Chandragupta I

I was suffering from a significant mental illness and I was expected to die in my 25th year of my life. I couldn’t keep up with any schoolwork and I was always last in the list. Because of misery and my conniving bullies, I had no friends and I was the odd one out. I shrewd like any other kid in my previous years, but my misery just kept growing stronger every heartbeat. The depressing memories reoccurred like a faulty record player. I causally walked up to my locker, my depression following…

Veronica Fogo Behan Latin I 04/26/2017 The Growth of Christianity in Ancient Rome Christianity impacted ancient Rome drastically, changing their whole system of beliefs and morals. Before the spread of Christianity, Romans worshiped a large variety of gods and goddesses, many having been adopted from the Greeks. They believed that if they offered sacrifices to their gods, that they would be repaid with service. In 312 AD, the Emperor Constantine had a vision that stated that if he followed the…

How can I ever forget about that day, it marked me so deep into my veins and it was written all over in papers.. It was one sunday afternoon and as I exit the parking lot into the building were the store I worked was located I felt this warm feeling rolling round and round not only in my belly but in my head.. The smell of cannabis drowned the whole building it was insanely gross. I speed walked as I covered my nose with my long sleeve shirt. I made my way to the back where only employees were…

Legal Measures/Imperial patronage to Christianity: As stated before, during Constantine's time as Emperor the benefits of imperial patronage to the christian community, and church were enormous. Most important is that Constantine gave signal to a kind of change in regime that would end up reaching down, and bringing up the Christian church as a force not to be trifled with in the imperial society as well as with the largely pagan Roman state. Then it becomes a question as to what kind of…

The stories of the Christians being fed to the lions could have been fueled by the insanity of Christians to willingly die according to the pagans. It would be hard to argue that Christians were tossed to the lions for being Christians because most surviving accounts and evidence comes from Christians. The small Christian population at the time would have reason to exaggerate the truth in a empire surrounded by “bloodthirsty” pagans calling for the lions. The Christians being apart of the lower…

Formal Analysis The art piece that I am choosing to write my formal analysis on is A “Sunday afternoon on the island of LA Grande Jette” by Georges Seurat. The reason that I am choosing this piece is because ever since I was a small child and I saw this piece in an art class at my elementary school, I was always fascinated on the beauty and the simplicity of this piece. This piece represents what a Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande Jette would look like around the year of 1884. As you…

Harry I pull out the Uno cards and deal them out. One hand for me and another so I don’t feel lonely. I flip the top card, and one of the cards from the other hand fly over and lands on top. A blue 4. I freeze. Was there someone in the room with me? I look at my hand put down a green 4. Suddenly, there’s a series of taps. Tap, tap, tap, tap pause, tap tap. Morse code. Hi. I hesitate. “Hello. Are you a ghost? Can you speak?” He taps, “Yes.” And I wait. A male voice fills the room. “I do I just…

completely theoretical idea was that he probably already knew I was following him, and didn’t care to question that fact. He was striking, in the sense that he stood out amongst those in a crowd of average tastes. He took on a sort of "punk-rock" look, with a badass leather jacket and half-calf lace up boots. His face had enough piercings and retro jewelry on it to smelt into a two liter can of diced pineapple, though actually, in retrospect, I don't think they make two liter cans of diced…

meal tonight! I ate it all up, even though I don’t like carrots. I learned how to swim this summer! I can open my eyes underwater! It’s been 5 years now daddy. I’m in the 5th grade. Math is hard but I like computers. Mommy lets me sleep in your T-shirts. I think it still smells like you. I don’t need to sleep with the light on anymore. I try not to cry but it still hurts! I miss you. It’s been 10 years daddy I started high school I made the honor roll. I hope you are proud of me. I also made the…

Historical texts are often respected for their informational objectivity whereas art is revered for its visual and philosophical subjectivity. In respect to both historical texts and artistic vision one must be able to differentiate what is perceived and what is accurate. Eusebius’ Life of Constantine is a biography depicting the rule of the late Roman emperor Constantine, exercises offered by Peter Jenny’s The Artist’s Eye uses art as an exploratory aide to decipher a more profound meaning to…