I Decided

Constantine is often regarded as the first Christian emperor, receiving veneration as a saint in both the Eastern and Western churches. The myth of “Saint Constantine” states that he awoke in the middle of the night, a bead of sweat might have been dripping down his temple, as he recalled the dream that initiated the rise of Christianity . Visions of Christ had told him in this dream to paint the first letter of Jesus’s last name on his army’s shields and for the spears to be made into crosses .…

features make the building interesting. Flesh out your intro. To start off, the Arch of Constantine was built in honor of Constantine I. Three years after Constantine I defeated Emperor Maxentius at the Battle of Milvian Bridge in 312 AD, the senate built the Arch of Constantine for Constantine I. Although it was built by the senate, it was most likely that Constantine I actually paid for the building. The building went up in 315 AD. The Arch was built between the Roman Colosseum and the Roman…

Eusebius’ excerpt The Life of the Blessed Emperor Constantine and Mou Tzu’s excerpt The Disposition of Error clearly depict the issues Rome and China faced as these new religions entered their society. During Eusebius’ time Christianity was a fairly new religion and was seen as a threat to Pagan Rome, thus it received a lot of backlash. Mou Tzu lived in 6th century China which was after the Han Dynasty fell. This was a time where people were open to new ideas. Thus Mahayana Buddhism flourished…

I am going to start out by apologizing because this is going to be long. But I believe everything I say is worthy of saying so I hope you don’t just give up and stop reading. I am a person that doesn’t particularly like school. Something about being stuck in a classroom for seven hours and force fed facts I don’t always want to learn just has me counting down the days till summer. So are there things I would change about the school system? Yes. Is there an aspect I wouldn’t change about the…

Long story short me and my grandfather (whom I call Poppie) are very close. Poppie lives in East Brunswick, and has for the great majority of conscious life. My relation to Poppie comes from my mom’s side of the family; Poppie is my mom’s father. My mom passed away when I was nine years old, so suffice it to say, me and Poppie consequently have a somewhat unique relationship. I talk about just about everything with Poppie, however for whatever reason our conversations have a way of becoming…

I would say that the arch nemesis of the Roman empire during Constantine’s reign were the Persians. The emperor Constantine had previously negotiated peace with the Persian emperor, mainly due to the fact that the number of Christians had greatly increased in Persia as stated in his letter to the Persian emperor “I mean of course the Christians, my concern being for them – how pleasing it is for me to hear…

The wide spread of practicing the worship of spiritual beings helped expose early societies to communicate in other forms of expression besides language and writing. Art, storytelling, production of precious metals such as silver and gold, starting being highly sought after and thus helping the progression of trade between civilizations from different areas around the known world. Another trend in earlier civilizations was creating monuments and temples in honoring their Gods. Wonders of…

In the fall of 1976 Wozniak finished the Apple II prototype. Jobs realized that it could become a major success; however they still lacked funds to produce it in large quantities. In 1977 Mike Markkula invested $92,000 in Apple. It wasn’t until The Apple II that Jobs PC hit it big. While the power of computing formerly had been available only to techies, it was suddenly delivered to classrooms, dens, and offices. Apple II was introduced in 1977 as the first fully assembled, programmable…

Do you know how Christianity spread? Do you know how Rome was saved? In this essay, I will be talking about how Constantine saved Rome and spread Christianity. His father, Flavius Valerius Constantius, was one of the members of the army. In 208, Constantine 's father left his wife and married the stepdaughter of Maximian and he was elevated to the deputy emperor under Maximian. Since his father was the Deputy Emperor Constantine wanted to fight battles with his father so he joined the army.…

distribution, online services, consumer electronics and so much more. Apple Inc. has a total of 115,000 employees (as of July 2015) and had a worldwide net profit of USD8.5 billion in 2015. The first Apple computer was created on April 1st 1976 named Apple I. Apple incorporated in 1977 in California. For around 20 years Apple Computers, Inc. was essentially a manufacturer of personal…