"In the time of Greatness"
Birth Date. William Shakespeare, surely the world's most performed and admired playwright, was born in April, 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, about 100 miles northwest of London. According to the records of Stratford's Holy Trinity Church, he was baptized on April 26. Since it wa....
Al Capone
Al Capone is one of the most historically known mobsters in the Untied States. He was born in 1899 in Brooklyn, New York as Alphonsus Capone. His family had immigrated from Italy in 1894 to have a fresh start with more money and more power in the United States. They were hoping for a better life. Ca....
Analyse the Assassination of Julius Caesar
One of the most dominant political and military leaders in history, Gaius Julius Caesar helped establish the vast Roman Empire. Caesar's Victory in a civil war in the 40s BC made him the absolute ruler of Rome, but political jealousies among his opponents led to his assassination.
Julius Caesar a P....
Analysis Of Brutus
Julius Caersar - Analysis of Brutus
In the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William
Shakespeare, the character Marcus Brutus fits the definition of the
tragic hero. Like other tragic heroes, he had great promise, ability,
and integrity of character. He had a tragic flaw. He had a lu....
Ancient philosophers: Aristotle, Socates, Plato
Humanism
Throughout history, people can notice as the generations go on, ideas are improved based on those who proceeded. Those before us set the basis, while we take those ideas and change them to fit out society. In philosophy, you can see a noticeable trend which dates back to BCE. Philosophers....
biography of Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar (100 44 BCE)
Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman military and political leader. In 78 BCE Caesar began his political career in the Forum at Rome as an advocate, known for his oratory and ruthless prosecution of former governors notorious for extortion and corruption. Cicero once commen....
Brutus
In the play Julius Caesar, the tragedy of the play was directed mainly at a one specific character, Marcus Brutus. Brutus was the tragic hero of the play, because of his idealistic and pragmatic qualities. The mindset that Brutus possessed only allowed him to see the world and its people from one ....
Caesars assassination deserved or not deserved?
"Yet other deeds and sayings of Caesar's may be set to the debit account and justify the conclusion that he deserved assassination"
Julius Caesar was regarded as "one of the greatest men of the ancient world" said by Rupert Mathew's author of the book Julius Caesar. Unfortunatel....
Childhood of William Shakespeare
The first question was to take a good look into our famous person's childhood. When I took a close look into Shakespeare's childhood there really wasn't much documented information for him. Starting from the beginning, William Shakespeare was born April 23rd 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. The town is....
Cicero
Cicero, was truly a man of the state. His writings also show us he was equally a man of philosophical temperament and affluence. Yet at times these two forces within Cicero clash and contradict with the early stoic teachings. Cicero gradually adopted the stoic lifestyle but not altogether entirel....
Cicero
Born Marcus Tullius Cicero in Arpinum (Italy) in 106 BC, he became a writer, statesman, orator and philosopher. He loved politics and he wrote only when he could not participate in government. He had a motto which he constantly strived for: to always be the best and over top the rest.Cicero had a hi....
Decorum Renaissance
The title of Renaissance scholar and historian John Hales 1993 book, The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance, is not only a reference to Jacob Burckhardts seminal tome on the Renaissance, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, it is in effect also a play on words. In his text, Hale....
Herodotus, The Father of History
Herodotus, The Father of History
Herodotus was born in 484 B.C. and died in 425 BC. He was born Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey) and lived the early part of his life there up to about age 27. At about 457 B.C. he is believed to have been exiled from Halicarnassus for conspiring against Persian....
Homosexuality
No one knows exactly how homosexuality entered into human history. I would imagine that the practices associated with the erotic attraction of people to one's own gender have been around since the dawn of humanity. The earliest accounts of homosexual behavior seem to be found in ancient pagan religi....
Intelligence
Intelligence has always been a major and controversial issue for psychologists. Intelligence has three major areas of debate: its definition, its measurement, and its heritability (Source: Weinberg, 1989). The title of this essay asks specifically about measurement of intelligence, but this thereby ....
Julius Caesar
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: THE AUTHOR AND HIS TIMES
Julius Caesar is a play about a political assassination. The
question it asks is: is it ever right to use force to remove a
ruler from power? You, as readers, can answer that question in
terms of your own experience in the last quarter of the....
life and times of Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar, a patrician and noble, became one of the most powerful men in Ancient Roman history. His leadership qualities gained him the consulship of 59 B.C., and eventually perpetual dictatorship. Caesar's acquired power soon became immense, and soon the ruling class bega....
Machiavelli's Mirror of Princes
Machiavelli provided a blue print for republicanism far more compelling than earlier writers who stuck to the premise that rulers and their subjects should be governed by the precepts of Christianity. One of the reasons that Machiavelli proposed a republic devoid of religious rule was due to his di....
Memory in Romanticism: mnemosyne, plasticity,
Memories do not comply with the dictums of time's arrow. Those among us who have experienced apparently unrelated flashes of recollections passing through our minds will surely vouch for that, and it is often said that people on the verge of death witness packets of memory from their early childhood....
organized crime
Organized Crime In the 1920's and 1930's
Vincenzo, called James by family members, was born in 1882. When he was 16 he ran away from home to join the circus. A year after he departed he wrote the family to say that he was fine and not to worry. The letter was postmarked Wichita, Kan.James enjoyed ....
Plato's Philosophies
Plato was born to an aristocratic family in Athens, Greece. When he was a child his
father, Ariston, who was believed to be descended from the early kings of Athens died, and his
mother, Perictione married Pyrilampes. As a young man Plato was always interested in political
leadership and event....
Transcendentalism
The tendency of human beings is to comply with society to the point where even the thought of adopting different ideas becomes unimaginable. Henry David Thoreau was a transcendentalist in the 19th century whose views reflected a high-level mentality and spirituality. Thoreau published his works o....
Twenty years asleep
Twenty Years Asleep
The rain fell in warm sheets, moistening the ground beneath Tochis feet with new, glistening life. He stood with feet planted into the soil, staring after the young woman whose steps took her farther and farther away, that angel who had cursed him with her departure, that an....
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