Carthage

Around this time in Rome, Christianity was rising and it hasn’t been a strong religion yet. This is an account from a personal diary written by Vibia Perpetua in Carthage during the Roman Empire. Perpetua was a young, newly married women with a child from upper class society and Felicitas was Perpetua’s slave who was pregnant. This diary serves as a time frame from her arrest till the moments before her death. Perpetua, Felicitas and dozens other people were arrested and all of them were…

Today I am a doctor, not by chance, but by choice: the choice I made to excel, to strive and to break the stereotype. I come from a small town with limited educational facilities, where going to high school, let alone a university is looked upon as shooting for the moon. Getting to medical school seemed like a fight against the big shots from the large cities with robust educational structures. I did not lose hope. I was driven by the energy to challenge my abilities. From improving my bad…

Night’s Dream, Shakespeare writes “My good Lysander! I swear to thee by Cupid’s strongest bow, By his best arrow with the golden head, By the simplicity of Venus' doves, By that which knitteth souls and prospers loves, And by that fire which burn'd the Carthage queen When the false Troyan under sail was seen, By all the vows that ever men have broke, In that same place thou hast appointed me,Tomorrow truly will I meet with thee” (Act 1, Scene 1, 170-175). Hermia made a big sacrifice, he left her…

being on a ‘civilising mission’ as a defence and justification of the Empire’s actions. He elaborates on this point further as alternative narratives to the nature of Roman life have been eradicated. This is evident with the burning of the library of Carthage, and as a result, Mattingly convincingly argues that there has been little exploration into the nature…

Influences of Augustine Throughout the semester in the book The Confessions we come across many factors that contributed to the intellectual and spiritual/moral development of Augustine of Hippo. I believe Monica and Ambrose to be the two most influential people in his life. Neo Platonism and Manichaeism also are two philosophical schools of thought that greatly affected Augustine throughout his lifetime and all that he had encountered. Monica was his mother and she is considered to be the…

In 1192 C.E, the Sultanate was initiate and conquered by Turkish Muslim Afghanistan riders. As the riders conquered the Delhi, they demolished local religious building and shrines. The riders did not always attack Hinduism and Buddhism, but the support they had for Islam helped them have a solid footing in northern India. In the excerpt “The ideal Muslin King”, the faith of Islam issued a guide for life that included the genuine behavior and treatment of the fellow Muslims. In the excerpt “the…

several historical incidents of were being feared over loved benefited or saved a ruler’s position or his nation. These historical examples include that of Cesare Borgia, illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI; Hannibal Barca, military commander from Carthage; and Scipio Africanus, Roman general who defeated Hannibal Barca. But since the publication of Machiavelli’s…

What is a truth? One may derive a multitude of definitions for this vague word and may come up with many different truths; and this is no different from how one perceives what a single or several symbols possibly mean. However, one could make inferences or inductions to what a symbol may indicate due to the symbol's usage and context of a given passage. And as such, one would perceive academia, the games, and the baby in Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf as having great symbolic…

feature was the Aegean Sea. The Aegean sea allowed for trade with other societies, which was crucial to Greece’s economy. It was home to many Greek islands as well. The sea allowed for a means of contact with other civilizations, such as Egypt and Carthage, and provided fish to eat. The geographical features of Greece contributed to the culture of its society, which in turn impacted the whole world and the future civilizations to…

Augustine heads to Carthage, ready to find both emotional and physical love. He also realizes that he is a jealous and suspicious lover. Augustine says, "Yet, had these things no soul, they would certainly not inspire our love" (31). If he didn't have these feelings he would not love and not care. At the end of chapter one Augustine says that he should be scourged with burning rods of jealousy, suspicion, fear, anger and strife. Augustin was fascinated by plays. He preferred tragedy because he…