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Ptolemy Xiv Sole Ruler
1,017 words... d inside. Caesar was surprised to have her arrive the way she did. Cleopatra knowing how much Caesar disliked Ptolemy and his men, Cleopatra begged for him to help her gain control of Alexandria back. Within a short time of discussion between the two Caesar agreed to help out Cleopatra. The same night Caesar agreed to help he fell under Cleopatra's spell. They became lovers. It did not take Ptolemy long to hear the news. He was outraged. He stormed out of the palace screaming to everyone he ...
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Classic Hero Theseus Mary Renault Tells Story
791 wordsReview of Mary Renault's The King Must Die Mary Renault tells a wonderfully dashing tale of the classic Hero Theseus, who was said to have lived shortly before the time of the Trojan War. Although the book is very appealing to me the author did not follow the classic legends in several aspects. This can be a good technique and does bring newness to the story, however some departures changed the very fabric of the tale. In Renault's story many details are added that give the tale much more flavor...
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Word Choice Thirty Days
1,212 wordsThe book Anthem is a book about a world full of mindless people. They let the government control their every action from birth to death. The weirdest thing is how they actually seem to enjoy that lack of control. One young man named Equality 7 - 2521, however, starts to feel theres something wrong with his life. Unfortunately, because of his life as a mindless drone, he is virtually unable to express how he feels. The small parts he does understand are crowded with phrases like for the good of a...
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Wife And Son Return Home
1,069 wordsIn life we all struggle and search for happiness and love. We are in a constant pursuit to find and hold onto the things that we hold dear to ourselves. This is much like the book The Odyssey. Odysseus was on a search to find his way back to the things that brought him peace and happiness. The book was very much like our own lives and though this supposedly happened hundreds of years ago, this is the same journey we live through. From the beginning of the story it seems as though Odysseus has re...
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Revolution Of 1905 000 People
1,202 words... for another, Russian ships were sunk or critically damaged by Japanese torpedoes. 18 Russian strategy was foiled by the early death of a series of admirals. The patriotic mood of the Russian people did not last long when the truth of the war became clear. Witte, the ex-Minister of the Interior, was called upon to negotiate a settlement with the Japanese. He managed to end Russia's humiliation quickly, with only a minor loss of territory to the Japanese. Rural peasants remained indifferent to...
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Bride Price First Time
1,756 wordsThe Red Tent In Diamant's powerful novel The Red Tent the ever-silent Dinah from the 34 th chapter of Genesis is finally given her own voice, and the story she tells is a much different one then expected. With the guiding hands of her four "mothers", Leah, Rachel, Zilpah, and Bilhah, all the wives of Jacob, we grow with Dinah from her childhood in Mesopotamia through puberty, where she is then entered into the "red tent", and well off into her adulthood from Cannan to Egypt. Throughout her journ...
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Greek Temples Greek Architecture
1,054 wordsThe Greeks thought of their Gods as having the same needs as human beings, they believed that the Gods needed somewhere to live on Earth. Temples were built as the gods' earthly homes. The basic design of temples developed from the royal halls of the Maycenaean Age. A Mycenaean palace consisted of a number of buildings often more than one story high, grouped around a central courtyard. It was brightly painted, both inside and out. In each palace there was a large hall called a megaron, where the...
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Hagia Sophia Roman Empire
403 wordsConstantinople: The Gateway City Constantinople was built in 330 CE, by the first Christian emperor, Constantine. Constantinople ruled much of the deserted Roman Empire many years after Constantine s death. Constantinople can be described as a Gateway City by its geographic features, the cultural influences, and the historical influences upon the rest of the world. Constantinople was positioned upon a major seaport called Byzantium. The positioning of Constantinople was at a location between maj...
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Rational Thinking God Exists
1,312 wordsContemporary atheism is a positive and new humanism trying to re-found and re-construct the entire human universe of thought and values. It shows the possible abuses of religion and points out all concepts of God are only imperfect means to see him. What they say about God couldnt possibly be. Atheists are avoiding responsibility. God is not like anything we know so stop talking about him. Everything youre saying about God is wrong and invalid. The most important problem is the problem of the at...
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Edgar Allan Poe Death Of His Wife
1,418 wordsEdgar Allan Poe Overview On January 19, 1809, in Boston Massachusetts one of the world? s most distinguished writers was born. This writer? s name was Edgar Allan Poe, he was born the son of an actress and an actor. At the age of three, Poe? s mother gave him up to a prosperous merchant by the name of John Allan who took care of him until he began running into gambling problems at the school which he attended in Virginia. He only attended for one year due to these troubles. Poe than began to con...
