Mark of Cornwall

Roman Empire is one of the most interesting empires in world history; a lot of legacies were left by many Roman Emperors and one of them is Octavian Caesar or Augustus Caesar—the first Emperor of Rome. To gain the power of the most powerful man in Rome at that time, Octavian had been through a lot. He was Julius Caesar’s grand-nephew and was the one that Julius Caesar appointed to be his true heir. When seeing that Julius Caesar slowly turned himself to an absolute ruler, the Senators united and…

Was Julius Caesar a hero or a villain? Personally, I think he was a hero. He was a hero because he made the senate larger, he had good leadership and strategy in the military, which made him able to win a lot of battles. Caesar was a military leader, and he was an amazing one. He won a lot of wars for Rome. He fought in the wars with the soldiers and took control of Rome. He had a great military strategy and leadership, and won the support of his soldiers through that. He also treated many of…

Satire allows satirists to critique society, not through senseless remarks, but through carefully constructed subtle biting remarks. Mark Twain wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn during the Reconstruction Era following the Civil War, yet it takes place prior to the actual Civil War when slavery was still commonplace. This allows Twain to retroactively satirize pre-Civil War United States with his knowledge of how American society would change in the coming years. In order to satirize the…

Hannibal Barca is widely considered to have been one of the greatest military commanders of all time. In the second Punic war, he marched an army of elephants, cavalry, and infantry over the Alps to assault Rome in their home territory, his most famous achievement, and fought a war that soaked Italy in blood for more than a decade. In the end, due to lack of support from Carthage, Hannibal was unable to take Rome itself, though he defeated many Roman armies, and he was forced to return to…

Brutus and Cassius, in William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, end up losing their lives during the battle between Antony, Julius Caesar’s best friend and Julius Caesar’s son, Octavius. This all occurs after the motives Brutus and Cassius had when they decide to kill Caesar. The reason for the downfall of Brutus and Cassius is because Marc Antony planned and spoke against them, Antony loved Caesar and they killed him, and his ambition. Since Caesar was ambitious, he caused the…

In both The Odyssey and The Swede, a character makes a decision regarding whether or not to act the way society has taught them to. In The Odyssey, Odysseus decides not to fight Scylla despite the integral part of his identity that is a war hero. The outcome of this is positive, and Odysseus grows as a person. Whereas in The Swede Danny regreses as a person to fit in as a teenage boy. Both stories give examples of how society's perception of individuals can change how they act. In The Swede,…

Is Huckleberry Finn is a shrewd character in the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain? Huck Finn is a very shrewd character because he is clever, cunning, and also street-smart. First of all, Huck is shrewd because he is very clever for a fourteen-year-old boy. He frames his death by killing a wild pig and making a trail of its blood, “I fetched the pig in, and took him back nearly to the table and hacked into his throat with the axe; and laid him down on the ground to bleed.…

started writing for the Golden Era. The Golden Era was privileged to publish his first of considered novels. After that job he became a clerk in the U.S. branch mint, a job that provided freedom for editorship of the Californian, where he contacted Mark Twain to write weekly articles. In the year 1868 after Harte published a series of Spanish Legends he was named editor of the Overland Monthly. For it he wrote “The Luck of Roaring Camp” and “The Outcasts of Poker…

Her name is dripped with legend, power and seduction. She became the last in a dynasty of Macedonian rulers founded by Ptolemy and would use her powers of beauty and charm to seduce military leaders. Cleopatra, is quite known in popular culture as this divining figure, using her brains and beauty to rule in her way, portrayed by beauty icons in films and plays such as Elizabeth Taylor and Claudette Colbert. Everyone knows her legend but very few actually understand her true importance as a…

Roman Empire unique because of several reasons. First roman empire had most powerful and organized the military system. The large standing army was concentrated on the frontier and defended the interior of the empire against foreign invasions. The Roman imperial administration attempted to make the Roman armies as productive as possible. Someone who had joined the army had decided upon his life’s work since the standard enlistment was twenty-five years. Romans believed that the that wanted to…