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Aristophanes’ The Birds: Summary

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 30, 2011Leave a comment

Two humans, Euelpides and Pisthetaerus, set out with a jay and crow to find Epops. They discuss with Epops how the birds are mightier than the humans and gods and should build their great city. Epops then calls some birds around and they all come. At first, they thought some trespassers had come so they…

John Neihardt’s Black Elk Speaks: Summary & Review

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 30, 2011Leave a comment

The book Black Elk Speaks was written in the early 1930’s by author John G. Neihardt, after interviewing the medicine man named Black Elk. Neihardt was already a published writer, and prior to this particular narrative, he was at work publishing a collection of poems titled Cycle of the West. Although he was initially seeking…

Aeschylus’ Oresteia: Light & Dark Imagery

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 30, 2011Leave a comment

Aeschylus’ use of darkness and light as a consistent image in the Oresteia depicts a progression from evil to goodness, disorder to order. In the Oresteia, there exists a situation among mortals which has gotten out of control; a cycle of death has arisen in the house of Atreus. There also exists a divine disorder…

Euripides’ Medea: Revenge & Summary

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 30, 20111 Comment

Medea, a play by the Greek playwright Euripides, explores the Greek-barbarian dichotomy through the character of Medea, a princess from the “barbarian”, or non-Greek, land of Colchis. Throughout the play, it becomes evident to the reader that Medea is no ordinary woman by Greek standards. Central to the whole plot is Medea’s barbarian origins and…

Mayan Creation Myth

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 30, 2011Leave a comment

The Mayans believe that Mother Earth was a gigantic monster. It was an alligator, toad, and a turtle combined. Above her was a sky with a layer for each planet and spheres of movement for the sun and the moon. Below her was the underworld where heavenly bodies passed when out of sight. All around…

Cyclops: Myth & Overview

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 30, 2011Leave a comment

The Cyclops were unique and unusual mythical people. They had very interesting lives. They had an unusual beginning and they had an unusual lifestyle. Also, the Cyclops appeared to be completely different when described by opposing viewpoints. Overall, the Cyclops were an unconventional race in mythical legends. The Cyclops had an intriguing origin. They were…

Dionysus & Semele: Myth & Summary

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 30, 2011Leave a comment

Semele was the daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, king and queen of Thebes, and the mother of Dionysus, the god of wine. Zeus fell madly in love with her and made an oath to do anything that she asked. Hera, the jealous wife of Zeus, realized Zeus was in love with Semele and tricked Semele…

King Arthur’s Excalibur: Summary & Overview

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 30, 2011Leave a comment

“Guards, Knights, Squires; prepare for battle!”  Hollers one of the king’s noble knights.  The rumbling thunder of horses trotting across the wooden mote bridge echoes throughout the castle.  Brave knights gallop their horses into the foggy mist where swords and shields smash, the sounds of their armor and their striking metals echo across the land…

Babe Ruth: Biography & Baseball

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 29, 2011Leave a comment

Babe Ruth, born George Ruth, Jr., is considered by many to be the greatest baseball player of all time.  Everybody knows how great a hitter Babe was and how he virtually invented the home run.  Not everybody knows how great of a pitcher Babe was, even though he was one of the best left-handed pitchers…

Tyrus Raymond Cobb: Biography & Baseball

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 29, 2011Leave a comment

Tyrus Raymond Cobb was born December 18, 1886 in The Narrows, Georgia.  His parents named him after the ancient Phoenician city of Tyre, which stubbornly refused to surrender to Alexander the Great.  From the very beginning, he took after the city and became one of baseball’s most stubborn and hated men. The Georgia Peach, so-called,…

Stefan Edberg: Biography & Tennis

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 29, 20112 Comments

His career started when the local paper in Västervik (the town where he was born) had an advertisement about mini-tennis in the early 70s. It said “Day of tennis”. Luckily his mother Barbro read the article and liked it. The day after she sent her son to the tennis-school for beginners. At that time she…

Jim Abbott: Biography & Baseball

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 29, 2011Leave a comment

Jim Abbott has led an eventfully life. He brought his college team to the championship in 1985, brought Team USA to gold in 1988, and threw a no hitter against the Cleveland Indians in 1993. These achievements are not what make him so special; what makes Jim Abbott even more remarkable is that he only…

Jesse Owens: Biography & Sprinter

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 29, 2011Leave a comment

Jesse Owens, one of the eight children in his family, one of the best track and field athletes of all time. He was born 1913, on a farm in the city of Danville Alabama, under his real name, James Cleveland Owens. He went to Fairmount Junior High School. Then he went on to high school where…

Billiards: History & Rules

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 29, 2011Leave a comment

The history of billiards begins in the fourteenth century.  The game was invented in Europe, but there was a conflict as to what country.  The French believed that the English invented the game, but at the same time, the English thought the French did.  In the end, a French billiards specialist found evidence that the…

War in the Falklands: Summary & Analysis

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 29, 2011Leave a comment

April 2, 1982, Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands At 4:30 A.M., helicopters had started to land on Mullet Creek; they were the first of the many invaders from Argentina.  At 6:08 A.M., an attack was at full fledge.  The Argentina government had claimed that they told their men it was to be a bloodless fight,…

Thomas P. O’Neill: Biography & Politician

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 29, 2011Leave a comment

Tip was a man who was not bashful to call himself “a man of the house.” Thomas P. O’Neill was a person whose greatest charm was that he seemed “completely out-of-date as a politician.” (Clift) He was a gruff, drinking, card playing, backroom kind of guy. He had an image that political candidates pay consultants…

Ute Indians: History, Culture, Tribe

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 29, 20111 Comment

The Ute Indians were a group of Indians that lived mostly around the mountainous area of Utah and Colorado near the Colorado River.  But they sometimes lived in dessert areas also.  The word Ute comes from the word eutaw or yuta which means dwellers on the top of mountains.  Although it is not certain where…

The Samurais: History & Culture

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For seven centuries, the Samurai were Japan’s warrior class. As a class of warriors and knights, they dominated society in feudal Japan. Their code or “Way of the warrior”, bushido (History of the Samurai-www), called for a life of duty, discipline and self control, on and as well as off the battlefield (History of the…

Reasons for the Downfall of the Middle Ages

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 29, 20114 Comments

There were many reasons for the downfall of the Middle Ages, but the most crucial ones were the decline of the feudal system and the declination of the Church’s power over the nation-states.  In feudal society, everyone had a definite place and a definite role, with the power resting in the hands of the local…

The Crusades: Overview and Analysis

HistoryBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)May 29, 2011Leave a comment

The Crusades were military expeditions planned and carried out by western European Christians. The crusades started around 1095. The purpose of these crusades was to overtake and gain control of the Holy Land from the Muslims. The Holy Land was Jerusalem and the Christians believed that gaining control of it was their fate. The pope…

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