spans thirty years of economic, political and social aspects of French Society. However it also manages to bring in references to the past, the French Revolution (1789-1799) and the impact it had on the society portrayed in the film.
They are doing it to save the religion from being wiped out by the enemies of the group. They give the followers the reason to commit acts of terror because the leader can change the person’s morale and view on