the Great is known as one of history’s brilliant military leaders and most powerful rulers. However‚ he isn’t a gracious ruler we learned about. Alexander the Great was a warfare ruler that used his power to his advantage. Alexander the Great is a villain because he grew power hungry and influenced major cruel dictators in history. Alexander became the king of Macedonia when he was 20 years old but‚ this is when his need for power began. Alexander became king after his father’s death. As a matter
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Was Benito Mussolini a Hero or a Villain? By Rachel Coster Research Phase: Primary Sources A speech made by Mussolini on the 23.3.1939. PropagandaItaliaFC. (2012). Benito Mussolini - Speech (26.03.1939 Rome) (English subtitle). [Online Video]. 15 April 2012 . Available from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hpn9iPLbNDc. [Accessed: 08 September 2013]. It can be seen from this speech how much the Italian people admired and believed in Mussolini. This is evident when the camera cuts to the crowd
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Villain or Hero? Marcus Junius Brutus‚ the biggest backstabber of them all. Brutus is a roman politician and is portrayed in Shakespeare’s play: “Julius Caesar”. While many may say that he is a hero‚ he is in no doubt a villain‚ some may even describe his as a “selfless” villain. Brutus betrayed his friend‚ murdered a man‚ and brought upon a civil war saying it was for the good of all Rome. Brutus is a backstabber both physically and metaphorically. Brutus was the best friend to Caesar and one
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Julian Assange Hero or Villain? The question of whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange‚ whose organization can be credited with releasing thousands of classified documents from various countries‚ is a hero or a villain depends entirely on one’s political opinions. Those who believe in transparent government and freedom of speech/publishing would call Assange a hero. Those who believe governments must have some secrecy from citizens would call him a villain. As a believer in the ideals America
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There were many different people in the world‚ leaders‚ followers‚ heros and villains. Adolf Hitler was a leader and to some a hero‚ and some a villain‚ but hitler was more complicated than just that. Hitler had ideas that inspired and threatened people‚ with his ideas of having Jews extinct. Hitler’s actions were quite inhumane‚ but it wasn’t much different to how an american black man was treated. Adolf Hitler was a man that had different beliefs than most men and women in the world and thought
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Christopher Columbus: Hero or Villain “1492‚ Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” We all have been hearing this saying ever since we were little. Is he really a hero? He found a new world and jump started an age of exploration like no other. After he found the Americas there was massive colonization‚ giant trade increases and more resources. Europeans learned new ways‚ helping agriculture and exploration boom‚ but the answer is no. Columbus is a villain. After reading this paper I will
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Oliver Cromwell was born in 25 April 1599 in a town in England called Huntington. He went to school at Huntington Grammar School then went to Sydney Sussex Collage at Cambridge. He studied law at Cambridge and then went to London and became the MP for Huntington in 1628 and MP for Cambridge in 1640. In 1630’s Oliver Cromwell became Puritan due to a religious crisis and started to become a Radical Puritan when he elected to represent Cambridge‚ first in the Short parliament‚ then in the Long parliament
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Hero or Villain: Why has Oliver Cromwell’s reputation changed over time? It’s been 352 years since Oliver Cromwell is dead. He was one of the most controversial figures in the British history. How did his reputation change? Why? And what has been changed? During the period of king Charles II’s reign (1660~1685) and as well as the 1930s and 1940s‚ many people considered him as a villain‚ who killed Charles I to get more powerful. Under Cromwell’s rule‚ people feared him because he was cruel
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act. Andrew Jackson had also inspired the Trails of Tears‚ killing over 4‚000 Native Americans. Out of all the thing Andrew Jackson did in his two terms of being president he brought more terror than honor‚ which is why he should be considered a villain. The Indian removal act was an
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----------------------- Emily Bronte also convey’s aspects of the class system within Victorian society through the use of imagery. Bronte depicts two English households which both resemble slightly different classes but for which could not be further apart. The heights is described as “narrow windows being deeply set in the wall” and then Thrushcross Grange as “the large‚ half curtain windows allowing the sun to come in from the outside” - these two pictures painted by Bronte show the contrast
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