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Sophocles’ age old play Antigone is about a young girl who fights King Creon’s unjust law for the burial of her brother who was deemed a traitor to their town. With the act of civil disobedience both Antigone and Creon strive for their own justice but in the end meet their fate. A more modern…

The Priest stood atop the temple of the Sun, looking down on his people gathered for this event. With one Swift motion, he raised the sacrificial obsidian sticker and plunged it into the immature adult male’s chest, rupturing out his bosom. He so placed the bosom on the waiting chac-mool, smiled, and anounced the beginning…

The life of Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, traces from African freedom, through European enslavement, to Anglican freedom. Olaudah was born in 1745 in a part of Africa called Guinea, here there are districts, he was born Essaka. The life here was agriculture, it was the main part of employment for everyone in the district, even…

After being sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964, Nelson Mandela (1918 – 2013) became a worldwide symbol of heroic black resistance to the apartheid regime of South Africa. He joined the African National Congress in 1952 and became a member of a small action group whose main task was to launch Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear…

Though the United States (US) and Soviet Union (USSR) were former allies, after the Second World War, they could not settle their disagreements and cooperate in peacetime. Cold War started as tension and hostility was developed between capitalist bloc led by US and communist bloc led by USSR. Fortunate enough, there was not any large-scale…

We often hear the sentence, “When in Rome, Do as the Romans Do,” especially when we are visiting foreign places that we don’t know much about. A lot of tourists or first time visitors of a country might not know the customs and traditions of another country, and this might lead to confusion as to…

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1987 in Brookline, Massachusetts. He joined the navy after his graduating from Harvard in 1940. During World War II, he showed remarkable bravery when Japanese destroyers rammed the USS PT-109. Despite his own considerable injuries, he led several survivors in   to safety. He represented Massachusetts, first in…

The construction of Hoover Dam is considered to be one of Americas finestengineering achievements. However the dam that rose from the floor of Black Canyonwas not only a structural accomplishment, it was a proposition firmly rooted inpracticalities. The necessity of such a dam had been obvious for more than twodecades. The Colorado Rivers cycles of…

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, a strong supporter and advocate of the Marxist theory of government, was elected as head of the Soviet government from 1917 to 1922 after the overthrow of the last czar.  He left public service because of his worsening health conditions.  Knowing that his poor condition might turn for the worse but loathe…

Trace the development of the symphony through the eighteenth centuryMusic, just like any other practice known to man, have undergone a lot of changes throughout the years. These changes may be slowly progressing or radical, yet it all affects how we see music now. Focusing on the development of symphony through the eighteenth century, we…