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foreign Greek, Egyptian, and African games. “Ancient Romans played a wide variety of board games, including dice (Tesserae), Knucklebones (Tali or Tropa) Roman chess (Latrunculi), Roman checkers (calculí), Tic-tac-Toe (Terni Lapilli), and Roman backgammon (Tabula).”according to Athletics, Leisure, and Entertainment in Ancient Rome,Fife, Steven). So we can see that besides sharing the same activities, the Romans

After all years that we will experience, we will say “Oh my life, such a life.” To our grandchildren, friends, daughters or sons. Or we will look our photo album with our husbands and we will say “Oh such a life, how it passed such fast.” According to dictionary, “the life is the quality; which people, animals, and plants have when they are not dead and which objects and substances do not have,” with its basic meaning. Actually, the life isn’t being dead. Isn’t the life means memories in all those

New France In the development of what is known today as Canada, during the Elizabethan era, there was a series was highly documented and, surprisingly, not well-known occurrences. The colonization of New France set the foundation for Canada. The early settlers grew as a nation while holding true to some teachings of the French. The French were originally on the search for an alternative route for Asia and instead stumbled upon what was soon to become their greatest achievement. The French set out

There are some accounts of females participating in ball games, Board Games: Ancient Romans played a wide variety of board games, including dice, Knucklebones Roman Chess (Latrunculi), Roman Checkers (Calculi), Tic-tac-toe (Terni Lapilli), and Roman backgammon (Tabula), Public Entertainment: There were several other activities to keep the people of Rome content and to prevent uprisings, such as chariot races at the Circus Maximus, musical and theatrical performances, public executions, beast hunts, and

George Berkeley is considered one the greatest modern philosophers, yet when he is studied he is seen as misguided and inaccurate. It seems that sometimes we study his errors more than his achievements. Many critiques of Berkeley are results of misunderstanding Berkeley’s philosophy. One very famous critique is from Samuel Johnson who lived around the same time as Berkeley. Johnson kicked a stone and said, “I refute it thus”. Why did Johnson believe he could refute Berkeley by kicking a stone? Did

AP Language Rhetorical Analysis of Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” Directions: Read “Civil Disobedience.” As you read, underline examples of Thoreau using rhetorical devices and identify and explain the devices via annotation. Answer questions 1-4 to prepare for further work with a small group. The group will work together on questions 5 through 8. Be ready to explain your answers to the whole class. Even when you’re working as a group you should be writing the answers. 1. Based on your

Emma:  Genteel People and Honest Hearts             In Emma, Jane Austen gives us ‘only the surface of the lives of genteel people’?  Though not necessarily a commonly used term today, the meaning of ‘genteel people’ is easily assumed. Good birth and breeding are not necessarily the only ‘qualities’ of genteel people: simple generosity, courtesy and elegance can also apply, as well as marriage into the class. The majority of the characters in Emma to some extent expand this definition to provide

Windows 7 is the latest release of Microsoft Windows, a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, netbooks, tablet PCs, and media center PCs.Windows 7 was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009, and reached general retail availability on October 22, 2009,less than three years after the release of its predecessor, Windows Vista. Windows 7's server counterpart, Windows Server 2008 R2, was released at the same

Bowling, Boating, and Bodies: Egyptian Culture and its Impact Imagine for a moment you are in Ancient Egypt. The air is hot and dry, the wind blows stinging sand against your face, and you can hear the rushing of the Nile. Up the road from you is the marketplace where vendors sell their wares. People shout and run and argue and work, not the least bit aware that their own culture is helping to shape that of the rest of the world for thousands of years to come. The Egyptians were responsible for

Being a military brat is always hard, but my challenges were exacerbated by my extreme ADHD. Feeling constantly uprooted and the perpetual new kid on the block made it almost impossible to connect with other kids. After a while, I started to feel like the human Tesla coil: creative and energetic, but erratic, misunderstood, and perhaps a bit intimidating. Certainly not something anyone wanted to get close to. Eventually I learned that I needed to harness that energy in a different way. I channeled