A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a legislature or parliament. There have been many such bodies in history, since senate means the assembly of the eldest and wiser members of the society and ruling class. Two of the first official senates were the Spartan Gerousia (Γερουσία) and the Roman Senate.
Many countries currently have an assembly named a senate, composed of senators who may be elected, appointed, have inherited the title, or gained membership by other methods, depending on the country. Modern senates typically serve to provide a chamber of "sober second thought" to consider legislation passed by a lower house, whose members are usually elected.
The modern word senate is derived from the Latin word senātus (senate), which comes from senex, "old man". The members or legislators of a senate are called senators. The Latin word senator was adopted into English with no change in spelling. Its meaning is derived from a very ancient form of simple social organization in which decision-making powers are reserved for the eldest men. For the same reason, the word senate is correctly used when referring to any powerful authority characteristically composed by the eldest members of a community, as a deliberative body of a faculty in an institution of higher learning is often called a senate. The original senate was the Roman Senate, which lasted until 580 (various efforts to revive it were made in Medieval Rome). In the Eastern Roman Empire, the Byzantine Senate continued until the Fourth Crusade, circa 1202–1204.
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Plot
In Ms. Hammond's fourth grade class, where learning is doing, shy Felix learns about the three branches of government in a class re-enactment, where he is named the Speaker of the House. The lesson continues on the playground at recess, Graham, the now appointed president, bullies students for their lunches and takes over every playground game. With Graham backed up by his cabinet members, the kids are scared to take a stand, until Vice President Sarah reminds Felix that Congress has the power to impeach the president. Felix rallies the other students to impeach Graham, and to prove he can stand up to bullies, all the while learning about the U.S. Government's system of checks and balances.
Keywords: children, education, playground, politics
Plot
In Ms. Hammond's fourth grade class, where learning is doing, shy Felix learns about the three branches of government in a class re-enactment, where he is named the Speaker of the House. The lesson continues on the playground at recess, Graham, the now appointed president, bullies students for their lunches and takes over every playground game. With Graham backed up by his cabinet members, the kids are scared to take a stand, until Vice President Sarah reminds Felix that Congress has the power to impeach the president. Felix rallies the other students to impeach Graham, and to prove he can stand up to bullies, all the while learning about the U.S. Government's system of checks and balances.
Keywords: children, education, playground, politics
Plot
In Ms. Hammond's fourth grade class, where learning is doing, shy Felix learns about the three branches of government in a class re-enactment, where he is named the Speaker of the House. The lesson continues on the playground at recess, Graham, the now appointed president, bullies students for their lunches and takes over every playground game. With Graham backed up by his cabinet members, the kids are scared to take a stand, until Vice President Sarah reminds Felix that Congress has the power to impeach the president. Felix rallies the other students to impeach Graham, and to prove he can stand up to bullies, all the while learning about the U.S. Government's system of checks and balances.
Keywords: children, education, playground, politics
Plot
In Ms. Hammond's fourth grade class, where learning is doing, shy Felix learns about the three branches of government in a class re-enactment, where he is named the Speaker of the House. The lesson continues on the playground at recess, Graham, the now appointed president, bullies students for their lunches and takes over every playground game. With Graham backed up by his cabinet members, the kids are scared to take a stand, until Vice President Sarah reminds Felix that Congress has the power to impeach the president. Felix rallies the other students to impeach Graham, and to prove he can stand up to bullies, all the while learning about the U.S. Government's system of checks and balances.
