Macedonians

Cleopatra’s family ruled Egypt for more than 100 years before she was born August 69 B.C. Cleopatra was a queen of Egypt but she was not Egyptian. She was the last of the Macedonian Greek dynasty that ruled Egypt from the time of Alexander the Great's death in 323 BCE to about 30 BCE. She was a talented and resourceful individual of great charm but ruthless when she felt she had to be. Cleopatra was the only one of her family that learned to speak the Egyptian (Coptic) language. She knew a half…

Logan Remetch Professor Craig Case ENGLISH 124.04 3 February 2017 Injustice in Birmingham In an era of unprecedented racial injustice, one man stepped up to the plate. Martin Luther King Jr. led several peaceful protests, gave several speeches defending minority rights, and served as a true example of Christ. Much like the apostle Paul and his colleague Silas, Martin Luther King Jr. was imprisoned for standing up for his beliefs. Just as Paul wrote, so did King. While he was imprisoned in…

Effects of Effectiveness Jonathan Edwards spoke in favor of the Puritan beliefs during his speech titled “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” on July 8, 1741. To a widespread audience of most everyone in the village, Edwards portrayed the Puritan’s belief by making it clear that God must be worshiped, for He is the only reason sinners have not already been sent to Hell. Likewise, Martin Luther King Jr. writes the “Letter From Birmingham Jail” to 8 clergymen fighting for the right to a…

As America moved out of slavery into legalized oppression, and eventually toward the Civil Rights movement, several men highlighted life in their time through their writings. In comparison of William Lloyd Garrison’s “To the Public,” Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience,” and Martin Luther King Junior’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” the reasons behind the blatant disregard for both legal and social rules are brought to light, contributing to the evolution of America as a nation. Despite…

“In the most essential way, she had failed him-seven times she had failed him-and now she was nothing but a burden to him” (Hosseini 99-100). Mariam is now useless to Rasheed because she cannot bear any children, and he now regards her as a nuisance. Before Rasheed knew Mariam could not bear children, he gave her presents and treated her kindly. But, when Mariam has seven miscarriages he starts to beat her for the smallest of reasons. Mariam knows she is not useful for Rasheed anymore because…

philosophical ideas, which caused him not to get the spot. (www.biography.com) Aristotle went back home some years later, and got the opportunity to tutor Alexander the Great. Him and his father held him to a high standard, and he became part of the macedonian court. Whenever Alexander had become king, Aristotle got permission by him to open up his own school. He would call it Lyceum. The student there had a range of things to study there, and a lot of the writer and built up the archives…

known as sitting president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Because the SCLC operates throughout the south, Dr. King, and his members were invited to Birmingham for this demonstration and "Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid." In all his examples of injustice in this letter, Dr. King back it up with a pivotal example of historical injustice. Furthermore, Dr. King stated his moral reason for being in Birmingham was because "Injustice is here." He…

How Ancient Roman Civilization was influenced by the Greeks Before the Roman Empire While the Roman Empire (although not an empire yet) was developing, Hellenistic Greece had strongly influenced the whole Ancient World thanks to the conquests of Alexander the Great. Strangely enough though, although respectful of such a great civilization, many Roman people during the eighth century BC bore hostility towards the rising Greek civilization, probably because of their extreme differences in way of…

“How tech and media can fight fake news”. Here Smith explains that conservative viewers will most likely consume news that fits their bias, “There are deep conspiracy theorists who believe in false flags… And there are, perhaps most hallucinatory, Macedonian teenagers for whom feeding Trump supporters what they want to hear on sites like WorldPoliticus.com and TrumpVision365.com was a good way to make a few bucks.”. Smith means to convey that conservative viewers wont listen to news they…

was born in the royal palace in Alexandria, that was within the Nile Delta, sometime within the winter of 69-68 B.C. History does not record the exact date of her birth, neither does it give the name of her mother. Her father was Ptolemy XIII, a Macedonian Greek, who was king of all Egypt. Cleopatra was very ambitious and was definitely a risk-taker, she risked much in the pursuit of her ambition, and failed tremendously. And she must have been a good communicator because she influenced both…