Greek War of Independence

in the 1600’s they weren’t considered a poet, let alone a contributor to society. But both of these women became a powerful threat to the men once they both became educated and had an interest in poetry. Bradstreet was a white Puritan who related greek beliefs to her lifestyle and human society as a whole. Wheatley was an African American poet who was a slave, but she wasn’t like the others, she was educated. But both of these women had differences as well. One was brought down by their male…

French-Algerian philosopher, author, and journalist, Albert Camus’ literary works are often reflective of the catastrophic effects of WWII and the Algerian War for Independence had on the state of the human condition. Camus’ background as an Algerian journalist, as well as his role in the French resistance during World War II, form the foundation of his belief in the possibility of the triumph of human value in response to the experience of the absurd. This notion of the absurdity of the human…

billion Monotheistic people around the world every day. They ask for his forgiveness and kindness in their lives, but the question is where dad is? Why he is not doing anything about all these wars, poverties, hunger, and genocides that gripped human society. Where was him when over 60 million people died in World War Two. What was more important than Darfur genocide, and what does stop him to intervention in human’s society to eliminate the poverty and hunger, and the gap between wealthy and…

and grape products for grain. Since they were located on the coast, Greece had a strategic point for trade and cultural diffusion. Athens became a rich commercial center and Greeks had a money system. They had city-states with identities and cultures. They were considerably independent and were always competing with each other. Sparta was militaristic and agricultural while Athens was cultural, political, and commercial. In Sparta, women had more rights than in other areas. They had adult male…

One of the fringe benefits of being an English or History teacher is receiving the occasional jewel of a student blooper in an essay. I have pasted together the following "history" of the world from certifiably genuine student bloopers collected by teachers throughout the United States, from eight grade through college level. Read carefully, and you will learn a lot. The inhabitants of Egypt were called mummies. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is…

Isocrates Isocrates was born five years shy of the beginning of the Peloponnesian War (431 B. C.) in Athens to wealthy parents. When Isocrates was fourteen, the democracy voted on the death of all the male citizens of Thracian, a city in Scione. Since that incident, Isocrates sought to unite Greece and for it to be in peace. This remained his political philosophy through the years. After the Peloponnesian War, Isocrates lost all his inherited wealth and had to make a living on his own. He…

Cummings expressed his opposition to the systems that did him wrong: the French government for jailing an innocent man and the American government for leaving him out to dry . The Enormous Room served as another representation of Cummings’ stubborn independence, for he made the central theme of the book romantic individualism against oppression and…

1. As stated in Roots of Evil, “Slavery was not only an established element in Greek society, but was accepted as vital for the preservation of freedom as the Greeks saw it.” (Everett, 13) Slavery played a huge role in the foundation of Ancient Greek society. Ancient Greece’s democracy was very dependent on slavery. In Ancient Greece, slaves had many different and necessary roles in society. Slaves did the work of farmers, crafts people, police, teachers, factory workers, etc. When slaves are so…

citizens of Rome to buy the unoccupied land. Enslaved foreign peoples taken from conquered lands became Rome’s agricultural workforce. The Roman government established a nationalized government similar to the Persian’s, to soothe the wounds of the Punic Wars temporarily. The nationalized government required Roman territories to pay tribute to the Roman Empire and provide men that would become soldiers in the Roman legion. The mixing of foreign peoples made Rome a multicultural, multinational…

techniques, some of them progressed over time and advanced to newer, better technologies that would aid them during war. The pass of Thermopylae, a famous battle fought between the Greek polis Sparta versus the Persians shows how these new technologies and battle strategies, at that time, were advantageous or disadvantageous to different empires. The Spartans had a strong…