Roman Polanski

In the play Julius Caesar by William Shakespare, Brutus displays leadership qualities throughout. Brutus is persuaded by Cassius, the leader of the conspirators against Julius Caesar, to participate in the assassination of Caesar, his best friend. Brutus is faced with the task of deciding to put his relationship with Caesar over the better of Rome. Brutus selflessly makes the decision to participate in the assassination of Caesar because of his potential to become too powerful. Brutus is an…

statue as the “most illustrious work of ancient art the world can boast of”” and when you look upon the Capitoline Venus it would be very hard to argue. (The Capitoline Venus) The Capitoline Venus and the Esquiline Venus are to statues that depict the Roman goddess of love. Though they are of the same subject they are depicted in too very different ways. The statues are of the same material and around the same size but they portray Venus in to very different poses. The two statues have a lot in…

Starting with the social consequences, The plague had large scale social and economic effects. When the plague hit, the Europeans started to abandon their friends and family. They fled from their cities, and even shut themselves off from the rest of the world. The peasants started to become more empowered and soon started to revolt against the aristocracy once they tried to resist the changes happening as a result of the plague. Peasants began rioting in 1358, and 20 years later the…

the kings out of Rome and created a democracy. Before he did this Rome was a monarchy, which means it was ruled by a king. Cassius is talking to Marcus Brutus when he says “you and I -your ancestor- who would’ve let the devil himself reign in his Roman Republic before he let a king rule”(I.ii.158-161). Brutus suffers a catastrophe when he makes the realization that the other conspirators did not kill Julius Caesar for the same reason that Brutus did,which was for the good of Rome. After Caesar's…

The United States has come a long way since the days of the American Revolution or either of the World Wars. Today war is all about airstrikes, drones, and the use of any other new technology in order to find a way to keep our troops at home and fighting conflicts without having “boots on the ground” as the saying goes. However even with, or perhaps because of, this new technology our country finds itself involved in conflicts that are unconventional to what we have seen in our history. The…

Leaders are characterized as individuals who demonstrate compelling qualities in their leadership. This results in many followers being significantly impacted, ensuing their persistent devotion to their leader. Throughout history, some of these renown and inspirational leaders, such as Julius Caesar and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., were assassinated; these leaders’ deaths influenced their followers’ actions positively or negatively. Julius Caesar and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were both revered…

To many Romans, Egypt not only was a critical source of food as well as architecture and culture, but it also posed a political and cultural threat. Additionally, despite a precedent of hundreds of years of highly developed Egyptian politics and society without Roman rule, many Romans saw native Egyptians as unintelligent, poor, or unhelpful. These xenophobic ideals were manifested in the social structures and cultural and legal restrictions placed upon the Egyptians by Rome following Roman…

I am now writing this letter to one of the world’s most famous explorers of all time, the late Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Battuta, which is also just known as “Ibn Battuta”. Ibn Battuta was born on 25 February 1304 into a Muslim Berber family, in the city of Tangier in Morocco. ibn Battuta made a journey that is said to be the longest journey made, that lasted about three decades, where he visited many regions in Africa, Europe and Asia, where he managed to cover an area three times as great as…

Quite a bit of our insight about state strategy under the Mauryas originates from the Arthashastra composed by Kautilya (all the more famously known as Chanakya), who was a Brahmin pastor under Chandragupta Maurya. In spite of the fact that it was composed toward the end of the fourth century BC, it seems to have been rediscovered just in 1905, following quite a while of insensibility. The treatise in its present structure is in all probability not the content composed by Kautilya, however it is…

The World consists of many different groups of people, who have their own behaviors, traditions, and lifestyles. One of the many groups that still exist today is the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. Founded on March 17, 1948, in Fontana, California, this motorcycle club is known for their acts of violence, distribution of drugs, and their love for riding motorcycles. Although they are present throughout the globe, mainly in the United States, the Hells Angels have become a subculture in our culture…