Travelling the world is educational and culturally eye-opening. I have learned much through every trip because every time is an experience. Being able to leave and explore the world is a greater deal to me than for most people. Thailand is very much a big culture shock when first visiting‚ culture shock is not something that people generally get on a holiday but for me on my first trip to Thailand was not only a culture shock however travelling to a new destination with unusual habits and traditions
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Athenian artistic performances were they a form of propaganda? The “glory that was Greece” reached its height in 5th century BCE in Athens‚ under the leadership of Pericles. He opened Athenian democracy to the ordinary citizen‚ was responsible for the construction of magnificent temples and statues on the Acropolis and he‚ in effect created the Athenian empire. The definition of propaganda is “the planned use of any form of public or mass-produced communication designed to affect the minds of
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Kate O. AP Language and Comp. 9/20/13 Ficino and Mirandola: Impressions on Humans Marsilio Ficino and Pico della Mirandola are both authors of humanistic pieces‚ but their views are very different. The Soul of Man by Ficino believes that humans are God’s representatives‚ while Oration on the Dignity of Man by Mirandola shows that humans have the choice to be as great as they want to be‚ or to become as mediocre as they want‚ it is all based on how hard they try. Although they both have different
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September 11‚ 2001‚ two planes crash into the World Trade Center‚ people diving out windows to their deaths‚ a plane crashes into the Pentagon‚ hijackers overtaken by passengers and crash the plane into a field in Pennsylvania. December 2003‚ mass graves uncovered in Iraq‚ compliments of Saddam Husayn. May‚ 2004‚ a web page shows terrorists cutting off the head of Nick Berg. August 2004‚ over 350 children are executed by terrorists in a school in Russia. Democracy is being threatened by enigmatic
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Pericles’ Funeral Oration: The Ignored Arrogance In a while after the Peloponnesian War had broken out‚ Pericles delivered his famous Funeral Oration to commemorate those troops who had already fallen in battle. Recorded‚ and probably rewritten by the historian Thucydides‚ it is one of the primary sources on which our understanding of ancient Athens is based and provides a unique insight into just how Athenian democracy understood itself. In the speech Pericles relates the special qualities of
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talking about the Athenian tradition of praising members of the city-state at their funeral. He observes that the speaker of the oration has the impossible task of satisfying the associates of the dead. He states “it is hard to speak properly upon a subject where it is even difficult to convince your hearers that you are speaking the truth‚” (Pericles’ Funeral Oration‚ Thucydides) and discusses the different people in attendance who must be satisfied with the speech. According to Pericles‚ the speaker
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Now‚ Shakespeare was a famous playwright of the time and it seemed logical for him to express his ideologies through his popular plays to comment on his society. Shakespeare was able to use scenes such as the Brutus vs. Antony orations to stress the conflicting ideals between truth and propaganda‚ as well as their effects on society. Shakespeare captures Brutus’s honesty when he states “I honour him; but as he was ambitious‚ I slew him” through his use of prose within the speech
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climax and begins the denouement. In William Shakespeare’s play‚ Julius Caesar‚ the funeral orations delivered by Marc Antony and Brutus is the turning point. Marc Antony delivers the more effective funeral oration because he plays with the commoners’ emotions and uses repetition to illustrate sarcasm which wins the crowd over. Funeral orations commonly focus on emotions. Marc Antony’s funeral oration was very effective because he played with the plebeians’ emotions. He states‚ “And‚ being
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War Memorial. Along with universal values of patriotism and loyalty despite difference in time and context‚ all three speeches are timeless and allow us responders to interpret them according to our context and ways of thinking. In Cicero’s oration he exposes Catiline to the Roman Senate and attacks him for attending the Senate’s meeting after being declared a public enemy. By doing this he calls the Senate to take action against Catiline’s conspiracy to murder Senators and destroy Rome. He
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On the Son‚ also known as the “The Third Theological Oration” and “Oration 29‚” was written by St. Gregory of Nazianus (c. 329 - 390). He was the Archbishop of Constantinople during the 4th century‚ and after his death he became knows at “the Theologian” by the Council of Chalcedon. He is considered to be one of the “Cappadocian Fathers” amongst other defenders of the faith‚ and theologians of that time such as Basil the Great‚ Gregory of Nyssa and others (Intro). In the introduction of On God and
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