...Was Ancient Rome a Violent Civilisation In many modern books written about Ancient Rome and her people, the Romans are often portrayed as brutal and unforgiving people who enjoyed violence and thought it amusing to see people being injured and killed to the point of obsession. It is my aim to establish whether this classification is justified or if it is simply an exaggeration of what a small group of people enjoyed. While it is known that in Rome there were gladiatorial fights, public beatings and the keeping of slaves was legal (and common), it is also important to understand just exactly how advanced the Romans were. The Longman Dictionary of the English Language defines civilised as "of or being peoples of nations in a state of civilisation." And then defines civilisation as "a relatively high level of cultural development; specifically the stage of cultural development at which writing and the keeping of records is attained." I think that by this definition, the Romans were civilised, the educated being able to write and detailed records being kept by many historians. The Romans also had written laws and government, including (later) an assembly for the poorer classes. In fact, their system of law was actually quite advanced (even if it was designed to help the rich) - "The idea was accepted that a man's intentions ought to be taken into account, and there was less importance attached to what he did and what he meant to do. The next thing to become established was the notion...
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...We Stand With The People, We Stand For The People Long Live France! There was recently an editorial in The Holy Roman Empire Times in which described Emperor Leopold ll support for our Royals. Here is an excerpt from their editorial in The Holy Roman Empire: “We stand by our family and friends as we support Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette who are currently imprisoned in the Tuileries. Our beloved friends are caught in an indescribable revolution in their country and are being treated like prisoners. We will not be pushed around or swayed to believe that our dear friends deserve this treacherous occurrence in their kingdom. The harmless king and queen were simply trying to do what is best for their country and it seems that some terrible people took the law into their own hands and used violence to share their disagreements they had with the monarchs....
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...What Were the Primary Reasons for the Fall of Rome? Rome was probably one of the greatest empires of the western world. They were technilogically advanced, conquered many lands, and overtime created an amazing empire. Rome began in around 750 BCE as a tiny settlement. During the beginning years of Rome being founded the Greeks were the leaders of the Mediterranean. The Greek empire later ended and Rome became a powerhouse. As Rome began ruling the Mediterranean and reached all of their goals, they became lazy and developed what you could call a “ soft belly”. As a result of this sudden laziness, Rome became sacked by invadors and began taking money from the treasury and spending the money on unnecessary luxuries. Their empire slowly ended and this started the decline of the Roman empire. In this essay I will be stating some key reasons on why I think the Roman empire ended. Political corruption had a major impact on why the Roman Empire ended. Rome had many problems when it came to choosing a new emperor and never had the chance to create an organized system to pick these leaders. The choice of a...
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...today and has been an issue for many years. It is indeed the greatest problem in the world. Terrorism consists of five categories. Those five categories are: Domestic, Nationalist, State, Global and Religious terrorism. I strongly believe that this world cannot survive with terrorism on the rise. It is actually one of the huge dangers to world peace. There’s only a matter of time before suitable measures are taken to preclude this issue at hand. Before we talk about Domestic Terrorism, let’s find out what’s the meaning of Terrorism. Terrorism is the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims. That definition simply means that individuals are involved in violent acts and is extremely dangerous to human life. In society today when the word terrorism is mentioned people automatically think of September 11, 2001 event. Domestic Terrorism is when a situation arises within the borders of a state and is then associated with a terrorist group. There are three categories that deals with domestic terrorism and that is: right and left wing and special interest terrorism. Right-wing terrorist is driven by ideas of white national independence, conflicting governments and administrative beliefs. The anti-government is those who may or may not embrace racism. Left-wing and special-interest terrorism are those who are supposed to protect general public against the estranged effects of capitalism and U.S imperialism. All the times that America has been hit with terrorism...
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...services in Rome, the Roman Republic earned an A-. One reason why it earned an A is that they made aqueducts that provided things like indoor plumbing, watered crops, and a sewer system for the citizens. This benefits everyone by them having a water supply in various ways,...
