Nero

“And be thankful.”(ESV Colossians 3:15). While this may not be the overall message of Colossians 3: 1-15, it still is a very powerful theme throughout the entirety of the bible. How often we tend to ignore the blessings of God, large and small, and this short last sentence of Colossians 3:15 is a short reminder to thank the Lord. While you may argue that in order to live like Christ you must be thankful, so therefore it is a part of the main theme, the overall message is instead strive to live…

Magazine, was written by Anthony A. Barrett, an accomplished writer. Including this book, he has published ten historical volumes, including Caligula: The Corruption of Power, Agrippina: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Early Empire, Aggripina: Mother of Nero, and The Epigrams of Janus Pannonius. His papers can also be found in academic journals, like the American Historical Review and the American Journal of Philology. The primary focus of these works are on the politics that surrounded Roman…

William Shakespeare is renowned for his extraordinary works in the tragedies he has composed. A Shakespearean tragedy is so well distinguishable from other writings that someone with little knowledge of his work could easily recognize it. Shakespeare’s signature is his use of the tragic hero: A person of nobility with several redeeming qualities that inevitably meets his or her own destruction due to a judgment error or character flaw. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, the tragic hero in “The Tragedy…

The Making of a Good or King: Comparing Clovis to Alexander Kings and Emperors are indeed multi-faceted people. Many possess good qualities like military knowledge, courage, and fairness. Some possess negative traits such as inflated egos, propensity for violence, and mistrust. Some rulers have an ability to adapt or change. Most often, a ruler in ancient history embodied a combination of these qualities. Looking at the reigns of the ancient rulers, one sees evidence of how these attributes…

prior to the book of Romans, Paul founded churches throughout the Mediterranean World. The church of Rome, however, was not founded by Paul. This was the only church that Paul addressed by letter that he did not found. At the time Paul wrote Romans, Nero was the emperor of the land. He had succeeded Claudius as the ruler of Rome. Though the rulers following Caesar and…

His name is Raphael Lemkin. Lemkin was born in June 1900, to a Polonized-Jewish family. From a young age Lemkin was fascinated with mass murders such as the persecution of Christians by Nero, who fed them to lions. He read books about ethnic groups being killed off. Lemkin could relate to the stories growing up due to various tragic events that took place in the surrounding areas. Such events included Jews getting injured or killed in…

suspects, more murders, and threats. At the end of the story, the detective or the author unmask the plot and the methods on how they solve the case. The detective shouldn't be a professional police officer. Many are private consultants, like Rex Srout's Nero Wolfe, a gourmet, and gifted amateurs. A number of police detectives gained popularity during the late 1900's and early 2000's. According to Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, “ The originator of this early type of story of detection…

Act I: Horatio joins two guards and the three all undeniably see the ghost of King Hamlet in full battle armor at midnight, as if he was fighting Norway again. Horatio, even though he is a man of science, is forced to accept that his eyes are not lying to him. In the morning/afternoon, Claudius announces that he will marry Gertrude (King Hamlet’s widow), acknowledging King Hamlet’s death but having no qualms about plowing him over when Hamlet has been buried for merely 2 months. Prince Hamlet…

Religion has always been a topic of discussion because everyone identifies themselves with one or none. The religion everyone identifies with is the guide for their morality and how they should live their life. The most known religions are Catholicism, Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism. Although they are different, they all sprung up from similar teachings and ideas. Christianity is one of the most popular religion today, however, it had a rough start like many other religions…

Abolishing the Death Penalty From the beginning of time the world has known conflict. It is human nature to know and to have conflict. It would be a fallacy to say that conflict will ever go away. It is a natural instinct for people to pick sides on an issue and it would be a miracle, but more realistically a lie, if everyone were to pick the same side on an issue. Throughout the years there have been several topics that start an uproar amongst the people. These topics are very controversial…