Vlad III Dracule Vlad The Impaler

Vlad Dracula formed an alliance with Hunyadi, in the hopes of persuading him he was the rightful heir to the throne, but it wasn't until 1456, that Vlad Dracula would make his move, killing his father's murderer, and defeating Vladislav II, to take over as the new ruler of Wallachia. In 1569, following an Easter Sunday feast, Vlad Dracula had all the boyar families who had been attending arrested. Those who were in good health were condemned to a life of slavery, and put to work on the construction of his Poenari Castle on the Arges river. Those who were old and weak were impaled for all to see. Thus began Vlad the Impaler's reign of blood and terror.

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Night and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich express the potential horrors of humanity’s immense capacity for extreme cruelty. Both took place in mid-twentieth century Europe and exposed the hardships of life in forced-labor camps: Wiesel’s in various concentration camps, Solzhenitsyn’s in Gulags. It is important for human populations to be aware of these tragedies so as to not commit the same atrocities again; therefore, this essay will explore each with regards to shared or different themes included and the messages presented. Both of these books are important due to their influential and informative nature regarding the horrors of their respective historical times. Night by Elie Wiesel and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr

Many historians have argued about Alexander the Great and if he deserves to be called great. Being 20 years old, Alexander the Great conquered most of the Persian Empire. His father, Philip II, was assassinated and Alexander III ruled over his father's Macedonian Empire. He and his army was called invincible but Alexander gets struck down by a disease called malaria in Babylon. How Great was Alexander the Great? Alexander is worthy to be called “Great”because he helped spread the Greek culture and he was selfless.

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Born in Sigismund, Romania on December of 1431, Vlad Tepes became prince of Wallachia in 1436. Since then, Vlad the Impaler used ruthless and contentious methods to build and expand his empire in 15th century Europe. Vlad’s use of cruel and inhumane punishment is what makes him such a controversial leader in history. Vlad’s views on punishment were very barbaric. He was known for punishing men, women, and even children.

Their own citizens fearing for their lives that they may not be killed next in a violent raid or massacre that these men would often indulge themselves in. Vlad the Impaler earned his famous tittle during his second period as king. The only form of punishment at this time in Walachia was impalement, a form of torture/execution where a blunt stake was driven either horizontally or vertically through the abdomen and erected up so that the persons’ own weight would slowly slide them down the shaft, no matter the crime committed. In one account, in 1462 the invading sultan of the Ottoman empire arrived at the capital city of Targoviste where he found over twenty thousand Ottoman prisoners impaled on the outskirts of the city. Vlad left this as a deterrent to invading the invading Ottomans. Aside from the constant impalements Vlad had a problem with all the poor and sick people of Targoviste. As a way solving his problem Vlad summoned all the sick and poor to a grand feast and when they had all had their fill he had the building in which they were eating boarded up and burned to the ground with everyone inside (Top 10 Lists). Ivan the Terrible became truly terrible after his wife Anastasia had died. Ivan would frequently murder and massacre whole villages solely on the basis that they may have been traitors. One account of his massacring involved the city of Novgorod which he sacked and

Art Spiegelman, the author of the highly acclaimed graphic novel, Maus, portrays the characters in his book in a very distinctive and potent way. Spiegelman’s novel chronicles the life of his father, Vladek, who is a Holocaust survivor. He uses racial stereotypes to depict each character by his or her nationality; Jews as mice, Germans as cats, and Poles as pigs. This unique portrayal of the characters can be attributed to the positive reception that Maus received upon its release.

“” this is the definition of folklore, and from these stories we get a multitude of myths and speculation of what happens to us when we die. They range from just disappearing into nothingness to becoming a higher being or going into a higher plain of existence. There are ideas however, of a life on this earth after we die for those who have committed crimes or have not been buried properly, we become the other, the supernatural or ultimately the undead. The most common of which is the vampire. One of the most known vampires from literature is Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ (1897) who is portrayed as a blood thirty, emotionless monster, which is the idea most often portrayed in folklore. This is a stark contrast from Anne Rice’s (1976) portal of a “” . The traditional idea of a monstrous creature who haunts the night is seen as an old idea and that people’s views of the supernatural are changing to a more humane, beautiful creature, not of a demon. This could be due to the popularity in teen and young adult fiction that happened in the late 1900’s. This change from traditional folklore is due to “” the way we perceive things are changing due to the influence of different cultures and ideas. Most of our ideas of vampires have changed from the traditional views to a beautiful human creature: seen in ‘Twilight’, ‘Vampire Knight’, ‘Vampire Academy’, and ‘Anita Blake’. These novels do have some elements of the monster portrayed in ‘Dracula’ and folklore but the main characters are the

Rivals contested him as the ruler, however, he was relentless and reigned for some twenty years before voluntarily retiring to a palace at Split, in his native of Illyria (modern Croatia).

Tepes and his brother were sent to the Turkish Sultan as ‘official’ hostages a year later, for education in change for loyalty to the Sultan. During a war with Hungary in 1447, Vlad II Dracul (Dracula’s father) and Tepes’s eldest brother were killed by Hungarian assassins. Wallachia was ruled by Hungary, and the Turks released and gave Tepes an army in order to capture Wallachia. He held the throne for two months before being forced to run away. He then abandoned Turkish ties and appealed to Hungary to become Prince of Wallachia. His following rule, though bloody, brought Romania together like never before. He was made famous by his rule as well since his name “Vlad the Impaler” came during this rule. He got this name from his use of torture as punishment; his ‘favorite’ act being using a large wooden stake to impale criminals from the groin to the mouth. Soon war began again with Turkey and Hungary, and he was removed and regained the throne a third time before he was killed in a war with the Turks, his head sent to the sultan as proof of his death.

Vlad Dracula was born in the winter of 1431 in Sighisoura,Transylvania. Vlad’s father who is Vlad II came from a family of princes from the state of Wallacia. In the same year Vlad III was born, his father traveled to Nuremberg, Germany and became a member of the Order of the Dragon. The Order of the Dragon was select group of European royalty appointed by the head of the Holy Roman Empire, Emperor Sigismund ,who held power over most of Western Europe. These men were dedicated to crusading against the Ottoman Turks, whose faith was Islam, and defending the Empire in the name of the Cross . Sigismund made Vlad II head of the Order and promised that he would be Prince of Wallacia when he returned . After this day, Vlad II became known as

Rasputin was a peasant born in 1872 in Siberian village known as Pokrovskoe. His name at his birth was Grigori Efimovich Novykh. Grigori’s reputation for his addiction to sex “earned him the surname Rasputin, Russian for ‘debauched one’” (Grigory).