Antioch

Notable Planner: Peter Calthorpe Chanel D. Ellison The Ohio State University New Urbanist Peter Calthorpe has not only been a visionary for urban planning, but has brought his visions to life. With ideals similar to John Nolen and his bringing of Garden Cities to America, urban sprawl smart growth have been the plight of Peter Calthorpe’s urban planning focus. Under the umbrella of new urbanism, Calthorpe incorporates the ideas of transit oriented communities and…

injuries. When officers arrived in theater, the shooter took his own life (Belzman, Calabrese). According to ABC News, on the evening of August 5th, 2015 a shooter walked into a showing of “Mad Max: Fury Road” at the Carmine Hickory 8 Theater in Antioch, Tennessee armed with a hatchet, pepper spray and a “very realistic” air-soft gun. Fortunately, only three people were exposed to pepper spray and one man had a cut from the suspect’s hatchet. The shooter was killed at the scene (Keneally). How…

The movie Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott, tells the story of general Maximus (played by Russell Crowe) that stands against crazy Emperor (played by Joaquiem Phoenix) is considered to be one of the best historical movies in modern history. However, as it goes in historic movies, Gladiator is showing the audience the popular recitation period and masks the real perception and the real course of government. It is true that most of the changes made in the movie could only strengthen the…

Poor nutrition, plagues, sexism, and social classes: these are only four of the prices of civilization that we, along with our ancestors, have faced. War is another major source of destruction, but also cooperation or even the creation of a new identity. War has the power to “make or break” a civilization, completely changing the course of history. No historian can ignore wars due to their influence. Merely one example of these influential wars are the Crusades. So, what is a Crusade? Depending…

Parables have long been a custom to educate people about pertinent morals. The Gospel of Matthew is constantly informative because it urges “the reader to identify with characters ‘who receive’ Jesus and ‘do’ God’s will” (Achtemeier 662). This claim is evident throughout the Gospel of Matthew and in The Parable of the Ten Virgins, as Matthew would constantly “persuade the reader to emulate their example” (Achtemeier 662). The Parable of the Ten Virgins symbolizes God’s Parousia during the…

was when the treaty took place. Because after Safed, Baybars moved on to Acre in 1267, but the town was heavily fortified, so he agreed to a truce (End of the Crusades: Mongols, Mamluks, and Muslims). The treaty did not just happen a year before Antioch, which was…

With the Roman Empire 's borders expanding and engulfing all of their enemies, a mixture of cultures and individual ideas creates the first hub of the ancient world. The spread of ideas such as religion and language not only benefitted the Roman Empire but the conquered nations as well. Along with prosperity in trade and economics, comes the enhance of Roman art. One such location that particularly benefitted from this spread of ideas was the Villas of Oplontis. This collection of two villas…

James D G Dunn notes: “The epochal significance of Pentecost raises the whole course of salvation-history to a new plane ….In one sense, therefore, Pentecost can never be repeated - for the new age is here and cannot be ushered in again. But in another sense Pentecost, or rather the experience of Pentecost, can and must be repeated in the experience of all who would become Christians.” Dunn is effectively saying that in order to witness for Jesus Christ today, just as the disciples…

During the 600’s to 1200’s the Mediterranean Sea composed of three regions, the Latin Christians World, Byzantine Empire, and Muslim ruling world. In the Mediterranean world, the Latin Christians, Byzantine, and Muslims cultures experienced acculturations and assimilations amongst one another cultures. The Latin Christians through experiences become acculturated/assimilated from the Byzantine and Muslim cultures, the Byzantine become accultured and assimilated from the Latin-Christian and Muslim…

The Alexiad of Anna Comnena details the life and reign of Anna Comnena’s father Byzantine Emperor Alexius. Through fifteen books The Alexiad spans from the militaristic ambitions of a 14-year-old Alexius through his final loosing battle with disease, and in doing so depicts the military campaigns in the Holy Land during the First Crusade as well as the interplay between the East and West. Through her classical epic-style writing, Anna illustrates the events of the First Crusade, their…