were allowed to retain their ancestral religion on payment of tribute.” J.J. Sounders states that Mohammed respected other religions‚ which‚ in turn‚ allowed the Islamic civilization to grow. J.J. Sounders also states that Mohammed allowed other people to keep their faith by paying a tribute; this also shows respect toward other religions by the Muslims. Mohammed himself asks other people that are not of the Islamic belief to pay tribute and be spared (Doc #1). Mohammed respects other beliefs by giving
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(1)I thought that I’ve already known a lot of things about the martial law that happened in the Philippines during late President Marcos’ term. (2)But I was wrong. (3)After making the martial law exhibits‚ paying tribute to the Pisay martyrs‚ and hearing the talks of Pisay alumni and other martial law veterans‚ I can say that what I’ve known before was just a very small amount of information about martial law. (4)I am fortunate that I was not yet born during the martial law era. (5)I was not
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irrigation to meet their agricultural needs (Stearns). The Chinampas also served as a transportation system‚ with a river flowing through the middle. They had built 20‚000 acres of chinampas‚ which had a place for the farmer to live. Aztecs also demanded tribute from their conquered territories (Carrasco). This was‚ in other words‚ their form of a tax system. These
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There are a number of instances that had made me realize that Professor Shi’s video‚ 10 Moments‚ is a tribute to Marker’s 1956 film because of certain elements of the later film. For instance‚ Professor Shi also captures the record of everyday life experiences and interactions as Marker did in his film. It may not picture the 1950s‚ but it did have similar everyday experiences. The video was a tribute to emphasize more on what he deemed as important or intriguing in everyday life or just city life in
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unspecified future time‚ in an imaginary country located in North America called Panem which has the wealthy Capitol and twelve poorer districts ruled by it. The books are written in Katniss Everdeen’s voice‚ a 16-year-old girl who volunteered to be the tribute of District 12 with Peeta Mellark in place of her younger sister to go in for the 74th annual Hunger Games held by the Capitol. The trilogy illustrates the rebellion against the Capitol of Katniss‚ her friends as well as the 13 districts. The first
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to shove through the crowd. The other kids make way immediately allowing me a straight path to the stage. I reach her just as she is about to mount the steps. With one sweep of my arm‚ I push her behind me. "I volunteer!" I gasp. "I volunteer as tribute!" (2.5-6). “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins is a book filled with adventure and exciting imagery‚ from the first page to the last‚ all while teaching moral lessons and touching on political and social topics. Because of the books compelling storyline
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women playing the hero and their male counterparts have found themselves playing the damsel in distress. In the recent blockbuster‚ Hunger Games‚ based on a novel by Susan Collins‚ is about a young girl named “Katniss”. She has volunteered as a “tribute” to represent her district in the “hunger games”. She is accompanied by a boy named “Peta”‚ together they represent “district 12”. Katniss’ journey through all the trials and tribulations is the movies overall focus. The exposition of the movie
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President Snow gathers 2 tributes from each district (one boy and one girl) and publicly displays them as heroes of the district‚ whereas in their views if you are not in the first 2 districts you are being sent to die. As Katniss says about her own district “District
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Tripoli. These pirates would seize American ships and sell their crews as ransom. The Pirates would stop the attacks on the United States if they paid tribute to the leaders of the Barbary Coast. It was either pay tribute or go to war. Jefferson hated war especially because the U.S. wasn’t very strong at the time‚ but he also hated paying tribute. The United States
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4 Aspects “The Hunger Games” In the film “The Hunger Games” directed by Gary Ross‚ and adapted from the novel of the same name by Suzanne Collins‚ I studied four different aspects of the film that help to improve the effects the film has on its audience. The first aspect of the film I studied was the contrast -created by both Collins and Ross- between the districts and the Capitol. Some examples of these contrasts include people feasting every night in the Capitol‚ while everyone starves in the
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