Emperor's Three Questions

In the beginning of Chapter XII of Tolstoy’s story, Ivan starts to painfully scream loudly for three consecutive days, during which time Ivan realizes that his doubts are still unsolved. During this moment, Ivan realizes that moving up in social esteem has not led to joy, fulfillment, and life, but to misery, emptiness, and death instead. Blinded by the values of high society, he

The Emperor's Test and The Mystery Ingredient have many similarities, however they also have many differences. The two stories are very interesting and written well. The Emperor's Test and The Mystery ingredient's stories are similar, but the text of the Mystery Ingredient has a more modern vocabulary.

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, America felt exposed as potential dangers, now realized, ominously lurked along the home front. False reports of Japanese espionage spread rapidly fueling hostility, fear, and racial prejudice. In an Executive Order signed by president Roosevelt, America responded, removing Japanese-Americans from their homes and shackling them within internment camps. Relocation was not obligatory but mandatory. Based on the experiences of close family members, Julie Otsuka, in her novel entitled When the Emperor was Divine, captures the transition of a nameless Japanese-American family from normalized citizens to ostracized foreigners. Oasis to desert, her vivid imagery nuances a deeper sense of meaning

Julie Otsuka is an author who is known widely as one of the most important people in modern American literature. Simply because she knows how’s to choose her characters in her books and-and the way they use their power. She has written some most popular historical fiction books there is. .One of her stories “ When the emperor was divine” is a short story with simple sentences , with some adjectives here and there , but a lot of people like her story mainly because of here characters .As you read this book you can see some of the powerful characters she uses. The narrator of the story is a little boy , he begins the story off daydreaming of his dad and all the things that they used to do. Everything he sees goes into the great reserve of things

Both men mention that the leaders must have good reasons for what they are doing. Because the good reasons, ruler can dominate people easily. For example, if the prince had used punishment to people without any reasons,

In When the Emperor was Divine, the author, Julie Otsuka, uses her choice of narrator to represent the overall image of Japanese Americans throughout the war. At the beginning of the first chapter, the narrator is the mother who is very proper and clearly trying to fit in. This is demonstrative of how Japanese Americans were treated like any other citizen before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. After the attack, the Japanese Americans became isolated and hated and were forced to leave their homes. When the mother receives an evacuation notice, she has to pack up and hide all of her family's possessions. The family has an old dog and she decides that she has no choice but to kill it. The Americans saw anyone with Japanese heritage as brutes who have no compassion and it is this belief that causes the mother to have to commit and brutal action. By using the mother as the first narrator, Otsuka depicts the change of the overall opinion of the Japanese Americans.

The Japanese-American author, Julie Otsuka, wrote the book When the Emperor was Divine. She shares her relative and all Japanese Americans life story while suffering during World War II, in internment camps. She shares with us how her family lived before, during, and after the war. She also shares how the government took away six years of Japanese-American lives, falsely accusing them of helping the enemy. She explains in great detail their lives during the internment camp, the barbed wired fences, the armed guards, and the harsh temperatures. When they returned home from the war they did not know what to believe anymore. Either the Americans, which imprisoned them falsely, or the emperor who they have been told constantly not to believe, for the past six years imprisoned. Japanese-Americans endured a great setback, because of what they experienced being locked away by their own government.

I disagree with a child’s whole future resting on just one test. That puts so much pressure on children to do well at such a young age. I can see why children get depressed, if

Between 1870-1900, the European scramble for empire sparked a new attitude for Americas view on the expansion. The United States sought to influence and control other parts of the world in order to protect its national interests. The fear of the country being closed out in the struggle for global markets and raw materials and profits from foreign sales motivated the American quest for global influence. "Republican senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, claiming that the "great nations" were seizing "the waste areas of the world", advised that "the United States must not fall out of the line of march" because "civilization and the advancement of the [Anglo-Saxon] race" were at stake" (Norton, Mary Beth. Chapter 19: The Quest for Empire

reformed every individual living during that time in that state. It is clear he was serious about this subject and wanted to express how this part of history is so imperative for every individual to know and comprehend due to the astounding events that occurred and outcomes that came from what is mainly an antagonistic way to treat human

1.   The word "philosophy" comes from the Greek philein (to love) and sophia (knowledge or wisdom).

Two of the more memorable emperors to the Romans were Augustus Caesar (27 BC to 14 AD), and Caligula (37 AD to 41 AD). Although only having ruled the empire by a separation of 23 years and belonging to the same family (through marriage and adoption), their empires couldn’t have been more different. It is possible to determine the impact of an emperor’s rule based on their many vices and virtues, as well as the choices that they make in relation to them. The author Suetonius expressed in his writings the many vices and virtues that put into perspective the kind of leaders that these emperors appeared as to their polis. As we explore the concept of vices and virtues, as well as what kind of ideals these two rulers represented, we will begin to be presented with a clearer picture of what an ideal emperor would have looked like. A vice can be described as an immoral or wicked behavior; while a virtue can be described as a behavior showing high moral standards. Suetonius and the Roman people had a high interpretation of the concept of virtue and vice, as well as their role in the ruler’s life.

Tiberius, who served as emperor from 14 to 37 AD, began his rule after the death of his father-in-law, Augustus. Tiberius was a weak ruler, and he understood that ruling Rome was like “holding a wolf by the ears.” When conflict arose in Europe, Tiberius sent his nephew, Germanicus, to deal with it. Germanicus did his job, and this resulted in Tiberius fearing the newest war-hero. To avoid the issue, Germanicus was appointed governor of the remote eastern provinces by his uncle. After the sudden death of Germanicus, people believed that Tiberius had poisoned him. He denied this, but the accusations never died. When he was in need of advice, Tiberius sought the assistance of Sejanus, a cavalry officer and town cheat. Tiberius sought the

But during his time with the hermit, the emperor accomplished all of these things without knowing that they were clues to the answer of his questions. When the emperor was digging rows into the gardens and when he patched up his wounded enemy, he finally focused on the present and acted selflessly while unknowingly disregarding the future; the hermit made sure to take note of that. Many of people in this day and age are much like the emperor. They worry too much about the future, something they can not predict or control, instead of making the best out of the present. In context with my life, the lesson of this story could have been applied to countless experiences and saved me an abundant amount of stress. For instance, procrastination has always been the key to my demise, and I dread this quality of mine with all my might. Now that I know the hermit’s answers I finally realized that accomplishing the task in the present, for myself, and for my happiness will truly make my life

Those private citizens who become princes through fortune alone do so with little effort, but they maintain their position only with a great deal; they meet no obstacle along their way since they fly to success, but all their problems arise when they have arrives…such men depend solely upon two very uncertain an unstable things: the will and the fortune of him who granted them