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ONE DAY, WHILST changing into a fresh tunic after a tiring day of practice races, Rubio was summoned to the Domus Aurelia by Aurelius Falco. He’d been called the into the tablinum for a special meeting, a meeting, in all probability, designed to detail him on the upcoming Ludi Plebeii, Rubio thought to himself as he made his way out his concrete cubicle on his way to the villa. Within a few lanky strides he made it to the steps of the terrace and then to Falco’s private office, where he was…

Genocide is a deliberate killing of a certain race of people by another group who deems themselves the ruling race. The Tutsis were the superiors of the two groups and the Hutu though that they should be because they had more in numbers. The Hutus thought they were supposed to be the rulers of Rwanda so they had begun the eight stages of a genocide. After the genocide had ended, the Hutus had continues a smaller amount of killing to cover up the fact that a genocide had occurred. Based on…

America is written with her as the speaker and the author. She describes how she is thankful to be removed from Africa and brought to America because being captured and sold as a slave introduced her to God/Christianity. She is grateful because she says “Twas mercy [that] brought me from my pagan land,” meaning it was God who delivered her from a country that focused on pagan traditions. Wheatley conveys a message in lines 5-8: “Some view our view our sable race with scornful eye,/‘Their color…

Silver vs Gold “Too many people miss the silver lining because they 're expecting gold.” Quoth. The themes of gold and silver play a prominent role in the symbolism of the flaws and strengths in humans in Romeo and Juliet. William Shakespeare wrote the play Romeo and Juliet in 1597 about two star crossed lovers, who eventually end up taking their own lives due to their feuding families preventing their love. Shakespeare implies that the meaning of silver shows truth, purity and the good inside…

her brain shatters and she is not able to glue the fragments into a single personality, the narrator demonstrates not only her lack of consciousness, but the craving and necessity for it. “Indefinite disclosed— / I shut my eyes— and groped as well / Twas lighter— to be Blind—” (Dickinson, 8-10), depicts how she feels the embrace of a white light, followed by pain until it numbs and stills her. The narrator reaches the mundane pits of reality before she loses herself and ascends into the energy…

Imagination can be found in every person; it is a mental ability that drives a person, be it in a positive or negative way, into developing an opinion from something unknown to them. A person can be influenced, by their imagination, into taking risks, making decisions or seeing different aspects of their current circumstances. In Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, imagination came into play as a key factor of how Crusoe developed throughout the novel; because it opened his mind into seeing…

For hundreds of years women were called the spoils of war, sexual violence was seen as a consequence of the armed conflict that would occur. These occurrences were not controlled or prevented by any government globally. However, in the last thirty years we as a international community have witnessed enormous advances to protect gender rights of women in wars. The international criminal tribunal for Yugoslavia and the International Criminal tribunal for Rwanda have successfully categorized sexual…

Since becoming a superpower, the United States has often fought for its interests through tactics that many consider morally questionable. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and WWII began. On December 7, 1941, Japan dropped bombs on the United States’ naval base at Pearl Harbor, and the United States joined the war. In 1943, American scientists worked to develop the atomic bomb in hopes of ending the war. When Truman became President, he had to make the world changing decision of…

Throughout the tragedy of King Lear, deception is used to secure various characters’ personal interests. Characters manipulate the truth to achieve their inner desires. Truth is defined as as the intention or purpose behind a decision or action. In addition to manipulating truth, characters also use deception to fulfill their individual endeavors. It is pertinent to establish that there are two types of deception. There is physical deception and deception of the mind. Physical deception can be…

Most serial killers do not start killing until something bad happens in their life, however, negative life changing experiences such as losing a love one or failing at something you do can change your life in ways you wouldn’t expect. It could make you think things you wouldn’t normally think, or make you do things you probably wouldn’t do also. Things like this could set off an emotional trigger. Ted Bundy, was one of those people who lost a loved one and had a negative life changing…