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Alexander: The Ultimate Cut Alexander the Great was a cavalry commander at age eighteen, king at twenty, conqueror of the Persian Empire at twenty-six, explorer of the Indian frontier at thirty (Garraty 1991). He accomplished more than expected of him. Son of King Philip II and Queen Olympia he was born in Macedonia. The movie Alexander: Ultimate Cut shows how when Alexander’s father, King Philip II, dies him taking the throne and making it a mission to be the most powerful ruler. The 2004 film…

After the American Revolution, the colonies were finally free from England’s control and they could now establish their own nation. However, they would need to develop a culture and society that differentiate them from their former mother country. America wanted to be seen as prestigious and prosperous. Since they did not want to look toward Britain for any inspiration, they looked back to the Greeks and Romans. The Greek and Roman civilizations are still known to have been successful when it…

style of the early Christian period and depicts the growing disregard the developing art form generates for pictorial reality while still maintaining the classical elements in pose and drapery. The figures are dressed in what is similar to the Roman toga of its city’s ancient citizens. The carving is adequately rendered with the attention made to identify shadow and weight. Though, the way the material drapes around each figure maintains a generic feel with the lack of individuality in clothing…

The Importance of Costume in the Elizabethan Theatre As the Elizabethan theatre progressed through the sixteenth century with increasingly popular demand, costuming promoted the overall understanding of a play. The theatre grew so fast, in fact, that one out of every five citizens would attend the theatre with a population of about 160,000 people in the city of London (Brown 32). With this amount of people, the theatre contained an audience of natural critics, eager to voice their opinions of…

In the country India, the nation fought nonviolently for their independence, but with this happening there had to be a leader to make sure the violence tendencies are balanced and that leader was Mohandas Karamchand Ghandi (history.com). Ghandi was considered the leader of nonviolence around the world during the campaign for independence from Great Britain. Ghandi was born on October 2 1869 in Porbandar, his father was Chief Minister of Porbandar. Because of his father’s high position in the…

Introduction To Ancient Rome In ancient Rome people lived extremely short lives and the average life expectancy during this time was approximately twenty-five to forty-five years old and only two percent of the population lived to eighty years old. This is very low in comparison to the average life expectancy in the modern society which can go up to approximately seventy-five to ninety years of age. The life expectancy was so low in ancient Roman times because there weren’t any effective…

Everyone loves seeing an underdog upset a team that is heavily favored to win. Whether it is the number one team in college football losing to an unranked opponent, or a child rising above the social barriers in his life and making it big, these stories encourage and excite us. Of course, the Battle of Thermopylae is no exception to our desire for seeing a group defy the odds and come out victorious. When 300 Spartan soldiers, along with men from other Ionian city states, gazed at the sea of…

goes on at great length about Augustus’ use of power and authority, when speaking about dictatorship he offers an even more succinct version of the story: “When the people did their best to force the dictatorship upon him, he knelt down, threw off his toga from his shoulders and with bare breast begged them not to insist” (Suetonius 52). He would even bristle away from being called terms like Lord, perhaps out of a genuine humble nature or more likely out of fear of being viewed as powerful a…

Though there was one woman, Stefanie, who he went crazy for. He had never met her, only admired her from afar. One day he saw her walking with young officers and he immediately went into a jealous rage and said the whole officer class was now his enemy. This is another great example of the borderline personality, as it was from those two officers who weren’t knowingly hurting Hitler that, he decided to put them into the “all-bad” category. After this happened, Hitler told Kubizek that he had a…