Tarsus

Satan is an evil figure who appears in the Bible and many other stories, like Dante’s Inferno and Milton’s Paradise Lost. Satan brings evil, temptation, and leads humanity to not believe in God. Dante's Inferno and Milton's Paradise Lost are two books which he described Satan and hell in there own fairly different and similar ways. Dante’s Inferno levels of hell is separated into nine levels which are spheres, and in each level is a different punishment which progress to get worse and worse…

Aedes aegypti is holometabolous, this type of development stages includes the egg, lava, pupa, and the adult stage. The distinct traits to key out this mosquito are, small palps with white scales. The female mosquito can lay as many as a hundred eggs at one batch, after the eggs are laid down, the eggs develop within two days, and once wet the larvae emerge from the egg shortly after (Christopher, 1960). The larvae then mature over the course of the week or longer, depending on temperature,…

justice. Then they agreed to govern the Roman territories together. Antony left Rome and headed east on a military campaign. On the way, he stopped at Tarsus, in Cilicia. He sent a message to Egypt, ordering Cleopatra to meet him there. He had matters he wished to discuss with her. Cleopatra refused to respond though she planned to come to Tarsus, she would not be…

Another great influence according to Chesney, was as early as the Sermon on the Mount where Christ laid the philosophy out that supported the proposition where desire, wish, and intent determine culpability (Chesney, 1939). Augustine and Theodore of Tarsus were the two main English entities that helped with the acceptance of the doctrine of mens rea in criminal law in (Chesney, 1939). The term mens rea itself, comes from the writings of Edward Coke. Coke was an English jurist who wrote about…

Book One of John Milton’s epic Paradise Lost hones in on the story of one very familiar main character: Satan. After Milton’s brief explanation of how and for whom he is writing the poem, Satan appears with a distraught Beelzebub after they and several others were sent to “bottomless perdition” (47). Satan is remarkably calm in regards to what has occurred and aims to rise up against God, seeking to create as much evil as he can in the world in order to defy God and God’s goodness. Throughout…

Christianity and Judaism was a big deal in Roman and Greek culture during the period of the New Testament. Religion seemed to be the center of many conflicts and separation between civilizations during this time. The birth of Jesus brought in a lot of controversies within Hellenistic cultures and therefore we see many influences of the new covenant in several of the sculptures and art work created by Greco-Roman artists. Going to the Getty Villa, I was able to find many connections between the…

From the data that Petrie collected, she found that there were differences in the growth among the fathers, the sons, and daughters. Taking into account this detail from the data, Petrie conducted a multiple regression analysis, and found that the tarsus length, the train length, and the size of the eye spots on the father’s train affected the size of the offspring. These variables along with the hatch date and egg weight – which are an important factor in this experiment because if the eggs…

Brutus and Cassius, the two agreed to split the empire between the two where Antony gained the eastern half that included Egypt. Cleopatra saw this as a perfect opportunity to once again seal herself into the Roman empire. When asked to meet him in Tarsus, Cleopatra arrived adorning the guise of Aphrodite to win over the affection of Antony. Cleopatra would continue to emphasize her power and divine connection by comparing herself with Aphrodite and Isis, the model mother and wife. This…

Martin Luther King Jr., a clergyman and an activist for the expansion of African American rights, was known for putting together non-violent protests to combat against racial inequality. King was mostly active throughout the 1950s into the 1960s until his assassination in 1968. He was known for his “I Have a Dream” speech, and was also the author of the “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”, in which he refutes against the white clergymen who say that his non-violent protests were “unwise and untimely…

The summer of 1963 was crucial for Blacks in Alabama, because there was so much violence and racism. That is why Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. decided to go down to Birmingham, Alabama and lead a peaceful anti-segregation march, trying to get the Jim Crow laws over turned. During so he was arrested for not having a parade permit. While Dr. King was in jail, he received a letter from several local clergymen which was full of criticism of Dr. King and his supporters. In return, he wrote a letter…