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Rome’s Greatest Victory: The Intrigue of Cleopatra VII As the last reigning pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt, Cleopatra VII straddled Greek, Egyptian, and Roman history. During the centuries surrounding her lifetime, few women ruled their own countries, let alone with strength and competence. Cleopatra immersed herself in politics, intrigue, and military tactics. Her influence spans over two thousand years, its impression persevering into modern day. Her unfortunate defeat by the fledgling Roman Empire

“Maybe it won’t work out. But maybe seeing if it does will be the best adventure ever.”-Unknown. In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, the main character, Tom, goes through a rollercoaster adventure of love and hate. Growing up in the small town of St. Petersburg, Missouri in the early 1800s Tom has a notorious reputation for his guile actions. But, Tom’s actions were only to for one reason, and that was to catch the attention of a girl named Becky Thatcher. Becky. Becky. Becky. She was

healthy body, it is the basis of the dynamic and creative intellectual activity”.- (John F. Kennedy). This focus on mental capacity and dynamism is clearly seen through Christopher Boone's character in Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon. Diagnosed with autism, Christopher is a very unpredictable character who grows dynamically throughout the novel. The emphasis on Christopher’s various abilities highlights his different skills rather than fixating on the fact that he is on

English/language terms which describes the different kinds of sentences and sentence endings, interrogative, imperative, declarative, and exclamatory. An interrogative sentence asks a question and should be ended with a question mark. An imperative sentence ends with a period or an exclamation mark. This is because imperative sentences give a command or makes a request. When it comes to declarative sentences the person is generally stating an opinion or making a statement and ends with a period. The last type

The wounds given by a sword can be healed but nothing can heal a wound given by a word. The two writers Mark Twain and Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote about the decades of slavery in the United States, and tried to show how terribly slaves were treated and insulted through the repetition of the word “nigger”. They both adopt a humorous tone which aimed to challenge the society to stop judging people based on their skin color, or race and to not turn a blind eye to the racial problems, but rather face them

Tom and Huck the movie was made in 1995 when Mark Twain made it, but his real name is Samuel Clemens. The main protagonist in this movie was Tom Sawyer his goal in the movie was to be a run away and to help out muff porter out, but his town he lived in thought he was a naughty boy. The main antagonist in this movie was Injun Joe he was a mean guy in the town and he liked to fight people. The main conflicted was that Injun Joe came back to town and was lying about things he did. Some more of the main

‘Describe how the Gospel of Mark illustrates the character and face of Jesus for the Early Christians.’ The Bible consists of four gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The Gospel of Mark is considered to be the first gospel written, although some may disagree with that. Written between 50 AD and 67 AD and being originally drafted in Greek. It was addressed to the Gentile Christians and reached out to members of the community being persecuted, even to death for their beliefs and emphasised the

explain Ruth’s behavior. In terms these question statements of hers, one at first might think it to be caused by an distaste to giving orders, this thought would in fact be wrong. Ruth is rather comfortable making demands and I gather that this question mark that she poses at the end of every statement acts to first ingratiate her to others. The more I have come to know Ruth I have found that these questions are never actually that. In relation to her coffee cup, I at first thought that maybe, it was possible

John Fitzgerald Kennedy once said, “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” Huckleberry Finn (1884), a satiric novel set in the Antebellum South along the Mississippi River authored by Mark Twain, asserts the concept of advanced moral justification through the exclusion of oneself from popular society. In order to challenge popular beliefs to create an active criticism of society as a whole, Twain provides a perspective that reveals the hypocrisy and immorality of a “civilized”

An ability to reconcile core aspects of human nature with the pragmatism required to establish and maintain stable rule lies at the heart of leadership and authority. Both Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince (1515) and William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1599) examine this idea, their respective purpose and contextual pressures driving their differing perspectives on the relationship between morality and authority. A didactic purpose underpins The Prince, the treatise directed to Lorenzo Di Medici