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As far back as the ancient Greeks, people knew that the lives of prominent personalities often are filled with tragedies or, at any rate, many troubles. As far back as Greek mythology, troubles were beset on those who offended the gods. Such acts could be compared the imprisonment of Hades, for being a threat to the great, powerful god Zeus, and for that he was vanished into the underworld to spend the rest of his life in misery. It can also be compared to the story of Pandora’s Box, punishing a woman for her curiosity and disobeying Zeus’s strict orders in not to open the box. As time has passed and people have grown, such punishments for not obeying a “modern god” could be compared to the terrifying, and brutal Adolf Hitler, who sent thousands of people to their death, and inflicted such massive amounts of pain to each individual for either not following by his rules to turn in every Jewish person they came across, or for simply not being his idealism of what a person should look like. Even more recent times, can be compared to the recent ruler, Fidel Castro, who inflicted cruelty through torture but also by striping away all hard-worked money by whoever could have gone against any law he set in his country. At least, the United States has grown a long way from slavery, where most white male Americans ruled the states and were able to do as they pleased with African Americans. Nowadays, those that go against our president will have a fair determination of a punishment. As a country who does the righteous act, we do not punish people in the way that will harm them, but rather give them plenty of time to realize the crime they have committed. Although, the punishment system is not flawless, we have a come a long way from hundreds of years ago.