Boyar

that Vlad II behaved and stayed out the war between the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottoman Turkey. Dracula’s resentment for the Turks were growing day by day, while his brother had stockholm syndrome for the Ottomans. Vlad II was killed by the local boyars in 1447 along with Dracula’s half brother Mircea. Not long after this, Vlad II went on a campaign to regain his father’s throne. Vlad changed sides to the Holy Roman Empire as…

A name is meaningful, but an epithet holds greater weight. Tsar Ivan IV of Russia would rightfully gain the epithet of “the Terrible,” which became the name he would be better known by. Ivan left the Russian state in complete disarray through his policies and actions. Involvement in wars caused high taxes on the people, and Ivan’s mass killings contributed to epidemics and famine. These effects ravaged the Russian people and the land of security, economically and socially. Although numerous…

and later the czar. Russia’s first major territory, Novgorod, was like a very small kingdom with a prince in charge. It was called a principality. In Russia’s feudal system there were also boyars, next in command to princes. Princes couldn’t take boyar’s land if it was given to them, making some of the boyars just as powerful as the prince. Nevertheless, this all changed after the rule of the Mongols. In 1237, Batu Khan invaded Russia with a Mongol army, who were a group of barbaric soldiers. He…

During the sixteenth century there was a rise with Absolutism throughout the European monarch. Absolutism is the acceptance of or belief in absolute principles in political, philosophical, ethical, or theological matters. Two theorist, Thomas Hobbes and Jacques Benigne Bossuet, wrote books and articles to justify the points and needs of an absolute rule, although Absolutism has it benefits it’s not necessarily the best way of ruling one’s country. An example of an unsuccessful absolute ruler…

The Mongol Empire stretched from the Sea of Japan to the Carpathian Mountains at its height, making it the largest contiguous empire in history. The Mongol Empire was founded by Genghis Khan in 1206, and at its height, encompassed the majority of territories from southeast Asia to central Europe. An empire arose in the steppes of Mongolia in the thirteenth century that forever changed the map of the world, opened intercontinental trade, spawned new nations, changed the course of leadership in…

time in order to help Dracula purchase property in London. Dracula described his status as a foreigner when he told Harker: “Here I am noble; I am boyar… but a stranger in a strange land, he is no one” (Stoker 17). According to Dracula, at his castle he is master – he is in control and in power because everyone knows him and he in essence owns them. Boyar is a reference to the idea of feudalism – more specifically a feudal lord – and feudal lords own people – they are their masters. If Dracula…

Evaluation of the physiologic effects of high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC), which “is a heated, humidified, high-flow oxygen delivery system that can generate total gas flows of up to 60 L/min with an adjustable FIO2”, compared to conventional oxygen therapy (COT) for patients with hypoxemia and acute dyspnea in the emergency department was the focus of this study published in the American Association for Respiratory Care Journal (Rittayami, Tscheikuna, Praphruetkit, & Kijpinyochai, 2015). The…

back and realised his mistake, this piece of music is now immortalised along with the scene. Bibliography PALMER, C. The composer in Hollywood In-text: (Palmer, 1993) Your Bibliography: Palmer, C. (1993). The composer in Hollywood. London: Marion Boyars. RAPEE, E. Erno Rapee's encyclopaedia of music for…

Following psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder, I believe that a good way to explain Vlad Dracula’s violent behavior is through social learning theory. Social Learning Theory is the belief that, learning is a cognitive process that occurs through of social contexts, either through observation or instruction, experienced as an adolescent. As I described earlier in this paper, at the age of, either 12 or 13, Dracula, along with his brother Ruda, were both sent to be captives of the…

resulted in little celebration, due to Peter being Aleksey’s fourteenth son.But unlike his half-brothers, the offspring of his father’s first marriage, Peter managed to survive past infancy. In 1682, Peter was ruling Russia after being chosen by the Boyar Duma…