Hadrian was born the 24 of January in AD 76 in Italica‚ Spain‚ which was part of a Roman settlement. When he was only 10 years old his father passed away and his father’s cousin‚ Trajan was granted custody. In AD 98 Trajan became emperor of Rome. Trajan sent Hadrian to fight and train in the military when he was around 14 years old‚ but Hadrian much prefered hunting and living a more luxurious life style. He was able to leave the military and Trajan have him a position on an inheritance court in
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Cities of Vesuvius Geographical Context: Physical environment Located in the region of Campania‚ 200km South of Rome. Fertile soil‚ rich in phosphorus and potash‚ due to volcanic activity from Mt Vesuvius over the millennia. Vesuvius is part of a chain of volcanoes-Mt Etna and Mt Stromboli Earthquakes and tremors are common to the area-mentioned by Vitruvius and Strabo). The Phlegraean Fields(fire fields) where geothermal activity produced steam and boiling mud. Romans built hot spa health
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with a red convertible. Lyman who is younger than Henry describes his memory of the relationship between Henry‚ himself and a red old convertible they purchased together on an impulse. As the yarn unfolds‚ so does the relationship of the brothers and the evidence that Henry’s spirit is breaking with a tragic ending. “We owned it together until his boots filled with water on a windy night and he bought out my share. Now Henry owns the whole car‚ and his younger brother (that’s myself)‚ Lyman walks
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Pliny’s accounts are better than Fiorelli’s methods. Do agree with this statement? The eruption that struck Pompeii on the 24th august 79AD was witnessed by Pliny the younger who provided the only description of events that day. He describes a cloud‚ “like a pine tree it spread out and drifted‚ dirty and blotchy as a cause of the earth and ash.” Pliny lived in Misenum with his uncle Pliny the elder‚ who was the first to notice the odd phenomenon that was happening in Pompeii and went to examine
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- c. 117AD)‚ Roman Historian. His surviving works are life Agricola‚ Germania‚ Histories and Annals. Tacitus wrote about the eruption of Versuvius and the death of Pliny the Elder about 25 years after the event. He wrote to his friend‚ Pliny the Younger‚ asking for an accurate description of events ’Thank you for asking me to write to you about my uncle’s death so that you can pass on more accurate account to future generations’ -Gaius Cornelius Tacitus Pliny the Elder Gaius
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walking away from the flower stall. All the characters in the artwork are seen wearing traditional Malay clothing. The older lady operating the flower stall has a lot of facial expression and she is currently packing a bouquet of flowers together. The younger lady operating the flower stall is sitting on her left with a rattan basket on her lap. There are some flowers in her rattan basket and she is packing them together. The lady customer with a young child is busy choosing the flowers she wants from
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novel The Joy Luck Club. Suyuan Woo‚ An-Mei Hsu‚ Lindo Jong and Ying-ying St. Clair are in The Joy Luck Club. The novel is about these four different characters and their relationships with their daughters. Lena and her mother‚ Ying-ying‚ are similar in many ways. Both can see what others can’t. Lena explains‚ “Because even as a young child‚ I could sense the unspoken terrors that surrounded our house‚ the ones that chased my mother until she hid in a secret dark corner of her mind. And still they found
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Only after Ying-ying realizes that she has passed on her passivity and fatalism to her daughter Lena does she take any initiative to change. Seeing her daughter in an unhappy marriage‚ she urges her to take control. She tells Lena her story for the first time‚ hoping that she might learn from her mother’s own failure to take initiative and instead come to express her thoughts and feelings. Lena‚ too‚ was born in the year of the Tiger‚ and Ying-ying hopes that her daughter can live up to their common
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The Lena Baker and Anjette Lyles are two-court cases that are very questionable in court decision. Lena Baker shot and kill Ernest B. Knight who had remove her from her home and locked in a the gristmill. Baker was sentenced to Death. Anjette Lyles was a woman who murder four people Ben F. Lyles Jr who was her first husband‚ Joe Neal Gabbert who was her second husband‚ Julia Lyles who was her former mother in law and Marcia her daughter. She was sentenced to the State Hospital for the Insane in
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Sun Picture yourself as a member of the Younger family. You live in a small house‚ two bedrooms and a bathroom you share with other families. It’s hard to imagine 4 adults and l adolescent living in these conditions‚ but its how the Younger family lived. When the story begins the younger family is anticipating a huge insurance check from the passing of their grandpa. Living in a racist community‚ such as the south side of Chicago‚ affected the Younger family in how they made decisions‚ thought
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