Mercenary

because sometimes, Deadpool does follow a moral code. Though Deadpool is portrayed as a damaged, the comics often include situations where Deadpool chooses to save an innocent person, or stop an evildoer. Though Deadpool’s official occupation is as a mercenary, he’s often seen making choices that go against the wishes of whoever is paying him, and usually this deviation is driven by Deadpool’s moral code. Unfortunately, as a result of the mind-numbing and chilling history of Deadpool, his moral…

In the book Brunelleschi’s Dome, Ross King refers to Filipo Brunelleschi as a renaissance genius. It’s actually a part of the full title to the book. Many things led King to this conclusion. No precedence was set for what Brunelleschi did. His designs and methods were so incredibly innovative that he reinvented how architecture was done during the Renaissance. Before Brunelleschi there was a profound lack of technical knowledge amongst the architecture community. Much of the building knowledge…

The Ottoman Empire, was an empire created by some Turkish Tribes at the end of the 13th Century, in the North-Western Anatolia. The Ottomans were known as warriors for the faith of Islam, who were inspired and sustained by Islam and Islamic Institutions. The Ottomans most successful period was between the 16th and 17th centuries. During this period, the Ottoman Empire expanded out over three continents. This covers what we know today as Turkey, Egypt, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Macedonia,…

“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed” is stated by Martin Luther King, Jr. This powerful quote speaks for all thirteen colonies wanting to separate themselves from Great Britain. Fifty-six men were determined to fix multiple problems by introducing the fundamental ideas through a document. The belief brought to attention was all men are created free and equal and own the same inherent, natural rights. This treatment was not given to the…

After the dismantling of the British American Empire that proceeded 50 years before the revolution, British attempted to reform the Empire, but the practice created extreme chaos. Nevertheless, various factors made the approach the source of Revolutionary movement. It is essential to note that immediately after the French and Indian War, which did not only result in severe territorial gains but also an enormous expense for the British government, the British were determined to establish as well…

the Catholic Church The First Crusade arose from Pope Urban II’s aspiration to harness worldly power for the Church. In the mid-1090s, Emperor Alexios I of Byzantium sent a letter to the Pope requesting military aid, hoping to get a few thousand mercenaries to help fend off the Turks who had been encroaching ever closer to his capital. This…

will be fostered out or put in an orphanage. The foster care system has its own negative aspects along with the adoption system as they coincide with one another. Likewise, many foster parents are abusive or choose to house foster children for “mercenary” reasons or for their own greed (Antonio 25). In contrast, some orphans like their foster parents only to be shipped from home to home by Social Workers (Antonio…

became almost the equal of Rome. Be sure to show the strength of both and how this conflict led to Rome becoming a naval power. The foreign policy of Carthage was very different from that of the motherland. The Phoenicians had maintained an army of mercenaries, but had used them only to protect their country from the robber kings of Damascus and Jerusalem. They had many ships of war, but had used them only to convoy their round-bellied ships of trade and to keep off the attacks of the Greek and…

4. “The notion that the later Middle Ages was a calamitous, miserable period has been vastly overstated.” Before examining whether this assertion is exagerated or not, it is important to understand where this view comes from. “Struck by a plague that carried off between a fifth and a half of its population, shaken by Ottoman Turks who conquered Constantinople and moved into the Balkans, buffered by internal wars that threatened the very foundation of its political life, Europe shuddered.”1…

“The supremacy of the civil over the military is fundamental to the American system of government, and is wholeheartedly accepted by every officer and soldier in the military establishment.” General MacArthur wrote these words in his book Reminiscences, after he had been relieved from his command in Korea in 1951. Military subordination in civil-military relations would be uncontested in contemporary scholarly discussions, if his statement would have a perpetual validity. Civilian control of…