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…opponent of capitalism and communism. He witnessed firsthand the horrific lengths to which totalitarian governments in Spain and Russia would go in order to sustain and increase their power during the Spanish Civil War. Orwell was deeply disturbed…

…only be treated by female doctors. Punishment for disobeying these restrictions (ranging from public humiliation to capital punishment which included death) were carried out on the spot by Taliban soldiers (Women Under Taliban Control 2002). However, many…

…itself, the convention says that planning, attempting, and inciting genocide are also punishable acts. Some acts were left out of the convention such as deliberate destruction of political groups and forcible assimilation into the culture of choice. Persons…

…; in the pastoral economy, squatters versus selectors; in the industrial economy, labour versus capital." Empirical historiography, on the other hand, relies upon careful comparison of documented resources; leading to objective, impartial and detailed facts, which fail…

…was the alias of Eric Blair, the author of 1984 and Animal Farm. Orwell was a political writer whose novels and essays criticized the political oppression taking place in Europe in the middle of the twentieth century. Orwell was a relentless opponent of capitalism…

…(Western) beliefs use Satan, created in the late writings of the Old Testament, as the personification of evil. Originally the ancient Hebrew religion maintained that evil came from God, as punishment for man's evil misdeeds; but a crisis in the Hebrew faith…

…then he could not punish them! He is going out of his way to punish people. vi.11: By threatening to punish a people until their cities are left desolate and preventing them from understanding their crime, Yahweh is shown to be an evil god, far removed from…

…to the capital. The demonstration drew national attention to their grievances with the federal government. The most dramatic protest took place early the next year on the Sioux's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. The reservation's tribal chairman…

…a vingtième tax, to a capitation tax, to customs taxes. The punishments for tax offences were high. The high taxation and bad conditions of peasants gave them the incentive to do away with the Ancien Régime. The middle classes of the time found perhaps more…

…a certain type of individual who chooses not to die like a lamb. The brutal timber camps were not only scenes of degradation and despair, but also arenas for acts of extraordinary courage. Although the convicts in the punishment camps were made to work naked…