Senate

Senate Bill 1070 is an Arizona Law that requires the Arizona police to check the immigration record on people they pull over. If the immigration position does not say they are from the U.S. they will be transported back to the country that they have come to America from. Many people disagree about this as it is invading people’s privacy. A lot of people that come illegally to America don't even pay the taxes they should. Also, most of the youth that come to America illegally end up most of the…

This year we started English class off by reading “Julius Caesar” by Shakespeare. So far it 's been an interesting play, but we can 't read it without understanding it. As we know that the setting of this play is in Ancient Rome, therefore we must understand the role of the characters. Some of the characters that we know of are Flavius, Marullus and Casca, who are Roman tribunes. They play a major role in this play as tribunes. Therefore we need to know the role of a Roman tribune in ancient…

In a Roman society the senator was the one that passed the laws and who was in charge of the government. The Roman Empire started as an advisor council filled with patricians. “Senators had special privileges and they alone could hold the highest official offices and judgeships in criminal and civil courts” (The Roman Empire: In the First Century). Citizens also take part in politics, they play a role by governing the state. The Senator and citizens help the roman society maintain stableness and…

A Roman tribune is an officer or magistrate chosen by the people, to protect them from the oppression of the patricians, or nobles, and to defend their liberties against any attempts that might be made upon them by senate and counsels. The Latin word for tribune was tribunes. The word was originally used to indicate an officer connected with a tribe(tribus), or who represented a tribe for a certain purpose. This was indeed the character of the officers who were designated by it in the…

They were the only people to involve with the senate and to suggest new laws for the people. The Roman Tribune were basically allowed to veto any congress law. Powers of all ten Roman Tribunes varies a lot. The main type of tribune was military. This position of command was highly elevated. This…

Patricians were, in early Rome, people who were member outcome of citizen families. In contrast of the plebeian, Patricians were in the privileged class, there were in the noble rank (aristocrat). Patricians dominated the senate and they were making the laws. Gladiators were condemned criminals or slaves. These men were trained to fight with sword and other weapons in order to kill each other for the delight of spectators. Gladiatorial games developed in the third and second centuries B.C. in…

Imperial Rome and Han China were two empires formed on different parts of Eurasia. Imperial Rome from 31 BCE to 476 CE included their citizens in their government by having consuls elected by patricians, who made up the senate, and assemblies dominated by plebeians. Patricians were the elite class while plebeians were the commoners. Although the citizens did participate in government Rome needed a more centralized form of government. Julius Caesar became the first dictator in Rome and…

Augustus’ speech to the senate of the gods is full of classical rhetorical devices common in senatorial address. The first opens his speech, when he calls the gods to be his witnesses: "ego" inquit "p.c. vos testes habeo (Seneca 10.2)…. An evocation of the gods is commonly employed by Roman orators to give weight to their speeches; they call upon the gods to verify their words. Augustus’ call here is quite literal. He wants to the gods to reaffirm the character he puts forth in this speech.…

Marcus Tullius Cicero was both an attorney and politician in the Roman Empire, eventually achieving such positions as a consulship and membership in the Roman Senate. During his lifetime, Cicero wrote many speeches and books, with most of them surviving antiquity. Much of his writing encompass the basics and rules of rhetoric, a type of speech. Rhetoric was and is a form of art wherein a speaker uses many different methods in order to both inform and persuade the reader or listener to his or her…

BC, he rapidly climbed the ladder to Roman politicians. His victories in battles awarded him with people's support, he made allies and enemies along the way. On the Ides of March, Julius Caesar was brutally assassinated by a group of nobles in the Senate House. Mark Antony, who was Julius Caesar’s friend, was a given a chance to give a speech but he wasn’t allowed to talk bad about Julius Caesar’s killers. Mark Antony was infuriated by Julius Caesar’s death and wanted to strive for revenge and…