Essays on Vandals

The institutional affiliation

Despite the facts on deep historical roots, the issue of discrimination is considered to be a high priority problem at present. It is surprising how much often racism still occurs, especially in the countries having high living standards and perspectives for good education and successful career. Unfortunately, in metropolitan cities non-residents often face the emotional immaturity expressed in anger and rage. An example of emotional immaturity was observed at Mercer University. Some doors of the dorm were defaced with racial epithet by some vandals ("Mercer University dorm defaced with racial epithet", 2016). This situation became a real slur on ...

Introduction

The restoration of the Sistine Chapel, perhaps one of the most famous examples of western art by Michelangelo began in 1965 as an initiative by Deoclecio Redig de Campos, who would later become the Vatican Museums’ general director in 1971. The scientific aspects arising in this project would be handled by Fabrizio Mancinelli as well as Gianluigi Colalucci, Maurizio Rossi, Bruno Baratti and Giorgio Bonetti master restorers. The cleaning of these frescoes would include only the depictions of the scenes with Jesus and Moses in the fifteenth-century paintings. At this time, the two 16th century frescoes located at the ...

Introduction - what is a subculture?

One particular term which is quite commonly used these days is ‘sub-culture’. One need to understand what is exactly meant by a subculture and how does the same have an impact on the socio-cultural frameworks in today’s world. A subculture is defined to be a specific group of people with specific behavioral traits who exist within a larger and more common culture . The subculture can be identified on the basis of ethnic, economic, social or regional characteristics and it needs to be highlighted that it is not always necessary that it will be formally enlisted or categorized by ...

The broken window theory was advanced by two social scientists, George L. Kelling and James Q. Wilson, in the year 1982. They postulated that “crime experienced in various cities is as a result of some social disorder that existed in the cities” (Harcourt, Bernard and Jens 272). They explained the theory by giving an example of a house with it window panes broken. If such window panes were not repaired for some time, there is likelihood that more window panes would be broken down by vandals. The breakage will continue gradually, and a point comes when the house is ...

The West Roman Empire collapsed due to the infiltration of the army and the society by the Germanic tribesmen such as the Angles, Saxon and the Visigoths. The collapse occurred between the 2nd and the 4th century. The fall of Rome didn’t suddenly happen; instead it occurred over a long period of time. The disintegration of its military power in distant lands coupled with invasions from barbarians and corruption within brought about the fall. The West had a shortage of native recruits so half of the military consisted of these tribesmen. The Roman empire had grown so much that soldiers ...