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Reports on Medicare

Activities performed by the Department of Health and Human Services are discussed in comprehensive semiannual reports that are aut...

The Cosby Show

of the African American community in the nation (The Professor). From the opposite perspective another author, in quoting ones com...

The Writings of Virgil, Herodotus, Thucydides, and Diodorus

on certain players, who were central to the role of the Greeks above all others. "There was a literary consequence to this omissi...

The Nature of War: The Iliad, Herodotus’ Histories, and Thucydides Peloponnesian War

ultimately started the war, Priam, his father and the king of Troy, and Hector, the other son of Priam. While there are other impo...

Why Livy And Thucydides Chose To Write About War and Rome

after being cast into the water in a basket -- survived and ultimately grew up with the intent to seek revenge against the king (a...

Fairness in Ancient Historiography

of the "old Roman people," as well as the reign of Augustus, "till growing sycophancy scared them away."4 Already hes suggesting t...

Ancient Philosophers on Democracy

for, but for which there were certainly problems. People too easily give up on it. In his work entitled The History of the Pelopon...

Thucydides v. Plato in Defining the Good Life

what was passing in the world around them, to the realm of re-presentative intellect. An external phenomenon is thus translated i...

Structure in Cymbeline and Pericles by William Shakespeare

have been called to his ship. Happily reunited with his daughter, Pericles is exhausted and sleeps. In his sleep Diana instructs ...

Two Greek TextsThucydides' “Athenian Thesis” and the “Unjust Speech” in Aristophanes' The Clouds

by, at least, a millennium. For them, they are merely being "realistic" and that such realism can serve as a basis for a social or...

An Analysis of Thucydides

In a paper consisting of six pages the writer argues that in History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides regards the Athens defeat...

Book II of the History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

even falling ill himself (Halsall Ancient History Sourcebook: 11th Britannica: Thucydides). During a heated campaign in 424, Thuc...

Justice According to Thucydides and Plato

has Socrates presented with various definitions of justice. Socrates is always opposed to any rule or definition that can be appli...

Individual Citizen and the Golden Age of Athens

In six pages this paper discusses Athenian democracy in an assessment of the system with evidence offered by writers Thucydides an...

Past and Present Political Tradition Principles

In ten pages this paper refers to the writings of Thucydides, Aristotle, and Plato in a consideration of past and present politica...

History and its Organization According to Edward Gibbon, Thucydides, and Bede

In five pages this paper examines the organization of history according to the different perspectives of Edward Gibbon, Thucydides...

History's Origin According to Ernst Breisach

events surrounding the Peloponessian War, but also the views of other cultures which sometimes conflicted with his own sensibiliti...

Works of Sophocles and Homer and the Gods

In five page this paper considers Gods and their roles in ancient Greek society and literature in a consideration of a passage fro...

Imperialism and Athenian Democracy

This paper consists of eight pages and compares imperialism to Athenian democracy with the assistance of Thucydides and the qualit...

Thucydides and the Assembly of Athens

This 5 page paper is written as if it were a speech given by Thucydides to teh Athenian Asembly suggesting the action that should ...

The Peloponnesian War of Thucydides and Greek Culture

In four pages this paper examines the historical text on the Pelopponesian War by Thucydides in a consideration of the cultural di...

Nina and Alik in The Funeral Party by Ulitskya

to speak to a Rabbi, but she wont hear of it. She continues to stand in the way of his speaking with the Rabbi. He also becomes he...

Conflict in Willa Cather’s Short Story ‘The Sculptor’s Funeral’

(Cather 68). It became readily apparent that these local men were there more out of a sense of civic duty than out of any love fo...

Climate Change

there is only so much oil and no more. When it will run out is a completely unknown factor. A report by BP suggested that oil woul...

Miracles In The Gospel Of Mark

casting out evil from the possessed man and healing Peters mother-in-law and they brought many to the door asking to be healed ((M...

Global Branding And Global Brands

a few years ago. Consumers are not as willing to accept a brand if the company itself does not have a clean record. Creating a gl...

Historical Analysis of Edward Gibbons' 'The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire,' Thucydides' 'History of the Peloponnesian War,' and Tacitus' 'The Annals'

In ten pages three ancient historical texts are analyzed in terms of author's approach to history, the representation of the past,...

Comparison of 'History of the Peloponnesian War' by Thucydides and 'The Iliad' by Homer

In five pages this paper compares these two works in terms of wartime reality portrayals. Two sources are cited in the bibliograp...

Why Thucydides, Marx, and Plato View Democracy as the Worst Form of Government

In five pages this argumentative essay employs these philosophical writings in support of the notion that the worst type of govern...

Thucydides, Horace, and Plato on the Ancient World's Conflicts and Pressures

In five pages this report examines the similarities that exist between past and present world conflicts. Three sources are cited ...