Achaemenid Empire

Peer pressure occurs when a person in order to be liked or in order to fit in the group performs a task that when kept alone would not perform. And on not doing the task would be subject the person to think of what the other party might think of him/her. The time period in which Orwell had to decide whether to kill the elephant or let it live was a very crucial stage. The second paragraph of the essay he states that he had no intention to shoot the elephant only to simply scare it away “I had no…

Similar to the Dying Negro’s representation in Day and Bicknell’s poem, Olaudah Equiano casts himself as the sentimental hero in his Interesting Narrative. Mark Stein, in his article, ‘Who’s Afraid of Cannibals? Some Uses of the Cannibalism Trope in Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative’, remarks that ‘The Interesting Narrative can be read in the context of an array of genres: autobiography, spiritual, travelogue, testimonial/confession, ethnography, and economic treatise among them’. For this…

The first mentions of the words ‘Taj Mahal’ caused images of pure white marble against clear blue skies to spring to my mind. After a quick Google search of the building, I anticipated expected my trip to act as an eye opener portraying the beauty of the Taj Mahal as representative of the true love of Shah Jahan towards his wife Mumtaz. When I arrived, I was sorely mistaken. I was surrounded by clouds accompanying a light drizzle of rain, hundreds of people packed together, and street children…

“What is the most important legacy of the Mongol Empire to the world today? Justify and explain your response”. The Mongol Empire has proven to be one of the most powerful empires in history, due to their spectacularly quick rise and domination over a huge amount of land. Mongols conquered more land in 25 years, than the Romans did in 400, which already makes big statement about this empire. The extremely violent and brutal conquests not only shaped the future of China, the legacy of the…

from something else that spark inspiration. Though, these peoples are still a mystery, today to most historians due to their language never fully translated despite their bountiful evidence of their existence, they impacted the world’s most striking empire, Rome. Romans recognize them as the Etruscans. Etruscans, too, used others’ efforts to live and communicate within society: Etruscans borrowed their alphabet from the Greeks due to their frequent contact. But there was more to the Etruscans,…

The mental world of every person is shaped by their environment and experiences in life. Everyone has a special outlook that may share some similarities with others. But, each mental world is unique to one person. The mindset of Okonkwo in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is very similar to his grandson Obi Okonkwo’s in No Longer at Ease. The difference in their mental world comes from the time period of Nigeria. Okonkwo developed his mental world during the transition period into British rule in…

is Akbar the Great. To begin with, the Divine Faith was a huge contribution to making the Mughal successful. Secondly, the Mughal dynasty expanded to a significant extent due to Akbar the Great. The importance of education was valued in the Mughal Empire during Akbar’s reign. Lastly, the monumental architecture was very visible throughout the Mughal Dynasty. Akbar the Great was extremely useful because he created the Divine Faith, expanded Mughal Dynasty, better education and monumental…

Being a newly formed nation, America did not share the same intelligence institutions as its counterpart, Britain, and therefore relied on the British for their, for a lack of a better term, brains and geographical advantages. The American department of state policy outline in the creation of the Atlantic Alliance that the United Kingdom should ‘retain control of her outlying possessions’ so that certain territories such as Malaysia would not ‘fall into less friendly hands.’ The phrase ‘less…

Plutarch vs. Shakespeare: Was Caesar a Good Man? According to the great philosopher Plato, “the measure of a man is what he does with power”. While we know a lot about Julius Caesar’s legendary military and political career; his character is more or less unknown. Was he a ruthless, ambitious dictator; or was he a wise leader whose ultimate concern was for his loyal subjects? Julius Caesar was born in July of 100BC. He joined the Roman army at a young age and quickly became a great general.…

Everyone has a battle between choosing their own fate, and hoping that their fate is already chosen. People like to believe that they are in control of their own life, nonetheless when things don’t go their way, they always turn to blame it on fate. Many believe that there are two fates; the one we choose and the one that is already chosen. They believe there is coexistence between the two. In the play by William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar , Cassius believes that their fate is made by their…