Autoethnography Essays and Research Papers. Autoethnography Autoethnography Outline 1. I am a Christian and a kindness shown me by one Muslim girl, Salamatu, changed my perspective on Islam as a... whole.
Death of Cleopatra. Cleopatra was determined that she would not be paraded through the streets of Rome before being executed in a triumph and so she began to test poisons on condemned prisoners to see which one would be best.
According to Plutarch (quoted by Ussher), Cleopatra tested various deadly poisons on condemned persons and concluded that the bite of the asp (from aspis - Egyptian cobra, not European asp) was the least terrible way to die; the venom brought sleepiness and heaviness without spasms of pain.