throughout the play. For example‚ when he first sees Kate‚ he repeats her name for “a thousand times”. Petruchio says‚ “You lie‚ in faith‚ for you are called plain Kate‚ / And bonny Kate‚ and sometimes Kate the curst‚ / But Kate‚ the prettiest Kate in Christendom‚ / Kate of Kate Hall‚ my super-dainty Kate/ For dainties are all Kates- and therefore‚ Kate of my consolation/” (2.1. 184-189) Petruchio uses his own method to attract Katherina’s attention toward him; he wants to tell her she is important to him
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The colonial strategies of the Spanish‚ French‚ and Dutch were similar in that they all originally began their colonization through unchartered companies and colonized to spread Christianity and to acquire wealth. Each of these peoples also traded with the local natives. Despite their similarities‚ these countries’ strategies differed as well. The Spaniards began whipping the natives who practiced polygamy and punished the ones that worshipped their traditional gods. They also began
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Urban VI was elected as pope in 1378‚ he worked in a tactless and bullheaded manner. Urban’s actions lead to cardinals to elect a second pope‚ Clement VII‚ cousin of King Charles V of France. Thus‚ began the Great Schism‚ which divided Western Christendom until 1417. The third pope‚ Martin V‚ was elected to began the conciliar movement which goals were- to end the schism‚ to reform the church and to wipe out
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Anderson refers to the Reformation‚ when the vernacular of each nation gradually took the place the exclusive Latin with the development of print capitalism‚ which was resulted in the fall of “the imagined community of Christendom” (46)‚ meanwhile‚ the rise of the imagined community of nation-states. Cantonese acts just as those vernaculars to form Hong Kong as a separated community independent from mainland China‚ whose official and most popular language is Mandarin. Although
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Early in October 1202‚ a fleet of 200 ships set sail from the lagoon of Venice. Banners whipped from every masthead‚ some bearing the lion of Venice‚ others charged with the coats of arms of the noblest houses of France. Leading the fleet was the state galley of Doge Enrico Dandolo‚ the elected ‘duke of the Venetian Republic. He was more than 80 years old and nearly blind‚ but undimmed in vigor and ability. His galley was painted imperial vermilion‚ and a vermilion silk canopy covered the poop
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main races were: Peninsulares‚ who were Europeans‚ Native Indians‚ and African Negros” (Tal). This was due to the Spanish Inquisition which promoted the idea of Limpeza de Sangre‚ or purity of blood. Spanish believe that the closer a person is to Christendom‚ the more pure his or her blood was (Sicroff). Since Native americans were early converts to Christianity‚ they were classified at the bottom of the social hierarchy. People who were mestizos‚ part Spanish and part Native Americans‚ did not receive
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To what extent did the response to Urban II’s call to Crusade in 1095 correspond to the pope’s plans? "The remarkable success of Urban’s crusade seemed to confirm his preaching theme that God was fighting with the crusaders" -Penny J. Cole This view‚ that the First Crusade was a great success‚ is still generally accepted today‚ as it was by contemporaries. The crusaders themselves‚ convinced that their mission had been achieved‚ "entitled their chronicles Gesta Dei per Francos‚ God’s work done
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conflicts to assist the Third Crusade (1189-1192). Saladin‚ who captured Jerusalem in 1187‚ had unified Syria and Egypt in the past‚ making him a very powerful adversary and an excellent military leader. Losing the Holy Land was too shameful for Christendom‚ so with the Pope ’s blessing‚ dozens of thousands of men marched toward Jerusalem under the three great kings. Saladin preferred to defend the city without bloodshed and offered generous terms‚ but the citizens inside refused to leave their
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Is Their Hope In The Road? In Cormac McCarthy’s book The Road‚ a father and his son try to survive in a post-apocalyptic world where the majority of people have turned to cannibalism and the environment is twisted and dark. Despite their being glimpses of hope and the Son being showed as the next Messiah‚ a message of hope could in no way be conveyed in the book. The book is depressing‚ sad‚ and makes readers feel grateful for what they have and that they do not have to go through what the protagonists
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stifling with numerous harsh church rulings enormous influence on how people thought and how subsequently they lived their lives. The Roman catholic church had at the time many supporters and covered a large proportion of the world which was called Christendom. Before the reformation‚ the Church had been one of the principal employers‚ with large numbers of farm workers‚ servants and builders. Likewise‚ the church ran most of the rare schools and hospitals that existed at the time‚ with many of their
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