Job Opening

THREE SKELETON KEYS

A dream job opportunity has just opened in the Three Skeleton Key Island. There are three (3) available positions of Lighthouse Keeper. Interested candidates should send their Curriculum to the Port Authority of Santo Domingo – Dominican Republic.

Duties:
· Ensure lighthouse operations during dark hours.
· In case of disaster remove wreckage of the ship from the beach.
· Unload weekly supplies delivery.
· Provide radio support to the area of responsibility.

Skills:
· Minimum High School completion.
· Capacity of enduring long and hard shift hours.
· Certificated rescue swimmer.
· Certified Radio operator.
· Physically powerful and capable of discharging merchandise.
· Minimum age: 20 years old; Maximum age: 40 years old.

Environment:
· Private accommodation and toilet facilities provided in the Lighthouse.
· Cooking facilities and storage available.
· Transportation to mainland via support ferry every two weeks.
· Uniform and health/safety equipment provided.
· Yearly temperature range from 10° C to 48° C
· Fans and radiators provided for comfort.

Benefits:
· Monthly salary of five thousand euros.
· Telephone and Internet connections provided free of charge.
· Gym facilities provided.
· Scuba diving equipment and boat available in the Lighthouse for recreation.
· Huge movie selection available.
· Life insurance provided.
· Family Medical package provided.

Horror Movie

If I was directing a horror movie I would use the following details to create a scary environment that would induce fear in the audience:

Music – I would choose a music that would create a suspenseful atmosphere and that would increase in a crescendo on the scariest moments.

Location – I would select a location that would likely generate fear in the viewers like a family graveyard located in the back of an old mansion overlooking a lake.

Moment – To increase the levels of anxiety, I would choose a very dark foggy night with a distant thunderstorm on the horizon.

Sounds – I would also use sounds to frighten the spectators i.e. Loud Rumbling Thunder; faint heart beat; church bell sounding on distance; rustling of leaves; distant howling of wolfs.

Animals – To play with the emotions of the spectators, I would use lots of spiders and snakes. In the house, you could also see black creepy cats.

Character - The two main character of my story would be a young couple that would be spending the night at the mansion before being attacked by vampires and other strange and scary creatures. To make the plot even more frightening the young man would be transformed in a vampire and would start attacking the girl.

Paranormal Activities - The house would be full of Vampires, Zombies and Ghosts that would be awaken by the arrival of this young couple.

Respond to a prediction

Prediction: In 2155, we'll have no more printed books.

In 2155 we will have no more printed books because around the year 2000 a new invention came to life. That new invention was the electronic book that was named at that time as Kindle. The kindle had the following features: the capacity to download books and use that device to read it.
Nowadays in 2155, that invention was extremely upgraded and it allows us to download books, magazines, newspapers, cooking recipes, blogs, news, information, surfing the net, etc. Because it has incorporated a small printer we can print only what is really required. When we need some piece of information we just connect to the wireless internet and we research the required information and download it to our electronic book. Because of his small dimensions we can carry it around in our pockets or purses and read the books we want when we want. In school we also can perform our homework in an easier way and we have fewer books to carry around because at any given moment we can download the information we required for the specific task of that moment.

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SURFF: Your Favorite Character

Danny The Champion of the World

Character trait:

The main character of the book I am reading is called Danny.

Danny is a young boy who loves his father and respects his father way of looking at life. He is capable of doing anything just to make his father happy. He is also a kid with a great personality who wants to help his friends in the best way he can.

Unfortunately, Danny lost his mother when he was born. Because of his mother death he became a very responsible young boy and he always demonstrates his maturity by his willingness to help his father on his work in the gas filling station.

The quote of the book shown below demonstrates that Danny is more mature than other boys of his age because he has the notion of where there is a requirement for his discretion.

“Outside the corridor we made a pact that we wouldn’t tell any of the other children about what we had just seen. Mr. Snoddy had always been kind to us and we wanted to repay him by keeping his deep dark secret to ourselves.”

Twelve Tables

The Twelve Tables

Introduction

The Romans were fascinated by the Greek culture and their forms of government. The Romans didn’t want to be governed no longer by kings. So when the Romans saw that the Greeks no longer wanted to be governed by kings; they also desired to elect their rulers and create their own laws.

