A Game of Thrones

Values and Motives Affecting Fate From the beginning of Antigone, the sides are chosen. Creon, the new king, is motivated by his new position and feels he cannot let the people down. Antigone is motivated by her love for her family and the pain of the past. Both allow their values to run their actions despite laws being broken and family being killed. As all of this is taking place, the Chorus is there to guide the way. The Chorus acts as a director by showing the audience the scenes as they…

Citizens of Ancient History The relationships between the citizens and the state in classical Greece, the Roman Empire, and the Mesoamerican civilization has a lot of common traits that helped with development. The roles of the citizens in these different locations are essential to understanding because they represent how people survived and lived in these times. The power the state had over its citizens contributed to how the people in the communities lived. They have common traits and…

Classical mythology is the study of myths and their importance to Ancient Greece and Rome. These myths have existed for over 3000 years and explore the basis of all beliefs and ideals of ancient and modern society. There are many types of myths such as divine myths which focuses on supernatural beings, legends which are based on heroes, and folktales which involve ordinary people and animals. Legends are typically the most well-known and modernized myths because of their high-action and…

People are taught at a young age not to swear because those words are considered bad. Usually children will be punished for using swear words to teach them not use those words in their everyday vocabulary. However, in recent years studies have shown that the younger generations are beginning to use swear words more often in their vocabulary. Not only is it affecting students, but media outlets as well with certain outlets becoming more relaxed when it comes to censorship in their work. Even…

The classical requirements of a hero were originally set forth in the Greek epics composed by none other than Homer, the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Within these ancient texts, Homer expertly crafted his idea of a hero: honourable, courageous, and fierce warriors who instilled hope in comrades, and struck fear into the minds of the enemy with their overwhelming valor and inherent expertise on and off of the battlefield. Classical heroes like Odysseus and Achilleus were the embodiment of…

Practically, this meant that Augustus would deal with his enemies and political rivals efficiently, while maintaining good relations within the Senate. Although Caesar named Augustus as the heir to his throne, Augustus was denied Caesar’s money, his estates and his political position. Augustus was only allowed to take on Caesar’s name. Augustus accepted this, and formulated a plan to conquer the enemies of his adopted father. In order to achieve this goal…

It is 1625 in Spain and Catalina de Erauso has finally returned, after her long, adventurous journey in the New World dressed as a man, and will now stand trial to confront the crimes that she has committed. She has confessed her crimes to the archbishop and she can no longer escape what she has done. The situation has been brought to my attention and it is my responsibility as King of this great country to decide whether or not she is guilty. After hearing about her offenses, it is clear she…

Lono and Kū are two Hawaiian gods that were most often represented through feathered basketry and wooden sculptures. Lono is known as the god of agriculture, plants, rain, pigs, peace, and most often connected to the idea of genealogy; while Kū is well known as the god of war, forests, canoes, houses, and crafts. These are two opposing gods in Hawaiian culture and are dependent on each other because of their juxtaposition to one another. They complete a sort of higher balance between each other…

Napoleon made his troop go from Northern Italy into Austria. John Adams is the first president to live in the White House. 1803 Louisiana Purchase was made. Tsar Paul I is assassinated. The Cumberland Road was made to improve western transportation. Johnny Appleseed start teaching pioneers how to plant apple trees. In 1800 Lewis and William Clark expedition began in 1804. Robert E. Lee attends the first West Point Academy with Ulysses S. Grant. Charles Willson Peale establishes…

What does our family mean to you? While conducting my research over the week, I became open to a lot of things I didn’t know my family thought. My question was “What does our family mean to you?”, and asking this didn’t end up changing my original hypothesis at all. My hypothesis originally was that all of the answers I received from my family would be relatively the same; that we are very close and overall a very happy family. I believe doing this research showed me how all of my family…