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- 6161: Julius Caesar
- ... representatives. When he was dictator the most important of these representatives was his "master of the horse". This representative was Mark Antony. Much resentment was felt by prominent senators like Cicero on account of the great power and influence of such against of Caesar. Caesar's military dominance was established beyond the possibility of successful challenge, the senate gave him a profusion of personal honors which were out of keeping with ... his actual position that was shown in the sixty member conspiracy which Marcus Brutus had organized to kill him. On the Ides of March , two days before he was due to leave Rome on his great eastern expedition, he was stabbed to death at a meeting of the senate in Pompey's new theater. He fell dead at the foot of Pompey's statue. Pompey was avenged, as well as Bibulus ...
- 6162: Gandhi and His Views
- ... Gandhi expressed the power of his mind by causing factory owners, government officials and landlords to give into demands. Through his marches, unending walks, Gandhi became the Indians’ key to freedom. His followers, with such great fidelity and allegiance, would have died for their leader. Gaining independence for the Indians from the Brits without using brutality was what Gandhi desired for and finally achieved in 1947. Along with forbearance came Gandhi ... Willing to die during protest, Gandhi was able to fight even the most prosperous European nation. Nonviolence will work to solve a countries problem on a larger scale if the country is willing to endure great pain and suffering. In most cases however nonviolence cannot work. Dealing with human nature, it is obvious that violence will indeed get a point across.
- 6163: Benito Mussolini
- ... 21 years. He had gone through a lot with the people of Italy. All in all they did not like Mussolini. During the mid summer of 1943 many many supporters turned on him with a great passion. Sicily was being overrun by Allied armies. Italys' economy went straight downhill from here. The Grand Council of Fascist party, a rubber-stamp assembly that had not met for 3 and a half years ... held tightly to his legs. These pictures showed a spot where they could land their planes. When Skorzeny and his 90 men swept silently down on the lodge in 12 gliders, they discovered to their great dismay that the meadow had a rapid drop-off at its end. “It was much like the platform for a ski jump,” Skorzeny later said. He ordered his pilot to make a “vertical landing” which ...
- 6164: Biography of Julius Caesar
- ... representatives. When he was dictator the most important of these representatives was his “master of the horse”. This representative was Mark Antony. Much resentment was felt by prominent senators like Cicero on account of the great power and influence of such against of Caesar. Caesar’s military dominance was established beyond the possibility of successful challenge, the senate gave him a profusion of personal honors which were out of keeping with ... his actual position that was shown in the sixty member conspiracy which Marcus Brutus had organized to kill him. On the Ides of March , two days before he was due to leave Rome on his great eastern expedition, he was stabbed to death at a meeting of the senate in Pompey’s new theater. He fell dead at the foot of Pompey’s statue. Pompey was avenged, as well as Bibulus ...
- 6165: A Critique of C. S. Lewis
- ... do, the law of nature has no consideration of how painful or dangerous it might be. This good which Lewis argued for is cold and hard, without personable traits. He attributed good as "either the great safety or the great danger-according to the way you react to it. And we have reacted the wrong way."5 The third aspect argued and justified the need for people to repent and the promise of forgiveness. In ...
- 6166: Life of Julius Caesar
- ... his representatives. When he was dictator the most important of these representatives was his “master of the horse”. This representative was Mark Antony. Much resentment was felt by prominent senators like Ciceroon account of the great power and influence of such against of Caesar. Caesar’s military dominance was established beyond the possibility of successful challenge, the senate gave him a profusion of personal honors which were out of keeping with ... his actual position that was shown in the sixty member conspiracy which Marcus Brutus had organized to kill him. On the Ides of March , two days before he was due to leave Rome on his great eastern expedition, he was stabbed to death at a meeting of the senate inPompey’s new theater. He fell dead at the foot of Pompey’s statue. Pompey was avenged, as well as Bibulus and ...
- 6167: Kazimir Malevich
- ... Malevich had initially been influenced by cubism and primitive art, which were both based on nature, but his own movement of Suprematism enabled him to construct images that had no reference at all to reality. Great solid diagonals of color in Suprematism are floating free, their uncompromising sides denying them any connection with the real world. This is a pure abstract painting, the artist's main theme being the internal movements ... also a kind of aerial perspective here. The small size and the absence of color in the nine elements in the upper left corner seem to give evidence that we are viewing them at a great distance as they fly away from us. Contrary to our normal expectations, the bulk of the composition is in the upper two-thirds of the work, located entirely above the very narrow horizontal line that ...
- 6168: Langston Hughes
- ... Mountain”. It spoke of Black writers and poets, “who would surrender racial pride in the name of a false integration”, where a talented Black writer would prefer to be considered a poet. Hughes argued, “no great poet has ever been afraid of being himself’. He wrote in this essay, “We younger Negro artists now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased ... Harlem Renaissance. During this period, his work was frequently published and his writing flourished. Langston Hughes devoted his life to writing and lecturing. Through all of this hard work and dedication, Langston Hughes was a great and prolific writer. He wrote sixteen books of poems, two novels, three collections of short stories, four volumes of “editorial” and “documentary” fiction, twenty plays, children’s poetry, musicals and operas, three autobiographies. Some of ...
- 6169: Benito Mussolini's Rise and Fall to Power
- ... 21 years. He had gone through a lot with the people of Italy. All in alll they did not like Mussolini During the mid summer of 1943 many many supporters turned on him with a great passion. Sicily was being overrun by Allied armies. Italys' economy went straight downhill from here. The Grand Council of Fascist party, a rubber-stamp assembly that had not met for 3 and a half years ... held tightly to his legs. These pictures showed a spot where they could land their planes. When Skorzeny and his 90 men swept silently down on the lodge in 12 gliders, they discovered to their great dismay that the meadow had a rapid drop-off at its end. "It was much like the platform for a ski jump," Skorzeny later said. He ordered his pilot to make a "vertical landing" which ...
- 6170: Terry Fox
- ... accomplishments have an effect on humanity. Two students from Sudbury Secondary School were asked how Terry Fox had an influence on them personally, and this is what they had to say: "I think it's great that a person can overcome such a great personal hardship for the benefit of mankind" (Playford). "It inspires me to strive for my goals and dreams, that anything can be accomplished if you really try hard. It shows that no matter what obstacle ...
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