Napoleon‚ Hero or Tyrant? Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Corsica in 1769. At a pretty young age he went to the mainland of France to study at a military academy. In the period that Napoleon was born‚ you could only get a great life if you were from a noble family‚ other people couldn’t come far in the estate society. But the French revolution changed this. How exactly? Well after the revolution a lot of noblemen fled outside France or were executed‚ so actually Napoleon was the right
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Tyrant. What do you think of when you hear tyrant? Ruler‚ cruel‚ dictator‚ and autocrat‚ come to mind. In “Tyrant” Dr. House and his team have a new patient admitted in their hospital. The patient is a powerful leader of an African nation. Among his people he has created an army of young‚ drunk soldiers that are commanded to do what he desires‚ which is a genocide. Based off the previous actions of the patient should Dr. House and his team treat the patient when looking through a deontologist and
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Cesar was a tyrant? Or was he a hero? Cesar was a hero of course! Just look at him‚ he was powerful general‚ smart and he was a good ruler. He cares for the common people and cleaned up Rome. He made fountains to get people fresh water‚ got people food and made sure that the sewage was cleaned up. Cesar was loved by all the common people of Rome because he helped and paid attention to them unlike most rulers. Most of the citizens at the time thought Cesar’s rule was a blessing. During Cesar’s rule
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Louis Riel- Hero or Tyrant* Many people till today think that Louis Riel was not guilty and that his sentence was just an easy way for the Canadian government to get him out of their way. Louis Riel was the leader of the Métis during the Red River Rebellion and the Northwest Rebellion. He was hanged on November 16‚ 1885 for treason‚ but was he a real villain? Louis Riel is undoubtedly a national hero because he stood up for Métis rights. In my opinion Louis Riel was a hero in many ways. After the
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Andrew Jackson was‚ and still is a beloved president to many people. The common person might look at our seventh president as a true war hero‚ when in fact Andrew Jackson was like a tyrant in many ways. He was the reason for about 7‚000 Cherokees deaths‚ and violated many laws. The only reason Andrew Jackson was not impeached was because the senate did not provide a two thirds vote. When Andrew Jackson first came into office there seemed to be a sort of vengeance about him. A main goal of his was
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Historians have very different opinions about Cromwell. Some say he was a hypocrite and acted very much like the king he tried so hard to remove. Others see him as a great military leader and focus on his importance in increasing the power of parliament. They see the execution of Charles 1 as the first step towards democracy in Britain. Opinions at the time were just as divided. Many people thought Cromwell as a hero‚ and they had a lot of evidence to back it. The main one is the fact that he won
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Oliver Cromwell is today held by outstanding virtue by many people in Britain. Numerous Britons still see Cromwell as the father of modern British democracy due to his effective role during the English Revolution and the subsequent years he spent as a Member of Parliament. Nevertheless‚ his reputation in Ireland is quite the contrary. Cromwell only spent nine months of his life in Ireland yet amongst the island’s people he has gained a reputation as a genocidal monster hell-bent on massacring its
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and intense. We see the essence of tragedy: in this case‚ the protagonist transforms himself from a noble warrior who is loyal to his king and fights for his county to a reduced tyrant by the play’s end. Macbeth’s divided soul which is in turmoil is the cause of his deterioration from a respected warrior to a despised tyrant. Initially‚ Macbeth’s turmoil within himself is apparent from the beginning of the play when we see that even his ambition is scattered‚ in a sense. Our first image of Macbeth
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I will now briefly discuss Dionysius I‚ a tyrant of Syraceus during the classical period of Greek history. Aristotle‚ in his work Politics‚ wrote‚ ‘a tyrant is set up from among the people and the multitude to oppose the notables‚ in order that the people may suffer no injustice from them’ . As before with the Cypselid dynasty‚ we see Dionysius I come to power with the aid of the military and the demos. However despite their origins we once again during Dionysius reign see the steady decline of
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Macbeth‚ one of his main topics was ambition. Macbeth was driven by ambition causing him to commit his first murder. He then begins to commit other crimes including murder again in order to cover up for his other crimes. Eventually‚ Macbeth is seen as a tyrant that loses his life for it. We assume that Lady Macbeth also goes crazy but in reality she is plotting and calculating. Her greed and conscious begin to weigh heavy on her and she ends up committing suicide. Proof of this is when Lady Macbeth says
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