Conqueror
Essays

The American response to the British rule under King George III was not swayed by traditional pieties toward monarchy. For example, the official portrait of George III as reflected in the 1770 woodcut illustration from…

The societies which flourished throughout Europe during the medieval period were built upon a foundation of institutionalized honor known as chivalry. Orders of knighthood were established throughout the region which…

I am a loyal Englishman, like my father before me; all the way back to the time of William the Conqueror. The King is the King and deserves my loyalty for no other reason that he is the King.

Etty Hillesum's book An Interrupted Life is about a woman who is growing up in times of turmoil and despair. Reading a book that centers round the Holocaust, the reader knows that the woman's story will undoubtedly end…

Horus is one of the most important Egyptian gods and the Pharaoh was seen to be his earthly embodiment. At the same time, the Pharaohs were the followers of Ra and so Horus became associated with the sun as well and was…

In Book X of the Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle offers several definitions of happiness (eudaimonia) which can exist at the level of physical pleasure, a life of civil involvement and practicing virtue, or the ultimate form of happiness which is the contemplation of God and spiritual and eternal matters. Just as there are degrees of pleasure and pain, so there are degrees or happiness and virtue. Happiness is the supreme good and the ultimate goal of life, but not all individuals define it in the same way and it appears that only a few truly reach the highest levels. Most people confuse happiness with physical pleasure and carnal gratification, including food, alcohol, sex, and accumulating money and material things, but Aristotle does not regard this as the supreme good. Far from it, although it probably seems satisfying enough for the great majority of humanity that happiness should be identified with a life of abundance of physical pleasure and the absence of pain.

Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote about the natural nobility and inherent goodness of the savage, whom he saw as the earliest human being who was differentiated from lower animals and already possessing free will and a basic…

Corporate Governance and the Failed Marriage of AOL and Time Warner

Bartolome de las Casas was a Spanish Bishop who spent a sizable portion of his adult life crusading for the rights of indigenous peoples in the Americas, who were generally treated poorly under Spanish colonial rule.

The world that was left behind by Alexander regarded this great king as an exceptional military success. The successors of Alexander tried very hard to achieve the military expertise that was achieved by him but all of them failed. The Romans greatly respected his military powers and they also tried to achieve his glory. (Overtoom 1-138) Alexander is regarded as one of finest military leaders who finely led the wars that took place before the advent of gun powder. The strategies and plans of Alexander were based on genius. Alexander was born as the successor of the throne of a kingdom that was located at the boundary of the Greek world. He deployed the military power developed by his father to conquer the Persian Empire and landed the flags of his empire on the Indus River. (Gabel and Willbanks 5-35)