Hammurabi had 282 laws many with extremely harsh punishments like death. Hammurabi was the ruler of Babylon for 42 years and was thought to have gotten his laws from the god of justice Shamash. I believe that Hammurabi’s code was unjust because of the family law‚ property law‚ and the personal injury law. First of all‚ it is unjust because of the family laws. Law 148 states that if a man’s wife wife is severely ill the man can remarry but he cannot divorce the ill wife and still has to take care
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Why was Reconstruction a failure? The Reconstruction of the South was a period where the government decided they needed to solve economic and political problems that had become over the years. I think the Reconstruction Era was a failure for many reasons. The Era had a goal of allowing freedom and equality for all‚ abolishing slavery‚ and restoration of the Union and I don’t feel as though any of those were accomplished. President Lincoln issued a proclamation
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In 399 BCE‚ Socrates was put on trial and convicted to death for “impiety and corrupting the youth of the city” (Apology‚ p. 202). He asked many questions of people‚ making them look unintelligent and the upper-class youth followed suit. Instead of accepting his fate‚ he killed himself‚ denying his opposition the pleasure of doing so themselves. Confucius was a philosopher in China many years after the death of Socrates in Greece. His philosophy was based on natural order‚ specifically children minding
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IB ToK II 2 December 2014 Why was Hitler defeated? There were many factors why Hitler was defeated‚ the most important being the entry of the US into war in 1942 and the fact that Germany was fighting a 3 front war. By 1940‚ Germany had already gained control of all of Western Europe and was winning the majority of battles against the Soviey Union in the Eastern front. Only Britain hadn’t been invaded and was fighting against Germany.
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world‚ but to himself. I will be naming even more in the following text to help people better comprehend why Wegner was not insane and how reliable his work is to this very day. Wegener was convinced that all of Earth’s continents were once part of an enormous‚ single landmass called Pangaea. To describe continental drift & pangea‚ Wegner used geology‚ biology‚ and ecology; even though he was initially trained as an astronomer. Pangaea existed about 240 million
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his father and his mother marrying his uncle‚ but it is not an excuse to plan a murder. Hamlet displayed motives‚ the kiling was premeditated‚ he openly admitted that he was wanted to kill Claudius‚ and Hamlet does not fit into one spefic disease. First‚ Hamelt was mourning the death of his father‚ like any normal human would (1.2.133-138). Throughout the same time Hamlet was sickened by the behavoir his mother’s with Claudius‚ Hamlet’s uncle who killed his father. His mother marrying Claudius did
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1. Why was the European Union created? Are these goals still matching the actual needs of the Union? In 1795‚ German philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote in his famous essay Towards a Perpetual Peace that the ‘the spirit of commerce sooner or later takes hold of every people 1 and it cannot exist side by side with war’ . In the case of the European states this spirit has been able to manifest itself through the evolutionary creation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC)‚ the European Economic
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There were numerous amounts of reasons to why the Renaissance was significant. One reason is because it is known as the revival of the arts. The Enlightenment‚ Scientific Revolution‚ and Industrial Revolution started to develop better than ever before. The arts was such a major area and till this day people come from all over the world to see the art. Many philosophers started to emerge during this time period like John Locke‚ Immanuel Kant‚ Jean Jacques Rousseau‚ and Voltaire. Everything that
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The U.S Constitution and system of government has been very successful. A big reason why is because of the amendments. Some very specific amendments that lead the U.S Constitution to success are the 1st Amendment‚ the 15th Amendment‚ and the 8th Amendment. This will support how those 3 amendments help the U.S Constitution and system of government. One of the reasons why the U.S Constitution and system of government has been so successful is because of the 1st Amendment’s freedom of speech. The 1st
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It was 1938 and there was a 14 year-old boy named Archard who lived in Cologne. Unlike his peers‚ he was quiet at school and indulged himself into reading the newspaper. As a result‚ he was alienated and bullied by his classmates whenever they saw him. He even became the scapegoat for the classmates whenever they violate one of the school rules. Archard asked‚ “Why am I punished for something I does not do?” The teacher answered‚ “You are punished because you are a filthy Jew. You are from a generation
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