Discussion Forum Question Unit 2 Use your impressions of Athens and Sparta to discuss and compare daily life in the two city-states. Life in Sparta and Athens was seen to be that of individually achieving strong political standing and military stability as the result of threats from almost every side of the Sparta builds a state in which every part of life was organised around the need to have a strong army. This was seen in Sparta’s conquest where defeated neighbouring area where forced to become
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Americans seem to inherently focus on individualism and self-interest‚ according to Caleb Jacobo and Alexis de Tocqueville. Tocqueville‚ a Frenchman who visited and wrote about America in the 19th century‚ and Jacobo‚ an American writing in the present day‚ have similar ideas despite their cultural differences. Jacob argues that this natural focus on individualism comes from America’s founders who came here in order to escape the popular statism in Europe‚ as he says that “America was built on the
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society‚ Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) and George Orwell’s 1984 (1949). These two texts‚ when studied in comparison‚ I believe‚ enrich our understanding of the significant values presented in each due to the intertwining themes; and the differences between texts arise from the differing perspectives of both composers. I believe Authority & power and Sex are two of the most dominant themes explored in the in the texts‚ because even 87 years after
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Dusk of July 1st another brutal brawl between the feuding families of the Capulet and Montague unfolded on the streets of Verona. Tybalt Capulet and Mercutio Escalus were found dead. Since their deaths‚ Romeo the son of Montague has been banished. When both households came to know‚ they were filled with anger and grief and swore revenge against each other. On Tuesday the 1st of July at noon‚ an 18-year-old named Mercutio - a close companion of Romeo Montague- was stabbed with a 67 cm sword in
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Napoleon and Stalin both rise their power amongst their people‚ simply by using the devious propaganda (squealer) to manipulate the less intelligent public‚ and strategically utilize the secret police (the dogs) to create a sense of terror amongst their people or the animals. Napoleon intentionally uses squealer to make the animals believe that Snowball is “nothing more than a criminal‚” in which he is not. As a result of this misleading comment‚ the animals are left with no other choice‚ but to
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explains Macbeth’s tragic flaw to compare The Tragedy of Macbeth and Othello‚ the Moor of Venice. The play begins with a scene in which three witches make a prophecy. On their way back to the king to report the good news‚ Macbeth and Banquo meet the group of witches and learn about their future: Macbeth becomes Thane of Cawdor and eventually king‚ and Banquo earns a line of kingship after his death. The two men skeptically think about their prophecies until some of King Duncan’s men inform Macbeth of
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that are possible and realistic‚ for example: someone could drown or have Asperger’s syndrome. They ‘soften the blow’ for kids and adults‚ make this a world where people live good lives‚ fall in love and try their best and succeed. A common ground between Elliot’s animation and these other companies mentioned is humour; they both include humour in their works to make life seem a bit better than it is‚ to get people to laugh and focus on the good in the world.
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Power and Authority as Viewed by Hobbes and Machiavelli Many medieval political thinkers observed that power and authority came first from God and then from a social mandate. In Leviathan‚ Thomas Hobbes proposes that power comes from the social mandate first. (Leviathan‚ Bk. I‚ Ch. 18‚ pp.230) He makes this assertion on the basis that it is within the human nature to secure its life through banding together with others to form a community. Each community‚ then‚ is held together by a common desire
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The danger‚ however‚ was at present unperceived‚ that they did not by any means rank as misfortunes with her”. The promised “evils”‚ “disadvantages” and “misfortunes” itemised‚ foreshadow Emma’s unsuccessful attempt at arranging marriage between Harriet Smith and Mr Elton. Foreshadowing has been employed by Austen to predispose to the readers‚ the faults Emma allegedly possesses allowing for her to expose the shortcomings in Emma’s persona prior to these expected acts. Further‚ the technique
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In general‚ Elizabethan as well as Jacobean plays‚ not only those of Shakespeare‚ were more or less influenced by the tradition from which they had arisen‚ by the sources of information on which they were based‚ and also by the current political situation in which they were written. While scholars have disagreed about the direct influence of Seneca on Elizabethan drama. The Elizabethan era was a time of relative hope and confidence. In the early seventeenth century‚ however‚ the national mood seems
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