Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) causes a painful recollection of a past harrowing event that haunts victims for the rest of their lives and often causes extreme anxiety‚ depression‚ and in some cases‚ drug abuse and suicide. The suicide rates have increased effectually among soldiers‚ with about twenty-eight veterans killing themselves each day (Rosenshield). Many veterans are diagnosed with PTSD‚ and are forced to live with it for the rest of their lives. It is hard to understand the shift
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In 1095‚ at the Council of Clermont‚ Pope Urban ll made a powerful and well planned speech. His message was clear and precise‚ ‘go to the holy land in Jerusalem and claim back what is rightfully yours or die trying‚ and in return remission of all your sins with the assurance of the imperishable glory of the kingdom of heaven’. He was addressing Christians from all over France calling for a ‘Crusade’ in the name of God and as many would argue‚ abusing his authority and status he received from the
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three would persecute‚ rape‚ and even kill each other in order to own the Holy Land. The Crusades had a more negative than positive effect on the world because people all over the world were persecuted for their religion. One example as to why the crusades overall had a negative effect on the world is because many Christians and Muslims all over the world were persecuted. Pope Urban II writes in his Call to Crusade speech‚ “Others they bind to a post and pierce with arrows… What shall I say of the abominable
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Motives Behind the Crusades The Crusades were more the result of ulterior motives of benefit‚ rather than the desire to wipe out the Muslims. The Pope at the time‚ Pope Urban‚ wanted the Crusades for his own benefit. The knights and had also gone on the Crusades for themselves. Everyday laymen also went on the Crusades to benefit themselves. Merchants went to profit themselves as well. Christians and Muslims at some points in history were even able to live in harmony. The Crusades was not an example
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Pope Urban II’s decision to launch the First Crusades altered Medieval Europe politically‚ socially‚ and economically. The Pope stressed the religious and economic importance of the Eastern churches and Jerusalem that had both been taken over by Muslim Turks. Previously Vikings and Muslims had been attempting to invade most Western European countries and were troubling them but were soon defeated. All across Europe countries were economically recovering and looking for ways to expand. With the growth
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requested by the Pope or any of his messengers. This was especially true during the years 1095-1096 when Pope Urban II called for a “holy war against Muslim.” Despite the fact that thousands of knights and nobles joined the crusade‚ the reality was that initially many more did not chose to align with the papacy. The act of war is expensive. Paul F. Crawford in his article the “Four Myths About the Crusades” makes note of a comment made by Fred Cazel who stated‚ “Few Crusaders had sufficient cash
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade opens in 1912 in Monument Valley with Indiana Jones as a boy scout who steals the Cross of Coronado from treasure hunters to put it in a museum. After the police force Indiana to give the cross back‚ the scene changes to a ship in the Atlantic in 1938 where Indiana finally obtains the Cross of Coronado‚ and Indiana later gives it to a museum. In the United States‚ Indiana Jones meets Walter Donovon‚ a donor to the museum who tells Indiana his father‚ Henry‚ went
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any other religious sites. In hopes of stopping the continuous rule of the Turks‚ Pope Urban II called a council and was encouraged to create an army to head for Jerusalem. That army was created and told to start a “Holy War”‚ or crusade. To promote the crusades‚ the Roman Catholic Church first promised that anyone who died in their quest would go directly to Heaven. They were teaching that they were in the last days of mankind and that a messianic figure would soon come to destroy the enemy
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Brady Griffin Coach Williams World History February 9‚ 2015 The fall of Jerusalem in 1187 was one of the biggest events in the history of the Crusades. It was the end of the second crusade and gave up Jerusalem to the Muslims for the first time and the Crusaders never got it back. The siege of Jerusalem in 1187 lasted from September 20 to October 2 in 1187. Balian‚ a blacksmith from Ibelin‚ the son of Godfrey was the leader of Jerusalem at this time. The leader of the Muslims‚ Saladin had tried
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During the First Crusades‚ Europeans learned to make profit in sugar. Initially‚ they invested in war captives‚ under similar conditions of slavery‚ that eventually became expensive; however‚ with the landing of the navigator Diniz Dias in the land of Guinea‚ Africa‚ Portuguese
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