Gladiator

(Movemequotes.com, n.d.) Fear does not inspire, fear keeps others down. Love inspires and respects. People always want to feel inspiration and respect rather than feel put down and trembling in fear. I think Maximus from Gladiator was a great example of someone who made his army feel loved and respected. And the newly appointed emperor, Commodus, rules only by fear. In the end, his own army chooses the love and inspiration that Maximus showed. This is a great example of what…

who can get more insulting and graphic. This is due to the fact that there is an unwritten rule that states we have to compete, pursue and hold power differently. The path to power for women looks more like "hunger games" on steroids and only the gladiators with nerves of steel make it through and the few who do, have to be clad in armor to survive the gender stereotyping that comes with the…

Mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut, Egypt There were many factors in the ancient cities that influenced the construction of buildings. Elements such as geography, environment, economic activity and social practice all played an immense role in the 11th century of ancient Egypt. The ancient city of Thebes would not have turned out to be the dynasty that it was without these components being present. It was vitally necessary for the city to use the components to their advantage in order to…

“Greek myth is so much a part of the fabric of our consciousness, of our unconscious really, that we scarcely notice” (Foster, 1). When thinking the word myth, our minds automatically think of the distant Greek and Roman myths fabricated on the shores of the Mediterranean thousands of years ago. We think of legends told as a kid; fables of strength, love, courage, adventure, and naturally almighty gods and goddesses. A myth “is a story which is not „true‟ and which involves (as a rule)…

“The Culture that drives the people” In 1908, during the reign of many Boxing greats, the world’s first black heavy weight champion became Jack Johnson; He fought in many challenging (Chitterling) circuits in order to prove himself. It is believed that this ‘Jail house style of boxing’ was formulated during his boxing matches or surfaced during the Ragtime, Dixieland and the Blues era and no later than the Swing and Jazzy Bebop-hip culture of the 40’s and 50’s. Music has always been the…

Since the product is very expensive, Samsung can be selective where they display and sell it at. To begin with, Samsung only has about sixty five online retailers that sell this new product off the internet. Within those sixty-five or so, there are about ten to twelve retailers that most every American knows, including Target and Walmart. After researching and exploring the major retailers to see which carried the Samsung Television on-line, the only available results are from Best Buy. The…

Ancient Rome grew from a small town into an empire that covered most of your up, Britain, Western Asia, northern Africa and the Mediterranean islands. I believe the ancient Romans contributed the most to modern society and here are my reasons why. Roommate many architectural achievements, a lot of these concepts are still used today. Some buildings that we were designed many years ago, were modified and used all over the world. Without ancient Rome and Greece, we would not have made the…

Roman Empire’s fall? “Roma Invicta”. It’s a proud phrase for the Romans that carries the meaning of ‘Unconquered Rome’. It signifies the glory of the empire and its striving economy, its colosseums holding thousands of crowd for ceremonies, its gladiators fighting in the arena to their death, its great aqueducts carrying water for the city of Rome, its busy port filled with traders from the far east of China to the cold, northern Germanic lands, its senators debating for the future of the…

As will be observed in this review, the critical analyses of the films Thelma and Louise (1991) and The Hunger Games (2012) by applying feminism and semiotics theoretical perspectives, separately to one film and the content of which each can be interpreted following that perspective and theoretical approach. Critically analysing this by an exegesis of the films and the knowledge of theoretical perspectives and philosophy within the content development and critiquing of films wider meanings and…

Death. The end of life. The total and permanent cessation of all the vital functions of an organism (dictionary.com). Death is the absolute ending to a living thing. This concept at first is difficult to grasp. As a child, one doesn’t understand the finality of it. How does a more intellectually capable human explain to a young mind about this final event? Lies of a “long sleep” or “happy trip” are told to them to keep the idea simple. In reality though, the idea of death is a very complex…