motifs and mythical thoughts through human history go into a variety of formats to survive and are reconstructed, recreated and reproduced in ideas and different worlds. one of these realms and worlds is a mystical world. motifs and common points of the world of myth and mysticism in foundations of knowledge,interpretability, sacred time and space, symbolic language stem the possibility of conv...

"Who is tlie hero? The world replies: " H e who overcomes in battle and subdues nations,—who brings home spoils gained by immense destruction of liuman life. A conqueror who leaves behind nothing but ruin wlieresoe'er he roves." Such are the lauded heroes of the world. He who jjoes forth to battle tilled with an ardent desire of victory for thesake of human applause,—who unrelentingly spares ne...

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“Slavery existed before money or law” (Hochschild 2005). Indeed the “peculiar institution” is one of humanity’s oldest. It has, however, evolved and manifested itself quite distinctly in different periods of history. In contrast to historical views of slavery that are associated with Chattel Slavery, numerous forms fall under the umbrella term of contemporary slavery. The United Nations (U.N.) ...

Kevin Bales, through his study in Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader, provides an important quantitative analysis on the predictive factors of modern slavery. Upon examining his study though, several issues arise including too few observations for several of the variables and the lack of a regional variable. The author decided to rerun his study with replacements for the problematic variabl...

Modern slavery is less overt than historical state-sanctioned slavery because psychological abuse is typically used to recruit and then control victims. The recent UK Draft Modern Slavery Bill, and current UK government anti-slavery strategy relies heavily on a shared understanding and public cooperation to tackle this crime. Yet, UK research investigating public understanding of modern slavery...