He’s very one-dimensional; he represents the greed that inherent to human nature‚ but he is totally consumed by it. The reader can assume that because Tom is so greedy‚ he will eventually sell his soul to the Devil in exchange for riches--and so he does. Also‚ because this type of story (man meets devil‚ man sells his soul to devil‚ man suffers dire consequences in the end) is quite typical‚ it is easy to predict the ending of the story (it seems that the Devil takes Tom to
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love with him. The god Mercury came to visit Aeneas to remind him of his duty‚ “If you will not strive for your own honor‚ think of Ascanius‚ think of the expectations of your heir" (Virgil 982). Torn between the decision to stay and enjoy great riches and power‚ he pushes onward. He will allow nothing to dissuade him from his fate‚ neither the suffering of his men‚ or the love of a woman able to place him in a position of great power. Historically‚ Carthage went on to become one of the greatest
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A world full of opportunity and riches where anyone can have a good life. This is how the New World was viewed in England before it started to be colonized. It was with this mindset that many people quickly took off to this new land. Some looking for the gold of the new world but only finding hard work in its place(Doc 6) and others looking for what god has in store for them. Sailing across the large ocean over months everyone came from the same place‚ but ended up all over the continent. Leading
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History books like to paint the practice of colonization as a peaceful movement‚ but reality tells a different a tale. The colonization of America‚ for example‚ resulted in massive deaths‚ rapes‚ and pillages of Native American tribes and communities who had inhabited the land centuries before the Pilgrims arrived on the Mayflower. Much like the Native Americans‚ Africans were subject to this same type of abuse. Affluent European nations such as Britain‚ Germany‚ and Italy took it upon themselves
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“near-mutiny of the settlers who Columbus misled into believing there were vast riches to be had. He would face the royal court only to eventually have the charges against him dropped‚ but at the cost of his governor titles of the Indies and much of the wealth he acquired. Columbus would later make his last voyage to the new world in 1502‚ but he had to convince King Ferdinand that this last voyage would produce the riches he promised. Just as before his voyage was unsuccessful when couldn’t could not
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in New York‚ and would develop the first rail service that extended from New York to Chicago. As his railroad industry expanded‚ the burden of difficult and tedious transportation and shipping was lifted. Vanderbilt was the definition of “rags to riches‚” during the time‚ and this is why the image of trash bags to money bags was included‚ and this would be inspirational to the public who looked up the Vanderbilt as a “captain of industry‚” which also why‚ “You can‚ too!” was added below; to express
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learned during this semester in class‚ the event that strike me the most was the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. European rulers wanted explorers to find riches to bring back to Europe. Hernán Cortés led an expedition to Mexico in 1519. His ships carried 400 conquistadors with horses and weapons. They wanted fame and riches. Cortés had heard about the Aztecs. The Aztecs ruled an empire that covered much of present-day Mexico. Its capital city‚ Tenochtitlan‚ was beautiful and huge. It was
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started around 265 BC. The Gladiators could of have been men or women and sometimes volunteers from the crowd‚ who risked their lives to fight each other or wild animals for audiences like the Roman Empire and Roman Republic. They fought for fame‚ riches‚ and glory in arenas like the Colosseum in Rome. Gladiators were solid men or women who were at their peak of fitness. Gladiators trained at special school that were designed for the purpose of gladiator fighting. There they practiced fighting with
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conquistador‚ Vasco Nunez De Balboa‚ and how Balboa was the first European to see the Pacific. Then Pizzaro heard a rumor about an Empire in the South that had a lot of gold like large amounts of gold and how they had sculptures of solid gold of Inca riches. Then‚ in 1531 Pizzaro then left 180 men in Panama in an attempt of the conquest to conquer the Inca Empire and take advantage of the Incan Civil war and civilization. When the conquistadors arrived at Atahualpa they opened fire on unarmed men which
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life in riches. Having able to spend billions of dollars with a snap of my finger‚ it would be a wonderful life for me‚ I would not have to work‚ but just relax and do anything I want to do. If I wish‚ I can probably buy bunch of Ferrari and Lamborghini Aventador for the pleasure of having it. Until now‚ I wrote about what I would do as a main character. Now‚ I want to write about one most important thing I want to do as a game character. That is being able to donate my whole riches to Africa
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