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    the significance of these transgressions are amplified with the attachment of names we the readers recognize from history and literature. Among them are figures one would expect to be Hell for their famous transgressions such as Judas Iscariot, Attila the Hun and Brutus but also more surprisingly Ulysses, the hero from Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, who is in the Eighth Circle of Hell for the crime of spiritual theft and Pope Celestine V, whom Dante condemns for abdicating the papacy and thus allowed Pope

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    The Western Roman Empire

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    that many had the common, but deadly malaria. Carried by the ever present mosquitos, it spread fast. By 262 CE thousands of people were dying daily, because of lead poisoning, malaria and more diseases. The conditions became so bad, that when Attila the Hun came to attack Rome, he retreated, for fear of catching malaria. These are a few of the diseases, that helped in the fall of the Roman

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    delivered an ultimatum to Serbia (85). The Kaiser's weakness are that he can not keep his emotion in check and unable to foresee consequences. The Kaiser can manipulate people with his words, positive or negative. He told his troops to behave like the Huns of Attila and demands that other countries recognize their aims for expansion (8). He declared, "We draw the sword with clear conscience and with clean hands." and later proclaimed loudly, " From this day on I recognize no parties but only Germans." (151)

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    To understand how the Christian church filled the vacuum left by the passing of the Roman Empire we must first determine two things; which Christian church filled the void and what were they filling? The Roman Empire provided law and order for the people to follow, this allowed for their economy to be built and their power to grow. Yet, despite its power and prestige the mighty empire fell to an onslaught of barbarians, a people without a kingdom and mostly nomadic farms. Once the empire fell the

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    from the time she was a small child in Grantham, though her Oxford years and during her early years in politics. It led her to become the first female Prime Minister of Great Britain, and also helped through her difficult political years as "Attila the Hun".      Britain's first female Prime Minister was born on October 13, 1925 in a small room over a grocer's shop in Grandham, England. Margaret Hilda was the second daughter of Alfred and Beatrice Roberts. She often

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    Xunzi was a follower to the Confucian philosophy that was an influence to the work Xunzi would contribute into 32 essays. As he was the first Confucian philosopher to convey his views in an organized manner all on his own, with clarity and specific reasoning. Xunzi’s famous claim was that human nature is evil, and that man’s only source of goodness comes from years of training. As a cultural specific philosophy Xunzi would maintain a constant explanation that human nature would be acquired at birth

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    The early and medieval years of the papacy consisted of numerous strategic, political tactics that increased the authority of the papacy, and ultimately led to the Protestant reformation. As stated by George Weigel, in Papacy and Power, “Popes have been ‘players’ in the world since at least the fifteenth century pontificate of pope Leo the Great.” Weigel was precise, the political role of the pope has been in place since 440 A.D. and significantly increased following the sack of Rome. As stated

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    Every culture in history has had leaders that are remembered as larger-than-life, Moses, Attila the Hun, Henry VIII, and George Washington, just to name a few.  All of these great leaders were famous in their own time, or perhaps infamous, and modern historians wade through countless documents and stories to piece together the facts from the legends.  Few of those memorable figures have actually retained the moniker “the great” through the ages, yet the Frankish king Charles remains “Charlemagne the

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    60 generations, you’ll be able to find a common heritage with anyone else in the world. That is a little scary to think, and a little wonderful. You share a relation, however tenuous, with Shakespeare, Mozart, and Gandhi. And also with Hitler, Attila the Hun, and Caligula. We all have that duality of greatness and darkness locked inside of us; all that stops us is a nonexpression of certain genes. So who am I? The answer is getting murkier and murkier. If you have the potential to be anyone,

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    In the novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey takes place in a psychiatric hospital in Oregon. A man, who is intentionally trying to escape work from a prison farm acts insane to serve out his sentence without completing any work. This man, Randle McMurphy, introduces himself to other men in the ward and the nurses. He seems content with the hospital and views that nothing is wrong. In power of the whole ward, Nurse Ratched, who exercises abusive power over all the men and seeks for

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