Question: Could a force like Alexander the Great exist today? Why or why not?

Question: Could a force like Alexander the Great exist today? Why or why not?

A force like Alexander the Great could not of existed today. Alexander the Great was a great ruler back in his day but his strategies would not of worked in modern times. He conquered countries nonstop so his empire would be one of the strongest in the world. If the United States started conquering other countries to become larger other countries would from a union and stop us. Plus with the deadlier weapons such as nuclear bombs we could just end up getting nuked. If we started invading countries and doing what we please the other countries would not be too happy about that. Alexander the Great could invade other countries because his country was the greatest. There was no way another country could get threatened and be like oh no, “Alexander the Great is coming at us lets nuke him.” There was no technology like that and there were barly any unions between countries. Alexander the Great was a great military forces and in his time his techniues worked very successfully and he was considered the son of god until he died in his 30’s from a fever. His entire country looked up to him and he led a great country, however, when he died his country had no back up plan and they fell apart. He helped his country greatly but also set it up for failure. Alexander the Great was great force but it would not exist today.

Was Alexander the Great a "good leader"? Compare/Contrast with Pericles.

Was Alexander the Great a "good leader"? Compare/Contrast with Pericles.

Alexander was a good leader as was Pericles. Both of these leaders helped their stated through tough times and the each developed their own plan on how to succeed. However, Alexander the great went directly to the enemy and put his plans to action as soon as possible. Alexander anted everything to be done vastly so he could establish a vast empire until the day he was no more. Pericles was more worried about fixing his city and certain structues and made Athens one of the best cities in all of Greece. Alexander was more worried about the size of his city and Pericles was more worried about the content. Alexander was a great military leader and was considered a god b his people. However i would rather be ruled my perciles becase his country was better knowledge wise. Alexander Created a great empire but it was all mostly lost after he died. Alexander was a very good and strong leader but Perciles was a better one.

Peloponnesian War Skit

Sam Foard

February 17, 2011

Peloponnesian War

Aspasia: Athenian Citizen

Thia: Athenian Citizen

Cecrops: Athenian Citize

Guards: Athenian Guards

                                                              Scene 1

(Story begins on a road in Athens, two friends are talking like they always do the morning before there work, times are tough and the plague has just hit Athens.)

Aspasia: Ugh I don’t feel so good.

Thias: What’s wrong?

Aspasia: My head has been very hot and my eyes are bright red!

Thias: Do you think you are infected with the plague?

Aspasia: I sure hope not, there is no cure and infection would mean almost certain death.

Thias: I know! I’ve already lost many good friends do to this plague.

Aspasia: These darn Spartans! They have imprisoned us in our own city! How can our leader let us starve like this!

Thias: There is nothing we can do brother, if we surrender they will surely make our life so miserable we would rather be dead.

Aspasia: Maybe there Is a way we could escape! Like a secret passage or something.

(A man named Cecrops who is also an Athenian cannot help but overhear Thias and Aspasia’s conversation and walks over.)

Cecrops: I hear your looking for a way out of Athens?

Thias: Who are you?

Cecrops: I am a noble Athenian just like you and your friend trapped in our own city.

Aspasia: What do you think we should do?

Cecrops: Actually I have secretly been planning an escape route out of Athens.

Thias: That is a crime!

Cecrops: Locking us in our homes to die of this wretched disease is a crime.

Thias: But what would…

Aspasia: (Interrupting) where is the escape route?

Cecrops: Follow me.

(They all follow Cecrops and exit.)

END SCENE

                                                          Scene 2

(Cecrops, Thias, and Aspasia are talking around a shed close to one of the back walls of Athens.)

Cecrops: Alas, we are here. Now what we must do is…

Thias: ( Interrupts) Took you long enough.

Cecrops: I’m starting to not like your attitude.

Thias: I’m starting to not like your plan!

Aspasia: Brothers, brothers, we should not be fighting; we are almost done our journey. I am getting iller by the hour and if I don’t get out of this city I will surely die. Right now we have to work together to get out of her without getting caught. Now Cecrops, go on.

Cecrops: As I was saying before I was interrupted, (glances at Thias), in this shed there is a secret tunnel that takes us to the docks. At the docks we will board a ship and sail to a more peaceful city and restart our lives.

Thias: Do u eve know where we are going to be sailing to?

Cecrops: We will go wherever the wind takes us. I have already made a noble sacrifice to the god of the sea, Poseidon. We will have a good voyage I promise you.

Thias: Okay let’s move.

(They enter the tunnel and come out on the docks and board the ship.)

Aspasia: Lets set sail quickly I think the guards noticed something.

Guards: Is someone there?

Thias: Im done setting up the sails lets move!

Cecrops: Okay! (cuts the rope and the boat starts to pick up speed.)

Guard: (Checks out the dock and notices nobody starts to walk back to his post) I could off sworn I heard something. Wait wasn’t their a boat there? I think my minds just playing tricks on me again.

END SCENE

Week 4 Friday

What compels someone to lead others?

If you are the best at something, obviously you are the leader.If you are playing lacrosse and nobody can setup and run the offence sometimes a player just has to step up and tell everyone how to do what there supposed to do. If i wanted to lead my old lacrosse team i would have to be good. Nobody listens to somebody if the cant do something as well as they can. A slave wont listen to his master if his master is weaker and less powerful than he is. He would have no control over him. You also need good social skills. If you cant talk to your teamtes our your subjects, how are they supposed to hear you. You cant hear something if theres nothing to hear. If your leader is doing something you dont like it will make oyu less respectful of them. This is an easy thing to do in our lives. If something is not going the way you want it to that will compel you to lead others. You must, however, be able to communicate with them and be good at what you do.

Week 4 thursday

Daily #14

Write the script for a skit exploring the Persian Wars from the Persian point-of-view.


Characters:
Armani- general
Gasper- soldier
Cyrus- soldier
Xerxes- soldier


Setting: Greece around 480 BC


Armani:  Men! we have are about to do battle! This should be a easy victory but i still want  you to fight with everthing you have! Do this for Persia!
(All of the men cheer and get excited but are alittle afraid to fight)
Cyrus: We got this!Xerxes: Yea, our army is so much better there going down!

5 days later
(men enter)

Gasper: I can't beleive we lost!

Cyrus: I cant beleive Armani died!

Xerxes: How could we possibly let this happen?

Gasper: It dosen't matter, we lost alot of good men out there and we need to regroup and rebuild our strenghts.
Xerxes and Cyrus: Agreed!
Cyrus: We must go to battle soon and regain our honor!
Xerces: soon comrad soon, but first we must rest.
Gasper: I like that idea.
Cyrus: How can we rest after they just killed our general!
Xerxes: I loved Armani like a brother but he is dead now. If we charge back in we will all be dead too, te only thing we can do now is rest and rebuild and we will take them agian later.
Cyrus: fine
(Men make camp and go to sleep.)