The Movie Gladiator was directed by Ridley Scott and realeased in the year 2000. General Maximus Decimus Meridius was betrayed and murdered by his son, Commodus. Captured, Maximus rises through ranks of the gladiatorial arena for revenge for the murder of his family and his Emperor. The movie was a good movie, however not everything was historically inarrcurate. Although many things were true, the movie still had things which were faults or things that did not exist at all.
Cody Ostlund SPA 101 Sec 1 4-17-11 Aztec Society The Aztecs were a very organized and religious society. The worshipped many deities, and performed sacrificial rituals to please their deities. Historians claim that the Aztecs first settled on an island called Aztlan, but moved south in the early 1100’s. They settled in neighboring cities, but their hosts found their violent behavior rude, so they were ran out of many cities. During their travels, the Aztecs came across lake Texcoco, where they saw an eagle perched on a cactus.
As fists and clubs began flying a soldier dropped dead, this forced the soldiers to fire, killing five civilians and wounding six. Colonists were also being deprived from local political rights and independence. Apart from being deprived they were transported by sea to be tried for pretended offenses. In 1774 Parliamentary resolution declared that colonists accused of treason could be tried in Britain. This not only limited their options, but, denied from the colonists being tried in their country.
Abraham Lincoln once quoted, “I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views.” To this day there are many conspiracies that have been hypothesized about the murder of our sixteenth president and hero to many, Abraham Lincoln. Because of his abolishment of slavery and pro-union policy, Lincoln had many enemies from the south. President Lincoln also received a lot of assassination threats from many southerners. A few of the myths that remain to this day are; ‘Did Booth simply shoot Lincoln out of pure hatred?’, ‘Was Andrew Johnson involved with Booth?’, ‘Was Lincoln’s assassination the result of a confederate plot?’, or ‘Was secretary of war, Edwin Stanton the
Tupac was the biggest Hip Hop icon of the West Coast, he was shot in 1994 but was not killed he then later came to find out that his so called friends Biggie had knew about the shooting and had something to do with it. This then started the famous battle of the East vs. West in the hip hop society. Tupac then in the years to come would make tons of songs that would diss Biggie and of course Biggie would not just take it so he would try and come back at him. Between the two big icon’s Biggie being the icon for the East and Tupac being the icon of the West, they would start a huge war in the hip hop society and cause a lot of hatred. The East rappers and fans hated the West an the West rappers and fans hated the East.
War is a difficult topic, especially when someone has to describe it. Vonnegut tries his best to capture the mass destruction the war caused to the city of Dresden and the citizens within. Vonnegut places a bird twice in the novel saying the same line. The bird seems to be asking a question “One bird said to Billy Pilgrim, Poo-tee-weet” (Vonnegut, 215)? The bird appears in two spots in the book: First, the bird sings outside Billy’s hospital window and second, as the last line in the book.
The entire procession of the Black Indians is a wandering journey parade with an eventual objective of going to battle with rival tribes and returning home victorious. The Mardi Gras Indian victory has changed with changing cultural taboos. Before the 1920s, the battle was violent and ended with fatalities within the tribes. Joseph Roach, in his essay on the Mardi Gras Indians and Others: Genealogies of American Performance, he describes the meeting of the tribes and the actions following, “When two tribes sighted each other, they would immediately go into battle formation, headed by the first, second, and third spy boys at each side. Then the two head chiefs would cast their spears – iron rods – into the ground, the first to do so crying, “Umba?” Which was an inquiry if the other was willing to surrender, the second chief replies, “Me no umba!” There was never surrender, never a retreat.
Only upper classmen engaged in jousting and hunted for sport. Cock fighting was where roosters were fitted with sharp blades on each foot and put into a cockpit to fight till death. Hawking was a pastime for only the upper class because of the extreme cost of birds (Alchin). It is amazing to see how the people of the Elizabethan era found things to do. Bull and bear baiting was amusing to watch back then, now people would take it to seriously and wouldn’t like it.
In 2010, famed matador Julio Aparicio was gored in the throat by a bull during the festival of saint Isidro. The horn went through Julio's neck and throat, then went through his throat. Julio bled out on the arena's floor. Since record have been kept in 1700 fifty-two matadors have been killed and countless injuries have occurred. Bullfighting is just too dangerous a practice for humans to justify.
Fight your way out, / or run for it, if you think you can escape death. / I doubt one man of you skins by…” (705). By destroying the suitors, Odysseus used violence once again as a way to satisfy his need for vengeance, despite the fact that the suitors offered alternate ways to pay him back. Since the suitors betrayed him, pursued his beloved wife Penelope, and threatened to take his place as king, Odysseus felt the need to slaughter the suitors as the most sufficient way to retaliate. “Death at the Palace” suggests Ancient Greeks considered violent revenge adequate.