adventure. Although she was manipulated by the gods‚ she is ultimately responsible for her own fate. Dido was affected by many tragic events that were completely out of her control. However‚ these events were created with the intent of either helping Aeneas get to Italy or to prevent him from getting to Italy. Cupid made her fall in love with Aeneas‚ because Venus wanted to guarantee Aeneas’ safety (1.782-821). Juno gets her to make love with Aeneas in cave in order to get Aeneas to stay at Carthage
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What did Nietzche mean when he wote "God is dead." ? Nietzche’s statement of "God is dead" is easily misinterpreted to be that an actual God has died. However when Nietzche wrote "God is dead" he did not believe that there was an actual God who had existed and then died. He wrote this statement to show that God wasnt a proper source for moral principles anymore. Nietzche said that the death of a God was a manner of stating that humans would no longer be able to believe in any order of moral
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------------------------------------------------- To what extent was Themistocles responsible for the Greek victory in the Persian Wars? Daniel Ashby Themistocles was responsible for the Greek victory in the Persian wars to a considerable extent. The key to Athens’ strength in the 5th Century BC was in this general and statesman and therefore‚ as Greek victory relied so heavily on Athens‚ Themistocles vitally contributed to the outcome of the Persian king’s invasion of 480-479 BC. His early
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Pat Tillman was a football player who turned down a multi-million-dollar contract to join the Army. Like any other American soldiers‚ Tillman was a national hero who had sacrificed for his country‚ Afghanistan. However‚ what causes of his death was still a mystery as the government did not know whether he was killed by the Taliban‚ or it was a result of the "friendly fire". The problem was the government tried to cover up the truth not only to protect its image‚ but to cover a big secret that Pat
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To what extent was Germany responsible for causing World War One? To what extent was Germany responsible for causing World War One? In August‚ 1914‚ 6 million men mobilised for war on the European continent. It was the bloodiest war that had been fought yet in history due to huge advances in weapons and technology. This question of who was to blame for the war has been debated many times by many historians. Germany was responsible for its beginning to some extent but that extent can be argued
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To what extent is Christopher’s condition responsible for the conflicts that arise in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time? Christopher’s condition directly results in a few minor conflicts in the novel‚ but more significantly‚ it factors to different degrees in the major conflicts between Mother and Father‚ between Father and Mrs. Shears‚ and between Father and Christopher. The minor conflicts often arise from Christopher’s trouble with social interaction. Early in the novel‚ for instance
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While imprisoned‚ Nicholas kept a quite detailed diary of his days as a prisoner. Although he was a prisoner‚ he was still kept up-to-date about what was happening government wise in Russia. Originally the plan was to keep Nicholas and his family in England. But because of the Petrograd Soviet‚ the revolutionary workers’ and soldiers’ council‚ they were sent away to Tobolsk in Western Siberia. Which
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. To what extent is citizenship rights responsible for the conflict between Sinhalese and Tamils? The Sinhalese and the Tamils have been having conflict in Sri Lanka. Most of the issues revolve around the discriminatory policies against the Tamils practiced by the Sri Lankan government which prefers Sinhalese‚ the majority. One of such policy is the citizenship rights. In 1948‚ when Sri Lanka gained independence‚ only those born in Sri Lanka or whose forefathers were born there were given Sri
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on to kill Duncan by seeing the image of a floating dagger. This could have been due to his own psychological issues meaning that he was simply hallucinating under the circumstances‚ or that the witches sent that image to persuade Macbeth into doing what they wanted. They would have wanted the King dead because then the link between God and his subjects would have been severed and without the natural order they would be free to wreak chaos on the earth. The witches could also be considered as servants
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To what extent was Charles X responsible for his own downfall? When Charles X stood down to Louis-Philippe‚ after his monarchy‚ many said that this was his own doing and he was fully responsible for his own downfall. However this was not entirely true‚ Louis unorthodox methods may have contributed to his downfall in the long term however short term causes are just as important and appointment of ministers such as Villele was a crucial fault in Charles’s system. One could say that the polarisation
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