Mistakes of The First Crusade The first crusade: a religious endeavor that became a turning point of history. It all began when Pope Urban II traveled to Italy in November 1095. He decided to give an open sermon on the 27th of November at the Council of Clermont. This speech‚ in hopes of drawing a large crowd‚ only gained a few hundred listeners. However‚ these select few witnessed one of the most influential speeches from the highest religious authority in the world. The pope’s
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weather can make you feel as you were walking into a sauna. Fresh clean air‚ like when you walk into a new house. The country serves as a marvelous place for tourists were people can find a diversity of people as they would find in a bag of jelly beans. The ocean blue sea is filled with many coconut trees and the sand is as soft as a feather pillow. At the deep and extraordinary heart of the Dominican Republic lies Santiago‚ which is the place where I grew up‚ and the place that occupies all my best
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basketball. Worst of all‚ he became addicted to drugs. These drugs ravaged his body and mind‚ turning my loving‚ big brother with the ability to do anything‚ into something dark and unknown. People say that marijuana isn’t harmful‚ that it does not damage you like other drugs. That is a lie. I saw with my own eyes what it can do to a person. It turns them from someone you know and trust‚ into a stranger who knows exactly how to hurt you. Drugs took over Michael completely; all he cared about was
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1st essay Are we free to make our own choices in life? Although it sounds appealing to make one’s own decision freely‚ it is actually an impractable goal as the society has exerted significant influence and restrictions on individuals and has shaped one’s value of what they should do and what they should not do. In today’s society‚ people are more free to make our own choices than we were before‚ but it is true that we canno indulge our interests at the cost of transgressing the basic rules of
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A variety of people sometimes make big mistakes just because they think they are so extravegent and very intelligent. Others make mistakes because they try to reach their life goals. In "Frankenstein"‚ by Mary Shelley‚ Victor Frankenstein wanted to create a monster from different body parts. Victor was very intelligent‚ but too much intelligence created a hideous and horrendous creature. Too much knowledge can put you in a position where you lose everyone you have‚ you lose your mind‚ and you gain
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results‚ negotiation matters. Little wonder that Bob Davis‚ vice chairman of Terra Lycos‚ has said that companies "have to make deal making a core competency." Luckily‚ whether from schoolbooks or the school of hard knocks‚ most executives know the basics of negotiation; some are spectacularly adept. Yet high stakes and intense pressure can result in costly mistakes. Bad habits creep in‚ and experience can further ingrain those habits. Indeed‚ when I reflect on the thousands of negotiations
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heard many scary sound coming out of the backyard was just me and nature. My phone rang for five second‚ I stop watching the soccer game‚ was friend Maoly. I could hear from her low and shy voice that she was despair. Maoly was in another school but we were really good friends. After of talking for a while she ask me if I could did something to help her. She wanted me to explain math to her. I said yes‚ but I ask her Why now we’re on summer?. She said I didn’t pass math this year I gotta do recovery
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I smiled as the all-girl band was playing on the stage. Neon lights illuminated their ripped t-shirts and glam make-up. Adults and teenagers made their way to the front‚ singing and beating their feet to the music. I fidgeted with the hem of my shirt nervously as I bobbed my head to deep bass lines. My band was next. As Vitamin A was getting towards the end of their song‚ the stage manager waved to us to start heading backstage. I gathered my bandmates and we followed her through the crowd. Jimmy
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Many of us can relate to feeling regularly frustrated‚ thinking‚ “Why is it so hard for us to admit our mistakes?” Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson’s book‚ Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)‚ focuses on why people justify bad decisions‚ beliefs‚ and actions. It also offers suggestions about how we might be able to challenge ourselves to honestly reflect on our choices and take responsibility for our actions. In the beginning of the book‚ the authors introduce the theory of cognitive dissonance and
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People make mistakes in life just like the narrator in the story “The Black Cat.” He has done two of the worst mistakes in his life drinking and killing his cat. The sitting is in the narrator’s house. The main conflict is that the narrator kills his chat because he has a problem with drinking. In “The Black Cat”‚ Edgar Allan Poe used drinking as a symbol of evil. Drinking is not the best choice. When someone drinks alcohol they act like someone else‚ just like in the story. “Suddenly‚ I was
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