Gladiators

Often times people tend to focus more on achieving rapid results or working extra hard to reach their goal, that they tend to neglect the long term effects associated with putting excessive strain on their bodies. Throughout Susan Bordo’s “Reading the Slender Body”, and Greg Garber’s “ESPN Sports Injury Series”, we will explore the numerous ways in which our vision of the good life can become tainted or damaged due to the effects associated with repetitive harmful behavior. This includes,…

Rome. Quite a bit of luck accompanied Pompey as he destroyed Marius ' supporters holding out in North Africa and Spain. Also, by chance, as he returned to Rome from Spain, he encountered and mopped up the remnants of a great slave revolt led by a gladiator named Spartacus. Another of Sulla 's former officers, Crassus "Dives" (the rich), had actually broken the back of this slave revolt that had terrorized Italy for two years. Nevertheless, Pompey claimed partial…

Prison abuse is described as “... mistreatment of persons while they are under arrest or incarcerated”. I am firmly against this. Prisoners deserve mutual respect and to have their humanity intact, the same as the guards do. However, because these guards are just as human as the prisoners, they have no place to overrule the punishment set by the court system. Overall, the people in charge of the prisoners should behave better than those they have power over. I do not want people in charge of our…

amphitheater (round, unroofed, arena) stadium ever erected in the Roman Empire. With the ability to hold 50,000 spectators, the Roman Colosseum was built for the entertainment of the Roman people. The Colosseum held various events/games, such as gladiator face offs and battles between wild animals. Though the Colosseum has had it’s fair share of destruction from both natural forces (ie. earthquakes) and human-induced events (ie. vandals), it was able to withstand these forces and remain standing…

gangs in New Jersey are on a rise in urban areas since the early 1990’s, mainly consisting of the Bloods and Crips. So many people are dying from the senseless killings of innocent adults and young children. Trying to understand the mindset of young African American males and females joining street gangs and committing horrible crimes such as murder, drug dealing and other criminal activities. “African-American gangs began to emerge in the Los Angeles area during the 1920's, which was in…

The main character of the book Wings Of Fire the Dragonet Prophecy, written by Tui. T. Sutherland, is Clay the Mudwing, he is part of the Dragonet Prophecy. In the beginning of the book Clay has doubts about himself and the prophecy. Clay thinks he is useless and weak because he can’t fight like Kestrel the Guardian Dragon that is training him to fight. Another Dragonet that has been brought into the prophecy is Glory. Glory is a Rainwing instead of a Skywing. Webs, one of the guardians…

Apple’s not so Cold War Now and then comes an exceptional commercial that you will never forget, not only because of the production but its strategies. Since they can define your view on a brand for years to come. That sensation is the one I had when I watched “1984” ad from Apple. Before the “.com” boom of the 1990s, the front line for tech companies was personal computers. Indeed, the biggest player at the time was “big blue”, IBM. However, competitors are coming along the way such as Apple.…

The ancient Romans were a social people, who rather than dining alone with their families, would attend decadent dinner parties at their friends houses. These dinner parties were a ritualistic affair that often lasted for hours at a time. They focused on culture and always had entertainment of some sort, from performers to the guests themselves who contributed by singing, dancing, reciting, and even making up short poems on the spot. This traditional Roman method of dining has been adopted and…

medal for their country, which required full life-time dedication and commitment that could be avoided by consuming these drugs. PED's have forever changed the world of sports. A survey from the sport in America corporation shows that performance enhancing drugs are the most focused category in sports corruption and are frowned upon by the majority of adults. Some say that the use and consumption of PED's could lead to the overall demise of all professional sports leagues and contests(Llewelyn,…

luck. My father says: ‘Only rich people go to therapy, poor people got things to do’, and yet here I am in this lifeboat, surrounded by ten of the most impeccable, insane people the world has ever seen. These people fight through every day like gladiators who fight demons worse than you, and I can even imagine, just because they want to live so badly. They want to hold on, to love. Because you can’t be this afraid of losing everything in this world if you don’t love everything you’ve ever seen…