Ireland Unfree Shall Never be at Peace is a speech given by Patrick Pearse‚ a teacher‚ lawyer‚ poet‚ writer and also a political activist‚ during the funeral of Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa on 1 August 1915. This speech was delivered at the Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin‚ where several prominent Irish national figures are buried. When Pearse gave his speech‚ British politicians such as the Prime Minister W.Gladstone tried to give to Ireland more political independence. But what is at stake in this document
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the roots of the famous phrase "equal justice under law." The liberality of which Pericles spoke also extended to Athens’ foreign policy: "We throw open our city to the world‚ and never by alien acts exclude foreigners from any opportunity of learning or observing‚ although the eyes of an enemy may occasionally profit by our liberality..."[14] Yet Athens’ values of equality and openness do not‚ according to Pericles‚ hinder Athens’ greatness‚ indeed‚ they enhance it‚ "...advancement in public life
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our own civilization. But it was one person by the name Pericles who changed it all. Nobody dominated Athenian political life during the Golden Age more than the statesman Pericles (495-429BCE)‚ who served nearly 30 years on the board of Ten Generals which was elected annually rather than the chosen by lot‚ and was the representative of the people. A privileged person by birth‚ he was still democracy’s strongest advocate. Later in Pericles career‚ he conveyed an intriguing speech honoring soldiers
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Spartans besiege city of Athens. Plague kills many Athenians Pericles the great ruler died Spartans win in 404B.C. Never again was Greek unity bonded like that again. After all this happened Greeks were never the same they didn’t think that Sparta was going to set a plague on Athens. After they just helped them try to win a war against the Peloponnesians. His contemporary historian‚ acclaimed him as "the first citizen of Athens". Pericles turned the Dalian League into an Athenian empire and led his
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the Peloponnesian War; however‚ this paper will focus only on the failure of Athens to execute Pericles’s strategy. Athens lost the Peloponnesian War because of a failure to follow the strategy of Pericles‚ which ultimately led to reckless expeditions‚ ill-advised war decisions and loss of allies. Pericles was an Athenian politician and general during the time when tensions between Sparta and Athens were rapidly escalating. The two city-states were constantly feuding over interests and were unable
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defined the Roman aristocrat in the Republic? How‚ if at all‚ did this conception of the aristocrat change during the empire? The aristocracy of Rome has changed with the transition from the Republic to the Empire. This can be seen through analyzing funeral epitaphs‚ such as the epitaph of the Scipionic family and the epitaph of Publius Plautius Pulcher. Virtues of the aristocracy in the Republic were mainly focused on virtus and gloria; they attained such precedence by maintaining the achievements of
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the Roman dictator Julius Caesar at the Capitol in Rome. Marcus Antonius(Antony) is one of Caesar’s most-trusted friends‚ and one of the few who does not betray him. At Caesar’s funeral‚ Antony motivates the citizens of Rome to turn against the conspirators and avenge the death of Julius Caesar. His oration at the funeral is packed with persuasive devices including specific evidence‚ verbal irony‚ and props to manipulate the minds of the people in the crowd to mutiny against Caesar’s killers. The
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that had been won‚ and were still armed and battle ready‚ holding fortresses across Greece. The interactions that these two city states made against‚ with‚ and without them were so intense that even the fierce kings‚ Leonidas of Sparta and King Pericles Cleon Nicias of Athens‚ fell to each other’s armies. Around 400 B.C.‚ King Leonidas of Sparta finally had enough of the Athenians acting like gods. He first tried to take a hold of his own state. He revised the government to
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Analytical Essay Julius Caesar Power is a theme that has dominated mankind since history was recorded. The assassination of Julius Caesar‚ ruler of the greatest empire the world has ever known‚ was a result of such a struggle for power. The foundations of Shakespeare’s ’Julius Caesar’ are power relationships which dominate the liaisons between characters of opposing sex‚ classes‚ and ambitions. Even in the historical context‚ Rome in 44 BC‚ the height of the Roman Republic‚ predisposes the play
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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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