Volcanic Tragedies In Pompeii

It looked like masses of fat white spiders,” (Shaara, 207). There would be piles of limbs, which were all bloodied and infected; surgeons usually used saws and didn’t clean them often due to lack of time to do proper surgeries and need to tend to many of the injured. This would lead to many infections and diseases to spread amongst the wounded

Survivors of his attacks described vile scenes of boiled bones, defiled corpses, and skulls used as

America is very similar to Ancient Rome, but there are several differences. For example, the Roman Empire "fell" and America is still “standing”. Before ancient Rome “fell”, Rome started out as a small settlement of farmers on the Palatine hill. About one hundred years later, Rome became a republic. The Roman Empire started when Pax Romana or Roman peace began in 27 BCE under the rule of Augustus Caesar.

She is trying to express that this method is a startling process and is now believed to be secretive such that only the experts should be involved. She refers in the text that people don’t have the abdominal strength to observe the whole process since it is terrifying. The author defines the embalmed body as peaceful after enduring the entire procedure. The tone in the story is informative in the fact that an individual can know how a body is preserved. The author discusses the benefits that the process has on the corpse.

No food or ammunition entered the town leaving the citizens eating mules and rats. Citizens lived in “dugouts” or “bomb proofs” that were holes dug out from the sides of hillsides. The townspeople starved but persevered. Many struggled to keep the city running. Without communication outside of the community, the people had very little food and water.

“They struck others in the shoulders, and their arms were torn from their bodies. They wounded some in the thigh and some in the calf. They slashed others in the abdomen, and their entrails all spilled to the ground. Some attempted to run away, but their intestines dragged as they ran; they seemed to tangled their feet on their own entrails (pg 76).”

“Women with child, but rippin up their bellies, tore them alive in pieces.”(Las Casas, Brevisima relacion de la destruction de las Indias) Las Casas wrote of how innocent, unborn children were killed. Natives were hung low, but high enough their feet did not reach the ground. “The erected certain Gibbets, large, but low made, so that their feet almost reached the ground… They made a fire to burn them to Ashes whilst hanging on them..” Fire was set underneath them, burning them alive.

The civilization of ancient Rome was one time the mightiest on the planet. Yet it, like any other civilization, began as one small settlement. The Roman Empire suffered numerous complications in its final years. The late Roman empire was frequently invaded by several barbarian groups, most notably the Huns and Vandals.

It was a modern city, just not up to our level. They cut down trees which in return took away the animals and ruined the soil. . Great

Graffiti played an important part in the voting process in Pompeii and Herculaneum, it was how they “campaigned” and swayed others to vote for whomever they felt was fit to fill the position. In other words, electoral propaganda. The graffiti was present mostly on houses and shop buildings in the main streets where the majority of the populous would see it, therefore increasing the chances for votes in their favour. It wasn’t all political graffiti, though- personal views of the people and daily happenings are documented and include a variety of subjective and objective topics.

Ethical issues require a judgement “on a perception of what is right or wrong”, and the wide scope of stakeholders in relation to human remains in Pompeii and Herculaneum. These remains include various skeletons from throughout Pompeii, and the 139 skeletons from the beachfront and boathouses at Herculaneum. One of the major ethical conflicts exists between the value of study, and the metaphysical preference of respect for human remains. These debates can include the rights of science over culture, the difference between ancient human remains and modern remains, who has the right to make decisions regarding study and display, and whether ancient Roman attitudes towards death are relevant to the decision-making process. Despite these debates,

They were detached, cut off with a saw, because their limbs were infected or even dead from the cool and lethal air which

Jennifer Oduca ENGL 001A 6:40-8:00pm The Role of Women In The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, there were hardly any major characters that were women. The men in the novel had various views about the women they love or hate. Women in the novel were often fantasized about, either from memory or with an imaginary future.

They would shriek, as they were cut open alive, without anesthetic. They were stabbed onto a hook before being killed. They were frightened. They were chained up and yanked from their feet. They were moved by machinery and carts.

So we were not able to see how long they really were but we were told they were supper long like 2 foot or more.  Then we were done doing the real dissection so we were told to dissect anything we want to so we moved up to the  cranial region and took our scalpel and cut the skin away from the skull. And took a pair of bone clippers and cut right threw the skull opening up the cranial cavity viewing the brain  it looked nothing like I figured that they would look like then scooped out the brains with our fingers and it was nothing but a heap of brain in a little pile. After taking the brain out we were actually able to see the spinal cavity which was actually pretty cool to stick my fingers in and actually feel the spine.