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    rights was an injustice to the black American and to question why it was happening. There were several criticisms from the white clergy to Dr. King which influenced his response to them; four of them being, outsiders coming into Birmingham, the white moderate, the white church and the commendation of the Alabama police department. One of the main criticisms the white clergy writes to King about is the idea of the outsider coming in to change the situation in Birmingham. Dr. King establishes his…

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    Varcelus C. Seaton Professor Chapmann HST 102-6 9 November 2017 Kant Paper The cattle from this passage, are the people who go along with the crowd. Cattle, are the people who let others decide things for them, who follows the directions of others and not themselves. They stand in the way of enlightenment because they are too lazy and too coward to be on their own or to step out and follow a path that others do not. The passage describes the cattle stating that, “For any single individua1 to…

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    religion was very unstable and people and the Church/clergy would always clash, not see eye to eye and make it difficult to function. Before the French Revolution, civilians and the church already didn't get along well together since the Church was very corrupt and abused its power beyond recognition. “Its wealth and perceived abuses meant it didn’t always have trust” (Betros, 2010,). The only thing…

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    and tortured Christian children. The Jews were also represented as the demon’s attendant on Satan and portrayed in drama and pictures as devils. The view of Jews being anti-Christian provoked opposition against them. A large amount of the Christian clergy died during the plague,“Conrad Eubel, basing his calculations almost entirely on German sources,…

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    them. He did manage though to limit the benefit of the clergy, which had often been abused before. The benefit of the clergy meant that people who claimed to be part of the clergy were able to gain a lower sentence and it was changed so that only first-time offenders where able to use it, unless they could prove their connection to the clergy. If they were unable to do so they were branded on their thumb and unable to use a connection to the clergy again as a defence. Under the reign of Henry…

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    virtue is impotent” (Perry, 104). Throughout the French Revolution, violence was used as a means to control counterrevolutionaries, the clergy, and any other citizen or person that might wish to bring down the Revolution. Through Robespierre and the Jacobins and their use and support of the guillotine, aristocracy was able to vanish, and through the Code Napoléon the clergy was able to lose most, if not all of its power. Robespierre’s strong beliefs and violent actions made it almost impossible…

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    and liturgical books to be burnt. Another part of the First Edict took away the right of Christians to bring complaints to courts. The Second and Third Edicts were issued later in year 303 AD. The Second Edict ordered the arrest of all Christian clergy. It is believed…

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    The Canterbury Tales is a book of stories told by a group of pilgrims as a storytelling contest. The story takes place at an inn where all the pilgrims meet. The pilgrims are met by a gentleman name Harry Bailey. Bailey thought it would be entertaining to challenge the pilgrims to a contest. Bailey suggested that the pilgrim travel together and during their travel each pilgrim tell four stories, two stories on the way to Canterbury and two stories on the way back from Canterbury. Whoever…

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    The French Revolution was divided into three social classes the clergy (first estate), the nobles (second estate) and the peasants (third estate). The upper class (the clergy and the nobles) raised the tax prices on the third estate but they didn’t have to pay taxes. They also raised the price of bread which made most of the peasants starve and they would fight over the loaves of bread. But later the third estate creates something known as the National Assembly and they created the Declaration…

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    the Church. In Geoffrey Chaucer's day, the Church was viciously corrupt and most clergy members were not as holy and sinless as they should have been or led on to be. Although Chaucer did not blatantly state his feelings about the corrupted Church, one can clearly see his position by simply reading the "General Prologue" of one of his now famous books, "The Canterbury Tales." Chaucer's disgust with the corrupted clergy, which happened to be most, is evident in the way he described the monk, the…

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