The New Land

from the Muslims, but there were other reasons why European knights and other people wanted to fight. The causes of the crusades were that Pope Urban II called for a holy crusade after the Byzantine Empire’s emperor asked him for help in regaining land for the Christians who lost the battle of Manzikert against the turks who were Muslims and the Byzantine Empire. The outcomes of the Crusades were that the Muslims entered the city of Jerusalem and took control. The outcomes of the crusades…

win back the Holy Land from the Muslims” (Backman 313). This happened during a time of religious persecution and a rise of the Christian faith and “proceeded the centuries old struggle for control of the eastern Mediterranean shore” (Backman 313). The Crusades have been seen as a holy war, deemed justifiable through means of religious property; yet others see the Crusades as merely a way to expand the Christian empire, through a facade of “religious attempt to regain the holy land” as a…

armed pilgrimages to the Holy Land in hopes of recovering Jerusalem from Muslim rule.The Crusades brought an end to western Europe's international and cultural isolation. There were four great expeditions between 1095 and 1204 of these religiously inspired military campaigns against Muslims in the eastern Mediterranean. As a result of the Crusades, noble courts and burgeoning cities in Western Europe attained more goods from the east and adopted ideas from the lands of Islam. There were…

weeks I gradually got used to a new reality that my government lost the war. When terrible things happened to me after the war, I faced my most difficult challenges when I was hell bent on coming to America. With a growth mindset, I kept looking forward to the sunny side of life; I hoped to recover my life. I consciously chose the positive side by daring to choose…

She sees bright, vivid colors and the music stirs a sense of wonder and excitement into Dorothy. She realizes that this land of wonder may just be filled with the exhilaration that she has been searching for all long. With that being said, as the munchkins emerge from behind the bushes, she realizes that she has wandered into a land much more peculiar than Kansas as she states, “Toto I don’t think we’re in Kansas Anymore.” This continuation of roads in the movie prevails as…

in this forty year period. The Wizard of Oz, a movie about a girl’s trip to an unknown land and her journey back home, was one of such movies and is often known for its exceptional use of Technicolor—the newest and most advanced coloring process of its time. The Wizard of Oz is a whimsical and captivating movie that manages…

Fairy tales have been a part of nearly every culture for what seems like forever, and show no signs of dissolving out of our culture any time soon. A fairytale is defined as a story taking place in a magical, far away land with magical creatures or elements. Almost every known fairytale has a moral or message that it is trying to send to its readers, even if it might not be obvious, it might be hiding in plain sight. Fairytales have arguably impacted our culture with more iconic settings and…

refers to the medieval era, 500AD-1500AD, where there was a rise in European military expeditions. This rise in military power created a series of European “crusades” and campaigns in attempt to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims. Even in present day these crusades of the past get the new name, the “holy war,” which is believed to never end by a lot people. What makes the crusades very unique in its own and not just some random war is that this is where we first see the mix between religions…

Australia at the shores of the Botany Bay and proclaimed the area New South Wales or in other words the Eastern shores of Australia part of the British Colony. Upon his arrival Lieutenant Cook was greeted by Indigenous Australia which in Captain Cook’s word were primitive…

Eliot’s The Waste Land is often a confusing and difficult poem to understand. However, in terms of its style and content, it is clear that the poem speaks about the decay of the periods culture. The Waste Land is a eulogy to the decaying society of modern Europe post-World War One. Eliot’s use of fragmentation made him infamous in the literary world; and it is through this use of fragmentation that we the learned find it very daunting to appreciate. The poem consists of five sections, all of…