Hippopotamus

hand was for evidence of how many people have been killed. One hand equals one kill. There were many other methods of punishment such as cutting off of private parts and being beaten with the chicotte. The chicotte was whip that was made up of raw hippopotamus hide. Soldiers would whip the villagers on their bare buttoks. Twenty whips sent people into an unconscious state and one hundred whips could be deadly. The death toll for the Congo Free State genocide was very exorbitant, but the estimates

Ronja Virtanen 15IBB The importance of Nile river in the agriculture of ancient Egypt In the Ancient Egypt lives of thousands was depended on the river Nile. It gave Egyptians an opportunity to harvest in the dry environment because of the annual inundations. Later it gave them a way to transport from village to another and by that, an opportunity to rule economy and political issues. The Egyptians learned to, not how to control the river, but how to live with the influential source of life by observing

While reading the literary work, “Where There Aren’t No Ten Commandments,” I noticed many differences and similarities in the way Europe colonized Africa and the Americas. This work tells a story, with facts, about Leopold and his way of colonizing countries in the 1800s. It includes the reason for the Europeans interest in these places as well as their brutality towards the indigenous people. The way in which the Europeans colonized Africa and the Americas were similar however, there were differences

Death is eminent; it is an inescapable part of our existence in life. The assurance of death leads people to want to know what happens after we leave this frail mortal life. What happens in our post life? Where do we go? What do we become? All these questions have been answered by a variety of cultures and religions. This essay will be discussing three of those cultures, and their religions to explain what happens to people after death. Cultures throughout time used their beliefs to prepare

Compare and contrast Ozymandias and Saddam Hussein. The poem, written by Percy Shelley, Ozymandias is a Petrarchan sonnet compared to the second article labelled ‘Symbolic in more ways than one’ is actually a news article. This is shown through the piece as it contains a date ‘Thursday 10 April 2003', structure and content, the content is more modern so the audience know that when the subject is addressed, it will be serious rather than humorous. Ozymandias is a sonnet (a poem of 14 lines), although

Egypt is one of the earliest and longest-lasting civilizations to have been established. The land, in length, stretches from the Mediterranean Sea to Sudan. The nomads of the time, or prehistoric Egyptians, were forced to move from northeast Africa when a drought came. The early Egyptians abandoned the nomadic lifestyle when they left, and decided to settle in the lower Nile river valley where they adapted to a lifestyle of farming. These settlers discovered the various uses of the Nile River, created

I don’t think that animals shouldn’t have been used in the colosseum for gladiator fights. Some might believe that animals were used to make the fights more entertaining. But I believe that it was very unkind to the animals and inhumane. This is misguided because they could have use something else to entertain themselves like plays or something other than killing thousands of animals and humans. Many animals went extinct in the colosseum. The animals killed a lot of people at the colosseum. They(people

streams were calm at this time of year. The sea partly clear, small fishes could be seen, swimming frantically. I could see a catfish in the crowd. On the plains, I only had the chance to see a rhinoceros charging with others of its same kind, and a hippopotamus which was grazing on small green shoots of reeds sticking out of the water and creeping onto land. Talking about it, I remembered most of the plants that I saw were slow-growing plants like moss creeping out of the water. The sun was slowly starting

Good Man Is Hard to Find Literary Analysis In the story, A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O’Connor shows that a selfish person brings ruin to themselves and those around them. In the beginning of the story we are introduced to the grandma who is shown to be selfish with an inflated ego shown early in the story when Flannery O’Connor writes,” The grandmother didn’t want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee, and she was seizing every chance to change Bailey’s

They travel a good distance, reaching Central Park in mere minutes. Ammit begins to fall back, she begins zig zagging alongside Tora’s straight sprint to the Central Park zoo. Tora knows Ammit has the ferocity of a hippopotamus, the teeth of a crocodile, and the cunning nature of a lion. But one thing Ammit doesn’t have is flight. Tora leaps from the roof; she falls slowly, as if time has stopped. And perhaps it has. Everything from the wind whistling through her ears