Keywords: children, education, playground, politics
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A War for the ages, shifting of tide
Morality, hatred and ethnic divide
Onward to Mecca with crosses in hand
Attack without blessing in God’s holy land
Ancient division, revision of sight
Perception of hatred as man’s holy right
A war without end over God sheds no light
When souls burn in hell as the fields burn the night
I’ll send your son to protect my way of life
A war for the ages, shifting of tide
No boundary, no continental divide
Where doctors of spin ease ours minds when it’s said
That “the victor is proven by numbers of dead”
A warrior dies, a god left in place
Inspiring thousands to hatred of race
An empire rises, with ashes it falls
As we sleep with our enemies within these walls
I’ll send your son to protect my way of life
As souls burn in hell and oil fires burn the night
I the walking dead, woeful are the sheep
No- they turn on me again, betrayal of a friend
Another story written with an end thats so familiar to me
I see the one whom all of this tension flows
I know the one to blame for those
Liars, deceivers, backstabbing whores
The lies, the pain, the sacrifice
All pissed away by your cruel device
While you mourn the loss of all in your life
Remember your part in creating strife
A living, breathing pity machine
Of royal blood youre sorrows Queen
All bow to the Queen of sorrow, bow down
Queen of Sorrow in your fortress dethroned
I never knew the holy man inside of you
I swear to god a crown of kings must weight a nod
I never thought of you as savior of the lot
The way you speak you were sent from god to lead the meek
The proper thing would be to bow to the utter
selflessness of ”thou”
I hoped that you would slit your throat for martyrdom
seems too remote
For you to take a chance and pray for god to take your
soul away
And leave your legacy behind
Your patron-sainted death defined
I pray for all of you
Praise the motherfuckers
You must be brave- the hammered hands and feet you gave
Your body dried- bile, blood and water from your side
The living dead- a crown of thorns gashed through your
head
I must be wrong- I thought you nameless all along
You’re fucking wrong
No- they turn on me again, betrayal of a friend
Another story written with an end thats so familiar to me
I see the one whom all of this tension flows
I know the one to blame for those
Liars, deceivers, backstabbing whores
The lies, the pain, the sacrifice
All pissed away by your cruel device
While you mourn the loss of all in your life
Remember your part in creating strife
A living, breathing pity machine
Of royal blood youre sorrows Queen
All bow to the Queen of sorrow, bow down
Fire
Absent to reinvent
Fire
Descent has left me cold and vacant
Fire
Absent to reinvent
Fire
Descent has left me cold
Down I go into the depths of me
Below all hope I must be
Leave the person I hate inside
Renew, begin below
Bottom of the soul
Dive deeper than the mainstream, I leave it above me
Some would sink these depths to win
I sink these depths to start again
Below the tread of foot my underbelly scrapes the earth
Bottom of the soul or vortex-maybe hole?
My flesh is peeling from all of this healing that I’m
feeling
Revealing the enemy in me
To bloody victory
No one to intervene
Trapped inside myself- directed to a life obscene
What is left? left of me
The person that I was is dead as dead could be
Save yourself, let me die
There is no hope for me to live don’t even fucking try
No return from the edge
I’ve fallen off the fucking ledge
I’m dying in my sleep
No god- my soul to keep
I’ve pissed my life away
I see only grey
I arise, free of failure
With hate to raise me up
No peace to hold me down
Fear to replace my love
Forward to destiny
The eye of fate fixed upon me
Alone through terrors unforeseen
Through the black I long to see
Fire
Absent to reinvent
Fire
Descent has left me cold and vacant
Fire
Absent to reinvent
Fire
Descent has left me cold
Down I go into the depths of me
Below all hope I must be
Leave the person I hate inside
Renew, begin below
Bottom of the soul
Dive deeper than the mainstream, I leave it above me
Some would sink these depths to win
I sink these depths to start again
Below the tread of foot my underbelly scrapes the earth
Bottom of the soul or vortex-maybe hole?
My flesh is peeling from all of this healing that I’m
feeling
Revealing the enemy in me
To bloody victory
No one to intervene
Trapped inside myself- directed to a life obscene
What is left? left of me
The person that I was is dead as dead could be
Save yourself, let me die
There is no hope for me to live don’t even fucking try
No return from the edge
I’ve fallen off the fucking ledge
I’m dying in my sleep
No god- my soul to keep
I’ve pissed my life away
I see only grey
I arise, free of failure
With hate to raise me up
No peace to hold me down
Fear to replace my love
Forward to destiny
The eye of fate fixed upon me
Alone through terrors unforeseen
Through the black I long to see