Charles II of England

Authority shifted once again from secular to the spiritual power. Innocent III papacy is truly a zenith of Churches influence. But as Frederick II was getting older, he started to object church’s control and secular vs spiritual issues started to arouse again. One of those issues took place because of the fifth crusade. Contrary to the fact that Frederick II did promise to go on the crusade, during his coronation, he continually avoided and postponed the actual crusade. As a result, on one of…

This particular study abroad program encompasses so much of the history and craft that goes into my major. As an artist of the theatre, I need to be aware of the historical significance of theatre and the stories that have been written. Seeing, reading, and visiting monuments and plays will make the history that I’ve learned in class tangible. Attending productions will further allow my creativity as an artist to flourish with diverse genres of theatre that will be available on the trip.…

religion.” The main reason for agony was religious intolerance with inquisitions. Inquisitions were courts that removed heretics (any non-Catholics). The crave for religious tolerance eventually led to the Puritan Revolution, a revolt where King Charles I was overthrown and the Anglican Church was reformed. However, with constant switches between Protestant rulers and Catholic rulers,…

Levin Shaffer? • Early Life: Peter Shaffer was born to Orthodox Jewish parents, Jack and Reka Shaffer, in Liverpool, England, on May 15, 1926, has a twin brother, Anthony. Another brother, Brian, was born in 1929. He was studying history and a scholarship at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Before the careen in playwriting, Shaffer was a coal miner during World War II, held various odd jobs, such as clerk bookstore and assistant at the New York Public Library. Early years of his…

twenty-one Amish families left for America in 1737 from Europe in search of a place to thrive. Once in America the Amish settled in William Penn’s religious freedom colony of Pennsylvania. William Penn, a Quaker, received the land from King Charles II of England as payment for a debt that was owed to Penn’s father, Admiral Sir William Penn. Like the Amish, the Quakers of the time also faced persecution and Pennsylvania became the safe haven for many. Today, the majority of the Amish in the…

importance of learning through play. All of his theories listed above can be followed by using the importance of learning through play. John Locke is an important and influential philosopher born on August 29, 1632. He lived in Wrington, a village in England country of Somerset. Locke went to Westminster school and Christ Church, University of Oxford. At Oxford he studied medicine that would play an important role in his life. John Locke’s father was an important…

His death brought upon the rise of the pigs because they were the most cleaver animals on the farm. After rebelling, the pigs made laws that needed to be followed. “Beasts of England” would have to be sung every day, and on the anniversary of “Battle at the Cowshed” one shot would be fired from Mr. Jones’ gun. Later in the story, Napoleon and Squealer start to take advantage of some of the animals. The intellectually inferior were easy to gain as followers, like Boxer and the sheep.…

become a better artist and trying to find a place to study for that specific matter. He didn’t care what his father wanted to do, he knew that what he wanted to do was more important for him in the future. After a year has passed, he was then send to England to study more about the education of art. He even met some of the most famous English professional painters when he was at London where he attended Royal Academy of Arts. Some of his most famous and unique arts that he had made was called…

body parts of dead people as medicines. One of the medical theories of the time was homeopathy—the idea that like cures like. A skull, dried and powdered, was used to treat headaches, apoplexy and epilepsy, for example. In later times, King Charles II of England created a tonic from powdered skull and alcohol known as the King’s Drops. Hangmen and official executioners usually processed the bodies of executed criminals and slain enemies, drying the bones and skull and rendering the fat. Human…

Polish-born French director, screenwriter, and autobiographer. Roman Polanski was born in Paris on August 18, 1933, to Polish-Jewish family. When he was three years old, his family returned to Poland, settling in Krakow. During World War II, when Poland was invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany, Polanski's family was forced to live in the Krakow ghetto, a cramped section of the city where all Jews were forced to live. Polanski escaped from the ghetto when he was eight years old after his father…