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Sit Mihi Dux" ("Let not the dragon be my overlord"). The initials CSPB stand for "Crux Sancti Patris Benedicti" ("The Cross of the Holy Father Benedict") and are located on the interior angles of the cross. On the top of the medal the inscription PAX or IHS can be…

Restoration Eschatology: The belief and hope that “in that day” (Hebrew: eschaton), YHWH will end the suffering of the people of Israel and restore their land and fortune. There are several different visions of how this restoration will come about: the return of David (Ezekiel 37:24), or one of his descendants (Jeremiah 33:14-15), a military hero, or even a messiah (could be Cyrus, as in Isaiah 45:1, or Jesus of the New Testament). Messiah/Christ: Messiah comes from the Hebrew word mashiah…

History repeats itself if we as humans do not know what mistakes were made in the past. Ancient Rome lasted for centuries because the leaders adapted to the mistakes of the past leaders. Today’s culture has fallen into a doomed pattern by ignoring the strives the Roman’s made to improve itself. “The Roman Empire made the largest impact on western culture today,” said Dr. Edward Woodfin, a western civilization professor at Converse College. From the time the Roman Empire was established it’s…

The Seated Boxer is a bronze Hellenistic sculpture created in around 100bc. I attribute this work to the Hellenistic period of Greek art. Sculptors of this period concentrated on depicting male athletes just as what the Seated Boxer is. Emotion in Classical Greek art was merely expressed through simple gesture, a technique that contrasts with the style of Hellenistic sculpture. In Hellenistic art, advancement of skilled led to emotion being portrayed vividly through the detailed work of art.…

Roman life was like in Pompeii before the eruption of the volcano. The evidence that has since been recovered by excavations of the cities has shown a vast amount of artifacts that have given historians so much knowledge about city life during the Pax Romana that was never known before. The socio-economic, religious, and political insight learned from the ruins of Pompeii are extremely useful in uncovering what life was really like before Mount Vesuvius erupted.…

Political: Roman Government and Politics According to the AP World History course framework, the third theme of the curriculum involves the creation, expansion, and conflict between the different forms of state across time. Focusing on one of the dominant powers of the classical period, the Romans, one can see a change in political structure as the Roman Republic turned into the Roman Empire (Wiseman). Before Rome became an empire, Rome was a republic from 507 to 31 BCE. Power resided in…

“How Barbaric Were the Barbarians?” I believe that the Mongols were barbaric people during their conquer through Asia because of their killing methods and military tactics. Mongolians had also made some improvement to asia's economic growth. Some could say that because the Mongols were open to all religions within their people group they were not barbaric.But the Mongols were just not completely barbaric because they killed a lot of people for really no reason. The Mongolians had created many…

Modern America Reconsidered” by Mason Hammond. Hammond was a respected scholar who worked at the University and Harvard. He focused his studies and his published books on studying Rome and the empire that it constructed. In the journal article, “Pax Romana/Pax Americana: Perceptions of Rome in American Political Culture” the author puts down the theory of parallels claiming that they do not exist. According to this article, they parallels only come about due to misrepresentations in…

The same amount of resources are necessary for classes consist of 5 students or 25. • Superintends suggest the PAX program to be supported and extended. It has generated drastic positive changes in reduction of drug use among other things. Follow up and Future Evens: • Business advisory board meeting on March 15 9:00 AM. The representative is interested to attend/follow…

disorder is the lack of midline structures. The lack or abundance of tissue in the midface, prevents the two nasal primordia from joining the midline. When shh is expressed by the prechordal plate and ventral midline of the diencephalon, it causes Pax-6 expression in the midline to become repressed causing the single eye field to split into two separate eye fields on either side of the diencephalon. Rax a retina and anterior neural fold homeobox and Six-3, another important transcription factor,…