Council of Clermont

relying on rich authoritarian governments. Understanding this economic improvement taken by immigrants can help grasp an idea of how immigration affects states like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Qatar among others who are part of the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) take advantage of the economic needs of immigrants. These Gulf States have an economy based on oil production and exports. Countries that are part of the Gulf States are among the richest and most powerful countries in the world, hence the…

Simulation Report (Russia) The UN Security Council in class simulation was a sufficient interdictory to the process of international mediation and dialogue. Students representing the participating nations were able to engage in dialogue while lobbying for their nations cause. In this process it became very clear from the on set that the five nations on the UN Security Council who had the authority to vote on and veto resolutions held the most power and leverage over the simulation . Therefore…

The Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy expand on the best of existing standards and mirror the skills and information students will need to succeed in school, vocation, and life. Seeing how the standards contrast from past standards and the vital movements they call for is crucial to actualizing the standards well. This is my second year implementing the Common Core ELL standards. I did as such by planning a rich educational module and dealing with my classroom in…

The basic attribute of the government determines that it is a basic duty of the government to manage the public affairs in any society, and it is also the basic content and the main form of the government 's social management functions. In modern society, the government maybe not the only subject of the management of public affairs, but based on the government 's basic attribute and market economy, the government 's specific position determines that the government is the most basic organization…

In a democratic system, there is no absolute leadership, no matter how powerful it is, the constitution provides always a check and balance with other authorities and institutions. In addition to check and balance, other factors like the advisory team, the lobbies, and the international institutions constraint the president’s ability to pursue his national security policy priorities. In this paper, I will argue that the congress with his constitutional power, and the president’s advisory team…

Pope Urban II Council of Clermont 1095-9 Pope Urban II was in France, his native land, when he called the first crusade in the closing of the Council of Clermont 1095 on the 27th of November . It is a rare occasion when the pope leaves Italy, so this was a momentous time in itself already. Pope Urban II sanctioned the crusade because he had received a letter from Alexios I Komnenos whom is the Byzantine emperor from the Eastern Christendom pleading for help because the Turks were advancing…

way of thinking as much as it was an evolution of the ideas which originated from the Cluniac papal reforms began by Pope Gregory VII and continued by his successor, Pope Urban II. The response to Pope Urban II’s call for the crusade at the Council of Clermont in 1095 was a large mobilization of both knights as well as clerical and lay noncombatants. However, there were numerous impetuses of both spiritual and non-spiritual nature that motivated western Christians to leave their homes and…

by Pope Urban II (Reilly 363). Fulcher wrote a history, split into three books, regarding the First Crusade beginning in 1101 until 1128 C.E., known as Fulcher’s Chronicles (Reilly 363). An important event regarding the First Crusade was the Council of Clermont, which occurred in the year 1095 C.E. Flutter states the possible reasoning for the chaos spreading across Europe was due to King Henry ruling Germany and King Philip reigning in France (Reilly 364). Pope Urban II, ruler of Rome during…

call to arms! In response to Byzantine Emperor Alexis Comnenus’ plead for European assistance against the threat of Islamic Seljuk Turk invasions in Palestine. Pope Urban II has pressed the whole Roman Catholic Church during the recent church council in Clermont, France to take up arms against the Muslim invaders. As he spoke to the large crowd he recalled the horrible atrocities that have been inflicted on fellow Christians at the hands of these Muslim invaders. He also promised that those who…

Another approach that Urban II used in his speech at the Council of Clermont to compel them to join the crusade, was to tell them that they would receive forgiveness of sins by the power invested in him, as pope. “Wear his cross as your badge. If you are killed your sins will be pardoned” (The First Crusade). Pope Urban II believed that he had the power, given to him by God, to forgive sins. There were Christians who realized that they were sinners, and that by fighting in the Crusade, they…