Under Augustus Caesar the Roman Empire expanded as more overseas territories were added. ... Mark Antony has not learned the lesson from tragic death of Julius Caesar , the last Republican ruler, who tried to marry the Egyptian Queen as he was in love with her and did great favour to her by restoring her to throne. ... Reason is symbolized by Octavius Caesar,the heir of Julius Caesar, who looks down upon the emotionality of Antony and Cleopatra .On the other hand ,Egypt symbolizes passion which sweep away the reasonable Antony in no time. ... However, Shakespeare has shown through Romans...

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Born and raised as a Roman Catholic, my parents tried their best to mold me not just into a kind and obedient kid but to be a girl with a strong faith in God. I remember that our apartment didn't have just one but a couple of altars. At a very young age, I was taught how to make the sign of the cros...

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To Sleep Perchance, To Dream: Shakespeare's Use Of Dream and Sleep Motifs To Create The Gothic Reality Although Shakespeare's contribution to the Gothic novel was acknowledged by Horace Walpole in the preface to the Second Edition of "The Castle of Otranto," "shelter[ing] my own daring under the cannon of the brightest genius in the country" (Walpole 13), the extent to which the Gothic sensibility informs so many of Shakespeare's plays has only recently been conceded by many mainstream scholars. This is hardly surprising considering Gothic fiction's entr...

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About The Title The writer named the book after this line from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar:   "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,   But in ourselves, that we are underlings." ... She doesn't want her feelings for someone to get in the way of the fact that she would most likely die at a young age. ...

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As far as the human race goes, we find ourselves in a world of convenience. With years of technological evolution, the advent of junk food and sugar substitutes, it might be difficult to appreciate the value and history behind honey. Since the beginning of recorded history, humans have traded with it, bathed in it, healed and fixed wounds with it, and of course, most importantly, eaten it. Mentioned in the ancient scrolls of the Old Testament, the Koran and across religious texts of the East, honey has held a sucrose-induced power over the human race, and the sticky stuff has, in many ways, he...

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We believe that much of the recent attraction and popularity of this "piercing renaissance" stems from the fact that up until the present - people were just unaware it was possible to pierce the body in so many different ways! ... "As the Roman Republic grew more effeminate with wealth and luxury, earrings were more popular among men than women; no less a he-man than Julius Caesar brought back to repute and fashion the use of rings in the ears of men." ... The septum piercing is particularly prevalent among warrior cultures, this probably has to do with the fact that large tu...

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Their tattoos made them blue in appearance and as Julius Caesar remarked, "frightful to look upon in battle" (Sanders, p.13, 1989). ... In fact, the word tattoo comes from the Tahitian word tatu, which means "to strike" (The"voz, 1984, p. 39). ...

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Slights points out an inconsistency in this explanation: "Extending the indeterminacy of Titania's account of the grief caused by the struggle for custody of the changeling boy is the fact that no one else in the play seems to no...

• Word Count: 9832
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• Grade Level: High School