"Wearing a simple white shirt, dark pants, and carrying two shopping bags," he blocked a column of a Chinese military tank (Dunleavy). The Tank Man, known as the "Unknown Rebel," emerged into the global media spotlight after the violent crackdown (Iyer). This incident was a series of protests in Beijing, China, 1989, led by "university students, intellectuals, and workers" (Ray). These demonstrations aimed to seek "democratic, political, social, economic and other reforms" and garnered widespread global attention (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica). The protests escalated from a scale of "100,000" students to "1 million" people participating (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica). Ultimately, the tragic incident culminated in "Chinese soldiers and police storming Tiananmen Square, firing live rounds into the crowd" (History.com Editors), resulting in "hundreds to thousands of protesters being killed...
Ancient Greek mythology is an interconnected system of myths. This vast system, composed of countless works featuring various gods, heroes, and mortals, includes many stories with the same backgrounds and characters, often described in different works by authors of different eras. The story of the Trojan War is a classic among many ancient Greek myths. Homer’s epics serve as the origin of the Trojan War story, but other works also supplement and detail it further. Although scholars questioned the authenticity of the Trojan War, perhaps considering it merely a myth, further archaeological and research work suggests that the city of Troy described by Homer and other ancient Greek authors might have been real, and a war may have possibly occurred. First, Homer’s work, the Iliad, reveals the spark of the Trojan War. The Trojan prince Paris saw the beautiful Helen in Sparta and then eloped with her, or, some say, kidnapped her and took her back to Troy (Cartwright). However, Helen was alrea...