Thucydides is by far the most important of all early historians. He is the most reliable and trustworthy. Throughout this essay I will show how his work contributed to modern history. I will discuss the manner in which Thucydides wrote his history and the importance of it. I will also discuss branches of history in which Thucydides wrote his history such as; the war‚ politics and the plague. Thucydides (c.460-395BC) was born in Athens into what is believed to be a royal family. After proving
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Funeral Assignment I would want my funeral to not be something that everyone comes to and cries at. I want them to remember all the good things I did in life. The songs I would like to be played would have to be “I’m going off to yonder”‚ “crossroads”‚ “it’s all God”‚ and any other song that people know I love. And I would want the songs sung by the people they were wrote by and if those people are not alive then someone from my family could do it. I would want Pastor Marvin Sapp or Pastor Marvin
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Thucydides vs Plato Thucydides and Plato had contrasting ways in their approach on the good life. Thucydides displays empirical thinking in his studies of human nature and behavior during the Peloponnesian War and Plato displays normative thinking in his books and dialogs in particular "The Republic" Plato views a good life on the ideals that a person has reached happiness. When a person is in a state where they have no desires because they have all love in their life. He believed this
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Thucydides has a very realist perception of looking at human nature. He believed that men are only cruel and only concerned with their self-interest. The pursuit of self-interest and greed are the true driving forces behind why decisions are made. The greed that lies within man`s heart is why he relies solely on self-interest because he thinks more about what he is getting from something then how that decision if affecting others. Unless‚ he is directly affected though the impact of the others. Thucydides
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I am a Filipino - inheritor of a glorious past‚ hostage to the uncertain future. As such I must prove equal to a two-fold task- the task of meeting my responsibility to the past‚ and the task of performing my obligation to the future. I sprung from a hardy race - child of many generations removed of ancient Malayan pioneers. Across the centuries‚ the memory comes rushing back to me: of brown-skinned men putting out to sea in ships that were as frail as their hearts were stout. Over the sea I see
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Civic Oration Speech Regine Williams 1st Block The Great Wall of China is the top ten new wonders of the world 2012. Located in China it stretches from Shanhaiguan in the east‚ to Lop Lake in the west. The whole wall is about 21‚000 km long. The main part of the wall is 2‚500 miles long and stretches through all sorts of mountains. The wall is thirty feet high and twenty-five feet thick at its base. The Huns and barbarians had no farming land and they used to entre china and killed and invade
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In the oration to Governor Isaac I. Stevens‚Chief Seattle tries to persuade the whites of the United States that they should treat the Native Americans equally despite their inferior status.The way Chief Seattle achieves this is through figurative language‚ organization‚ and diction‚ this is how he shows both the reason and pride behind his oration to the Governor. Another function of this orientation is a wake up call to the Governor that the Natives are not as weak as they may seem they do still
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KCC: “Aiming towards Global Competence” “Now is the time for change.” This is what we have been heard from all media forms since the election has finally ended‚ heeding the triumphant sound of another spectrum of hope as it enters the palace of ascendancy – the new administration. Knowing the fact that this will be a roaring summon for the Filipino masses. This is now our time to heal the wounds and lift up ourselves from the ruthless claws of the past administration. However‚ our aspiration for
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In 1486‚ Renaissance philosopher Pico della Mirandola spoke the Oration on the Dignity of Man through which he called into question the primacy of the human creature. He held that God endowed man with the ability to choose his own destiny and his own perspective with which to view life and everything around.His contention was that those abilities distinguished man from all other beings. He further argued in the Oration‚ that animals come into the world with everything they can ever possess. Similarly
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personal observation and suggestions to my countrymen along this energy problem. I want to share my views and opinion‚ in the hope that it would also serve as an eye-opener to people in underdeveloped or developing countries as well‚ in the following oration piece I wrote for my daughter in high school which she delivered as a contest piece. From this ‚ you can deduce about
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