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In Shakespeare’s play “Julius Caesar”, there is much death, much tragedy, and of course, a tragic hero. A tragic hero is a person of noble or influential birth, who has a moral personality. In order to be identified as a tragic hero, a character must have a hamartia, which is a fatal flaw. But as…

During the period of 1820-1861 the north and south debated on issues that dealt with slavery and unbalance power, in order to reduce sectional tension between these two states, the Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were proposed. The North and South both had opposite opinions about slavery, The South favored slavery…

The role of the king in the time of Greek tragedies was simultaneouslydesired and dreaded because of the king’s responsibility to the people andbecause of the effects of the position on the king’s character. Creon revealssuch ambivalent thoughts towards the kingship in his speech defending himselffrom Oedipus’s conspiracy accusation in Oedipus the King; these ambivalentthoughts…

The historical play Richard III by William Shakespeare focuses on the character Richard III, also known as The Duke of Gloucester, who becomes king. Richard III is a complex and famous villainous character, characterized as ambitious, bitter, ugly, and deformed. Throughout the play, he manipulates and murders to obtain the throne. The opening speech sets…

Claus Von Stauffenberg was a was a German army officer and Catholic aristocrat who was one of the leading members of the failed 20 July plot of 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler and remove the Nazi Party from power. Along with Henning von Tresckow and Hans Oster , he was one of the central figures…

“…A little rebellion now and then is a good thing…It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.” Thomas Jefferson Thoreau, a transcendentalist from the mid 19th century and Martin Luther King Jr., the Civil Rights movement leader of a century later both believed the necessity of medicine for government. Although they showed…

            Stephen Kotkin’s Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as Civilization is a case study of Soviet society in the 1930’s.  Kotkin was the first American in 45 years to be allowed into Magnitogorsk, a city built in response to Stalin’s decision to change the principally agricultural nation into the so-called a country of steel. Kotkin looks at…

Christianity is a religion that has its systems and beliefs founded on the teachings of Jesus Christ who lived and taught his doctrines in the country of Palestine when the Roman Empire ruled most of Europe under Emperor Tiberius. The birth of Jesus Christ is estimated to have occurred between 4 BC and 6 AD…

Native American religions and witchcraft have many similarities as nature religions. In both, nature is regarded as sacred and their symbols and concepts often come from the natural world. According to Starhawk, The Old Religion, which shares a similar spirit with Native American traditions, highlights the importance of understanding and taking action. This emphasis on…

Essay Slavery in America has always been a touchy subject, especially when it comes to the truths about the effects of slavery on the slaves themselves. The accounts by slaves are few and far between, and the accounts that are available often tell one side of the story about slavery. This is why I decided…