Samuel Pepys is a prime example of how changing political landscapes can impact a person significantly. Pepys career started as an active participant and a careful chronicler of the major events of England through the late 17th century. Early in Pepys career he was an open supporter of the commonwealth, but after Charles the 1st’s execution, he quickly changed to support the royalists during the Restoration. There are two potential reasons why Pepys may have done this, the first one is that he might have secretly agreed with the power of monarchs all along, or he just is just a bandwagon supporter and decided that supporting the Restoration puts his career in the best position. Either way, this shows how shifting political events can change
“Leslie Stephen described it (the eighteenth century) as ‘the century of cold common sense and growing toleration and of steady social and industrial improvement.’” Before the Enlightenment, the belief of the Divine Right of Kings was central to every nation. Kings were believed to be chosen by God and answerable to the divine alone, citizens could not question their King because in theory they would be questioning God. During the eighteenth century there was a shift in the public opinion of nobles and lords. Philosophes, or critics, began to openly object the way the government ran the people, even poking fun at the choices made. Kings were no longer feared. As people turned away from the restraints of government, a rise in individualism formed. ...
Plutarch presented history through biographical stories of the people that were important and influential during the time period he wished to address. However, after having read some of his work, one realizes that Plutarch inserts his own personal opinion and views of the people at hand into the factual documentation of their lives. For example, in The Life of Crassus, Plutarch expresses a general dislike and negative view of the man, but in The Life of Caesar he portrays the life through a lens of praise. It also seems that he uses his opinions of the people that he writes about to subtly extend moral lessons to the reader. What follows is a further isolation of Plutarch's opinions and lessons from within The Lives of Crassus and Caesar.
Nick Wilde, born into a poor, single-parent household in 1982, was known by many as a "sly fox". He had much to overcome in his short life. The traditional view of Zootopians in the 1980's painted predators as aggressive and even savage group. As a young fox pup, he was bullied by a group of local prey after trying to join their Junior Rangers Troop. By the time he was a young adult, he began to see himself as the vicious predator they described. He turned to a life of crime; however, he made a complete turnaround in his last years. Briefly before his death, he became an officer at the ZPD. His service was unfortunately cut short when he became the victim of a shooting on January 20, 2017. He and partner Judy Hopps were
Samuel Adams was born on September 27, 1722 in Boston, Massachusetts and had passed away October 2, 1803. According to the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, he worked as a “Tax-collector; Elected to Massachusetts Assembly, 1765; Delegate to the First Continental Congress, 1774; Signed Declaration of Independence, 1776; Member of Massachusetts State constitutional convention, 1781; Appointed Lieutenant Governor of Mass., 1789; Elected Governor of Massachusetts, 1794-’97.” Samuels father, Samuel Deacon Adams was a political leader, a committed Puritan, and a wealthy merchant.
Politicians during this time period worried more about ensuring their own financial success, securing votes by any means, granting jobs or favors in return for votes, and remaining popular. They were not concerned with social issues, but supported or crushed these issues in accordance with the decision that would benefit them personally. If politicians were judged to be good personally, they were automatically viewed as good politically. Changes were made for personal benefit, not the good of the community. Read political ideologies were not central to this time period. Use specific people mentioned in Chapter 19 to validate or invalidate this statement.
Henry Hudson was cast out after his crew betrayed him during his final voyage. Henry hudson was born in 1565 in New England. They think he died after June 22 1161, in or near the Hudson bay. Henry Hudson is an explorer that use to be a fisherman before becoming an explorer. Henry’s first voyage was to try to get to Asia without hitting any ice on the way. Then after Henry Hudson was hired by the English Muscovy Company to find a northwest path to Asia from England. The fourth and final voyage undertaken for England in 1610. After the end of the fourth voyage he was never heard of again.
