TITLE PINEAL GLAND: “THE HIDDEN EYE” INTRODUCTION The third eye‚ also referred as parietal eye or pineal eye‚ is a photosensory organ that triggers hormone production and thermoregulation. This eye cannot see in quite the same way as the main eyes‚ instead only detecting shapes and shadows rather than full pictures. They are also highly sensitive to changes in light and dark – producing markedly different hormones based on time of day. It produces melatonin‚ a hormone that affects the modulation
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During the twelfth century‚ Anna Komnene‚ the daughter of king Alexius of Byzantine wrote The Alexiad in which she gives us an account of the First Crusade (1095)‚ the rising conflict between the Byzantines and the Western Europeans‚ and the pressing problems faced by the Byzantine Empire during king Alexius’s reign. By 1056‚ the Byzantine Empire had become a powerful nation with its territory expansions‚ but during the late eleventh century it was on the brink of collapse as the Seljuk Turks rose
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The Crusade is a series of events that occurred to the end of the 11th Century to the late 12th Century that consisted of thousands of devout christian followers. There were seven Crusades in total that had been established by Pope Urban II in 1095 as a response to the advance of Muslim forces in the “Holy Land” known as the Mediterranean or middle east in today’s society. These Crusades were an attempt to cleanse or stop the advancement of Muslims in the Mediterranean‚ many christians fled to Pope
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The language is the most important means of communication. It is necessary to be able to communicate not only in your own language but also in a foreign language. That is why people learn languages. The most important language of all is our mother tongue. We learn it from very young and it stay with us until we die. When we want to learn a new language‚ we must know our own very well. There are many different people and everyone learns a foreign language in his own way. For some people to learn
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade opens in 1912 in Monument Valley with Indiana Jones as a boy scout who steals the Cross of Coronado from treasure hunters to put it in a museum. After the police force Indiana to give the cross back‚ the scene changes to a ship in the Atlantic in 1938 where Indiana finally obtains the Cross of Coronado‚ and Indiana later gives it to a museum. In the United States‚ Indiana Jones meets Walter Donovon‚ a donor to the museum who tells Indiana his father‚ Henry‚ went
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any other religious sites. In hopes of stopping the continuous rule of the Turks‚ Pope Urban II called a council and was encouraged to create an army to head for Jerusalem. That army was created and told to start a “Holy War”‚ or crusade. To promote the crusades‚ the Roman Catholic Church first promised that anyone who died in their quest would go directly to Heaven. They were teaching that they were in the last days of mankind and that a messianic figure would soon come to destroy the enemy
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The crusades that happened during the Middle Ages hold a prominent place in history due to their profound impact and the unique cultural interactions that unfolded as a result of the numerous campaigns launched. These military expeditions‚ sanctioned by the papacy‚ not only shaped the political landscape of the time but also gave rise to significant religious‚ social‚ and economic transformations across Europe and the Middle East. The eleventh century was a time of great social and economic expansion
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the Crusades and the Black Deaths have on Medieval European Society/ Did the Effects Differ According to Region? Before the Crusades began Europe was isolated in many regards‚ but especially to trade. However‚ in the beginning‚ the Crusades started as a way for nobles to get out their frustrations and to stop feuding against one another and "Pope Urban may well have believed that the Crusade[s] would reconcile and reunite Western and Eastern Christianity" (text p. 405). The first Crusade was
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Madden’s Crusades is an exposition of the crusades‚ which occurred during the Middle Ages. The Crusades were a series of military conflicts of a religious character. They remain a very important movement in human history‚ and are hard to understand‚ as they include several themes and they lasted for a long time (about two hundred years‚ and the author covers a period of about eight centuries in his chronological work). Religion is‚ of course‚ the most recurrent theme we think about the Crusades‚ but
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forgive the other person and move on. Anger is one of the main emotions one feels when taking revenge. In one case‚ a person would be angry in their state of bereavement and wants vengeance. Sometimes‚ this is a good idea. In the article‚ “Some Crusades Need to Be Fought”
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