Medes

Cleopatra VII has been a famous figure throughout history. From her involvement with Julius Caesar and her famous love affair with Marc Antony, Cleopatra has intrigues historians and the world for her beauty, political involvement with Rome, and her intellect and how she was able to keep Egypt from becoming a part of Rome until her death. Cleopatra was the last ruler of Egypt and succeeded in keeping it from Roman control while she was still alive due to her utilizing Roman love interests to…

The book I decided to read was As Strong as Mountains: a Kurdish Cultural Journey, written by Robert L. Brenneman. I wanted to read this book because I did not know any aspects of the Kurdish culture. I enjoy learning about other cultures, and Kurdish is one culture that I had very little knowledge of. In fact, I am not very educated about the cultures within the Middle East in general. This book helped me understand new aspects of the Kurdish culture and their lifestyle. Author Brenneman…

(Later they were destroyed by the Babylonians) The prophet Nahum prophesied that Assyria would be destroyed (630 BC) Babylon, one of the cities ruled by the Assyrians rebelled (625 BC) During 612 BC, the Assyrians were destroyed The Babylonians and the Medes from what is now Iran destroyed Nineveh the capital of the Assyrian Empire. So the Assyrian Empire came to an end. However the Babylonians then began to conquer the peoples previously ruled by the Assyrians. The Babylonians created their own…

Age and Immaturity It is a universal truth that with age comes maturity. This composition will analyze the correlation of age and maturity in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, focusing exclusively on The Canterbury Tales. By analyzing the Knight, the Squire, “The Squire’s Tale,” and “The Miller’s Tale,” one can see a positive correlation between age and level of maturity. In Chaucer’s writing as the age of an individual increases, his level of immaturity decreases. Adolescence, or youth, is seen…

the two major powers, Athens and Sparta, threw the envoys down a hole in response. This created an anti-Persian alliance between Sparta and Athens ending a period of conflict between the two cities. In 490 B.C.E., Darius sent an army led by Datis the Mede and Artaphernes the Younger across the Aegean Sea to Eretria. The Persians plundered the city and took its citizens as prisoners. Flushed with victory, the Persian expedition landed on the coast of Attica near Marathon. With them, they brought…

Jean Toomer 's composite novel Cane, mirrors the Greek play The Bacchae by Euripides. This is accomplished through the use of specific symbolism and references to the vagrant preacher and Greek God, Dionysos. Toomer retells this play through his short story Esther. He does so by telling the story of a character who, after leaving the south and then returning, comes back entirely transformed. In addition, the perspective of a woman is given. She remains in the south her entire life in order to…

An Argument Against the First Image Political Realist in the Literary Example of Thucydides in The Peloponnesian War This international relations study will define the three images of war as theorized by Kenneth waltz to argue against the first image political realism of Thucydides in the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides was a general in the Athenian army that did not feel that a single leader or tyrant caused the war in the first image model, but in the clash of burgeoning nation states, such…

The image that the Spartan’s projected of their society painted them as a fearsome, suicidal collective to other Greeks. However, while this image is certainly rooted in truth, I take Spartan society to be more complex, which may have been interpreted as a weakness and perhaps if they were seen as complex by the other Greek poleis they might not have appeared so formidable. Firstly, Jean Ducat notes that the educational system in Sparta held greater significance than any other Greek city-states…

Said claims the boundaries are “arbitrarily drawn” by delineating his abstract notion of imaginative geography which originated from nature of humanity. In concerning this imaginary space “some distinctive objects are made by the mind, and that these objects, while appearing to exist objectively, have only a fictional reality,” in exemplification “[a] group of people living on a few acres of land will set up boundaries between their land and its immediate surroundings and territory beyond,…

“His deputy anointed in His sight, / Hath caused his death, the which if wrongfully, / Let heaven revenge, for I may never lift / An angry arm against his minister.” (1.2.38-41). This is the first concrete example of King Richard’s loss of power. John of Gaunt says to the Duchess of Gloucester that he refuses to exact revenge against Richard, even though Richard is probably behind the murder of his brother and her husband Gloucester, because Gaunt still believes that Richard was appointed to the…