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...Nowadays, there are so many sports in this world that people are interested in and for each sport; there are so many things that make people become so interested. Allen Guttmann wrote the persuasive article called “The Appeal of Violent Sports” to explain why their have so many people like in the violent sport. He also gives good reason and example to support his idea According to my real experience and also the research from the sport event which is everybody accept it , his persuade article is successful because his opinion are reasonable and believable. Firstly, Allen Guttmann said, “The psychological term identification has been criticized because spectators are quite aware of the difference between themselves and their athletic heroes, but empathy seems too weak a term to characterize what I have called representational sports” (p.22). He explains that the spectators are crazy in the violent sports because whenever they watch the players play, they think that people are the heroes who represent themselves or their country. According to Guttmann’s example of when Jack Johnson knocked out the Great White Hope, black Americans were jubilant. Whenever Glasgow’s Celtics outscore Glasgow’s Rangers in a soccer match, Roman Catholics rejoice” (p.22). Moreover, the spectators know that the people who represent them block, tackle, kick, punch, pummel, or pin them, whoever they are. It’s just a game. They can guarantee that they will be harmless and they will be safe (p.22). Based...
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...Paul’s letter to the Romans he addresses some very important aspects that pertain to the Christian lifestyle. He talks about many subjects pertaining to God’s wrath against mankind serving as a warning to those that turn away to attaining peace and life through the Lord Jesus Christ. Here I will be discussing Romans chapter’s one through eight and how the letter pertains to the following: The Natural World, Human Identity, Human Relationships, and Culture. In the natural world Paul addresses that recognizing the hard truths in relations to God’s stand point. He goes on to describe oppositions that will encounter the natural world towards God and His true will. God being assigned the main cause, he makes it very clear that God is and will always be the Creator of everything. Paul clarifies that the creation of the world itself is God’s way of showing His invisible and unique works (Romans 1:18-21). It can be interpreted here that God showed Himself to us and people will still choose to neglect giving the glory to whom it belongs and even recognize Him for what they do have or even both. Paul also recognizes the problem of the natural world worshipping created things rather than the One and only God, the Creator (Romans 1:25). Just to emphasize on this with some weight to it is Paul states the origin of this fall “Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned” (Romans 5:12). It is said...
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...poor white rural white people. What he does is compare the word “Redneck” with the word “Nigger” in how they are both used in today’s society through news stories. The double standard comes into play because one word is ok to use to describe poor white trash “Redneck” while the other word used to describe poor black trash “Nigger” is unacceptable. He uses the dictionary as an example of the double standard for both words. The word “Nigger” has a one word definition as “negro” with an apologetic disclaimer basically saying that it “is only acceptably used in Black English and very taboo to use because of its link with slavery” (Goad, 21). While the term “Redneck” is defined “as a poor, white, rural southerner often, specif., often one is regarded as ignorant, bigoted, violent, etc…” (Goad, 21) Essay 2 Goad traces back class conflict to Preroman times when people were hunter gathers who either traveled alone or in small groups. When the alone people ran into these small groups they were prey just as the smaller groups were prey for larger ones. By necessity these groups became loosely netted communities of clans who stuck together or were taken over by invaders. These groups were usually absorbed into the centralized agriculture slave states by force. The occurred when the men who wanted to remain outside the city slave states who hunted alone were hunted by men to put them into the city state. The next conflict Goad talks about are the Romans. He talks about the class...
