The New Republic

The American news spends a lot of time discussing the events that take place Iran, Syria, Eqypt, England, and a few others. Some countries are not a majorly discussed country in the news in the United States. There are several others that could be mentioned more, as well. Scotland, Ireland, Australia, Denmark, Switzerland, and Sweden are just a few that we rarely hear anything about in our media. American news networks seem to only discuss a fraction of countries that make up the world.…

much of her day is controlled by apps. She states, “I eat my breakfast reading theSkimm, Deadline Hollywood, Cupcakes and Cashmere, and many more news sites and blogs, all on my laptop.” (Atwan 50). She is essentially replacing a classic newspaper with social media sites and apps. Is this necessarily amiss? I believe so because she can control what news she wants to expose herself too. Doing some research, theSkimms ad line is, “theSkimm makes it easier to be smarter. Join the millions who wake…

News comes today comes in many forms from a twitter update on your phone to the more traditional newspaper delivered right to your house each morning. Some news we find intriguing, while other articles we just skim over and think nothing of it. So why does some news catch our attention? Is it the shock factor, something interesting or is it just so horrifying you have to read it? Today one of the most controversial topics flooding the news is gun violence and gun control. It seems we cannot go…

were Marcus Junius Brutus, Caesar’s second choice as heir, and Gaius Cassius Longinus, along with many others. Caesar was stabbed twenty three times and died at the base of Pompey’s statue. Julius Caesar assassination initiated the end of the Roman Republic and the beginning of the Roman…

GERMANY: FROM CHAOS TO STABILITY JUHEE BHATT FURMAN UNIVERSITY 20th century Germany has experienced a seemingly endless succession of traumas: World War 1; the inadequate Weimar Republic; the vengeful Treaty of Versailles; the hyperinflation of the 1920s paired with the stock market crash of 1929; the evils of fascism, and the consequential World War II; the division of two hostile states; and most recently the collapse of GDR resulting in final unification. The twisted road towards…

American president from 1861-1865. He led the USA through the civil war. He was born February 12, 1809. His parents were Nancy Lincoln and Thomas Lincoln, he was left-educated and became a lawyer in Illinois and in 1854 he became a leader in building a new republican party. Abraham did not approve of the expansion of slavery and he made seven southern lave states secede from the USA. Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865 by John Wilkes Booth, he was shot in the head while he was…

They often have a skylight which was used to let light into the rest of the house and it allowed the cisterns to be filled by rainwater for use but the villas occupants. They were meant to impress them draw people in. They started in the early republic and they are still used to this day just without a cistern. They were able to make these atriums with the skylights by using the arch and manipulating it in certain geometric ways so that they can support a roof with a skylight in the roof. The…

“Outstanding Issues with Implementing German Reunification” Germany has had a tumultuous history and inspiring rise to international prominence over the last century. This political anomaly is referred to in German as “wirtschaftswunder” which translated is the phrase the “wonder of economics.” This eminent rise has been recognized by the leadership role the German government is currently playing in the European Union, in relation to monetary policy that is intended to alleviate the Euro-zone…

Roman Republican Coinage. Using ancient and modern sources, it will consider the development of coinage as monumental, and analyse whether its political impact was for the purpose of propaganda, or simply as a means of documentation. In the Roman Republic, coinage served as goods themselves, in a system of bartering, not like money used in modern times. Early Roman coins were stamped on the obverse only, serving as a display of the person or city responsible for the minting of each coin. The…

emperor and the will of the people he rules. First, one of the main political conflicts of the movie was whether to disband the senate or to give the power back to it. The senate was seen as a people’s tool for governing even after the fall of the Republic. It’s best explained by Gracchus before one of the gladiator fights, “I don’t claim to be a man of the people,…