Oliver Stone’s Alexander and it’s Accuracy in portraying Alexander the Great The 2004 film Alexander‚ directed by Oliver Stone‚ depicts the life of Alexander the Great. This essay will discuss the accuracy of Oliver Stone’s artistic vision in this depiction of Alexander’s life and achievements. The discussion will focus on: Alexander’s 7 year campaign‚ particularly its battles; his relationship with others‚ including his sexuality within the film; and the legacy Alexander and his armies left
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Blessed Pope John XXIII Pope John XXIII held office for only five years‚ but he remains one of the most popularly beloved popes in the history of the Roman Catholic Church‚ not only by Catholics but also by non-Catholics. He had spent twenty-five years as a papal diplomat for Bulgaria‚ Turkey and France‚ and six years as archbishop of Venice‚ not being elected pope until he was 77. Pope John XXIII is perhaps best known for bringing together the second council that promoted the unity of all christian
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A Man Who Became Pope Karol‚ or Pope Jonh Paul II as we know him‚ was one of the most couragous men because of all the hardships he faced in his lifetime.In the movie we only saw a small portion of them because the movie stopped right as he became pope. I am sure he faced many many more while serving his term as Pope. Being from Poland‚ and being a Catholic made him a prime target for discrimination back when the Natzis were trying to eliminate many different groups of people because of their
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Janine Renz Mr. Schmidt Honors English 11 Satire Nicki Minaj: Time Magazine’s Most Influential Person Current popular rappers and singers have often been criticized for the lack of substance in their lyrics and their absence of talent; it’s often been said that they have a bad influence on the teenagers who listen to their music. Nicki Minaj‚ a favorite in pop music today‚ has finally broken the chain of bad influences and auto tuned nonsense. She has been named Time Magazine’s Most Influential
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February 11‚ 2015 Alexander Patacsil Principal IV Urdaneta City National High School Sir: Greetings I would like to apply for a Teaching 1 position in your school. I graduated with a degree in Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education major in English and passed the Licensure Examination for Teachers. I am presently working as a College English Instructor of Panpacific University North Philippines and at the same time I am handling the Foreign Language Class of the Basic Education in the
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Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) Scriabin was neither interested in folk music nor nationalism‚ rather he developed an individual idiom that drew both on Russian traditions and on the European heritage of the virtuoso pianist-composer. (He absorbed the chromaticism of Liszt and Wagner‚ and juxtapositions of texture‚ scale‚ and figuration from Debussy) The whole of his work is evolutionary in character. In short‚ his early works exhibit lyrical and strong tonal romanticism. In his early
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In the years following 1485 Pope Innocent VIII had had built and handsomely decorated a villa on the high ground at the back of the old Vatican palace. An enclosed space‚ bounded by villa and palace to north and south and by the two walls to east and west‚ was to be divided into a series of courts on different levels‚ designed originally for the display of sculpture. The great sculptures placed in elaborately painted and decorated niches at the four corners of the court and in the center of each
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Pope Urban was seeing an opening for power in 1095. Pope urban decided to assist the head of the Byzantine Empire by murdering the Turks. While the Turks are Muslim‚ and the Pope is Christian‚ the Pope desires the power to stay elsewhere and not in the hands of people who disbelieves in Christianity. It is the first response to Pope Urban II’s call of arms last year in 1095‚ when he challenged the Lords of Europe to reclaim the Holy Land from the Turks. A French monk by the name of Peter the Hermit
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of one the branches of the largest religion in the world‚ Christianity‚ which has approximately 2.8 billion followers (“Global Christianity”). Pope Francis currently represents approximately 1.2 billion Roman Catholics (Draper). Pope Francis has been Pope for three years and has addressed issues and promoted beliefs to the world. Through his actions‚ Pope Francis has influenced the identity of the Catholic Church to the rest of the world. Every one of the Pope’s actions and words can reflect a different
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Pope Gregory was born as Hildebrand in 1025‚ to an upper class family in southern Tuscany. He adopted the name Gregory in memory of Gregory I after his election as pope in 1073. He became convinced that the pope was the living successor of St. Peter. Because of this connection‚ the pope‚ and he alone‚ would always remain a true Christian‚ never deviating from the faith and always aware of the will of God. Therefore‚ all Christians owed him absolute and unquestioned obedience. Disobedience was regarded
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