is done. I have grown into a much happier person because I am able to have the opportunity of brightening another person’s day. Each year around Christmas I volunteer at toy drives. Contributing to toy drives is not only compelled me because of religious purposes‚ however‚ I often find myself compelled to help with toy drives because I vividly remember being in the same position as those children who lacked Christmas gifts. As a child‚ in a single parent household‚ we struggled financially. However
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Yahoo‚ which had a string of three CEOs in three years‚ was on the verge of taking that count to four. The latest to rock was Scott Thompson‚ a newly appointed CEO‚ over the false claims in his resume about the computer science degree‚ which he never received from the Stonehill College. The news did spread like fire in the Silicon Valley and why it shouldn’t since Yahoo is one of the respected companies in the area. The news was reported in different formats of media and there were mixed reactions
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Impact of the Crusades The Crusades were a series of nine military campaigns by European Christians to regain Holy Land from the Muslims‚ in which about 1.5 million lives were lost all together. The first Crusade was organized by Pope Urban II in 1095‚ and the last being in 1289. Pope Urban II originally intended to recruit followers by saying that your sins would be relieved if you helped regain Holy Land from Muslims‚ however‚ these intentions quickly turned into bad intentions when people
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and The Crusades Many people consider the Crusades as wars of bloodlust‚ greed‚ and power. War can be described as an escalated conflict‚ most commonly over money or other resources. The outcome of war is usually the advancement of one society due to its newly acquired resources or knowledge. If one were to look at the Crusades‚ and their original purpose‚ which was to assist Constantinople and free the Holy Land from Muslim control‚ then one may make the conclusion that the Crusades failed.
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THE FOURTH CRUSADE The Crusades in the middle ages helped define religious and political life during this era. Life in the middle ages revolved around what was happening with the Pope and his anticipations for the next Crusade. The focuses of the crusades were ideally to unite the churches to bring back Christian leadership and control in the Holy Land‚ that is‚ Jerusalem. One of the most impacting crusades is known as the fourth Crusade when Innocent III was pope. The fourth crusade became terribly
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The Fourth Crusade Is karma the reason for the slow but evident sinking of Venice into the Mediterranean? Maybe it is indemnity for the cruel selfish acts of Venice during the Fourth Crusade. The Venetians along with crusaders robbed Constantinople for personal gains. The Fourth Crusade should be an example that it is crude and unjust to attack fellow men for no reason. The Crusades were a series of battles and short wars against the Muslims. In the eleventh century Jerusalem had been taken
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the fall of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. During the Middle Ages there was an uproar of holy wars known as the crusades. The word crusade comes from the Latin word crux‚ meaning "cross." The Christian soldiers‚ called Crusaders‚ wore the cross as a symbol of their religion. The crusades began in 1090’s and continued in the 11th and 12th centuries. The main cause for the holy wars was because of Pope Urban II‚ he wanted to capture the sacred places
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Byzantine Emperor Alexius I Comnenus has asked Pope Urban II for help. Post Number 2: As a result to Pope Urban’s decision to help the Byzantine Empire by taking back the Holy Land‚ people became more enthused about Christianity. Pope Urban II urged European lords and knights to fight to take back the Holy Land. In the meantime‚ a group of peasants were starting their own “People’s Crusade‚” which was unsuccessful. Post
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To what extend did the European leaders recapture the holy land from Saladin in the third crusade? Forty years after the failure of the Second Crusade‚ Richard I of England‚ Philip II of France and Barbarossa leader of Germany all ended their conflicts to assist the Third Crusade (1189-1192). Saladin‚ who captured Jerusalem in 1187‚ had unified Syria and Egypt in the past‚ making him a very powerful adversary and an excellent military leader. Losing the Holy Land was too shameful for Christendom
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Cross Country Drive One morning I woke up craving some excitement‚ maybe an adventure. I smelt the delicious scent of my mom cooking bacon‚ so I hopped out of bed and ran downstairs to eat breakfast. While I was eating my mom and dad were having a conversation in another room. I was curious about what they were planning. They told me all of us were going on a cross country drive! My mom had four hours to pack all of our things before we decided to head out. We had no definite plan for where we
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