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    Name ----------------------------‚ Date ________________ In class assignment total points___50__ CHAPTER 16 – EUROPE TO THE EARLY 1500s: REVIVAL‚ DECLINE‚ AND RENAISSANCE 1. As compared to its experience in the early Middle Ages‚ western Europe in the High Middle Ages was a. more decentralized. c. less militaristic. b. less isolated. d. more religiously diverse. 2. During the late Middle Ages‚ a. kingship was despotic and absolute. b. kings

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    Freedom brings happiness. This is a major message shown in the story Rip Van Winkle. Rip Van Winkle is about a man who slept through the American Revolution for twenty years. During those twenty years he slept‚ his village and the whole country underwent a major change that affected the future of America. Written during the early 1800s when American literature was heavily influenced by the Europeans‚ Washington Irving portrays America’s search for an identity through one of the first true American

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    Humanity within Techno-utopia Dinesh D’Souza‚ the author of Staying Human‚ is originally from Bombay‚ India. In 1983‚ he earned his Bachelor’s degree from Dartsworth College. D’Souza is known as a leading conservative thinker‚ who wrote for numerous magazines‚ notably the National Review (McGraw-Hill 816). Dinesh D’Souza has generalized Staying Human to inform as well as voice his opinions about the rapidly changing inventions among the human race today‚ which serves as a rational project to

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    Conflicts in Jane Eyre

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    This novel presents a number of conflicts and struggles within Jane and between Jane and other characters‚ conflicts which must be resolved for her to achieve self-fulfillment and happiness. The chief struggle is between Reason and feeling. As a child who is repressed and bullied and generally ill treated‚ Jane finds it hard to control her temper and her passionate nature rebels against her ill-treatment with all its force and fury. She is like a raw exposed nerve and her sense of justice is

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    Rousseau and Jefferson “The Declaration of Independence‚” written by Thomas Jefferson‚ is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4‚ 1776. “The Origin of Civil Society” is an article written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Jefferson writes about human rights because all men shall be equal and free; Rousseau writes about social contracts because by understanding the concepts of social contracts‚ the people will live with better security and significance. By analyzing these two articles

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    Nagib Gonzalez World Civ Section F: The east and west differences emerged from the Greco-Persian war. The idea was that the east stood for despotism and that the west stood for freedom. The eastern and Western conceptualizations still exist but the idea of the East and West in a literal sense is a thing of the past. Today‚ both the Western and Eastern Civilizations influence each other heavily. Western civilization can be compared to modern day Capitalism and the Eastern Civilization can be considered

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    severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy‚ applied to the most pressing wants of the country. ... The government in a revolution is the despotism of liberty against tyranny. Is force only intended to protect crime? Is not the lightning of heaven made to blast vice exalted?” Robespierre believed terror was justified in the defense of the revolution and the righteous virtue of France. His ideals

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    Al-Farabi Introduction: Abu Nasr Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Tarkhan al-Farabi was born at Wasij‚ a village near Farab‚ a district of Transoxania. He was one of the greatest philosophers that the Muslim world had ever produced. He mainly studied in Baghdad and after gaining considerable proficiency in the Arabic language‚ he became an ardent pupil of the Christian savant Abu Bishr Matta bin Younus‚ quite prominent as translator of a number of works by Aristotle and other Greek versatile writers

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    Chapter 3 Hypothetical Syllogisms As stated in Chapter 2‚ a hypothetical syllogism is a syllogism with at least one conditional premise‚ that is‚ at least one ―if…then…‖ premise. The ―If…then…‖ relationship may be expressed in ordinary language by using a number of different terms. In checking hypothetical syllogisms expressed in ordinary language for their validity‚ it is therefore useful to be able to translate such conditional vocabulary into standard conditional form. The Vocabulary of Conditional

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    The Exodus Narratives: God’s Love Story with Israel "The Exodus is such a significant event in Israel’s history that it serves as more than just an account of the wandering in the desert. It is a paradigm of how God deals with His people‚ signifying the formation of relationship." Rainier Camara (Senior Pastor) Address: Lot 7 Block 8‚ Winchester St.‚ Birmingham Place‚

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