lion, a terrible beast that had defied all would-be captors. The combat between Hercules and the lion was brutal and cruel. Seeing that his club and arrows were of no avail in the battle, Hercules grasped the lion in his hands and strangled it to death. He returned to Eurystheus, wearing the skin of the lion as a cloak and the head as a helmet. The Hydra, or water serpent Hercules was ordered next to
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philosophical dia- logues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the western world. Plato is widely believed to have been a student of Socrates and to have been deeply influenced by his teacher's unjust death. Plato's brilliance as a writer and thinker can be witnessed by reading his Socratic dialogues. Some of the dialogues, let- ters, and other works that are ascribed to him are considered spurious. Plato is thought to have lectured at the Academy, although
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minds imagine a man abusing a woman in the worst way. Although women are the most effected by domestic violence, they are not the only ones that can be affected. Do individuals stop and think about a man playing the role as a victim? What about children that grows up in the household where domestic violence
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Democrats versus Republicans A war goes on in politics as the republicans argue against the democrats. Both have very different views on things. The donkeys vs. the elephants; these two political parties a have always had different opinions on topics. Sometimes people cannot agree with one or the other People just go by what they think is right both political parties have different beliefs on many daily American issues. Democrats are known for supporting love between the same sex. They believe
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Skill Level 1 The Amistad Trials A: With the Amistad Trials, there were no names mentioned for the defendants but there were fifty-three black men that were on board the Amistad that had managed to free themselves from their chains. They found a knife in the hold and they used it to take command of the ship and murdered the captain. http://www.hlla.com/reference/lawinamerica.html B: The fifty-three Africans were arrested on charges of murder and piracy, and they were taken and
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Beijing Opera (Youtube Project) This project is centered on Beijing Opera also referred to as Peking Opera or as the Chinese call it Jingju. It’s a form of the traditional Chinese theater that combines dance, mime, acrobatics, music, and vocal performance. Beijing Opera developed in the late eighteenth century and became fully recognized throughout China by the mid-19th century. The form was extremely popular in the Qing Dynasty court and has become one of the cultural treasures of China. Major
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Ethos, pathos and logos each have a different meaning:- * Ethos is an appeal to ethics, and it is a means of convincing someone of the character or credibility of the persuader. * Pathos is an appeal to emotion, and is a way of convincing an audience of an argument by creating an emotional response. * Logos is an appeal to logic, and is a way of persuading an audience by reason. Examples of Ethos: When I am the nominee, I will offer a clear choice. John McCain won't be able to say
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I killed the 48 women listed in the states second amended information. In most cases when I killed these women I did not know their names. Most of the time I killed them the first time I met them and I do not have a good memory of their faces. (Seattle - From statement of Green River killer Gary Ridgway, read in court in November 2003 by prosecutor Jeff Baird) Gary Leon Ridgway, known as the Green River Killer, dumping the first five bodies of his victims along the Green River in King County,
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Single-Payer Healthcare Reform in the United States Not long ago, Tina Bachtel, a beautiful thirty-five-year-old women from Ohio walked into a local healthcare clinic seeking treatment. Tina was pregnant and having health issues. She had visited the clinic prior to that day while uninsured which resulted in her having a large unpaid balance. Bachtel was denied treatment. She was told she could only be granted service if she paid one hundred dollars per visit. Tina Bachtel did not have the money to
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and insane, she proposed that the mentally ill should not be punished because they do not know their right and wrong and that prisoners should only be punished if they did wrong and the punishment would be fair. Dix also wanted to abolish the death penalty, which slowly became somewhat of a success starting with Michigan as the first state to get rid of capital punishment in 1847, along with multiple states following. Also, she wanted to expand the hospitals even more for the mentally unstable and
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