The twelve tables were the first laws of the Romans. Those laws were based in the Greek law. Those laws were universal and every citizen has to know them. The Romans wrote the laws in twelve tables and affixed them in the senate where every one could see.



The Roman laws were written in twelve tables and constituted the law that every citizen has to respect, as explained in the examples below:

LAWS OF THE TWELVE TABLES

1º
“If someone is called to go to court, he is to go. If he doesn't go, a witness should be called. Only then should he be captured.”

This type of law safeguarded the right of the State to solicit any citizen (Patricians or Plebeians) to come to the tribunal. Also gave the right to the citizen to be familiar with the intention of the tribunal to have him go there.

2º
“Serious illness. . . or else a day appointed with an enemy; . . . if any of these is an impediment for the judge or any party, on that day proceedings must end.”

This type of law safeguard the right of the citizen to be present in the tribunal to defend himself.

3º
“A person who admits to owing money or has been adjudged to owe money must be given 30 days to pay.”

This type of law safeguard the citizen that lend the money to have his money back at the same time it protects the right of the citizen who owns the money to have a period of 30 days to pay.

4º
“An obviously deformed child must be put to death.”

This type of law avoids that the State and the society will be required to spend resources in citizens who are not going to produce in the future.

5º
“If someone goes mad, his nearest male kinsman shall have authority over his property.”

This type of law safeguards the rights of the family if the member of the family becomes mad and the family can prove it than the family shall obtain the properties of that citizen.

6º
“No one must displace beams from buildings or vineyards”.

This type of law safeguards the right of the citizens to not have someone to cause damage on their property.

7º
“If runoff does damage, he shall be made to fix it by the judge.”

This type of law safeguards the right of the citizen that has his property damaged to request the judge for reparation of the damage.

8º
“If one has maimed another and does not buy his peace, let there be retaliation in kind.”

This type of law safeguards the right of the tribunal to sentence the offending citizen to experience the same type of injury as well as giving the offending citizen the right to pay the damage and avoid going to the tribunal.

9º
“Treason: he who shall have roused up a public enemy or handed over a citizen to a public enemy must suffer capital punishment.”

This type of law safeguards the right of the State to punish by death the traitors.

10º
“No dead man may be cremated nor buried in the City.”

This type of law safeguards the right of the State to make obligatory public hygiene.

11º
“Marriages between plebeians and patricians are prohibited”

This type of law safeguards the right of the State and the Patrician families to keep the properties in the Patrician families.

12º
“Someone who has brought a false claim shall be brought before three judges, and shall pay a double penalty”.

This type of law safeguards the right of the State to severely punish whoever makes a false claim and at the same time safeguard the rights of the citizen being accused making sure that the citizen is judged by three judges.

Conclusion

The twelve tables were the first Roman laws to put in order the roman society as well as serving as the foundation of the laws of the Occidental society.

Pax Romana

I would like to start my work by explaining what was the Pax Romana or otherwise called can Pax Augustus, because it was establish by Emperor Augustus. The Pax Romana was a time of peace for a long period (first and second centuries) and minimal expansion by the Roman military forces. The idea of Pax Romana was first represented by a very famous historian called EDWARD GIBBON. Gibbon proposes a period of peace under Augustus and his successors. Those emperors expanded the Roman Empire and controlled the Roman generals, i.e. Germanicus, Agricola and Corbulo in search of conquests. Gibbons lists the Roman conquest of Britain under Claudius and the conquest of Trajan as exceptions to this time of peace and places the end of Pax Roman as an historical period with the death of Marcus Aurelius in 180 AD, even though the conclusion of peace ended later with is son Commodus. The period was not without armed conflict, as the Roman Emperors had to control rebellions. There were several skirmishes and Romans wars of conquest during this period. Trajan embarked in war against the Parthians and Marcus Aurelius fought against the Germanic tribes. During the Pax Romana period the legions patrolled the borders with success, and thought there were still many foreign wars, the central empire was free from major invasions, acts of piracy or social disorder on grand scale. The Roman world was broken by the civil war during the last century of the Republic, and during the period of the Pax Romana there was peace and that period was largely free from power disputes.

