Bayezid I- (r.1389-1402) Ottoman ruler who started to besiege Constantinople in 1395. The Europeans saw him as a new threat to Christendom‚ and Hungary’s king led English‚ French‚ German‚ and Balkan knights in a crusade against the Turks. He defeated them at Nicopolis‚ and moved their capital from Bursa to France. If Bayezid had not defeated the Christians‚ the Ottoman Empire might not have taken Constantinople. The armies of Timur defeated him near Ankara in 1402 where he was taken prisoner and
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Chris My body is yearning for your hand‚ and this broken heart lonely stands. I wait for your gentle kiss‚ and those soft lips I really miss! Your bright eyes and the way you smile‚ they only last for a while‚ But I will wait for you here‚ until you come and dry my last tear‚ I just want you to know‚ I will always be waiting for you. Marika Armstrong I Love You With All My Heart When things are changing all around us and the world seems to move too fast‚ don’t forget
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Comparison of One Art and Because I liked you Better In the poems “One Art” and “Because I Liked You Better” ‚ both poets Elizabeth Bishop and A.E. Housman express a strong sense of rejected love and great emotion. The poems share many commonalities in the sense that both of them deal with poets attempting to convince themselves that what they are feeling can be put away emotionally‚ but after both shifts‚ it becomes obvious that the strong emotions which both Houseman and Bishop are feeling cannot
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Why I live at the P.O. is a short story written by Eudora Welty in 1983. This short story is about Sister and the Rondo family. Sister is our main character and the narrator of the story. This essay will be about the character traits of sister and weather her perspective of the situation is a trustworthy one since the entire story is coming from her point of view. The first character that we meet other than sister is Stella Rondo and Shirley T. Stella is sister’s sister and Shirley T is Stella’s
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“Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day” Reflection #1 In Shakespeare’s sonnet‚ “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day‚” Shakespeare compares a warm summer’s day to the woman he loves. In the beginning two lines of the poem‚ he makes his first comparison saying “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate‚” meaning Shakespeare is not sure if he should compare the woman he loves to a summer’s day because she is more lovely and more constant. He explains
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Look at Death in Emily Dickinson’s “The Chariot” and Alan Seeger’s “I Have a Rendezvous with Death” Is death something to be feared when it may be considered the only aspect during life that is inevitable? Interestingly‚ the speakers in two poems written by Emily Dickinson and Alan Seeger may not feel that this is the case. In Dickinson’s “The Chariot”‚ the feminine speaker compares succumbing to death as a chariot ride passing places she has been in her life‚ while the speaker in Seeger’s “I have
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Mother Figures in It Used to Be Green Once and Going to the Moon In both Patricia Grace’s short story It Used to Be Green Once and in Nino Ricci’s short story Going to the Moon‚ the mother figures to the protagonists are caring and outgoing‚ but differ on their ability to comprehend specific situations. First and foremost‚ the characters that act as the mother figures in the short stories both care for the protagonists. The mother of the protagonist in It used to Be Green Once cares for all of her
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If I become the headmistress of the school‚ I will provide a peaceful and beautiful environment for the student so that they can have a good atmosphere to study. I will plant various type of fascinating species of rare flowers around the school garden and build more resting huts so that the students can do revision while enjoying a spectacular scenery. Besides that‚ I will hire a responsible gardener to be in charge of growing potatoes ‚veggies ‚herbs and tomatoes in the garden and to water the
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In Moulmein‚ in lower Burma‚ I was hated by large numbers of people--the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me. I was sub-divisional police officer of the town‚ and in an aimless‚ petty kind of way anti-European feeling was very bitter. No one had the guts to raise a riot‚ but if a European woman went through the bazaars alone somebody would probably spit betel juice over her dress. As a police officer I was an obvious target and was baited whenever
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If I Stay by Gayle Forman If I Stay‚ written by Gayle Forman‚ is an amazing book! When I read the back cover of If I Stay‚ I knew it was the right book for me‚ because I can relate to what has happened to the main characters and the feelings of other family members and friends. The family was in a car accident‚ and as you know from reading my other papers‚ my 16 year old brother was in a car accident in March. The feelings that were displayed in the book are very similar to the feelings my
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