.... In 54 B.C., Antony became a calvary officer under Julius Caesar. In 48 B.C., Antony helped Caesar defeat a rebel army led by Pompey the Great at the Battle of Pharsalus. In 44 B.C., Caesar was assassinated. When he was assassinated on the Idles of March, Antony immediately took possession of Caesar's papers and residence including whatever assets he had held. Mark Antony gave his famous oration at Caesar's funeral in the forum and was instrumental in turning people against the Senators led by the assassin Brutus. Many people believed Mark Antony's action were not quite as good as the actions of Caesar. In 43 B.C. Octavian, the true heir to Caesar's throne, .....

.... Although relatively unknown and inexperienced politically when elected president, he proved to be a consummate politician. He was above all firm in his convictions and dedicated to the preservation of the Union. Lincoln was perhaps the most esteemed and maligned of the American presidents. Generally admired and loved by the public, he was attacked on a partisan basis as the man responsible for and in the middle of every major issue facing the nation during his administration. Although his reputation has fluctuated with changing times, he was clearly a great man and a great president. He firmly and fairly guided the nation through its most perilous period a .....

.... within the Lloyd-Jones family included education, religion, and nature. Wright’s family spent many evenings listening to William Lincoln Wright read the works of Emerson, Thoreau, and Blake. His aunts Nell and Jane opened a school of their own, pressing the philosophies of the German educator, Froebel. Wright was brought up in a comfortable, but certainly not warm household. His father, William Carey Wright, who worked as a preacher and a musician, moved from job to another, dragging his family across the United States. Possibly as a result of this upheaval, Wright’s parents divorced when while he was still young. His mother, Anna, relied heavily upon her m .....

.... in the sight of God as a basis for government without the consent of a higher authority. According to Bradford’s exposé, the Pilgrims: shook off this yoke of antichristian bondage, and as the Lord's free people joined themselves (by a covenant of the Lord) into a church estate, in the fellowship of the gospel, to walk in all His ways made known, or to be made known unto them, according to their best endeavors, whatsoever it should cost them, the Lord assisting them. And that it cost them something this ensuing history will declare. But after these things they could not long continue in any peaceable condition, but were hunted and persecuted on ever .....

.... the mind nothing but a series of sensations, and held that cause-and-effect in the natural world derives solely from the conjunction of two impressions. Hume's skepticism is also evident in his writings on religion, in which he rejected any rational or natural theology. Besides his chief work, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), he wrote Political Discourses (1752), The Natural History of Religion (1755), and a History of England (1754-62) that was, despite errors of fact, the standard work for many years. "Nothing seems more unbounded than a man's thought," quoted Hume. Hume took genuinely hypothetical elements from Locke and Berkeley but, rejected some lin .....

.... parents were both well educated, charming, and an altogether happy couple. However, their marriage fell apart soon after Isadora's birth. After the divorce, Dora was left with little money to support her four children; Augastin, Raymond, Elizabeth, and Isadora. She gave her music lessons, but still was not bringing in enough money to keep living in the same house. The family began moving from one apartment to another, learning to leave each one a day before the bills came around. Isadora started school at the age of five. In the late nineteenth century, students were expected to sit still during school, memorizing and reciting their lessons. To .....

.... He was titled the clean comedian because he didn't to use profanity to make people laugh. Jerry said in one of his interviews, “My jokes are about clean subjects, and they're very thought out. Most comedians who use a lot of profanity- they' re using it for fast punchlines... I can put a joke together well enough that I don't need dirty words.” Jerry has a role model for kids and comedians to follow. He started a new genre in comedy. Here's an example of Jerry's humor “Dogs are broke all their lives. You know why they have no money? No pockets. They see change on the street -there's nothing they can do about it”. “You go to the store to buy Grape .....

.... leaving Starkfield and moving to the city but he never did. He was isolated to Starkfield, he grew up there, he went to collage in an attempt to leave but meanwhile his father died and his mother grew sick. He was forced to move back to Starkfield and take care support her. He married Zeena; the women who lived with him and took care of Mrs. Frome, and for the rest of his life he lived in Starkfield because Zeena did not want to leave. He was also isolated himself from the truth, he kept secrets about his love for Mattie Silver and the way he truly feels about Zeena. Around the end of the book I discovered more about Ethan’s emotions and feelings. A s .....