Book Review : ' Waiting For The Barbarians '

Chapter 1, Sexual Violence as a Tool of Genocide, discusses the history of and gives us an introduction to genocide. The author talks about the treatment of bodies, in particular Native bodies, and how colonial thought and theory regards Native people as inherently “rapable” and “violable,” a colonial conviction that stretches past the physical bodies of Natives, to Native independence and lands as well. She explains that patriarchy is the foundation by which power is established over Native women's bodies because hierarchal, patriarchal authority and control systems of society are seldom found within native societies. Europeans, on the other hand, have long depended on these methods to suppress and infuse fear into their people.

Throughout the 13th century world, the Mongols constantly showed displays of continuous violence, drinking, brutality and unfair treatment. They were considered to be savages, and people who lived far beyond what we would know as a “civilized world.” They single handedly became one of, if not the most powerful empires to have existed, building their empire through violent and barbaric manors. The Mongols were very barbaric people, for they portrayed many inhumane and mannerless actions while their empire lasted, causing death destruction and the downfall of all of the land they took over.

The word barbarian in the time of the ancient Greeks meant foreigner. In the 1200's it turned into a much more negative term meaning people who were savage and evil. Today Barbarian means a person of a community that doesn’t belong to one of the great civilizations. So the question “How barbaric were the barbarians?” My answer is very, despite some civilized acts, for a multitude of reasons. (Background essay)

The Mongols: How Barbaric were the “Barbarians”? During the thirteenth and fourteenth century the word “barbarian” meaning foreigner in Geek received a negative connotation of people that lived beyond the pale of civilization, people who were savages and evil. Knowing that Mongols were nomadic people, which were illiterate and did not have a written language definitely people would call them barbaric because they had a different way of life than those who lived in a civilization; who grew their food and were educated. Due to the fact that historians still cannot really decipher the Mongols language, much less they few written materials left behind no one is to know what they had in mind during the invasions throughout Asia, the Middle East and Eastern

Who were the “real” barbarians during the Crusades? The statement, “for the Europeans to call the Muslims barbaric is ironic, for it was the Europeans who were the true barbarians”, is valid. This is shown through how the Europeans were unjustified in inciting the First Crusade, how the Muslims were civilized, and how the Europeans were the true barbarians. Some people may believe that Pope Urban II was justified to persecute the Muslims, but upon further analysis this view is clearly misinformed. In fact it was the Europeans who were unjustified to incite the First Crusade against the Muslims, which led to much bloodshed.

In chapter four of his book “Barbarian Virtues,” Matthew Frye Jacobson connects the theories and beliefs used to interpret relationships to the development of humans over time. He states that scholarly methods in academics have been used to systematically rank different groups of people. Jacobson discusses many academic disciplines used in these theories such as, anthropology, genetics, biology, psychology, and linguistics. Throughout this chapter, Jacobson divides his research into three categories: cultures, genes, and minds. Together these theories of human development highlight the superiority and inferiority conflict between races in nineteenth

All of the prisoners experienced terrible things that changed the way they processed situations. Something that no man would have let slide by occurred during the death marches. The book says,”He must have died, trampled under the feet of the thousands of men who followed us.” Before the Holocaust nobody would have let a young die like that. They would have cared, and

Wiesel talks about how as the days go on they continue to work very hard, yet the amount and quality of the food that they are given decreases. He says “We went to work as usual, loading heavy stones into railway wagons. Rations had become even more meager” (Wiesel). The prisoners are doing very strenuous work that surely takes a lot of energy, but the people are not being fed enough to sustain this lifestyle. Later in the passage, Wiesel mentions some other conditions that the prisoners endured during their time at the camp. “We had risen before dawn, as on every day,” he stated, “We had received the black coffee, the ration of bread. We were about to set out for the yard as usual” (Wiesel). This is not a healthy way of living, especially with all the hard work that these people were doing. These horrible conditions that the people lived in while at the camp is an example of dehumanization in its purist. By forcing the people to do strenuous, physical labor against their will shows that the guards do not care about the well being of the people. By not properly nourishing them it shows that they did not care if the people suffered and died, which takes away the prisoner’s sense of personal identity and morality. Many guards did not even think of the prisoners as people. To them, they were just animals that were there to work for them, similar to

The book, Raiders Night by “Robert Lipsyte” was a very different book compared to other 9th grade books. If you go to the library, and pick any book off the shelf. I doubt you’ll find one involving drugs and steroids. At the same time it was a great book, I loved the intensity. For me it was very easy to relate in life, I was never the big guy that everyone knew. I was just there for football nothing else. Moving on…

The book i read was “ Lions of the West,” by Robert Morgan it was published on October 18th 2011 and there are 496 pages.

Writing has always been the primary vehicle for social commentary and reform. From Upton Sinclair’s damning exposure of the meat processing industry in The Jungle, to George Orwell’s grave warning concerning communism in Animal Farm, to William Goulding’s disturbing look at human nature post World War 2 in Lord of the Flies, countless authors have attempted to expose flaws in their society through writing. Rome, as a growing republic, and later as a sprawling empire, was consistently rife with corruption, abuse of power, and the degradation of morals. Writers like Sallust, Juvenal, and Tacitus saw these social flaws as opportunities, whether to drive social or political change, or to increase their influence, or just to make a statement to the government and the Roman people. However, these three writers each took a different approach to his commentary. Through comedic hyperbole and satire, Juvenal looked to expose the moral degradation of Roman women in Satire VI. On the other hand, Sallust focused on political corruption in the late Roman Republic, using the history of the Jugurthine War as a lens by which to observe the corruption he despised. With yet another approach, Tacitus aimed to criticize despots like Emperor Domitian and to denounce imperialism through the biography of Agricola, the Roman general who conquered Britain.

First, both of the pieces of writing were both in the perspective of themselves. They both are describing how they were treated during this torture. They both were treated like animals, which causes them to abhor how they were

Richard Frethorne gives an account of his life as an indentured servent living in Martin's Hundred, Virginia. In his account, in the form of a lettler, he explaineds the horrable conditions in the settlement. One of the most pressing issues Frethorne writes about is the lack of food and the affects it is having not only him but the whole settlement. Due to this problom, the men are much weaker, and there is a vast amount of sickness speading thoughout the people. This causes the people to live in a constante fear of an attack from an emny, as many are too weak to fight. Frethorne also adresses his lack of atiqute clothing and how he has had some of his clothing stolen from him by his fellow men. It is hard to know if the whole settlement

In the passage written by John Smith, it talked how James Town citizens suffered. The author wrote this passage because he felt sorry for the colonist3 suffered while he was

The barbarians, Vikings, and the Mongolians are portrayed throughout history as bloodthirsty savages that only care about killing people and pillaging villages and towns. The barbarians, Vikings, and the Mongols often don’t receive credit for the ways that they positively impacted ancient civilizations. Even though the barbarians, Vikings, and the Mongolians impacted ancient civilizations in positive ways they also did some things that impacted ancient civilizations in negative ways.