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- 2731: Rome
- ... he made no action against any of them. among the many were Cimber, Casca, Cassius, and Marcus Junius Brutus. On March 15, 44 Before Christ, he was stabbed to death in front of the senate house. He was confronted by a leader of a mob that was going to kill Julius Caesar who had been mad that his brother was exiled by Julius Caesar. He asked him to let his brother ... and Aventine a bunch of hard to pronounce names strange Hugh. Tradition tells of the founding of Rome by Romulus in 753 Before Christ and of rule by the Tarquin family and the Etruscan royal house. The young city was most likely under Etruscan rule until 500 Before Christ, when the Romans fought for there independence against the monarchy and then established the Roman republic. The Patrician class controlled the government ...
- 2732: Jamaica
- ... many goods were stolen. The war ended in 1697 with the Treaty of Ryswick. Pirates began to attack Jamaica in growing numbers. Nicholas Brown was one of the pirates and he once burned down a house in St. Ann with 16 people locked in it. Other pirates included "Blackbeard" or Edward Teach and Captain Charles Vain. Maroons and Slaves When the Spanish evacuated Jamaica during their war with Britain, the enslaved ... Publishers, 1976 Macpherson, John. Carribean Lands. Spain: Longman Group Ltd, 1974 Sherlock, Philip. The Land and People of the West Indies. U.S.A: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1967 Wilkins, Francis. Jamaica. Hong Kong: Chelsea House Publishers, 1987 Zach, Paul., and Hoefer, Hans Insight Guides: Jamaica. Singapore: APA Productions, 1987 Jamaica Information Service. Jamaica: An Overview. Kingston: Jamaica Information Service, 1990 Potter, Mitch. "New Album Kicks off Marley Blitz." The Toronto ...
- 2733: Free Music: Why Not?
- ... sales go to copying music, which is hardly the case. Many people make weekly backups of their data and may also make copies of their legally purchased music for use in different areas of their house and in their car (The Internet Debacle). I myself have a CD burner and have purchased 50 CD-R’s, most of which sit inside their container. Surprisingly enough, none of them has gone for ... 20 July 2001. RIAA. 5 Dec. 2002 . Post, David G. "His Napster's Voice." Copy Fights. Ed. Clyde W. Crews Jr., and Adam Thierer. Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 2002. 107-124. United States. Cong. House. Costs of Internet Piracy for the Music and Software Industries. US 106th Cong., 2nd sess. Washington: GPO, 2000.
- 2734: Odysseus' Journey
- ... makes it back to camp and tells Odysseus of Circe. On his way to the palace, Hermes confronts Odysseus and tells him “Here, this is a good medicine, take it, and go into Circe’s house; it will give you power against the day of trouble. And I will tell you all the malevolent guiles of Circe.” (287-290) Confrontation with Polyphemus After their cycloptic enemy ate many of the crewmembers ... deliver this message: “ Athena says that you are to let this man go at once, for it is decreed that he shall not perish here, far from his own people, but shall return to his house and country and see his friends again.” (119-122) Nausicaa After wandering the sea alone for many days, Odysseus comes to a strange yet beautiful isle and falls fast asleep in a bed of leaves ...
- 2735: Hero Worship
- ... have happened without these professionals showing heroism every day. It takes commitment, gallantry, courage and sometimes bravery to step up and go a little further than normal. When someone pulls a child from a burning house that person is called a hero. What about the person who, rather than running into the house, runs to a telephone and calls the fire department who, in turn, rescues everybody? Is this person not a hero? If this person had not had the common sense to call the fire department and ...
- 2736: The Intelligence Of Odysseus
- ... nymph Circe and free his men. When he arrives home in Ithaca, goddess Athena helps Odysseus disguise himself as an old beggar so he can find out who has been faithful to him in his house. Odysseus was away from his home for such a long period of time, he is suspicious of his servants, friends, and especially his wife. In his beggar disguise, Odysseus stays in his own house as a wandering vagabond for many days, deciding and figuring out who has been loyal to him and who hasn’t. By this observation, Odysseus was able to confirm his wife’s loyalty from some ...
- 2737: Family: Good or Evil?
- ... and racism (177)." Poverty is the main reason that teenage girls decide to stay on the street. They realize that by going back home the money is not there, also by going to a halfway house they might make friends, but still there is no money there either. I think that in most circumstances that if a mother and father know that their daughter has been involved in prostitution this will ... a few reasons why young women do not want to leave the street or can not leave the streets. They will stop making money or their parents just will not let them back into their house. As one prostitute put it "I got caught and they put me in a group home, what a joke. They kept thinking I was going to take other kids with me when I ran. I ...
- 2738: Huck Fin 2
- ... New Orleans, and St. Louis. The river and the surrounding areas are revered and seen as a grand layout for some great adventures giving the mood of adventures to the story. The settings of the house of the widow Douglass and the Phelp house serve to symbolize society and life in society. During these passages, the mood of the story is somewhat cramped compared to the trip down the river. 6. Themes 1. There is an emphasis on the ...
- 2739: Odysseus? A Hero?
- ... that he made unwise choices. Continuing to tease the Cyclops obviously caused more trouble and still Odysseus kept doing it because it pleased him. Circe said to Odysseus, "Then come follow me… in the Magic House of Circe" (Homer923). Although he was warned about Circe, he still went back and got his men to also follow his mistake. Going to Circe’s "Magic House" was a bad decision for Odysseus to make. Odysseus did not consider the results of his decisions. Odysseus endangered his men. Odysseus said, "Yet I refused. I wished to see the caveman… no pretty sight ...
- 2740: Political Policies Between The United States And The Soviet
- ... and events. In researching these events the varying opinions from both world superpowers which would establish the failure of détente in history, as a breakdown in communication and talks between the United State's White House and the Soviet Union's Kremlin with the collapse of détente marking the end of the 1970's. During the 1976 presidential campaign, the tension between the objective of transformation and the importance of coexistence ... towards détente. Zbigniew Brzezinski's "hard line" approach resulted in serious problems for the détente by 1978. The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks established in 1972 were not yet completed. The Soviet Kremlin and the White House were no longer having diplomatic talks with both sides feeling the other was to blame. The United States critiqued the build up of the Soviet armed forces and the Soviet/Cuban involvement in Africa placed ...
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