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Great Deal High Tech
872 wordsGreek and Japanese Architecture For a great many years, architecture has been a breaking point for different artistic eras in history. Some of the most famous? works of art? have been chapels, temples, and tombs. Among the most dominant and influential eras of great architecture are the sophisticated, stoic Greeks-Roman periods and the more mystical, elemental Japanese eras. These two very distinct and very different eras have more in common than you may realize. When work began on the Parthenon...
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Interesting Times Interesting Times Interesting Times Interesting Rincewind
405 wordsInteresting Interesting Times Interesting Times Interesting Times takes place on a world called Discworld. Discworld is flat and circular and sits on the back of four elephants. The elephants stand on the back of a flying turtle. The characters in the book are; Rincewind, a wizard (yes thats right, wizard) who is fluent in many languages, and a failure as a wizard, so he wears a hat that says wizard, Cohen the Barbarian, leader of the band of 80 year old barbarians, Mr. Saveloy, former teacher a...
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King Of France King Lear
507 wordsI found the first act of King Lear to be interesting, unexpectedly so. In reading the introduction, I was under the impression that this story would be dull and slow to develop. Imagine my shock when the main event happened within a few moments. I found three major events in the first act: King Lear tests his daughters love, King Lear banishes Cordelia, and the King of France proclaims his love for Cordelia. When King Lear banished his pet, his youngest daughter, Cordelia, I was shocked. From th...
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Sons Bad Thing
932 wordsScene 1: The royal palace at Forres, Banquo talks on his own, he fears M has become King through evil means, but does not worry as he believes that the prediction the witches gave him will now come true. Then others come in, M requests Banquo? s presence at the feast they are having. M asks B where he is going, and then spreads rumours about the King? s sons. M asks B whether Fleance is going with him and then he dismisses court, leaving him and a servant alone, then M sends servant to get the t...
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Happy Ending Black Market
1,717 wordsMad, bad and dangerous to know Theres a disclaimer at the beginning of the Bowling brothers 1947 film Brighton Rock that assures us the town it depicts is of the past, another Brighton of dark alleyways and festering slums crime and violence and gang warfare now happily no more. The film was based on Graham Greene's 1938 novel, which in turn, the author insisted, drew on a background that was already passing into social history. The Brighton race gangs were to all intents quashed for ever as a s...
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Father And Uncle Kublai Khan
775 wordsMarco Polo (1254 - 1324) is probably the most famous Westerner traveled on the Silk Road. He excelled all the other travelers in his determination, his writing, and his influence. His journey through Asia lasted 24 years. He reached further than any one before him. Beyond Mongolia to China. He became a confidant of Kublai Khan (1214 - 1294). He traveled all of China and came back to tell stories about his travels. It is not certain whether Marco Polo was born on the island of Curzola or in Venic...
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Army Peter
875 words&# 9; In 1682, Sophia Romanov sent her palace guards to get rid of her " heirs" and other conflicts with her reign. Luckily, her two brothers 16 year old Ivan, and 10 year old Peter escaped with there step-mother. Later on, Sophia declared that both Peter and Ivan are the czars of Russia. In 1689, Sophia lost the mobility of her legs. She had her guards, once again try and kill Peter. The guards, realizing that Peter was in communication with the Gods, didn? t touch Peter for they fear...
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Holy Grail Round Table
467 wordsSir Lancelot Lancelot was the son of King Ban of Berwick. King Ban became involved in a war with the neighboring kingdom of King Claudus. Claudus defeated Ban and forced the king and queen to flee. As they fled, Elaine, Lancelot's mother, puts baby Lancelot beside a lake and the Lady of the Lake steals the child away from her. Lancelot is raised in the underwater palace where he is known as Lancelot of the Lake. While growing up around women and mermen of the Lady of the Lakes palace, Lancelot q...
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Love And Affection Role Model
1,052 wordsCodes And Values There are certain standards, codes, ethics and values by which people live their lives. It is these standards and codes that determine what is right and wrong. In other words, they create a boundary that draws a line between what is considered unethical or immoral. These standards or codes in certain peoples lives are set by their respective religions. On the other hand, the groups, communities or tribes in ones life set these standards. In eastern societies these standards are ...
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Presidential Palace Military Rule Lagos
970 wordsVictor Espn was euphoric last year when newly inaugurated Chilean President Ricardo Lagos opened the doors of La Moneda, the fortress-like presidential palace, to the public. I almost cried, says the 50 -year-old convenience-store owner, recalling his initial anxiety at ushering his granddaughter past the stern-looking police guards into the bomb-scarred building that is a perennial reminder of Chiles violent clash between military rule and democracy. Many Chileans were moved by their new leader...
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