1.dote (dt) intr.v. dot·ed‚ dot·ing‚ dotes To show excessive fondness or love: parents who dote on their only child. DOTE‚ Span. law. The property which the wife gives to the husband on account of marriage. .. It is divided into adventitia and profectitia; the former is the dote which the father or grandfather‚ or other of the ascendants in the direct paternal line‚ give of their own property to the husband; the latter (adventitia) is that property which the wife gives to the husband‚ or that
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Political Context of Christianity The Christian religion was born in Palestine‚ a small stretch of land on the eastern Mediterranean Sea. The Jews considered Palestine their Promised Land‚ but because of its desirable location it had been ruled by a succession of foreign powers for most of its history. Egypt and Assyria fought over it for centuries‚ then Babylon conquered Assyria and Palestine with it. Next came the Persians led by Cyrus‚ who allowed the Jews to return to Palestine from exile‚ then
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After WWI was over‚ everything seemed to be back in order. People were moving on the streets‚ children were outside playing‚ everyone seemed happy. But it only lasted for a while because the nightmare had just begun. It all started one early morning when I went to visit my best friend Agnes. As I was walking to his house I could sense something bad was about to happen. The streets were very quiet and nobody seemed to be outside. I knocked on the door and waited‚ and then Agnes opened the door.
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• The experience that African Americans went through is that they were slaves owned by whites‚ who thought it was ok to buy colored people. African American’s went through so much back in the days.The slave trade was something that went on in Europe or Africa. In the eighth century humans was also traded for merchandise. In West Africa they made their slaves prisoners of wars or criminals. Back then African Americans had to be treated any way that the whites wanted them to‚ they wasn’t allowed
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characters. Think of one person standing alone on a stage speaking to an audience. Certainly‚ you are part of that audience‚ but the poem usually implies that the speaker is mainly talking to a specific person(s). Summary This poem is loosely based on historical events involving Alfonso‚ the Duke of Ferrara‚ who lived in the 16th century. The Duke is the speaker of the poem‚ and tells us he is entertaining an emissary who has come to negotiate the Duke’s marriage (he has recently been widowed) to the daughter
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Black Robe: A Historical Analysis Black Robe presents the story of a French Jesuit missionary struggling to stay true to his religion while traveling from Champlain’s fur trading outpost to a Huron Native American mission in Nouvelle France during the 17th century. Father Paul La Forgue sets out on the 1‚500 mile journey with members of the Algonquian tribe and a young Frenchman named Daniel Davost‚ determined to convert the “savages” to Christianity. Throughout the film‚ Father La Forgue faces
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With everything from lectures about Chamberlain to a bus tour tracing Robert E. Lee’s final retreat to discussions with renowned historian James McPherson‚ my erudite group was buzzing with excitement upon arrival. Every lecture‚ panel‚ and historical tour provided an in depth look into some facet of the war we had never even considered. Of course‚ many soldiers died‚ but how did they transport bodies back to Virginia? How did the advent and spread of photography affect the war? How historically
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Emin Mamedov Rex Koontz ARTH 1300 11.18.2010 No Indian art‚ painting‚ sculpture or architecture was created aimlessly or accidentally. Even the smallest piece of leaflet has its own spiritual content. Most of the time spiritual content was reached by showing sculptures in movement. The same could be said about sculptures of Indian Gods or Goddesses. Every God does something that has a deep cosmic symbolism. Especially‚ it can be said about Shiva Nataraja or God of Dance. The term Nataraja
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Throughout the years the way prisons are run has changed. Changes include social roles‚ informal behavior norms‚ and social solidarity. Prison history has three major eras the Big House‚ the correctional institution‚ and the contemporary prison. In The Big House era criminals were known as “convicts” and the guards where known as “hacks” and they were both supposed to keep distance from each other. To make their time easier in the Big House‚ convicts developed their own social roles‚ informal codes
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Close to two million slaves were brought to the American South from Africa and the West Indies during the centuries of the Atlantic slave trade. Approximately 20% of the population of the American South over the years has been African American‚ and as late as 1900‚ 9 out of every 10 African Americans lived in the South. The large number of black people maintained as a labor force in the post-slavery South were not permitted to threaten the region’s character as a white man’s country‚ however. The
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