Was Boudicca real? Boudicca‚ known in Welsh as Buddug‚ was the queen of the Celtic Iceni tribe in approximately AD60. She ruled alongside her husband and king‚ Prasutagus. When the Romans travelled to Britain‚ Boudicca and Prasutagus were allowed to keep their kingdom so long as they gave half of their money to the Romans‚ and when Prasutagus died‚ the Romans were to get half of the Iceni kingdom. Boudicca and her husband agreed to this. When Prasutagus died‚ however‚ the Romans dishonoured their
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definition‚ it is clear to me that Socrates was wise in every aspect of the word. He shows this wisdom while on trial for his life. Socrates was charged with “corrupting the youth of Athens” and “not believing in the gods the states believes in‚ but in new spiritual being” (Plato‚ 3). In ancient Greece‚ judicial proceedings could be initiated by any citizen‚ and in Socrates’ case‚ Meletus was the initiator. These charges were brought to a trial that was presided over by the king Archon. The number
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France was a policy that was known to be horrific. Even though this ideology was violent in nature‚ Robespierre thought that it was completely justified. Robespierre made very clear that the interests of the Republic were of utmost importance. He described how there were both internal and external forces working to dismantle the Republic‚ and that the supporters of the Republic should value reason while the Republic’s enemies should experience terror. He made a point that terror in this case was not
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economic openness. In a deeper sense‚ it was a strategic ideology that promoted a new international order based on altruistic ideals while providing the international framework that protected and advanced American economic and security interests. One of the main promises of Wilsonianism included national self-determination but the reality of the postwar situation limited the implementation of this principle. Wilson’s desire to have people establish their own nations was evident in his “Fourteen Points”
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong ’o ’s Visions of Africa Author(s): Christine Loflin Source: Research in African Literatures‚ Vol. 26‚ No. 4 (Winter‚ 1995)‚ pp. 76-93 Published by: Indiana University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3820228 Accessed: 22/06/2010 13:31 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR ’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR ’s Terms and Conditions of Use provides‚ in part‚ that unless you
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Tribunal followed a formalized legal procedure‚ but that gradually broke down. The accused were denied by lawyers. Conviction based on patriotic "intuition" rather than evidence was allowed. In Paris‚ while some members of the upper classes were acquitted‚ the Tribunal sentenced 2‚750 to death.” ("Document E." The Reign of Terror: Was it Justified?) The revolutionaries were betraying their principles by not providing adequate due process for the accused. This led to the unjust killing of innocent people
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Was Jesus real? Though some may not believe Jesus was the divine Christ that Christianity venerates as the Son of God and savior of the world‚ and may regard accounts of the miracles and wonders attending him as mere legendary accretion; nevertheless they certainly believe there had to have been a central figure that began Christianity. Perhaps he was just a wandering teacher‚ or an exorcist‚ an apocalyptic prophet or a zealot who opposed the Romans. Perhaps he was all these things‚ or even
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The French Revolution was a time in France where people wanted to do something about the Old Regime and new developed ideas. During this period‚ peasants and other lower-class people wanted the same rights and freedoms the nobles had. New assemblies of people were forming; trying to create laws to limit the power of the monarchy and eventually get rid of it. Jacobins‚ a group of radicals‚ became enemies of France because they were murdering the people of their own country. This is when Robespierre
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Alyssa Huntt ENGL 1101 Valerie Wayson December 9‚ 2011 The Life That Once Was Sixty years ago‚ the United States was bursting at the seams that post-World War Two fears had sewn into place. The economy was booming‚ automobile production was taking off‚ families were close-knit‚ and values were important. There was a certain mystery and adventure about what life had in store. Now‚ the United States is on the verge of a breakdown. The economy is teetering on the edge of failure‚ more families
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person or persons and fostered by institutional means in order to direct all aspects of private and public life2 that are significant to politics. With this definition in mind‚ this essay will put forward an argument in favour of the notion that Plato was a totalitarian‚ evident in his conception of the kallipolis which drives forward a totalitarian and utopian dream for a ‘natural class rule of the wise few over the ignorant many’3. On the contrary‚ a literary reading of Plato’s Republic could dismiss
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