Rebel Alliance

At last Elizabeth was made queen, but just like any ruler, she had issues arise. One of the issues Elizabeth faced was that she was unmarried and still a virgin. Her nickname up until this day is still The Virgin Queen. This created a problem, because she was the last of the Tudor dynasty. So if she did not produce an heir to the throne, her family’s reign would be over. Elizabeth had many suitors after her hand in marriage. Some of which included King of Spain, Sir William Pickering, John…

Once upon a time, a small boy named Napoleon was born on the Mediterranean island of Corsica in 1769. His parents waited until he was 9 years old and then sent him away to a military school. After he finished school, at age 16 in 1785, he became a lieutenant in the artillery. But as the French revolution started, he joined the army of the new government. He was asked to defend the delegates by powerful people. Then, Napoleon became a ‘Hero of the Hour’ after he caused his attackers to flee in…

Famous English Scholar Edward Forrester once said, “Tolerance is a dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things. No one has ever written an ode to tolerance, or raised a statue to her. Yet this is the quality which will be most needed”. Technically, one can come to “tolerate” only beliefs or practices of which one disapproves. For example, the U.S. tolerates pornography, but not such…

Many works of literature undermine, question, or rebel against aspects of society. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde is a satirical comedy that undercuts the British aristocracy of Late Victorian England. The novella Heart of Darkness calls into question British colonialism and imperialism. Both works of literature reveal human faults within the English aristocracy and imperialism. The novella Heart of Darkness criticizes imperialism and colonialism through the use of an evil tone…

“We are but parts of a whole, and therefore there must exist a power somewhere to preside, and preserve the connexion due order. This power is lodged in the Parliament; and we are as much dependent on Great Britain as a perfectly free people can be on another” (Dickinson). John Dickinson was a patriot until 1776, when he started to question if the colonists really needed to break away from England. He supported colonial rights, but did not support independence from Britain. Dickinson was one out…

1. Rome was founded by the Etruscans, but the Greeks passed on influence on Rome with cultivating the olive and the vine. Also passing on their alphabetic system of writing, providing models for their sculptures, architecture, and literature. The Greeks had a large influence on the Italian Peninsula. But the development of Rome came from the Etruscans, these people controlled Rome and transformed villages into towns and cities. 2. The Etruscans were the founders of Rome, they brought…

if she executed Mary, a fellow monarch, it would undermine and endanger her position as Queen. She was concerned that Mary would die a martyr, a become the figurehead for a much greater Catholic Threat, particularly Mary’s son, James VI forming an alliance with Catholic powers against Elizabeth. On the 7th of February 1587, Mary Stuart was told she was to be executed the next day. She was executed at Fotheringhay Castle in Northampton shire, at the age of forty-four. She wore a red petti-coat,…

Hamlet, “‘To be’ refers to taking arms against Claudius and ‘not to be’ indicates suffering or inaction…or to endure one’s troubles passively” (Petronella, 73-74). Polonius and Gertrude choose this route of inaction even when offered the choice to rebel. However, surrounded by corruption the only feasible option left for Hamlet is “to take arms against [the] sea of troubles” regardless of the outcome…

The historical development of the Republic of Colombia has endured a significant component of a long-lasting political violence. Ever since independence in July 20th, 1810, the former Spanish colony has been engulfed into an ideological struggle over the state’s governance. After the altercation between royalists and separatists, another one arose between supporters of centralism and federalism. The Spaniards ceased the opportunity and re-conquered the incipient republic in 1816. Yet, this…

In the hunger Games every single character is for themselves there may be alliances here and there but in the end they all expect to kill one another. The hunger games has proven that when it comes down to a life or death situation, it doesn't matter who you are im looking out for myself right now. In the whole book no one other…