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    The crusades were a series of religious wars. They took place in the medieval period from 1095 to 1291. The first crusade was the first attempt to take over the Holy land, it was ordered by Pope Urban II. After that, a total of nine crusades took place. There were an array of people who travelled to the Holy Land crusades including peasants’ knights and second sons. Although the crusades failed to capture the Holy land, they had several impacts on Western Europe. One of the changes was cultural.…

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    opinion about the appropriate age for adult responsibility some. Some say that the right age is 18, others say that it should be raised to at least 25. Well in the article “Age of Responsibility,” by Alan Greenblatt, talks about the two age difference and discusses the positives, and the negatives of each age difference. The Age of Responsibility should be at the age of 18, because kids get more mature, and take responsibility at that age. The first reason why I believe the Age of…

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    and had an effect upon the literature of this period, so based on from here the purpose of this study was to search these effects in terms of poem’s theme, structure, aspects and some parts where poetry was influenced by renaissance in Elizabethan Age. The study analysed Shakespeare’s Sonnet XXLIII, Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella, and Sir Walter Raleig’s What is Our Life, so the study began with a discussion of poems in Elizabethan period and made a methodological analysis to find out…

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    As people get older, they experience many physical changes to the body including a decrease in muscle and body weight, poor eyesight/hearing and their hair begins to turn grey (World Health Organisation,2002:p25) Many lose their social skills as they start to distance themselves from society and many prepare themselves for an unpredictable death (McDonald,2009:p151). As a result, they feel isolated, depressed, anxious and lonely. Many live in a residential home and can find the transition of…

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    The Italian Renaissance garden incorporates the villa they are stationed near into its design. Many aspects of the garden reflect the ideals of the Renaissance flooding through society; this flooding led to overflow into homes and, subsequently, gardens. Such aspects include the revival of classical antiquity, evident in the typical appearance of statues portraying characters from classical Grecian or Roman mythology, and archways and columns, and in La Pietra’s case, even a mini temple and…

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    we breed the two great classes - tramps and millionaires.” ~The Populist Party. The Gilded Age was an era of political corruption, spanning from 1865-1896. Its main focus was improving America’s business and industrial power. Big business leaders such as Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan gained extreme wealth during the Gilded Age. They profited off steel, oil, and banking. The Gilded Age was also the time of the Second Industrial Revolution, where mass production, conveyor…

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    The Gilded Age, an evolutionary time in the late 19th century, which altered the common farmer’s life, from living in the rural into an industrial worker living in the city. The Gilded Age created the transcontinental railroad, racial tension, end of freely roaming Native Americans, tedious labor, unemployment, substantial immigration, an extreme government and fraudulent politics. With all these crucial events occurring from the early 1870s to the early 1900s, I believe the most crucial years…

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    architecture, and social and political change. Émile Zola made progressive moves in the second half of the nineteenth century in many ways. Zola was born in 1840, in Paris, he has spend most of his childhood in Aix-en-Provence. Zola lost his father at a young age, just like many of his characters that he would later write about in this novels. He was raised by his mother and his maternal grandparents. When Zola began writing and working in publishing, he became very interested in science, and…

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    Introduction: The educational movements in the 18th century were a striding path to new educational reforms in the 20th century .The 18th century educational initiatives were more focussed towards the students of upper and middle class elites who had a world view initiative that emphasized facts and truths rather than a faith based approach which was based on supernatural beliefs and ideas it was much similar to the renaissance’s movement that had an approach of looking at the past knowledge…

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    The French Revolution was caused by several factors and had a huge effect on the rest of the world. When Louis XVI took control of France, the country was already in debt from financing the American Revolution. After several bad decisions made by Louis XVI, the idea of rebellion formed. The Third Estate was sick of the present government and demanded a new one. So, they formed an alliance with each other called the National Assembly. When led by Maximilien’s power, ideas of the Enlightenment…

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