Hostage is the act where by a terrorrist group of group of illigal people sieze and restrict the movement of another person or group inorder to achive an already mapped objective.
Most times, the reasons for acquiring hostages by the hostages takers could be to use the hostages as a bargaining chip while executing another crime, for publicity, for political concession e.t.c
The prominent case of hostage event was the Stockholm bank robbery and hostage crises in 1973 carried out in Stockholm, Sweden. The event was the first to happen in Sweden was covered by the news casters as the events unfolds.
the battle of gettysburg was the turning point of the Civil War for one main reason: Robert E. Lee's plan to invade the North and force an immediate end to the war failed. The collision of two great armies at Gettysburg put an end to that audacious plan.
It is Wilhelm Wundt that is the early psychologist who was the first to try to bring objectivity and measurement to the concept of psychology. He <span>opened the Institute for Experimental Psychology at the University of Leipzig in Germany in 1879. Hope this answers the question.</span>