The Beekeeper’s Apprentice is a mystery novel written by Laurie R. King about Mary Russell‚ an orphaned fifteen-year-old who lives with her aunt in Sussex Downs. One day in April 1915‚ with her nose in a book‚ Russell almost walked on Sherlock Holmes‚ fifty-four and retired from his job in London‚ instead caring for his beehives and elaborate science projects. They quickly bond‚ and Russell assumes the position of Sherlock’s student‚ and Sherlock the teacher. Mary Russell had a steadfast opinion
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and by groups too weak to mount open assaults. Terrorism reaches back to ancient Greece and has occurred throughout history. In the 20th cent. acts of terrorism have been associated with the Italian Red Brigades‚ the Irish Republican Army‚ the Palestine Liberation Organization‚ Peru ’s Shining Path‚ and the Weathermen among many groups. It is a modern tool of the alienated and its psychological impact on the public has increased because of extensive coverage by the media. Governments find terrorism
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network of charities‚ schools‚ and clinics in the West Bank and Gaza strip in the 1960s-1980s. Hamas is a Palestinian militant movement that also serves as one of the territories two major political parties. The Hamas was founded to liberate Palestine from Israeli occupation and to establish an Islamic state in the area that is now the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Initially‚ the organization followed the Muslim Brotherhood’s model of acting mainly as a social welfare agency that provided especially
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The key tools to maintaining your identity There are many tools that one can use to maintain their identity‚ nationally and internationally. A nation or land is where people have established their life‚ their culture and their heart; sadly it has happened where people have been forced out of their homeland. Great opening sentences. Mary Louise Pratt‚ Kenji Yoshino and Edward Said all present very good methods of maintaining one’s national identity in their essays. In Mary Louise Pratt’s essay Arts
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that caused the Crusades & the World Wars to take place. These wars had different outcomes; both expected & unexpected ones. Seljuk turks (Muslims) invaded the Byzantine Empire & conquered Palestine. The Byzantine Emperor asked pope Urban 2 to help chase the Muslims out & get back the Holy Land (Palestine) in the year 1095. The Pope agreed‚ making a speech in the Council of Clemont calling all Christians too join in a Crusade. A Crusade is a military journey for a religious cause. The first Crusade
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Ministry’s ‘Jewish Desk’ had begun to devise options for solutions to the ‘Jewish Problem’ in the summer of 1940. He provided 3 options that included deporting the Jews to Western Europe‚ removing them from Europe entirely‚ or sending them all to Palestine. Complications would make it so that none of these options would work. Great Britain would have to be secured in order for the
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The main motive of this photograph is essentially a global history of the Jewish people. It is very specific‚ sad and instructive. In order to properly clarify this picture‚ we have to start from the beginning‚ shed light on the history of the Jewish people‚ and pay particular attention to the dark times during the Holocaust‚ and particularly refer to the Jewish understanding of the holiday. Jewish history tells us about how the Jewish people lived from the time when they appeared up to the present
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Jerusalem. The first crusade started in 1096 where tens of thousands of aggressive younger sons of the nobility went off to Palestine or Eastern Europe to fight the unbelievers‚ recover the long-lost Holy Land‚ and make their riches (they thought). In spite of the fact that the First Campaign could seize Jerusalem and quickly set up a Christian-ruled kingdom in Muslim Palestine‚ these activities invigorated and extended old enmities in the middle
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candidly and physically) since the very beginning. One situation‚ which incorporates a tie amongst religion and relations‚ is the short film‚ "My Purported Foe"‚ which gets in contact with the connection between the Jews and Muslims in Israel and Palestine.
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particular attention to were the Suez Canal and Palestine. Suez Canal The French originally set out to build the Suez Canal in 1859. However‚ Britain soon became jealous because of the potential impact the shortcut between the Mediterranean and Red Seas could have on trade with its Indian colony. In 1875‚ the British wrested financial control of the Suez Canal away from the French‚ and eventually made all of Egypt a protectorate in 1882. Palestine After WWI‚ the newly formed League of Nations
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