... Land from Muslim control, especially Jerusalem. When Jerusalem fell to the Turks, pilgrimages to the middle east became dangerous. Pope Urban then called “for a great Christian holy war against the infidels.”2 Reclaiming the Holy Land, from the Mulsim’s fulfilled the ideals of the Christian knight, thus appealing to many. Papal encouragement, and the offer of indulgences also motivated thousands to enrol in this cause . “Undertake this journey for the remission of your sins...with the assurance of everlasting glory in the kingdom of heaven.” 3 Political considerations were also important. The Crusades were a response to appeals for help from Alexi ...
... have been sidelined for most of the present regular seasons due to concussions, popular names such as Erick Lindros, Paul Karya, Donald Brashear… have been bothered by those injury’s. What really got the attention this year was the violent acts. A month ago, Marty Mcsorley of the Boston Bruins shocked the world by hitting another player in the face with his stick leaving him unconscious on the ice. For that, the foolish defenseman was suspended for the rest of the season and purchased by the state police. If violence continues to dominate this beautiful sport, other precautions will be taken. Second of all, I will proceed with soccer violence. In European socc ...
... the masses. In WWI, , by then in Munich, volunteered for service in bavarian army. He proved a dedicated, courageous solider, but was never promoted beyond private first class because his superiors him lacking leadership qualities. After Germanys defeat in 1918 he returned to Munich remaining in the army till 1920. His commander made him the education director, with the mandate to immunize his charges against pacifist and democratic ideas. In September 1919 he joined the national German worker's party, and in April 1920 he went to work full time for the party, now renamed the national Socialistic German workers (Nazi) party. In 1921 he was elected party chair ...
... compensation. She felt the world was out to destroy her and the Communist Party. She began to make advances towards the surrounding countries. The Truman Doctrine was written to deter the Red spread from Greece. This Doctrine “committed the United States to permanent European presence (Lecture 28, D4).” This meant the U.S. would need to keep a strong military at hand. The Government sought to maintain its’ military dominance, and further the development of the atom bomb. Thus a nuclear age began. Before the war, the American people were unsettled by the Great Depression. Unemployment was high. But the Second World War brought a lot of people int ...
... covered her prisoner's entire body and would carry the session through the night. At a few minutes before midnight, she had eight fingers to go." This actual account from Marine Sniper by Charles Henderson is just one of the thousands of stories which is condemned to the small circle of s and the few that talk to or read the stories they so painfully tell. Never would you find a personal account of this magnitude and detail in your general history text or even find any quotes from the thousands of GI's stationed in Vietnam. In fact most Americans haven't and never will hear these detailed, factual, and straightforward tales that depict what over 400,000 American ...
... he failed Greek and Math on his University entrance exams. Medicine was not his only ambition. He also wanted to be a painter. In 1850, Ibsen entered the first of his three writing periods. His romantic period went from 1850 to 1873. The greatest works from this period are the Brandand Peer Gynt Most of the plays that he wrote during these years are romantic historical dramas. Lady Inger of Ostraat was a romantic drama with intrigue. The Vikings of Helgeland was a simple and sad tragedy. The last play of the Romantic period was Emperor and Galilean. It is similar to Ibsen's other play Catiline because it showed his impatience with traditional attitudes and value ...
... and exact in form and direction, yet very natural in pose and position. The overall smoothness of the marble radiates a smooth flowing humanism, but does not steal away his position as a human demi-god. His face is warm and inviting, exhibiting an almost warm, fuzzy feeling in the viewer once again, without threatening his power to command and control the great civilization of Rome. The shoulder-clasps of the cuirass (breastplate) are in the form of sphinxes: the Sphinx was the image on Augustus' seal (later he used an image of Alexander, and finally his own portrait). The reliefs on the cuirass focus on the return of the captured Roman standards. Centrally, th ...
... was the first internal tax on the colonies. The Towsend acts which was an import tax and led to a boycott by the colonists. The Tea act which gave the East Indian Tea company a monopoly on tea. And The coercive Acts, which led the upper legislative chamber of govtermant to be appointed rather than elected. These laws passed by England made the colonists furious because it took away their rights to choose what kind of tea they liked or pick who they thought fit to be in the legislature. This led to a rising level of political tension between the colonists and the mother country. These tensions finally led the colonist to the first continental congress. Whil ...
... Presidents. The U.S. embargo has had a major impact on the Cuban economy involving trade, wages, and jobs; and in addition, it has affected many United States’ businesses both directly and indirectly. The Helms-Burton Act is one of the major bills regarding trade with Cuba, and it has encountered much opposition and controversy both in the United States and abroad. Only recently was the news media ban in Cuba lifted allowing American journalists to get news from within Cuba. Health care in Cuba is also a major concern and is strongly affected by the Cuban Embargo. Our policy on Cuba is illustrative of one of the principal goals of economic sanction ...
... human race. They targeted all the people who were somehow different from their “norms”. 5 million people other than Jews were killed during the Holocaust; these included homosexuals, gypsies, disabled, Jehova’s witnesses and Polish people, the list goes on and on. Asides from all the deaths, Nazis are famous for notorious experiments that they performed on “lower” races in and outside of their concentration camps. They tore apart families, often making parents watch their children being escorted to the gas chambers. 11 million people fled during the Holocaust, imagine how many lost their families. On May 2nd you will see black tablecloths an ...
