Wars of the Roses

In The Trojan War this concept is depicted early on when, given the choice of "power and riches"," glory and renown in war", or "the fairest of women for his wife", Paris goes with the third (48). By this instance, the myth is fairly explicit in exposing the value system of the average Greek male. Whether Paris 's choice…

enterprise as the Trojan War could have been forgotten without a poet to immortalize it several hundred years later offered only too good an example of what could happen to human greatness if it had nothing but poets to rely on for its permanence’ (Arendt, 1958: 197). In The Republic, Plato called homer ‘the educator of Hellas’, for immortalizing the events of the Trojan War, although Socrates is skeptical of the legacy of his work. Homer’s memorialization of the Trojan War in his work The…

characters in my book are: Rose Justice and Maddie Brodatt. Rose is a 18-year old American ATA pilot and an amateur poet. Maddie is a girl with excellent sense of direction. She can navigate by the stars, and by dead reckoning. The setting of this book is in several different times and places. Some of the times and places in this book are: 1944 Hamphere, 1945 Germany, 1945 Paris, and 1946 Scotland. Rose is a young girl who joins the allied forces in England flying planes for the war effort.…

roles as Rose Sayer and Charlie Allnut. Katharine Hepburn portrayed as an high class, intelligent, conservative, prude, well-rounded woman, named Rose Sayer. As the film progressed, Katharine Hepburn made a transition of a clean woman to a getting dirty and ready to take on any challenge. Katharine Hepburn did a wonderful job of showing affection towards Humphrey Bogart and making smooth transitions in personality, throughout the film. Katharine Hepburn also showed how adventurous Rose was…

“grandmother planted these roses, and my mother tended them.” Even though it may seem as though Miss Strangeworth has a strange affection for her roses, her innocent flower patch has a much deeper, malevolent meaning. The Civil War of 1861-1865 was fought over Southern Americans owning slaves. After one of Miss Strangeworth’s letter was intercepted, she received a “letter in a green envelope” that read “Look out at what used to be your roses”. Miss Strangeworth’s roses actually represent the…

This document is a leaflet of the anti-Nazi group “White Rose” formed by the students at the University of Munich in 1942. Active participants included Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, Alexander Schmorell, Christoph Probst, and Willi Graf. Kurt Huber, a professor at the university, was also a group member and the mentor of the students. The leaflet was originally published in Students Against Tyranny: The Resistance of the White Rose, Munich, 1942–1943 by Inge Scholl, the elder sister of the Scholl…

Dictatorships during World War II Dictatorship is a “form of government in which one person or a small group possesses absolute power without effective constitutional limitations” (Britannica 2013). World War II started in 1939 and ended in 1945. It was one of the bloodiest wars in history. During World War II Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Hideki Tojo, and Joseph Stalin were all dictators. Adolf Hitler was the dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and ruled by Nazism. General Hideki Tojo…

Remembering the past is important to my family even if I didn’t exist when my heritage first began. Since before I could remember, I would always hear stories of my great-grandparents. I wondered where I came from and how my family came to be. My curiosity of what traits were passed on throughout generation; this was always an interest of mine. I wondered who I got my darker skin tone and my big eyes from. Little did I know, I come from a big, diverse family. I come from the Blankenship Family…

During 1942 (World War 2), the US was at war, with Earhart’s flight path flying directly over enemy territory. It is speculated the US government used her as a ‘Trojan Horse’ to spy on the Japanese, in order to gain crucial information regarding war/enemy tactics. It is suspected, midflight Earhart was ordered to ditch the Electra Plane at the Marshall Islands (just off the Japanese…

Confederacy is an association of female descendants of Confederate veterans. The national organization was founded on September 10, 1894, in Nashville TN. Before the UDC was founded, several ladies’ associations worked through the South during the Civil War to supply needs…