Socrates and Pericles‚ two of these philosophers‚ had polarizing opinions about the city-state and its citizens. While Pericles chooses to praise the Athenian citizen‚ Socrates criticizes Athens’ people. Pericles gave his opinion at a funeral during the first battles of the Peloponnesian War‚ while Socrates gave his during the trial that ultimately led to his death. The Athenian city-state has become a model for today’s systems of government and a hearth for western philosophy‚ so Pericles’ opinion
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Driving to The Funeral By Anna Quindlen Writer Anna Quindlin was born in Philidelphia‚ Pensylvania‚ in 1952‚ and now lives in New York City. At the New York Times she became a regular op-ed columnist‚ winning the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992. If someone told you that there was one behavior most likely to lead to the premature death of your kid‚ wouldn’t you do something about that? The four years of high school grind inexorably [inevitably] to a close‚ the milestones passed.
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democracy was a form of government that was embraced by her people. The story of Athens and democracy would not be complete until Pericles is mentioned. This was due to his great changes and development he brought to Athens. Pericles was an important figure in the practice of direct democracy as a matter of fact‚ direct democracy was an important legacy that Pericles left in Athens. “Direct democracy is a form of government in which citizen rule directly and not through representatives” Roger‚ Linda
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Subsequently‚ Antony uses is powerful oration skills‚ on both the conspirators and citizens‚ to strive for justice for the old Roman leader as he commences the organization of the second triumvirate. Firstly‚ following Caesar’s death Antony requests that he be allowed to take the body to the town forum and give a funeral speech in honor and remembrance of Caesar’s life.Brutus agrees to the requests so Antony addresses the crowd by saying‚ If I were disposed to stir Your hearts and minds to mutiny
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the person was no longer with their family‚ the funeral celebrated their time on earth and their transfer to the afterlife. Although Romans appear to have been uninterested in the fate of a person after death‚ their funeral practices and ceremonies showed a great deal of thought about the afterlife‚ particularly in the areas of the the depth and time put into the funerals and their beliefs of how exactly to transfer into the afterlife. The Romans funeral ceremonies had many different parts to them.
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Vision for the Plan: As a teacher‚ I want to be professional and a positive role model to my students. I want to have a good and supportive environment in my classroom so that it allows my students to have good opportunities to succeed. I will keep motivate my students to be better in their work and it is my job to make sure that each students learn something. Therefore‚ I plan to use positive reinforcement in the classroom and praise any positive behavior in the classroom. I will use the classroom
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We thought it was almost over. That we were going to let us live. To be done with it. They knew that the end of the war was coming. The Americans‚ British and French‚ were coming. But that is when they came up with the idea for the solution of the final solution. The deathmarch. I had never felt this cold before. It was cold so cold. But after all of these miles i began to not feel so cold anymore. Like I was in a trance. With momma’s hand in mine‚ we continued to shuffle our feet along the cold
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very different Greek city-states‚ Athens and Sparta‚ fought for domination of the Greek world. In the first winter of the war held a public funeral to honor those who had died in battle. As was the custom in Athens‚ one leading citizen was asked to address the crowd‚ and on this day it was Pericles who spoke to the people. In this famous Funeral Oration‚ Pericles gave voice to the ideal of democracy and the importance of the individual. It was the Greeks who created the intellectual foundations of
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Athens was about to experience it’s greatest epoch. A time filled with power and great social and political wealth. All of which was the product of a great man’s work. His name was Pericles. Pericles was born in the year 495 B.C. into a very noble family. He was the nephew of Cleisthenes who founded Athenian Democracy. Pericles lived his whole life in a political environment. When he became involved in Athenian affairs‚ he received a very good reputation. In 462 B.C. he began to dominate the politics
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