intended audience. Plato was born in 429 BCE into one of the richest and most politically active families in Athens‚ Greece. When he was a young adult‚ he learned from the great Athenian philosopher Socrates‚ and later used Socrates as the main character of many of his dialogues. After Socrates death‚ Plato traveled to Megara‚ Cyrene‚ Italy‚ Sicily‚ Egypt‚ and Syracuse‚ spreading his knowledge. Then he came back to Athens to create the Academy‚ and die in 347 BCE. Also‚ Plato taught Aristotle and
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sorrows‚ tears‚ and joyous moments of the women and children living in war-torn Afghanistan‚ a tribal society dominated by patriarchy and religion which offers little to no compassion to the women. Born in such society‚ Hosseini introduces a female character‚ Mariam‚ who grows up with war and chaos. Society‚ after offering decades of violence and isolation‚ tries to steal Mariam’s happiness‚ feeling she lacked since childhood‚ which results in sudden alteration of all her hardships and frustrations into
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------------------------------------------------- Paciano PACIANO A. RIZAL (1851-1930) Revolutionary General Don Paciano Mercado Rizal y Alonso was the only brother of Dr. Jose Rizal. Born in Calamba‚ Laguna on March 7‚ 1851‚ he was the second of the eleven children of Don Francisco Mercado Rizal and Doña Teodora Alonso. He learned his first letters and prayers from his mother who was a highly educated and cultured woman. Later‚ he was sent to Biñan‚ Laguna to study Latin under Maestro
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Alexander Cleave The book Ancient Light by John Banville focus on the past and present experiences of the main character Alexander Cleave. Cleave is currently in his early 60s reminiscing about the two distressing events that happened in his past. He had supposedly had a love affair with the mother of his bestfriend‚ whom is Billy Gray‚ in a small town where he had grew up. The other traumatic event in his life was the suicide of his daughter Cass. He have not been the same since then. It all came
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the book Kate begins to find out that she has always loved Henry Delafield‚ a lifelong friend‚ and when he proposes to her three times to help her go to India‚ she finds that he loves her the same‚ changing her plans. Kate Worthington‚ the main character‚ changes throughout the course of the novel. This story depicts‚ “a young
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‘After 1905‚ many reformist and revolutionary groups began to gain influence in the community’ Discuss the range of groups wanting change in Russia and the ways in which they went about this. During the reign of Tsar Nicholas II‚ tensions grew within Russia. Many reformist and revolutionary groups formed‚ advocating change in Russia and after 1905‚ these groups began to gain influence in the community. The Populists‚ one of the first revolutionary groups‚ called for a peasant based revolution
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In 1940 British author Graham Greene wrote The Power and the Glory‚ which focuses on a drunkard Catholic priest’s journey through Mexico during a period in which the Mexican government did not allow Catholicism. The novel experiences with controversial topics such a Catholic priest who is a drunk and has a child and the persecution of Catholics in Mexico. Because of the controversy Greene published The Power and the Glory as The Labyrinthine Ways in the United States‚ so the book would not upset
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The entire novel is narrated through the eyes of Chief Bromden‚ a Red Indian who is considered by everyone to be deaf and dumb. The Chief gives us an insight into the character sketch of all the participants in the story‚ including himself. Although the Chief is a patient in the hospital‚ I believe that he was not mentally ill when he was admitted into the facility but rather was reduced to such a state because of the kind of practices that were prevalent there. Through this reflective journal I
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Revolutionary. It means involving or causing a complete or dramatic change. The Revolutionary war was revolutionary because the greatest army in the world (Great Britain) at the time was defeated by only thirteen colonies and it was the first time any country had enforced democracy. First of all‚ only thirteen colonies beat the world’s greatest army. When the other countries heard about this they were surprised. Second of all‚ was that the States enforced democracy. Democracy was only written by
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agree that the failure of Italian revolutionaries in the years 1820-49 was primarily due to a lack of popular support? (30) There were several factors affecting the failure of the Italian revolutionaries in the years 1820-49. Although the lack of popular support was a contributing factor‚ it is far less significant when compared to other aspects of the failure such as the intervention and military strength of Austria‚ the lack of unity between various revolutionary factions and the lack of outside
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