Joshua Deck Mrs. Smith Pre IB English 9 2B 7 May 2012 The Colosseum and Gladiators While the Colosseum is a major tourist attraction today‚ back when the Roman Empire ruled it was a place of fighting‚ blood‚ and death. The colosseum was a source of entertainment for the people of Rome‚ as they witnessed the famed gladiators fighting to the death. The architectural design of the colosseum is an ingenious design‚ as well as the purpose and roles of it. The gladiators had an interesting history
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Herod‚ the Tetrarch of Judea‚ and his wife‚ Herodias‚ have a banquet gathering for a few Jewish officials. Herodias’s daughter Salome goes to the terrace during the party‚ where she entices the stare of other men in the play‚ while she also develops attraction to the clairvoyant‚ Iokanaan. Her erotic craving for Iokanaan primes his decapitation‚ a performance that takes her erotic satisfaction and her lips end up on the lips of his detached head. Also‚ Herod comes to desire his step-daughter Salome
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figures achieved great height and are remembered by people. Loss and pain are inevitable‚ and they are worth it when love‚ whether of a person ‚ a cause or a country‚ is pursued. Facing pain is not unwise but rather heroic. Love can be sudden attraction that could pull people in‚ even when they know this love will not last and is forbidden. Marie Curie was a passionate physicist and chemist who is famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity‚ as she was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize
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She retains evidence of their intimate connection. The king indicates to the detective that he has tried to rob Irene Adler five times‚ and tried to bribe her servants. These efforts have failed. So far‚ the story reminds a modern reader of Fatal Attraction. Adler is out to get her former lover. Yet Sherlock admires Irene. The detective makes a strong effort at retrieving the joint portrait which proves the connection between the prince and the showgirl‚ and she foils him‚ with charm and without
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California is home to many great landmarks and tourist attractions‚ Disneyland‚ Universal Studios‚ many great sports teams like the Lakers and The 49ers‚ the Golden Gate bridge‚ and Alcatraz. However‚ one of the biggest states in the country is in danger of mass destruction from a huge crack in the ground called the San Andreas Fault. What is the science behind this fault? why should people fear it? and what could be the result of another devastating earthquake? The San Andreas Fault is a place
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This way‚ children (young adults) can be taught how to drink socially and responsibly from a young age‚ so alcohol isn’t such a mystery and there would be less attraction or desire to being able to drink when they turn 21 with there friends. Children need to be taught how to drink responsibly by there parents‚ and not by some irresponsible friends. And most parents wouldn’t have to worry about criminal charges or
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be illegal?”. More than ¾ of those people responded with yes. Many said they thought it was cruel to kill animals and some were worried about the extinction of the species (Lundie). There is not a “humane” method of killing… many land animals face fatal injuries causing them to suffer for many days rather than killing them instantly (Gunn). Thinking it is more moral‚ many hunters only injure the animal to get what they want instead of killing them. That animal will have to learn to survive with any
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Passage one: The Chorus’ first speech‚ page 193 to 196 Passage two: Dionysus and Pentheus’ exchange‚ 206 to 209 Passage three: Dionysus’ final speech‚ 241 to 242 Euripides’ The Bacchae explores the polarities of logic and impulse that are both inherent in human nature within a world fatally lacking in balance. In evoking the very extremes of both rigorous rationale and primal instinct‚ the folly of a linear worldview is tragically rendered. In the Chorus’ emphatic exaltation of Dionysus
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ruined by ‘La Belle Dame’ and left forlorn with starv’d lips which crave her love much like the knight himself. ‘Lamia’ does nothing to dispel the negative representations of women‚ as with ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’; Keats’ also makes use of femme fatal in ‘Lamia’. In the poem‚ women are portrayed as the serpent ‘Lamia’ - symbolically representing evil‚ temptation and deceit. Lamia hates her grotesque form and
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“The Seafarer” Questions Answer the following questions on another piece of paper in complete sentences using no unidentified pronouns. Responding 1. Do you agree that “Fate is stronger….than any man’s mind?” Why or why not? I believe this to be true for the simple fact that fate is already pre-determined‚ something that you cannot change. A mans mind is always undecided and‚ lost for a way to go but fate is unparralled in its decisiveness. A mans mind is far weaker than fate making this
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