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    The Victorian period formally begins in 1837, the year Victoria became queen, and ends in 1901, the year she dies. 1830 is usually thought of as the end of the Romantic Era in Britain, which makes an appropriate starting date for Victorianism. (Walker pg. ) Arthur Conan Doyle’s birth year, 1859, fell 22 years into Queen Victoria’s 64-year reign, a time of unparalleled growth and optimism for the British Empire. (BBC.co.uk) Supplies and workforce taken from groups worldwide had made England grow…

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    father shot in the arm. After a few years he was convicted of murder and put on death row. Forwarding to 2018, he was supposed to be put to death by lethal injection. But a near thirty minutes came before his execution came, the Governor of Texas, Greg Abbot granted him clemency, and lessened his sentence to life in prison with no parole. He felt as his sentencing was too cruel, knowing that he wasn’t the actual person who gunned his family down at the scene. Clemency for people on death row…

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    explaining some arguments on why flogging should be legal again, it’s important to know what exactly the term ‘flogging’ is. “Flogging, also called whopping or caning. A beating administered with a whip or rod, with blows directed to the person’s back.” (Abbot. 2014). Flogging has been used as a form of punishment system for a long time. Punishment in school such as flogging is something different.…

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    Robin Hood Flaws

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    1. In the tale “How Robin Hood Came to Be an Outlaw” from Howard Pyle’s book The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Robin is first known as Robin of Locksley before he becomes an outlaw. The story of how he becomes an outlaw starts off with him traveling to Nottingham at the age of eighteen to compete in an archery competition. On his way he comes across some of the King’s foresters who were eating and getting drunk in the forest. They’re job was to protect the King’s forest and make sure no one…

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    couldn’t become the next ruler, at least not without a fight. Soon, with his new nobility title and his alliance with the country of Flanders, due to his marriage with Matilda of Flanders, he was able to gain all sorts of support, like bishops and abbots, and expand his ruling in Maine. However, it wasn’t enough for him to be the new ruler or England. So, he decided to take matters into his own hands, and invade England for the throne, where he had succeeded and was now king. He had ruled…

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    Ancient Political Power

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    Religious and Political Power in Ancient and Medieval States Religion is a fundamental aspect to pre-industrial civilization throughout the world. It is a universal human trait to have religious views, and beliefs. Therefore, it is no surprise that religious authorities, such as priests, and rabbis exercised great power, both politically, and socially over the followers of their faith. Political authorities such as kings, feudal lords, and emperors likewise relied on religious authority much of…

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    "Adolescence is when the very worst and best impulses in the human soul struggle against each other for possession” according to the psychologist G. Stanley Hall, the founder of adolescent psychology. Adolescence is defined by Hall as a time when younger individuals experience emotional and behavioral confusion, prior to establishing stability and reaching adulthood. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain serve as examples of bildungsromans, where the…

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    Bloodhound Essay

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    By the outbreak of the Civil War, the image of the “bloodhound” had become an explicit representation of the domination of slaveowners over the enslaved and implicit emblem of the power of the “slavocracy” over the country as a whole. The use of the term “bloodhound” as it was used by anti-slavery forces in the United States traces its roots not to a particular breed of dog, but to their occupation and perceived origin. Beginning in 1796, the term came into vogue as the critic’s term for the…

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    Brown, Irene Quenzler and Richard D. Brown. The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler: A Story of Rape, Incest, and Justice in Early America. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003. Thesis: Brown and Brown argue that through the use of "micro history," readers and researchers are able to "explore large questions of policy and principle at the level of actual people and specific experience (7). They challenge the reader to not ascertain Wheeler 's guilt or innocence, but rather if…

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    No, Einhard’s Life of Charlemange is not a hagiography. A hagiography is writing about saints, Charlemange was not a saint. Einhard’s story was about the life and death of Charlemange as an emperor. The story talks about all the wars that had taken place under the rule of Charlemange. Charlemange had began a war on the Lombards and did not end the war until he made their king surrender and also running the king’s son out of the kingdom and Italy. Charlemange then put his son Pepin in charge of…

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