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- 9951: The Apology Of Socrates: A Closer Examination
- ... to choose for yourself if you believe it or if not be able to reject the idea. (Nussbaum, pg. 16). Three men brought Socrates to trial: Meletus, Anytus, and Lycon. Together they represented the "old school" that was frightened and angered by Socrates philosophies. At the beginning of the text they have finished with their prosecution and Socrates is beginning his defense. The first step Socrates takes is to prove quite ...
- 9952: The Romanovs
- ... when republics of Soviet Union became separated from Russia and USSR no longer existed, communistic ideas were forgotten and Russia became a democratic country, new changes took over that was clearly visible to everyone. At school, until the sixth grade, I was taught that Lenin and his followers (Bolsheviks) were good, however, when the Soviet Union split apart and Democracy came to the power, history teachers were able to support another ...
- 9953: The Period of Ramses II
- ... Simbel was said to have been, “Hewn into the mountainside, with four colossal figures of the king in front, it was saved between 1964 and 1968 from immersion beneath the waters of the new Aswân High Dam” (Hornung 67). The enormous size and intricate designing of this palace in Nubia was to show the great power and modernization of Egypt. The Ramesseum was an example of the architectural advancement that was ...
- 9954: Argentine Marxist Revolutionary And Guerrilla Leader Che Guevara
- ... early became a voracious reader of Marx, Engels and Freud which all were available in his father's library, it is probable that he had read some of their works before he went to secondary school (1941), the Colegio Nacional Dean Funes, Cordoba, where he excelled only in literature and sports. At home he was impressed by the Spanish Civil War refugees and by the long series of squalid political crises ...
- 9955: Joan of Arc Was A Saint
- ... a person gladly and unflinchingly obeys the will of God, you have a saint. Which is what Joan is. It is not her voices, her battles, or her death which have given her that most high and splendid title; not subtlety of mind, theological learning, or savage austerities, but simply an eagerness to do all things and abandon all things for the love of God… From the moment Joan heard the ...
- 9956: Chirstopher Columbus' Explorations
- ... by the divine will, had placed them under your royal and exalted lordship, and was on the point of securing a very great revenue, suddenly, while I was waiting for ships to come to your high presence with victory and with great news of gold, being very secure and joyful, I was made a prisoner and with my two brothers was thrown into a ship, laden with fetters, stripped to the ...
- 9957: The Life of William Shakespeare
- ... died in 1616. His father, John Shakespeare was a glover. His wife, Mary, came from a Catholic family. William was the third eldest from at least eight children. William was educated through the free grammar school in Stratford. In November 1582, he married Anne Hathaway, the daughter of a farmer. She was eight years older than William. On May 26, 1853, their first child Susanna was baptized. The twins, Hamnet and ...
- 9958: Pablo Picasso
- ... provoking and is appealing to my eye. The largest contributing factor to "Guernica's" overall appeal is the excellent use of symbolism, which encourages its audience to think. The Guernica has been described as “the high point of his mythological creations, and . . . one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century painting, its most distilled, most passionate expression” (Finke 53). The works of Picasso’s Blue Period have been linked with the pain ...
- 9959: Shih Huang Ti
- ... each other by day using smoke signals, ! waving flags, blowing horns, and ringing bells; by night by lighting firework-like objects in the sky. The wall, itself, was approximately fifteen hundred miles long, thirty feet high and, at the base, twenty-five feet thick. It was made of the core of earth and gravel. Actually, it was two walls aligned with each other and then filled in with a stone base ...
- 9960: Andrew Jackson
- ... run a country, leadership is a very important quality to have. This allows you to make good decisions fast and without any mistakes. Intelligence is also very important to have. Mistakes are costly at a high office position such as the presidents the decisions must be smart and precise. Another important requirement that a president should meet is to be open minded. He must be able to accept both criticism and ...
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