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    The following morning, a Portkey deposited Fleur at the iron gate protecting Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft. She made her way to her apartment where a small but well-placed living room featured a large window overlooking Hogwarts’ Quidditch pitch and a fireplace built into a bordering wall. A bookcase, end table, couch, and two plush chairs filled the room. To Fleur’s left, a kitchenette snuggled aside a short hallway leading to her bathroom and bedroom. She began immediately and worked

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    central purpose of marriage. This is, when a man takes a woman in matrimony in order for current citizens to produce new citizens. Not only can the production of children benefit the public sphere, it is also important for personal purposes. In Cassius Dio, Augustus addresses elite fathers in Rome praising and admiring them for their noble and intelligent minds for they have understood both public and private reasons for Roman men to father legitimate children. Augustus is overjoyed that these

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    seem “god-like” by giving the images characteristics of the divine (Roman Currency). Following the assassination of Caesar the Brutus Denarius coin was minted by Brutus in the late summer of 42 BC. Brutus created the coin as he marched alongside Cassius to meet Caesar at the first Battle of Philippi (Grout). The Denarius coin was created as a means of political propaganda by Brutus to show the Republic that the killers were defending the Republic and its people from Caesar’s grasp at kingship. Marcus

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    befallen you at home. I hope that you will be pleased to know that we have won a battle at Philippi and finally avenged the death of Julius Caesar. I went through many difficulties and for a time, I feared that we might be defeated. Marcus Brutus and Cassius Longinus, who had conspired to assassinate Caesar, had strategically made their camps on two hills. Their position gave them an advantage over us from the start. They were on high ground and their fortifications made it even more difficult to attack

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    the forces of Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus. Brutus and Cassius were the assassinators of Julius Caesar, Marc Antony and Octavian were very close allies with Julius Caesar and Octavian would become the heir to his throne after the assassination. Because of this, Marc Antony and Octavian would wage a war against Brutus and Cassius to avenge their ally Julius Caesar. Immediately following the assassination of Caesar, Brutus and Cassius fled to Italy to take control of the Eastern

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    talks of strong and just morals that he believes in and is incapable to break those ethics that are so deeply seeded in him. The third and last mans change through power is that of Gaius Cassius, his gain into power was in the same form as that of Brutus yet the beliefs and wants of the men were separate. Cassius’ role throughout the play was that of a manipulator

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    quarters in the portico of the theater built by Pompey the Great (the Curia, located in the Forum and the regular meeting house of the Senate, had been badly burned and was being rebuilt). The sixty conspirators, led by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Brutus Albinus, and Gaius Trebonius, came to the meeting with daggers concealed in their togas and struck Caesar at least 23 times as he

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    he tells the story of: The ides of March and the downfall of Julius Caesar, Marcus Brutus, and Gaius Cassius. Marcus Brutus is known for participating in the assassination against Julius Caesar in the play: The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. At the time, Rome was led by the mighty tyrant Julius Caesar, who had returned victorious from battle against Pompey. Such people as Marcus Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus were afraid that Caesar would not see fit as the crown of Rome and struck him from his life

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    ple that are born to change the world are also born a target. We live in a world that doesn’t like change especially when it’s has to deal with equality and people would do anything so that message won’t get across. So when people like Abraham Lincoln and Julius Caesar are born people sees them as a threat, Ive chose to compare these two men because not only they leadership and messages were different they both shared one thing and that was to set change to this world. Abraham and Julius had been

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    William Shakespeare the writer of Julius Caesar decided how Cassius would be portrayed in his play. In the play, Cassius has an evil, manipulative personality; he can be your friend one minute then Cassius can be your worst enemy. Although Cassius was not popular with the people of Rome, he became the ringleader of the conspirators. Cassius displays the personality of a shrewd opportunist, who doesn’t believe in the rule of one person. He believes there should be an elected set of officials; to

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