Were the Crusades Political or Religious? The Middle Ages was a religious age that was dominated by papacy. The Crusades show the religiousness of the Europeans in the Middle Ages‚ though we question ourselves if that was their only motive: Religion. People fought the Muslims‚ Seljuk Turks‚ to regain the Middle East in the name of "crusaders" which means "marked with the cross". This was the beginning of the Europe’s waking up to use their growing power to look outside Europe and dominate more lands
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B. R. English III 8 February 2007 Their Eyes Were Watching God: Quest for Freedom Zora Neale Hurston was born on January 7‚ 1891‚ in the town of Eatonville‚ Florida. Her parents were Reverend John Hurston and Lucy Ann Potts Hurston. Hurston was one of eight children‚ and her mother‚ Lucy Hurston‚ passed away when Zora was only thirteen years old. This left Hurston and the rest of her family in a very emotionally unstable position. Hurston’s novelist career launched in the 1930s. In 1937
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According to the text I believe the Americas were both discovered and conquered. The Bering Isthmus allowed nomadic Asian hunters to immigrate throughout the Americas for about 250 centuries. They discovered this land and made tribes that later became the Aztecs‚ Incas‚ Mayans‚ Pueblo Natives and many more. Christopher Columbus accidently came upon an island in the Bahamas which brought the New World to light for the Europeans. As a result‚ the Europeans started sailing to this New World and because
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The author of Mistakes Were Made (but not by me) created the idea that memory is reconstructive and source confusion to criminal justice. Our memory helps to recreate old moments from our life so they will not be lost because our brain only selects highlights from an event‚ it is reconstructive in this way. Source confusion can be known as not being able to distinguish your memory that came from later information. Criminal justice is related back to source confusion because we often justify our own
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Explain how women’s lives were affected by World War 1. Before World War 1 women across Britain mainly worked in domestic service as maids and only 25% of women worked a job. Working class women were expected to sustain family life. 11% of these worked in domestic service. Upper class women did not work and were usually tended to by their personal female domestic servants. But most women wanted equality in the work place and in society and so campaigned through the Suffragettes‚ protesting for
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People may wonder how effective characterization is so important in a novel. Characterization is highly vital in a novel because it’s what builds up the characters in the story. Without effective characterization‚ readers aren’t able to receive a vivid image of the characters in the novel. Characterization also helps people get engaged with the novel. Three polarizing characters like Vera Claythorne‚ Philip Lombard‚ and General Macarthur from Agatha Christie’s novel‚ And Then There Were None exemplify
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discussion: were the Vikings just brutal barbarians? Question 1: In your research‚ what have you discovered about your area of expertise in relation to the beliefs and values of the Vikings? In regards to my area of expertise‚ Viking home and work‚ the evidence suggests that the Vikings had specific beliefs and values. For example‚ they crafted their own homemade strong tools and stable long houses‚ as this helped them to live a better and safer lifestyle. Therefore‚ the Vikings were not just brutal
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Poem Analysis Project The poem "If you were coming in the Fall" was written by Emily Dickinson. Through her career she innovated brief conceptualized poetry that explored inner emotional concepts such as love‚ death‚ and longing. Like other poems‚ "If you were coming in the Fall" talks about the speaker’s love and how she waits him to return. It can be assumed that the speaker is a female because it was written in 1st person and the author‚ Dickinson‚ is a woman. Also‚ the speaker uses words and
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The Trauma Caused by Tragedy “We Were Liars” is about a seventeen year old teen named Cadence Sinclair. In the book‚ Cadence experienced trauma in her life that must have been very tragic to her. In the book it states‚ that she accidentally started a fire in her house‚ and killed her whole family. Because of this Cadence expressed the possibility of an unstable mental health. Through evidence provided in the text which will be discussed further in this essay‚ it is clear that Cadence is suffering
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The Crusades were a Christian army fighting against the Muslims to gain the “Holy Land” (Jerusalem). The Crusades were referred as “Histories most successful failures “‚ because they were able to conquer Jerusalem (holy land) but weren’t able to keep it because the Muslims took their land right back. I agree that the Crusades were failures more than successors because of the fact that they failed to keep the “holy land” from the Muslims: when they spent so much time and effort trying to conquer it
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