In November 1095 Pope Urban II‚ letter called upon the knights of France to travel to the Holy. Land and liberate the city of Jerusalem and the Christians of the east from Muslim power—considered heathens and enemies of the Church. The response to Urban’s appeal was astounding; over 60‚000 people set out to recover the Holy Land and secure this reward and‚ in some cases‚ take the chance to set up new territories. Four years later‚ in July 1099‚ the survivors conquered Jerusalem by killing many people
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In this essay I will discuss a poem about encouraging people to join the war who was written by Jessie Pope and the poem is called ‘Who’s for the Game?’ which was written during World War 1. She was an English poet‚ writer‚ journalist and she still remains best known for her patriotic motivational poems and she lived for 73 years. This poem has encouraged many young men to join World War 1 as she said you will be honoured and be glorious but not knowing how terrible the war is. This essay will discuss
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In the book Doing School‚ Denise Pope‚ the author and a Stanford Graduate with a PHD in curriculum and teaching‚ claims that students are no longer learning anything about the subjects they take‚ or learning the core values/behaviors that the school is supposed to teach. They are in fact‚ learning the values/behaviors that schools despise and are not retaining any of the information taught to them. The reason they are not learning the correct values/behaviors‚ or retaining any information in school
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Making Sense of Advertisements Daniel Pope (from the Making Sense of Evidence series on History Matters: The U.S. Survey on the Web‚ located at http://historymatters.gmu.edu) Advertisements are all around us today and have been for a long time; advertising-free “good old days” just don’t exist. This guide offers an overview of advertisements as historical sources and how historians use them‚ a brief history of advertising‚ questions to ask when interpreting ads as historical evidence‚ an annotated
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“The Mysterious Benedict Society” by Trenton Lee Stewart is another book about those endearing orphans with great abilities that seem to have become a genre of it’s own. This time it is a book about 4 children who pass a “gifted test.” It is not just any gifted test though‚ it is a test to find the smartest and best children to help Mr Benedict on a secret mission. Mr. Benedict becomes a father figure to these children during this book. The four children are Kate Wetherall‚ Reynie Muldoon‚ George
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Recently‚ Pope Francis appealed to world leaders to seek a new economic model to help the poor‚ and to shun policies that “sacrifice human lives on the altar of money and profit”. It was the second time during his trip to South America that Francis used a major speech to excoriate unbridled capitalism and champion the rights of the poor. He urged politicians and business leaders “not to yield to an economic model which is idolatrous‚ which needs to sacrifice human lives on the altar of money and
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potential‚ nor was it using all of its resources to benefit its citizens. By the time Louis XVI came into power‚ he was ruling an already sinking ship. His circumstances and inexperience
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The mid- twentieth century was a period of great change and development in many aspects of the world. World War II was coming to a close‚ the development of nuclear and atomic warheads was becoming prioritized‚ and people around the world were diving into an interesting new world containing new developments in technology. This revolutionary period also brought about more freedom and lack of reliance on the church for support. Many Americans sought to break free from the strict governing of the church
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radical group‚ called the Jacobin Club‚ took control. One of the most significant Jacobins was named Jean Paul Marat. Marat wrote a newspaper called Friend of the People (L’Ami du Peuple). In this paper‚ he called for the death of any supporters of Louis XVI‚ and anyone associated with him. This action harmed Louis’s power and helped get French citizens more riled up about the Revolution. Eventually‚ the King’s reign had to come to an end. By now‚ thanks to the Nation Convention‚ King Louis XVI’s power
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The special historic and social-economic background of Hong Kong forms its own identity‚ which is different from other regions like mainland China‚ and makes it a specific imagined community‚ which is accord with Benedict Anderson’s theory of imagined community. Whereas‚ it is under discussion whether since the reunification in 1997‚ Hong Kong has been gradually transformed into a part of China in terms of culture and identity and‚ thus‚ will no longer be a separated imagined community in the future
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