Attila the Hun

“No one thinks of how much blood it costs. “The person who said this is the same revolutionary that wrote the Inferno. He is talking about war, and about what violence brings, when no one thinks about the consequences. In his poem, The Inferno, he goes through hell meeting and talking with people in the different circles. These layers get worse the longer the poem lasts, and as long as Dante traverses the unknown depths of the devil’s kingdom. In canto 12, Dante and his guide Virgil, come across

TEAMWORK & TEAMS Teamwork ... Collaboration vs Competition o Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people (7H) o Reich, in HBR, 1987: "To the extent that we continue to celebrate the traditional myth of the entrepreneurial hero, we slow the progress of change and adaptation that is essential to our economic success. If we are to compete effectively in today 's work, we

The Influence and Meaning of Gothic Literature Gothic is termed in the dictionary with crude and barbaric, this definition coincides with gothic literature. Gothic literature was said to be born in 1764 when Horace Walpole published The Castle of Otranto, which is considered to be the first gothic novel ever written. Gothic literature explores the aggression between what we fear and what we lust. The setting of these gothic stories were usually in some kind of castle or old building that showed

“The City which had taken the whole world was itself taken.” St. Jerome perfectly summed up the event that had shocked the entire world. Rome was sacked on August 24th, 410 by King Alaric and his army, who were the Visigoths, a western branch of the nomadic tribes of Germanic peoples referred to collectively as the Goths. It was the first time that Rome had been sacked by a foreign enemy in 800 years, and although Ravenna was the capital of the Western Roman Empire at the time, Rome was still seen

hero of the poem Beowulf and the heroes of the two Icelandic sagas, The Saga of The Volsungs and The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki. The former saga is an Icelandic saga representing oral traditions dating back to the fourth and fifth centuries, when Attila the Hun was fighting on the northern fringes of the Roman Empire; the latter is an Icelandic saga representing 1000 years of oral traditions prior to the 1300’s when it was written.   An unknown author wrote The Saga of The Volsungs in the thirteenth

In any country, war is a matter of great distress and fear, but with the help of its people the country survives. How the citizens of a country at war do this is by supporting the war and ensuring that fellow citizens join the war effort. However, it is not as easy as it seems to get the citizens to support the war effort, so it is up to the government to persuade them. The government incorporates several techniques like propaganda posters and a sense of patriotic duty to implore citizens to volunteer

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey takes place in a psychiatric hospital in Oregon during the early 1960’s. Our main character, Randle McMurphy, acts insane to serve out his sentence on a prison farm without having to complete any work. McMurphy introduces himself to the other men in the ward and the nurses as a confident character. He represents freedom and self determination common during the 1960’s, when there was a lot of political unrest/as well as limited trust towards the government

Was Rome more of a Republic or Empire? In a sense, Rome was a both a Republic and Empire throughout different times in history. At first, Rome was very much a Republic. It had no one leader and instead had many different elected representatives. The people of Rome could voice their opinions and influence the government. However, with the fall of the Republic, Rome soon became an Empire with only one leader. This leader, or emperor, usually did whatever they felt like and did not have to listen to

Introduction Traditions are powerful. Take for example the Catholic understanding of Saint Peter as the first pope. This tradition is established in the scriptural passage from Matthew 16:18, which states, “And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it” (ESV). Additionally, the tradition is further substantiated by his physical presence, as most scholars agree “that Peter did visit Rome, and that there is at least a

Italy has a rich history at about 600 BC the Etruscans established thriving small cities in and around northern and central Italy; this would lay the foundation for what was to come much later. At around 260 BC, the first of what would be three major wars, called the Punic War took place between a ferocious sworn enemy the city-state of Carthage, which was located in what, is today parts of Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar, Italy, France, and Malta. Carthage was powerful