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    entitled Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey provides countless morals that are based off the authors personal experiences. After a return to the cathedral‚ Wordsworth teaches a lesson learned from the past‚ present‚ and then leaves crucial advice to his sister Dorothy who accompanied him. Wordsworth’s philosophical insight of physical and metaphysical aspects of life portray many morals that are commonly used as inspiration. Tintern Abbey‚ a beautiful worn-down cathedral in the luscious

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    Two and three tier architecture gives a model application for developers to create a flexible and reusable application. The application is broken up into tiers and this allows the developer to just modify or create a layer instead of having to re-write the whole application again. Two tier architecture is a client-server architecture. In a two tier architecture the client talks directly to a server‚ with no intervening server(s). It has two hosts – the server and the client. Where the server controls

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    During the Middle Ages‚ the church heavily influenced medieval society. Many peoples’ lives revolved around and relied on the church. The church assumed duties that were usually associated with government. They owned land‚ charged taxes‚ operated courts‚ and ran schools. Often‚ high church officials who hoped to find a place in heaven donated large sums of money to the church‚ making the church the largest landowner in Europe. The church even had its own set of laws called the canon laws. Everyone

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    Medieval Seals

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    Seals were common items in Medieval England during the time of 1150 to 1350. Seals were used for a variety of exchanges‚ the most frequent being land agreement but any document that needed proof of identity were used by seals. A seal is composed of two parts‚ the wax seal and the metal matrix which combined form a seal. Seals were a common part of society as then were used to exchange documents and many different social classes within England had a seal. Seals were used in a personal capacity:

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    Traditional Architecture vs Modern Architecture Architects should be designing structures by incorporating vernacular styles into new technologies. Let us briefly look into the meaning of Architecture- according to Vitruvius‚ a Roman Architect‚ Architecture is a multi disciplinary field‚ including within its fold Mathematics‚ Science‚ Art‚ Technology‚ Social Sciences‚ Politics‚ History‚ Philosophy and so on. Now that we know what Architecture is‚ what are its main purposes? It has two main purposes

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    Medieval Universities

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    Medieval Universities The English universities were one of the most significant creations of Medieval England. The scholars who attended eitherOxford or Cambridge Universities set an intellectual standard that contrasted markedly with the norm of Medieval England. Oxford University came into being some 20 years before Cambridge University. The church had a major impact at Oxford. The town came within the diocese of Lincoln‚ yet Oxford had its own archdeaconry. It was the input of the church that

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    chapter seven of "Discovering the Western Past: A Look at the Evidence" Volume 1‚ the book explains the history of colleges and universities‚ they were simpler than modern schools but took hold of what general is taught today. In Europe during the medieval period‚ most education was handled in the small schools‚ where they taught Latin to male children. Students who would go to become clergymen were taught more advance subjects in cathedral schools. When the schooling community grew too large‚ colleges

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    Design and architecture was also an important part of medieval European culture. The plague tore at the lavish artistic European lifestyle in another very evident way. It halted the production of intricate‚ aesthetically pleasing architecture. It is known that‚ “because of the Black Death and the recession the building industry was also affected. Building in the medieval Europe would never be as extravagant as in the century before the Black Death. If the Black Death did indeed have a direct impact

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    Medieval Castles

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    Castles were used in the Medieval period. They were used to protect the cities when they were under attack from neighboring cities. As the technology and attacking methods improved‚ the defending methods had to keep up. There were many different types of attacks that castles had to be prepared for; therefore‚ there were many different castles structures and designs. For example‚ in case of archers the castle would have to have embrasures‚ arrow loops‚ and curtains. These were all parts of a castle

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    Medieval Torture

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    The English in medieval times‚ utilized torture to extract information or a confession from a certain person (generally performed on infidels and church priests because of how religion was very important Medieval English society.) Torturers would torture someone with great skill by preventing the victim to not pass out and receive life-threatening damage but still deal excruciating pain to reach success in the torture. There were a large variety of tortures in medieval England but the particularly

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