John Carroll Blogs

Basically Rome ended on a terrible streak. They were declining in population, they had nobody joining the army, and they were running out of food. In the end they had a 14 year old emperor who was overthrown because he was so young and was placed in charge of running an already sinking ship.

In Western Civ. we have been learning about Christianity and how they were insanely persecuted for their beliefs. We also learned about how Jesus most likely didn't look like most pictures of him. He was probably darker skinned and scruffy haired instead of the light skinned with long flowing locks that we portray him as. Finally we learned about the punishments that Rome inflicted on people and most of the time it was for very unimportant crimes. They burned, crucified, fed to beasts, and executed people.

Literally at this moment in time I couldn't hate people more. They never do their work and they just mooch off of who they know will do the work. This is also why group projects are the worst thing to ever exist. Right now I have multiple group projects that I need to get done. Not the group just me, because God knows that they aren't going to do any work. Currently in my group project I have 1 person who is helping me and that is it. WE HAVE 4 PEOPLE! Nobody wants to do anything and they expect other people to do the work for them. The project is 400 points for crying out loud. Just do your part. Ok, my rant is over.

I'm so happy! I got an 80 which truthfully isn't that good. But it somehow only lowered my grade to an 89 and if I do all my blogs which I do I should get a 90 so I'm not distressed about the grade. Luckily all I have to do now is do well on the end of Rome test and I should get an A in the class. Shooting for that 4.0 :)

God that test wasn't that easy. I honestly thought it was pretty difficult even after I studied. In the end though all I can say was that I tried my best even though I feel like it didn't go as well as I hoped.

Honestly I really like the BBC shows we are watching because they provide us with a good visual source of history. Despite all that I think it was pretty lucky how Caesar won because Pompey definitely had him if the rich guys didn't pressure him into attacking. Caesar should have suffered greatly for his first loss but instead won because of it and even though I find it a great story I think it was pretty lucky for him to win.