George best was an athlete that played soccer for Manchester United and Northern Ireland national team. Best was suffering from alcoholism throughout his whole life which lead to many issues including his death. Around 1984 best was given a 3 month sentence to prison for getting caught drunk driving and for also assaulting a police officer. Later in best life he was diagnosed with severe liver damage around 2000. In 2001 George was taken to the hospital and then found out he had pneumonia. In London of August 2002 George best had a liver transplant in kings college hospital. Due to best liver transplant there were controversy because of him being an alcoholic. He was found drinking and driving once again which lead to a 20 month banned. later in 2002 he was taken to the hospital due to a kidney infection because of the immunosuppressive drugs that were use to prevent his body from rejecting his transplanted liver. In 2005 best was dead due to lung infection and multiple organ failure.
The main topics for this week’s readings are generally themed around the birth of the public sphere during the eighteenth century with the advent of modernity and the discourse that surrounds it. Each author presents essentially the same themes and ideas on varying subject matter but does so from a different view point and through different stories.
John Milton, born December 9, 1608, is considered one of England’s greatest poets. But Milton was not only a poet, he was also a political figure. Milton supported the British Civil War and the Puritan government of Oliver Cromwell. Knowing this background, it is no surprise that many of Milton’s writings contain his strong religious and political beliefs. Sonnet XV, a plea to Lord Fairfax to help the new Commonwealth government be successful, displays Milton’s concern with holy and virtuous ideals, his disdain for the rule of the English monarchy, and his pro-Puritan republican political beliefs.
life, changing him from a moderate and equal lookout to a ferocious and impetuous activist against
William Randolph was an American newspaper publisher who built the nation's largest newspaper company, and his methods that influenced American journalism. William Randolph Hearst was born in San Francisco, California on April 29, 1863. Hearst went to Harvard college. Hearst entered the publishing business in 1887 after taking control of The San Francisco Examiner from his father. Moving to New York City, he got the New York Journal, and engaged in a bitter circulation war with Joseph Pulitzer's New York World that led to the creation of yellow journalism sensationalized stories of dubious veracity. Acquiring more newspapers, Hearst created a chain that numbered nearly 30 papers in major American cities at its peak. He
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man known for his classic writings, early career, and being a great figure to the American people. Longfellow was recognized because of his great writing skills and for being very focused, which helped him keep a straight mind on his writings. Longfellow still leaves an impact on the American people today. Most everyone has heard of who he is and thinks highly of what he achieved in his life and career. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poetic hero that influenced the lives of mostly everyone who read his writings because they were so patriotically and realistically written. Longfellow was a man that will never be forgotten in the American culture.
William Yeats is deliberated to be among the best bards in the 20th era. He was an Anglo-Irish protestant, the group that had control over the every life aspect of Ireland for almost the whole of the seventeenth era. Associates of this group deliberated themselves to be the English menfolk but sired in Ireland. However, Yeats was a loyal affirmer of his Irish ethnicity, and in all his deeds, he had to respect it. Even after living in America for almost fourteen years, he still had a home back in Ireland, and most of his poems maintained an Irish culture, legends and heroes. Therefore, Yeats gained a significant praise for writing some of the most exemplary poetry in modern history
Socrates was a philosopher who lived a life of the minority. His life differed from the majority and was shunned by them. He was a man who did not take knowledge as granted and examined everything. Socrates’ belief of a happy life was one which men’s goods is not subjective to any forces and circumstance beyond their control. However as majority’s goods were money, reputation and other form of “happiness” their goods were affected by luck. For example, if a man’s good was money, event such as the Great Depression would affect the man’s good. Furthermore, as the man cannot undo or overcome the Great Depression, his life is no longer happy. Thus, if a good is subjective to luck, happiness is fragile. As Socrates learned this from his knowledge obtained throughout his life, he
John Wycliffe produced some of the first hand written English translations of the Bible and helped to make them widely available. Cam believed everyone should understand the Bible, so he started a linguistics school (the Summer Institute of Linguistics, known now as SIL) that trained people to do Bible translation. The controversies in which one engaged at Oxford were philosophical rather than prettily theological or ecclesiastical-political, and the method of discussion was academic and formal. They were transferred out of the Latin Vulgate, which was the only source text effectual to Wycliffe. The bishops, who were divided, satisfied themselves with forbidding him to declare further on the controversy. Today, more than 1,600 languages are