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...into adopting the Roman law system. The expression of the “Dark Ages” came into play during the 17th century when many enlightenment writers convinced that they were much greater to their ancestors and began using this term to scorn an era that they found to be very difficult to survive in. The Dark Ages can be referred to the entire time of the Middle Ages from 500-1500 A.D. or mostly for the early Middle Ages from 500-1000 A.D (Curtis, 1992) (O'Sullivan, 2012). It is also commonly referred to the period of time that accompanied the fall of the Western Roman Empire. When the Western Roman Empire was destroyed, unknowingly many people were going to begin to engage in a practice and experience devastating changes in their lives. Fewer career opportunities, literacy, and education were just the beginning of the fall. Cities then became smaller in size because the Roman Empire wasn’t able to provide the Roman tax revenues to maintain the services. Society inadvertently prepared to emerge in modernity through the preservation of classical literature and scripture. Over time education and literacy was mostly offered to the ministry. Christianity itself remained to spread East throughout the lands. During this time, most of the old crafts and arts were destroyed or lost. During the time known as the dark ages the population was declining. After the Roman Empire buckled, many people became infected with the plague that had broken out and these people experienced climate...
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...The Greek poet Homer (who, if he was one person, was born between 850 and 1100 BCE) was, to use a modern term, the source code for Greek literature and poetry, and therefore for Western literature, heavily influencing practically everyone who followed him, including, of course, the great Florentine poet Dante Alighieri ( 1265-1321 A.D.). Both poets’ visions of Hell, as depicted in The Odyssey and Inferno, are noteworthy because they open important windows into the philosophical and theological underpinnings of the worlds into which these authors were born. Why is this important? Because their elaborately drawn visions of Hell represent the two great divides in how humans for 3,000 years have been seeing themselves and the universe they perceive surrounding them. In the Homeric vision, life is tragic and arbitrary. We as humans are mere playthings of the Fates and the gods. Sometimes justice occurs, but usually only by accident, and even then it comes wrapped up in irony. Good is punished and evil triumphs. The hero, instead of enjoying the fruits of his victory, is brought low by some tragic flaw. Homer’s portrayal of the gods and of hell in the Odyssey…[big long quote] For Dante, in sharp contrast, the universe is ordered and just. The wicked are, eventually, punished and the righteous are rewarded, if not in this life, then in the next. Existence, while often painful and scary, is not arbitrary, but proceeds according to a mysterious divine plan devised long ago by...
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...Victomology Victims of Crimes and the Media Violent crime, gangs, and drugs are tearing our families apart. Violent crime and victims have become an issue in America and the rest of world. The negative effects of television, Movie Theater or any kind of media is affecting our children and teenagers. Statistics indicate a decline in violent crimes in our country and an increase in our national population in prisons. It is indisputable that our families are the victims in these drugs, gangs and organized crime issues in our communities. Nobody can discussed or argue that we need to stop this malicious act of violence. In addition, nobody can disagree that this violent crime is hard to fight. Gangs are born in impoverished sections of major cities. However, gangs and drugs activities are not limited to inner cities. Gangs and drugs are in suburbs and rural communities and in communities of great economic diversity. Gangs do not recruit certain type of race, economy or cultural status. Exist in every level and every kind of community. (Stewart, 1989). Therefore, our problem is everywhere and anywhere. The lack of parental supervision, employment, recreational opportunity and breakdown in family structure are the main reasons why our children are joining the ranks of these organized criminal institutions. It could be wrong to say it, but the truth is these gangs provide them (our children) with enough companionship, protection...
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...protestant by birth, he became a Roman Catholic after the marriage of his widowed mother to a man of Catholic background. In 1593 he enlisted in the Spanish Army in Flanders and in 1596 participated in the capture of the city of Calais by the Spanish in their war with Henry IV of France. He became implicated with Thomas Winter and Robert Catesby and others in the Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament, as a protest against the anti-Roman Catholic laws and was known to be Britain’s greatest conspirators. We celebrate every 5th of November by throwing a doll replica of Guy Fawkes onto the bonfire to commemorate his failure to blow up the Houses of Parliament. But did he actually attempt to blow up Parliament and James I? Is it right for us to disrespect him every year by burning a replica of him? Is he Guilty or Innocent? We do know that James’ chief minister, Robert Cecil, the Earl of Salisbury, hated Catholics and saw them as a constant source of trouble. Cecil also feared that there was a chance that James would be lenient with them during his reign and this he could not tolerate. Cecil wanted to remove Catholicism from England as he saw it as a threat. We know that James was terrified of a violent death; his childhood in Scotland had been fraught with danger including being kidnapped as a boy. What better way to get James to severely persecute the Catholics in England than to get him to believe that they had tried to kill him in this very violent manner? The government had power...
