Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Daylight Saving Time


It's already 7pm, the sun still hasn't set yet

Daylight Saving Time does not have a translation in Khmer (I already tried Google translate and ការសន្សំពន្លឺថ្ងៃ doesn't seem to be the correct translation). Besides, we don't have it in Cambodia anyway. Cambodian time has always been fixed since the beginning of time. But in some part of the world, Daylight Saving Time is the practice of advancing clocks during summer months by an hour so that day will be longer than night.

Thursday, March 19, 2015

Laws and Punishments in the Babylonian Civilization and Hebrew Civilization (MLA essay)

     In the ancient world, in which people lived close to one another, conflicts and disagreements were unavoidable. To prevent chaos, a set of law must be introduced and abided. “Hammurabi's Code: Laws on Society and Family Life” and “Book of Exodus: Moses Leads the Hebrews from Egypt”, the two documents that appear in the book, “Source of world society” by author Walter D. Ward, provide a clear insight of the similarities and the differences of the law and punishments in the Babylonian civilization and Hebrew civilization. The two civilizations are similar in terms of the purpose of the law, and they differ in terms of their commandment and class structures.