What was the American Navy’s position vis-à-vis impressment? 5. Why did Robert Morris’ plan to assuage the concerns of financial contributors to the Continental Congress anger the common soldier? 6. What was the British strategy concerning slavery in the South?
Meghan Sias English10 Loguen SOAPSS Subject: Jermain Loguen, in his speech “I am a Fugitive Slave”; he publically explains how wrong the recent Fugitive slave act is. And asks the city in which he lives in, Syracuse, to become a refugee for fugitive slaves. Loguen insinuates that it would be foolish to allow this act to be passed without opposition. This speech is a cry for help in which his faith in the people of Syracuse is shown. Occasion: This speech was delivered on October 4, 1850, shortly after the Fugitive slave act was passed, which Loguen is responding to.
Naturally, the Ottoman Turks were opposed to this idea. “Go search for Athens…” urged writer Syned Davis in a poem to Dr. Thomas Taylor. In other words Davis was saying the Greeks should have freedom and not be forced to deal with the constraints of the Turks (Doc1). Greek exiles in Italy agreed with Davis. In the pamphlet “A Word About Freedom” Greeks are told to resist the Ottomans, hence seek liberty because the Turks are imposing injustice (Doc6).
7.Act I is full of challenges to authority (Boatswain to king/courtiers; Antonio’s overthrow of Prospero; Ariel and Caliban question Prospero’s right over them; Prospero accuses Ferdinand of wanting to take over the island). Find quotations that illustrate each of these challenges. For each example, is the questioning of authority justified? Why or why not? ACT ONE What exactly are the Boatswain and the crew trying to do in the first part of this scene?
6.1). It is believed that there are two separate sections of the Great Rhetra, with the second being added at a later date (Koiv, 2000, p.233 ). This second section is known as the ‘Rider’. The Rider is believed to have been added by the Spartan Kings Theopompus and Polydorus so as to give greater power to the elders and the Kings of Sparta. It states that the elders or Kings have the power to dismiss the assembly if “the people speak (or choose) crookedly” (Koiv, 2000, p.233).
Also, his betrayal of the plan to betray Messina denied the force a valuable base of operation and potential schemes for the taking of other cities. The Sicilian expedition also suffered from the overambitious nature of the campaign itself. Plutarch describes the grand designs of Alcibiades in creating the expedition as ludicrous - the desire to eventually take Carthage and control the Mediterranean. The war in Sicily is described by Thucydides as one of near equal magnitude to the one with the Peloponnese, which already strained Athenian power. The expedition relied on the cooperation of the Ionian cities in Sicily, which was misjudged - even Rhegium, previously an ally, did not join the Athenians.
The Rhetra: The Great Rhetra refers to the laws that were given to the people of Sparta, these outline the duties and responsibilities of the Spartan people in return for certain rights. These laws are outlined in verses called the Rhetra, and was supposedly given to Lycurgus, from the Delphic Oracle, for the people of Sparta if they were to rise up and become a powerful nation. The two king system: The two king system refers to a part of the Spartan constitution that defines the form of monarchical government within Sparta, this system that is employed in Sparta is radically different from what is being used elsewhere in the world at this time. The two king system, ironically, involves two kings descended from two different royal families,
Classics 36B/History 36B The Athenian Empire and Periclean Democracy Lecture Outline Part One: Athenian Empire I. Sparta was the recognized leader during the Persian Wars but did not maintain that leadership. Reasons: -not a sea power -too conservative -Helot threat II. Athens provided 2/3 of fleet during Persian Wars. Could exploit this and gain leadership of Greece. III.
Alego Carpentier wrote Like the Night to depict western civilization and its historical relations with North and South Americas. It is rather read as an allegory than just a narrative which traces humans’ development in terms of a binary two sets (Europe vs. non Europe,) and examines the power relations between them. Particularly, the story reveals the West attitudes toward colonization and the colonized through the eyes of the narrator who is a Greek soldier taken to fight for Spain against America. This kind of allegorical stories plays a major role in determining the mode of narration, the choice of characters and their function in the story, the setting, as well as the themes. Each of these elements is done in a way to serve the the underlying message behind the story, the fact that the West is the civilizer and the non West is the uncivilized.
Since democracy views the citizen as an important part of a nation as shown in the pictures along the frieze. The Parthenon appeared after the Peloponnesian wars at a time when Athens was experiencing some much-needed peace and through leaders like Pericles glorified Athenian power through the structures on the Acropolis. After the construction ended Athens went to war with the Sicily and lost, this started the temple change in function, structure and authority that persisted into the future. During this time, the venetians bombed it in their war with the Turks; however, efforts to reconstruct the damage started with Nicolas Balanos and continue to today. Now it is a stamp for Greek nationality and Political independence since 1974 (Marconi