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    Alexander the Great is known as the King of Macedonia and conqueror of the Persian Empire. One of the writers of Alexander, Plutarch was ethnically Greek, but a citizen of Rome. The author takes famous Greek characters and compares them to Roman characters in his biographies; he has created the romantic picture of Alexander and used the story of Alexander to exemplify what is good leadership, and he does emphasize certain values that would be consider good qualities found in a leader, and the…

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    Aaron Sanchez Mrs. Behan MA Latin 2 4-18-18 Alexander the Great Alexander III of Macedonia or more commonly known as Alexander the Great, was king of Macedonia, hegemon of Greece, and conqueror of the Persian Empire. He was born in July 356 B.C in Pella, Greece. Former king of Macedonia,Philip II of Macedonia, was Alexander the Great’s father. Alexander spent most of his years on an unprecedented military campaign through Asia and northeast Africa. He created one of the largest and most powerful…

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    The Macedonian king Alexander the great was actually not that great. I mean sure he built cities and took over places but does that make you great? I don't really think so. My reasons behind this is he killed as many as 80,000 people in nine months, he sold 20,000 people as slaves, and made others worship him like a god. When Alexander the great went to invade persia and they were fighting he killed over 80,000 people i mean he may have been great back then, but i don't see how killing that many…

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    Macedonia's Greatest king, Alexander III, left an everlasting impact in the ancient time, and even still to this day. Alexanders legacy was so powerful he influenced; the nature of war, society and culture, government, language, literature, and even architecture. Even though Alexander died at the ripe age of thirty-two his name will never be forgotten. Alexander the Great was a premiant general who's name shook the ancient world. His empire expanded From Macedonia, down to Egypt, and through…

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    In Manet’s Olympia, two women are featured in this piece, one unclothed white woman, lying on the bed sheet, showing her body and her black servant in white, standing behind her almost out of visibility, holding a tribute of flower. The composition of these two figures implicates racial class issues as only one female in the painting has the right to her own body. Since the black person is her maid, the white woman, Victorine Meurent, also has the control of the other woman in this painting. The…

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    Imagine competing as a professional bodybuilder, walking out on stage in front of thousands of people tanned, oiled, and in a speedo just to show off your muscles and your hard work. That's who Arnold Schwarzenegger is. Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of the most iconic names ever in the fitness industry, but how did this Austrian man come to America and become a legend? He is said to be the best bodybuilder ever to live and in my opinion he is the best. Arnold is an inspiration to males and…

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    Olympic Games, there was only one participant that would be crowned due to there being only one game that was played. This person would be crowned with a crown of olive leaves and a statue of himself was placed in Olympia. According to Scholastic news, the Ancient Olympic games were held in Olympia on the eastern coast of the Peloponnesian peninsula. Men from different cities came and participated in the Ancient Olympics. Before 720 B.C. men typically wore a type of garment called a perizoma…

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    Olympics through the century's The Olympic games was created originally in ancient Greece hosted in Olympia from 776 BC to 393 AD it took about 1503 years for the Olympics to take place again. The first modern Olympics were held in Athens, Greece, in 1896. The Olympics started as a religious festival for Zeus at Olympia a ritual sanctuary site. All who competed where male and had the same language as well beliefs. Men would come from all over the Greek world from Spain to Turkey all…

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    bodybuilding popularity skyrocketed and continues to skyrocket to this day. One of the biggest names in bodybuilding is Arnold Schwarzenegger even though his last competition was 1980. Schwarzenegger took home first place in four Mr. Universes and seven Mr. Olympias both of which are highly prestigious awards in the bodybuilding world. If you look back to the Eugene Sandow and then look to Arnold Schwarzenegger, you can see how drastic the changes were to bodybuilding over the course of half a…

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    The 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany’s Berlin were the first olympic games to be seriously documented on camera with Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia (1938). The games were split into two parts: Olympia 1. Teil — Fest der Völker (Festival of Nations) and Olympia 2. Teil — Fest der Schönheit (Festival of Beauty). Part I runs 126 minutes and Riefenstahl makes great use of those 126 minutes. Starting with a visual overture of dolly and pan shots of roman architecture and statues, extreme closeups of the…

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