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...Pro-Death Penalty Thousands of people will attack the death penalty. They will give emotional speeches about the one innocent man or woman who might accidentally get an execution sentence. However, all of these people are forgetting one crucial element. They are forgetting the thousands of victims who die every year by the hands of heartless murderers. There are more murderers out there than people who are wrongly convicted, and that is what we must remember. I, as well as many others, have total confidence in the death penalty. It is a very beneficial component of our justice system. The death penalty saves lives. It saves live because it stops those who murder from ever murdering again. It also deters potential murderers from ever committing the crime. Unfortunately, the death penalty is currently used so rarely that it is not nearly as effective as it could be. In order for it to work, we must put it into practice more often. In recent years, crime in America has been on the rise, in particular, violent crime. This has led not only to an overcrowding of prisons in our country, but also to an increase in the number of death sentences handed down by the courts. Despite the fact that the number of inmates on death row is climbing, the number of death sentences actually carried out in any given year lags far behind. People simply aren’t fearful of the death penalty when it is not used the way it should be (Stewart 50). If the death penalty has been declared legal, then the...
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...Decline of the Roman/Han/Gupta Empires Diverse Interpretations Assignment COMPARISONS TO FOCUS ON: * The causes for the decline of the Roman, Han and Gupta Empires * Understanding of how and why the collapse of the empire was more severe in Western Europe than it was in the Asian Empires. * Comparison of the role that religions played in the declines * The impact of missionary outreach of the Christians and Buddhists in these empires RESOURCES * Upshur – “The Decline of Empires” * Stearns - Decline of Empires. * Frank Smitha - “Decline and Fall” * Johnson and Johnson – “Why Don’t Empires Last?” * Spodek – “China and Rome: How do they compare?” * Bulliet pages 168-170 and 186-189. ASSIGNMENT 1. Construct a Venn comparing and contrasting the causes for decline of the Roman, Han and Gupta empires. Information will come from the documents and not the lecture…you already wrote the lecture notes once, why write them again? Rome Han similarities Gupta 2. Write 3 comparative analytical mini-paragraphs about the decline of empires. (generalization, facts, analysis…) Remember that analysis answers the question “why?” Example: The AP World History teachers have very different tastes in beverages. Ms. Forswall likes tea while Ms. Patch likes cola. Green tea and Earl Grey are Ms. Forswall’s favorites; they taste nothing like Pepsi or Coke because soft drinks are much sweeter. Ms. Patch usually chooses a diet style of...
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...University of Phoenix Material Multicultural Matrix and Analysis Worksheet Instructions: Part I: Select and identify six groups in the left-hand column. Complete the matrix. Part II: Write a summary. Part III: Format references consistent with APA guidelines. Part I: Matrix What is the group’s history in the United States? What is the group’s population in the United States? What are some attitudes and customs people of this group may practice? What is something you admire about this group’s people, lifestyle, or society? 1. The German Americans are the largest singles source of ancestry of individuals that are in the United States today. The German Americans settled in the United States in the late 1700’s, they came because of their religious dissenters such as the Amish who were attracted by the proclaiming of religious freedom. Even though the German Americans started coming in the late 1700’s it wasn’t until the 1830’s through 1890 the German immigrant population represented one quarter of the immigration. During World War I most of the German Americans distanced themselves away from their home land, by the ending of the twentieth century the animosity that was towards Germany fell distant. That is because of John F. Kennedy being in Berlin in 1963 and Ronald Reagan in 1987 and they both spoke of uniting Germany. Present days the immigration from Germany is between 5,00 and 10,00 annually. Some customs that the Germany Americans may practice still while...
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