Mark Haddon

As seen in these pictures, there is quite a difference between today’s meaning of vandal and its very first beginnings. Nowadays, it is used to illustrate criminals such as arsonists and graffiti artists (I will be talking more about them later on); “vandal” is actually its own criminal term, meaning one who “deliberately destroys or damages public property”. And that is what it has unfairly become to mean: one who intentionally and carelessly ruins/wrecks something beautiful or worthy of…

The Latins were Indo-European people who settled in west-central Italy in a country called Latium. Latium was originally settling on the territory within the Alban Hills and was bounded by countries like Samnium, Sabina, Campania and Etruria (The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica, 2015). The Latins who stayed in Rome had a common identity with the Romans as one people. The Etruscans who settled within the Romans influenced them in art and other fields and as Rome grew in numbers, it began to…

Caesar is becoming the king of Rome soon, but Cassius, Casca, Cinna, Trebonius, Metellus Cimber, and Caius Ligarius all don’t think of him as their ideal king and they go to extreme measures to prevent him from wearing the crown, but he does have friends willing to help like Antony who would seem to be his only friend. But where does Brutus stand in all this, is he friend or foe, and to who or whom. It will be determined how Brutus’ choses made him a patriot and not a traitor. Brutus is a good…

I did not choose to do my forum on The Political Force of Images theme, but your post did an amazing job of describing why you believe the chosen artwork was a good representation of the theme. Your description of the sculpture is very strong and I do believe the Santiago Matamoros is a good representation of the Spanish reconquista. As you mentioned in your post, he was called Saint James the Moor Slayer and was a very important figure in the reconquest. He was clearly known for slaying many…

The death of Julius Caesar was a bitter and gruesome one. He died by the hand of his friend Brutus and his own group of senators who badly mutilated his body. His last words were , “Et Tu Brutus” ? meaning you too Brutus. This was a grave mistake on the part of the assassins because the people of Rome loved Caesar. According to the 1st Century’s article on Julius Caesar, Caesar always took care of his soldiers even the ones that weren’t serving and he gave them all land. Julius Caesar was also…

Hello today my fellow senators I have brought you hear to anounce that Julius Caesar has broke many violations and is destroying what Rome had took a long time to do get rebulic freedom and so Julius Caesar desrved be assassinated for these fallowing reasons. First Caesar had tried turning Rome into some sort of dictatorship.He had dissrupted the oath not to have a king.This was because Rome had wanted more freedom so they had changed it from a dictatorship to a republic but Caesar was trying…

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. In Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar Caesar’s ambition to become king leads to his tragedy. The conspirators aimed to end this ambition and to ensure that the Roman Republic remained. Brutus ambition to get the Roman public to understand his logic on assassinating Julius Caesar clashes with…

Throughout his time as leader, Claudius proved to deliver results regardless of others believing he was easily manipulable. Once in power he showed himself to be cleverer than previously thought and in the foreign field solved with dignity the main problems inherited from his predecessors. It was Claudius who introduced others into the government that were foreigners, which was a big change, and undertook the conquest of seizing Britain to the empire. He skilfully avoided confrontation with the…

In “The Birthmark,” Nathaniel Hawthorne represents Aylmer as an ambitious scientist, whose passion is reserved for the study of natural philosophy. The reader is given the impression that Aylmer spends most of his time in a lab. But one day, Aylmer marries young woman, named Georgiana, however, her appearance is not perfect as she has a birthmark on her face. The story immediately shifts to how Aylmer and feels about the birthmark. Aylmer is troubled with the physical and spiritual perfection…

1 English 2, part 2, assignment 2_9 Annotated BibliographyHistory (2016) Julius Caesar. Retrieved from www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/julius-caesarJulius Caesar was devoted to his country. He gave his energy and time to the conquest of Gaul modern France, Northern Italy and Southern France. Julius Caesar was aware of his enemies took the threats of the Roman province and empire very seriously. It was a battle between the countries.Mark, J. (2016). Julius…