Cato the Elder

Bethesda’s role-playing games give the player the power of choice in a huge open world. Bethesda’s two most successful franchises, Fallout and The Elder Scrolls, are also the two most popular role-playing franchises in the world. Bethesda’s two most successful games, which happen to come from their two most popular franchises, are Fallout 4 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Both games are beautifully made and are incredibly fun to play, but which game is the greatest role-playing game in the…

I Am The Dragonborn “ When the truth dawns, it dawns in fire” says Esbern, Nord, and one of the last remaining blades. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is a game released November 11, 2011 by Bethesda softworks with the intention of continuing their popular “The Elder Scrolls” series. The promotional commercial begins with pictures carved in dark stone with the dragonborn theme song beginning to play softly in the background. The Narrator's voice comes up and begins to tell lor from the game as the…

The story takes place in a country known as Elsweyr. The time period of this story take place in medieval times. Things like dungeons and dragons. Elsweyr is located in the southern part of a continent known as Tamriel. The people of this country are known as the Khajiiti. The Khajiiti are a feline humanoid race. They have many traits of a regular feline such as great agility, stealth, strength, and night vision. This makes them very good warriors and very good thief 's. The Khajiiti are not…

This simulation inspired me that, the balance of power can not simply explain the cause of World War I. By using Waltz’s three levels of analysis, the individual acts and beliefs, the collision of interest between states, as well as the anarchic nature of the international system could explain the outbreak of WWI. On the individual level, important figures significantly affected the possibility of war and the process of history. For example, Garivalo Princie was a Serbian nationalist who…

Helmuth Von Moltke and the Battle of the Marne Introduction By August, 1914 Europe had reached a boiling point. Germany and the Austro-Hungarian empire prepared themselves for an inevitable war against France and Russia. Germany had been planning for war for nearly two decades. Helmuth Johann Ludwig Von Moltke, German Chief of Staff, placed the fate of the entire German army into the success of the Schlieffen Plan, a grand mobilization plan he had inherited from his predecessor, which…

Mission Command An army officer who in charge of leading military mission must understand that his commanding style contribute a lot for success in battlefield. The typical way through which an officer is more successful which will be discussed through the entire of this paper is the mission command system. This decentralized command system increases the performance of the commander at a wide range. In fact, this evolving concept, which also suit the current operational environment, suffer from…

well represented in today’s society. There are few people who do not know at least a little about Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great, but up until a few years ago almost no one knew who King Leonidas of Sparta was and still few people know who Cato the Elder is. Is it fair that these great men, men just as worthy of praise as Caesar and Alexander, are shunned and forgotten in today’s society? In comparison these men are all worthy of praise, so why are two remembered as great leaders and two…

Third Punic War, “of Carthage’s population of 200,000 to 400,000, at least 145,000 had perished…and dispersed into slavery all 55,000 survivors” (Kiernan 51). The Carthaginians were destroyed by Romans because of the ideal society put forth by Cato the Elder, the resulting genocide of the Carthaginian people left survivors who became slaves. The destruction of Carthage “fits the definition in the 1948 UN Genocide Convention: intentional destruction “in whole or in part, [of] a national,…

Greek literature in the beginning. A few notable writers in the Roman history will be discussed here. Marcus Porcius Cato the Elder was a prominent figure in politics and Latin prose during the early development of Roman society. Cato was born 234 BC in Tusculum, Italy and died 149 BC in Rome, Italy. He was a Roman statesman and historian and well known for his conservative views. Cato produced the first history of Rome in the Latin language incorporated into a total of seven books called…

Much countries that have an unstable government mirror the same types of social structures. The regimes of North Korea, Sudan, and Somalia has great disparity between the social classes. The poor in these countries have very little compared to the rich, and the reason behind much of this is the inadequate or over-enforcement of the laws. Suzanne Collins got inspired by these events and wrote a book based off of these events. The Hunger Games suggests that the hierarchical manner in which social…