Greek War of Independence

103-025Dr. Paliwoda2 November 2017 Midterm I - Prompt IThe “Women of Suli” and the Definition of War  “Women of Suli,” a poem by Theoni Cracopolou and translated by Rae Dalven, best illustrates what war is really like. It’s not a poem of violence and destruction, soldiers and weapons — it’s a tale of the true effects of war and the decisions and sacrifices it causes those to make. During the Greek War of Independence of 1821, all the women of Suli leaped to their death with their children in…

Lysistrata during the Peloponnesian War in 411 B.C. Aristophanes created plays that symbolized his own opinions and views on topics affecting him and other Athens. The play Lysistrata describes Aristophanes views of the Peloponnesian War and the possibility of peace through uniting the forces of the Greek women. The play contains the themes of humor and sexuality, but the straightforward expression of war in the play describes how Aristophanes feels about the war. Synopsis The story begins…

The Cold War, a war not of physical combat but everything else, a war between capitalism and communism, a war like the many before it, bears with it shortcomings along with merits. This war made both sides tense and paranoid. President Truman would introduce his famous Truman Doctrine, which would confirm the paranoia against the communist regime. Which in turn angered neighboring nations, The kremlin, and select few Americans. The war caused the two superpowers to set their sights to the stars…

The Articles of Confederation was the active form of government in America by 1777, despite not being universally ratified until 1781. During the early years following the Revolutionary War, Hamilton recognized the budding defects in current governmental structure, most notably the fact that the federal government could not wrangle the various State Legislatures to move in unison on a path to preserve the Union and protect America’s newfound liberty. Hamilton could see the writing on the wall,…

villages, Sparta began to expand by 750 conquering several neighboring regions and enslaving the people to work for the society. (At Home Reading: The Ancient Greeks) Sparta conquered Messenia between 650-620 BCE but got its first challenge in the 6th century and was defeated by Argos and then again by Teagea. (At Home Reading: The Ancient Greeks) After these two defeats, it changed Sparta into a purely militaristic society because they didn’t want to be defeated nor threatened again. Lycurgus…

In 1779, Thomas Jefferson, a Founding Father and later President of the United States, saw a need for a new educational system in Virginia. Jefferson saw education as a necessary component to the young United States and believed that a change from the then-present system needed to happen. To do this, he created “A Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge” and presented it to the Virginia Assembly on June 18th, 1779. Jefferson’s bill advanced learning and republican ideals by creating…

math to philosophy and politics. Greek art was also a popular area of interest and highly encourage their writings of manuscripts. “He believed that by examining individual objects, we can perceive their form and arrive at universal principles, but they do not exist as a separate rate higher world of reality beyond material things; rather they are a part of things themselves.”(Women Can Be Priests) The Middle Ages were that of chivalry, death, disease, dying, war and then there was a shift…

The Ottoman. Historical Armenia ended up being divided between the Russian and the Ottoman later known as the Turkish. There were periodical massacres of Armenians in the 1890’s which was organized by the Turkish authorities. The Turkish used World War I to basically remove the Armenian population. It was…

Impact on Society? (How did this person or event impact governments, citizens, etc.) Thomas Hobbes Greek Historian Thucydides history on the war between the Athens and Sparta inspired Thomas to improve the democracy. Galileo inspired Thomas to apply mechanistic principles to our society. Published first work in 1629. A translation of Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War. A Short tract on first principles was his first philosophical work published a work that later became…

age of nine he had already began to study Latin, Greek and French. Thomas Jefferson is a Federalist and his opponent Alexander Hamilton is an Anti-Federalist. A Federalist is someone who supports the community to create a social government and an Anti-Federalist is someone who does not trust the community and wants to make a national government. Thomas Jefferson made a big impact on the United States in the 1770’s such as The Declaration of Independence, the Louisiana Purchase, and The…