beauty was a virtue: A kind of excellence. Persons then were assumed to be what we now have to call—lamely‚ enviously—whole persons. If it did occur to the Greeks to distinguish between a person’s “inside” and “outside‚” they still expected that inner beauty would be matched by beauty of the other kind. The well-born young Athenians who gathered around Socrates found it quite paradoxical that their hero was so intelligent‚ so brave‚ so honorable‚ so seductive—and so ugly. One of Socrates’ main pedagogical
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William Shakespeare’s Hamlet has been remade a number of times in film and in plays. I recently watched two movies of Hamlet directed by different people. The directors add little things to make it their own interpretation of the play Hamlet. Some directors like to emphasize different scenes for instance. The Hamlet movies that I watched were one directed by Kenneth Branagh‚ and one by Franco Zeffirelli. The directors in each of these had their own way of telling the story of Hamlet. The first one
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Western Civilization February 18‚ 2010 Essay Question 1 According to our lecture notes and Frontline’s “From Jesus to Christ” there exist similarities between Christianity and Mithraism‚ the Essenes‚ Pharisees and Sadducees. For example in comparison with the Mithraism‚ Christianity also believes that Jesus (Messiah) was born from a virgin mother and that shepherds attended his birth. Both Mithraism and Christianity believed that there was a hell and a heaven and that good versus evil existed
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and Judaism are the main religions of the world. All of these faiths are commonly thought to be completely different. However‚ they shart a lot of similarities. For example they all have “religious monotheism- belief in one God”(Judaism Text). All three of these religions don’t have multiple entities or beings that reside over the Earth. Another similarity is all of these are Abrahamic religions. They all start from “the patriarch Abraham‚ who had migrated from Mesopotamia to the land of Canaan” (Judaism
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Therefore‚ Locke’s theory can be considered superior to the theory of Hobbes‚ which promoted absolutism. In the examples of the English constitutional monarchy‚ ancient Athenian democracy‚ and the American government‚ John Locke’s ideas of a system controlled by the people‚ which protected and acted for the rights and freedoms of the people‚ is reflected. These societies influenced and employed many of Locke’s political theories
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Monologue- an Athenian Man Fed up of the dark‚ tossing sea I was keen to lay down our spoils at the foot of Apollo in dedication‚ already planning the arrangements of invitations‚ wine and Hetari for the feast I would give out in celebration of my homecoming. Wearied by the hills of Cerata‚ wetted with blood- a righteous token of the brute treachery of our Megarian allies‚ our trireme Aianteia‚ was pulled with steady shoulders‚ the eretai crying “rhup-pa-pai” as‚ skirting the moles‚ we made for
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Christianity and Catholicism are different yet the same. The pope in Rome is their leader and follows the learnings of the Roman Catholic Church. The general misunderstanding is the matter that Catholicism is a fraction of Christianity. Catholics actually happen to be the largest sect of Christianity. There are about sixty percent of Christians
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There have been many genres of film that are included in American film history; one of which is the Western. In the mid 1900’s Western films were at their peak and Saturday afternoons would be spent watching cowboys and Indians battle until the end while watching comfortably from a movie theatre. Knowing this‚ it’s not hard to understand why film makers later on would base plots and characters off of these mystifying films. The Searchers‚ made in 1956 by John Ford‚ was a movie that followed the journey
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different than Spartan women. But how is this so? Women in Athens were disrespected as a person and served only a few purposes to the community. Athen’s city-state suggested that women were either slaves‚ prostitutes‚ or straight up slobs. Like an Athenian person once said‚ “Good Women
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Topic: Write an essay to show the similarities and/or differences between a reading written works and watching TV. Books are known as the first medium bearing the function of conveying information to people; they were invented about 5000 years ago. If books can be considered as the traditional medium‚ television is the modern one. In fact‚ it was first introduced in public in the late 1920s and soon became a significant part of the daily life. Both of these media provide people with information
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