Thinking Caligula would be able to produce an heir since he was so young, Nero had given up. All of a sudden, Caligula and his whole family were killed. Claudius, the uncle of Caligula, took over the throne and remarried to Nero’s mother. This gave Nero the ability to become leader in the later years. (Fig.1) Antium which is translated into Anzio is where Nero the emperor of Rome was born Nero started ruling Rome at the age of 17 (fig.2).
In contrast Louw’s photograph only presents one negative perspective. Each text was composed in different time period and medium, thus they use a variety of different techniques to convey their perspectives of the assassination of the greats. In the first extract from Julius Caesar Shakespeare presents a positive perspective on the assassination of Caesar. This is achieved through the conspirators’ view that they were doing a good deed. Casca asserts that, “he who cuts off twenty years of life, Cuts off so many years of fearing death.” This reasoning sets up Brutus’ statement of, “then death is a benefit…we are Caesars friends, that have abridged his time of fearing death.” The repetition of “fearing death” highlights their justification that the assassination is a good deed.
Macbeth compares himself to Mark Antony and Banquo to Octavius Caesar, who defeated Antony in the civil wars. The event started when, Mark Antony remained unemployed till 44 BC, when he was appointed as the consul and priest of Julius Caesar. Soon after Caesar’s assassination, Mark Antony seized Caesar’s official papers and the treasury to use them to his own advantage. Antony entered into a 5-year pact of joint autocracy, called the Triumvirate, with Octavian and Lepidus in November, 43 BC. After the triumvirs mutually decided to divide the Roman Empire, Antony took charge of the eastern provinces, where he fell in love with and later married the charming Queen Cleopatra of Egypt.
The normal program included beast-hunts in the morning, execution of criminals over lunch, gladiator in the afternoon. The thumbs up/thumbs down by the Emperor to signal that the gladiator could kill his defeated opponent was debated. Many people think it was the opposite of what the movie deppicted, however historics are still debating which way it really was. The Colosseum was not called the Colosseum until Venerable Bede's time, around AD 700. It was known as the Flavian Amphitheatre or simply, "the Amphitheatre".
Rome was one of the most successful empires in history. The Roman Republic won an overseas empire beginning with the Punic Wars. The Second Punic War was both a defining moment and a turning point in Roman history. The Roman republic was supreme throughout the Mediterranean. By the end of the first century B.C, Rome controlled almost all of the known world (along the Mediterranean).
This case proceeded in London and was said to be a strong influence in the abolishment of capital punishment in the United Kingdom. Evans was executed in 1950 for the murder of his wife and 13-month-old daughter. Evans maintained his innocence through the whole trial and told investigators that his neighbor, John Christie murdered his family. There was not much evidence against Evans and the case was said to be really weak but he was still executed on March 9, 1950. The police coerced Timothy Evans into a false confession by threatening him.
The battle lasted for about 3 days and after which all 300 Spartans were killed. The Spartan defeat was not the one expected, as a local shepherd, named Ephialtes, defected to the Persians and informed Xerxes of a separate path through Thermopylae, which the Persians could use to outflank the Greeks. The Protagonist King Leonidas would be considered a hero in my eyes. Though throughout the course of the movie, with every person he killed he had a look of satisfaction as if he enjoyed killing. In which case that can lead to too an anti-hero in the eyes of others.
After the rise of penitentiaries around 1800, the idea of shaming wrongdoers was replaced by more impersonal forms of punishment such as incarceration (Vedantam, 2006). Shaming was a powerful tool in years gone by and it can be once again if used in the right way. For example, if a criminal is acquitted from his charges then turns around after the trial and all has died down writes a book on the way he or she may committed the crime if they had done it. This was done by O.J. Simpson after he had been acquitted of all charges in the deaths of his ex wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman.
However, the death penalty may kill innocent people who are wrongly sentenced to a crime they did not commit. Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in the United States in 1976, 138 innocent men and women have been released from death row, including some who were within minutes of being executed. In some states, such as Texas, Missouri, and Virginia, investigations have been opened to determine if they had killed innocent men and women. One of the most frequent causes of reversals in death penalty cases is that poor defense lawyers are provided. A study at Columbia University found that 68% of all death penalty cases were reversed on appeal, with an inadequate defense as one of the main reasons for reversal.
Part 1. Explication “If We Must Die” by Claude McKay “If We Must Die” was written almost a century ago, and it wouldn’t be unnecessary to refer to the history of that time for better understanding because the author leaves us guessing about the past events. Before digging into the background, it’s good to mention that this poem makes an impression of a hero, a Greek hero - brave strong man who fought the enemy for truth and honor. Jamaican-American writer and poet Claude McKay created “If We Must Die” during the “Red Summer” of 1919, a period of intense racial violence against black people in the American society. McKay has immigrated to the US just few years before that, and was shocked by the racism, which gave him an inspiration for new poems.