Today in Western Civ class my class and I learned about
the Saint Valentine and how he had performed secret weddings, because the ruler at the time forbid wedding’s, so valentine would commence the wedding in
secrecy. Valentine was found out about
though and was then ordered to be beaten to death with clubs and then beheaded
in a public place for his treason against the ruler. I also learned about some of Hammurabi’s laws
one of them was if an adopted child said to their adopted parents that they
were not their true parents then that child would have his tongue cut off for
speaking out and disrespecting his parents.
Another law stated that if a man were to strike another free man and
break his bone or kill him then he shall have the same happen to him, this is
where the saying an eye for an eye comes from.
Today in Western Civilization class I witnessed other groups present their Greek Civilization projects, the first group talked about the different governments that were created, they did this by becoming the leaders that created the different governments and discussed it as if it were a meeting and there were sides; I thought that it was a fun and playful twist to the project. The next project was performed by Ben and Will and they did the Olympics, they discussed how they started, the traditions, the events, and even reenacted some of them (they were poorly done), but they were able to get the events for the most part correct and they were also fun to watch how they were performed.
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