But for the enemies of Rome, the Pax Romana was not a signal of either peace or tranquillity. Emperor Augustus wanted to establish border security and he wanted to amplify the army size by 150,000 legionaries to guarantee that tranquillity. Emperor Augustus reorganized the Roman legions and its distribution during the empire.

Hispania was one of the conquests that Augustus wanted to accomplish because there was a famous gold mine of Gallica. After conducting a census of Gaul, immediately after his victory in the civil war, Augustus moved on to Spain to eliminate the resistance. Thought mostly successful in his campaigns, revolts continued to break out over the next twenty years. Thought these were relatively minor efforts to get clear of the Roman rule, the final subjugation wasn’t completed until 13 BC. At this point Hispania was divided into three provinces: Baetica, Lusitania and Terraconencis; and it became a perfect example of the Romanization process.

During Emperor Tiberius rule a massive uprising happened back in Pannonia. Forced to abandon the Germanic campaign, Emperor Tiberius returned to Pannonia where the fighting would continued until 9 AD. Thought this would be the last major revolt in the Balkan province, its toll was felt all the way back in Rome. As a result of the numerous foreign wars, Augustus was finding new recruits difficult to find. In a terrible unpopular, the Emperor was forced to start drawing human resources from freedmen and even purposely freed slaves, just for maintaining the size of the Roman army. If the strain on Roman manpower was already beginning to be pushed to the extreme, events were about to happen that would force Augustus to call for a complete end to roman Imperial expansion.


The emperor Augustus did reforms to the government that the citizens of Rome liked it and follow that reforms for 200 of years. He did a form of security around Rome that prevent from frontiers attack. He increased the army to protect better Rome. He sad that the little farmers had to be helped. And the last one was that his new government had to promote confidence. These reforms were not passing from the citizens head so when they saw that they liked they follow for 200. He was so smart that he chose 900 of his bests mans to protect from charged. In general the Augustus system was really good that it provided material and political base of culture achievement.



Roman Emperors In Pax Romana


Augustus Caesar created the illusion that the republic had been restored and revealed of the future of the Principiate. When Augustus died in A.D. 14, Tiberius the stepson became the leader of the state. The reign of Tiberius became a tyranny.
The Imperial power eventually was left to the megalomaniac, Caesar, Augustus, the third child of Augustus adopted grandson, Germanicus, and Augustus granddaughter, Agrippina. Gaius accompanied his parents on military campaigns and was shown to the troops wearing a miniature soldier’s outfit, including a sandal called “caliga“, being that the reason of his nickname, Caligula. Caligula accepted the powers of the Principiate, and is popularity was great but he was assassinated by discontented members of his bodyguard.

Eventually Claudius emerged as monarch. It was the Praetorian Guard that found Claudius hiding behind a curtain after Caligula’s brutal murder; it shows how the Romans had not established a clear line of succession. Caligula had been murdered by his body guard and Claudius became emperor only through the support of the army.

The following emperor was Nero Claudius Caesar, or Nero. In 64 A.D, a great fire destroyed much of Rome – the legend is that Nero destroyed Rome in order to rebuild it.

The subsequent emperor Vespasian restored the city and tightened the government of Rome following a series of civil wars early in his reign.

Titus was a capable leader, and poured a huge amount of money into Rome to finance an extensive building program. The Flavian Amphitheatre, or Coliseum, was built during his reign.

Titus was succeeded by his younger brother Titus Flavius Domitianus, or Domitian. He led a financially sound administration. After a series of catastrophes in Rome (the great fires of 64 and 80, and the civil wars of 68-69), Domitian erected, restored or completed more than fifty public buildings. He called him self “Lord God” and spoke of himself as divine.

It was Edward Gibbon who called the period of 96 – 180, the era of the “Five Good Emperors”. It was during this time that the emperors adopted the concept of choosing someone to be the emperor instead of selecting a blood relative.

Those emperors were:

Marcus Coccenius Nerva, or Nerva.
Marcus Ulpius Traianius,or Trajan
Publius Aeliues Hadrienos
Antoninus Pious

Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius (121-180; emperor, 161-180). He was one of the noble’s figures of an antique world. He was made consul and he started to study of law and philosophy, principally Stoicism. He tried to make the peace continue in Rome.


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