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    1.Introduction: Legacies can take on many forms, from money to wisdom and many other things. For the Romans their legacy came in the form of religion, politics, and architecture. The Romans religious practices, use of the republic, and the practicality of their architecture still influences modern day people. 2.Info 1: Religion •Christianity is a religion based on the belief on an after life •Ignores wealth and status •Tale of a man who died but then lived again •One God •No…

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    Socrates, Herodotus, Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar. These are a few names that are known throughout history for their contributions to modern society. Rather it be in art, philosophy or war, modern society has been influenced one way or another by these men as well as the culture from that time period in history. Their concepts and ideas have been distributed into America’s culture and building practices. The architectural design of that era has also made its way into the very…

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    Ancient Rome has been depicted in various fashions by Roman authors, whose literature may vary from telling fictional tales to chronicling factual history, but in some way share a part of the Roman culture. One recurring aspect of their culture in Roman literature is unequal treatment according to gender, as women are consistently regarded and treated as an inferior people. (Topic) Both in ancient works of literature and modern studies of the Roman Empire, (Argument) the culture can be described…

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    The Aeneid, by Virgil, follows the journey of Aeneas and his crew from the fallen Troy to their new home in modern day Italy. Along the way they face many trials and battle with many other nations before landing on the shores of King Latium’s kingdom. At this point, the area around the future Tiber River was ruled by two warring kings: Latium and Evander. Throughout the course of Book VII and Book VIII, the true characterization of each king and their nations are explained. This drives the plot…

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    The excerpt from Graffiti from the walls of Pompeii tells readers what daily life was like in Pompeii. Pompeii was located in ancient Rome and was considered a city. The sources title “Graffiti from the walls of Pompeii” is quite literal because the writings actually came from graffiti on walls in Pompeii. The sources of graffiti are very important to archeologist because it gives them an inside look at what life was like in Pompeii. It can tell one what they mainly focused on in their community…

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    The article, “Female Gladiators of the Ancient Roman World” is an article by Steven Murray that was published by the Journal of Combative Sport in July 2003 . It features several pictures from the Museum of London and the British Museum of evidence of female gladiators in the Roman world. The article itself is based on the exhumation of a female gladiator’s gravesite in what had once been Roman London and circles around the evidence of female gladiators in the Roman Empire. The reason for the…

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    As legend has it, Rome was founded by Romulus and Remus, twin sons of Mars, the god of war. Left to drown in a basket on the Tiber by a king. They were rescued and raised by a she-wolf. The twins lived to defeat that king and found their own city on the river’s banks. After killing his brother, Romulus became the first king of Rome, which is named after him. Rome’s era as a monarchy ended and turned into a republic, a world derived from the property of the people. It later was transformed into…

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    Henrietta Swan Leavitt was a female astronomer who lead the way for the ability to measure the distance between two planets, along with many other. Leavitt was born to a minister in Lancaster, Massachusetts in 1868. She attended a a higher education at Society for the Collegiate Instruction for Women, now named Radcliffe College. She graduated the college with a Bachelor's degree, but it was not in astronomy, which she would later dedicate her life to. She did take an astronomy class in her…

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    When working in the medical field, learning and using medical terminology is essential to navigating through the vast ever-advancing medical world. Every occupation within healthcare uses it. Medical terminology is a universal language in the medical field that helps us identify, define and understand large complicated terms which facilitates faster and easier to understand oral and written communication. With the ability to put together root words and modify them by using prefixes and suffixes,…

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    Although author Cheryl Swope received her master’s degree in special education and worked as an overseer of thirteen public school special education programs, the enormous challenge of teaching her own special needs children became a task that no formal education or previous practice had prepared her for handling. Yet, through days and years of personal study and learning with her precious children, Swope gained extensive insights into how to best teach her children. In Simply Classical: A…

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