Cavendish

Margaret Cavendish, or famously known as “Mad Madge”, is a contributor to the Scientific Revolution. She was a poet, writer, playwright, and a philosophical writer. She was born in Colchester, U.K, in 1623 to a wealthy family, with little formal education. Her education was commonplace for most girls of her time. Although, she gained insight and knowledge from reading and also by listening to her brother, John, who had an degree in philosophy and whom eventually came to be one of the people to establish

During the early 16th century, a famous playwright by the name of William Shakespeare came out with play Macbeth. This well known play takes place in 10th century Scotland. During this time period there were numerous battles and the desire for power was strong . Although a fictional play, Shakespeare’s Macbeth, written to impress King James I of Scotland, was based on real Scottish history. Shakespeare made many alterations to the original history in order to appease King James I of Scotland. The

Margaret Cavendish was born in the year 1623 and left this world in 1673 as a young, successful writer, had a part in the discovery of scientific revolution, considered as a natural philosopher, and an advocate for women’s rights, believing they should receive education and also be considered as a scientist. She was the youngest of a large family and was born in England to the parents of Mr. and Mrs. Lucas. Margaret Lucas had class in the way she presented herself. Margaret was a shy, but a vibrant

he tried to approach her to have sexual intercourse with Amphitrite, she immediately fled. Poseidon was extremely distraught by this fact. So, he enlisted the help of Dolphinus (Poseidon: Greek) to persuade her to come back and become his wife (Cavendish 2074). Amphitrite was moved by Poseidon’s words and came back to marry him and become the Queen of the Sea (Poseidon: Greek). One story that shows the competition between Poseidon and the other gods and goddesses is when he and Athena tried to

The movie Cloud Atlas, is based on the book version by David Mitchell. What is interesting is that there are six stories within the movie from different eras, places in time, and with different protagonists and antagonists. Time dates back as far as 1849 in the South Pacific to as far as 2346 in Hawaii. Even though all six stories are very different; there is a piece of each story that connects it to the other stories. In all of the stories the protagonist goes against the nature of things, or go

Cloud Atlas is a book composed of six different writings from a multitude of writers such as Adam Ewing, Cavendish, Sonmi, and Frobisher. These stories are written in a different time period but show a lot of the same ideals and themes. There are many themes that present themselves in cloud atlas but the one that appealed to me most was greed. Mitchell did a very good job in showing greed in each of the chapters in a variety of different ways whether it was a minimal or large amount. In addition

influence in their prime and they still have an impact on people today. KISS is a heavy metal/ rock & Roll band that has engraved their name in music history and changed rock and roll for decades. When Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley created Kiss in 1972(Cavendish 1869), It was the beginning of one of the greatest rock & roll bands of all time. Drummer Peter Criss was their first recruit when his

the underworld and was then named herald of the dead it was said that “In this guise he was known as Hermes Psycopompos (soul leader), and he was the only god, besides Persephone and Hades, who could cross into the land of the dead and out again” (Cavendish 670). Hermes was very important in many Greek myths; he would often do the bidding of Zeus. One of his most famous appearances took place in the myth, the odyssey. He actually saved the Greek hero twice throughout the story. In one situation while

Moreover, the Soviet Union had many other great success and were overall ahead of the space race in the beginning before the death of Sergey Korolev. (Cavendish, Soviet Union is first to the moon) Of course they had great success with the sputnik 1 satellite and then they sent the sputnik two, in which it sent the first living thing into space. The living thing was a dog named Laika but sadly died after some time after it reach into space. Furthermore, they had even more sputnik mission in which

defected from Antony to him (Cavendish, 2011). Octavian also found support in the senate in particular from Cicero who was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar and writer (Adkins and Adkins, 2004; Cavendish, 2011; Levene, 2007). In a corresponding letter to Decimus Brutus, Cicero states Octavian should be “praised [and] honoured” (Cicero, c. 43 B.C.E.). Cicero also delivered a series of orations against Antony, representing him as an enemy of ancient Roman freedoms (Cavendish, 2011; Galinsky, 2005). Later