Crusader

The preeminent motive of the First Crusade was to reclaim the Holy Land of Jerusalem from Turkish Muslims. The crusaders were successful in this aspect, yet in the process massacred vast numbers of Muslim and Jewish inhabitants of Jerusalem. As you may imagine, this did not fare so well with the Muslim community. Continuing on our timeline, we arrive at the period…

Their structure and shape had the crusaders to blame when they came back from Greece and Turkey. This It is called concentric as it had two walls, the larger completely surrounding the smaller. The inner wall was built of thick stone with turrets placed at intervals. The outer wall was relatively…

JCPenney has recently landed in the news for its T-shirt “I'm too pretty to do homework, so my brother has to do it for me.” I believe that the shirt degrades and ruins the image of girls. But it's not just JCPenney that has released sexist clothing like this. Target has also recently released a women's t-shirt that says ‘Trophy’ across the chest. These shirts are only a few articles of clothing that are stereotyping girls and giving them the mindset that we are supposed to be pretty and…

Other considerations In democratic state, the public opinion can influence the course of action of the authorities (Mack, 1975: 188). Therefore, Mack blamed that the nature of the polity of the metropolitan contribute to the defeat of the war (Mack, 1975: 189). Domestic constrain in a free society is more influential than other kinds of polity like totalitarian or dictatorship (Mack, 1975: 193). In democracy, the free media can affect the attitude of the population towards the war. The New York…

killing a man could have been avoided by taking precautions to keep the animals safe. So many souls could have been saved if the zoo would have taken precautions to keep the animals safe and the locals. According to vice.com “I'm no big animal-rights crusader, but I do have some basic common sense. And this basic common sense tells me one thing when it comes to the…

disdain for the other, each side firm in their beliefs on what is best for the global economy with the focus being primarily on developing economies. Pro-capitalists have gone so far as calling capitalist critics a “ragtag army of save-the-world crusaders” (Meredith and Hoppough), and pro-capitalist economists have been accused of being guided by “badly flawed models” and missing real-world problems by anti-capitalists (Tverberg). This long-standing rift will continue until developing countries’…

The Dark Knight There are few films that bring out the inner hero in people or simply the desire to do good, other than those about super heroes. The Dark Knight is no exception to the rule, as Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) also known as Batman is face to face with his greatest enemy the ever the sinister Joker (Heath Ledger). The director Christopher Nolans film adaptation on the Batman has a much darker and moral tone than others before it. From the dark streets of Gotham, the fictitious city…

Albert D. Pionke's “Beyond “The Hero as Prophet”: A Survey of Images of Islam,”(2005) is a brief study of Thomas Carlyle’s lecture on Muhammad. The researcher starts his study by describing the significance and influence of Carlyle’s lecture, arguing that Carlyle’s image of Muhammad is a complex one. Accordingly, the author attempts to shed light on this complex image briefly by investigating the works of Carlyle in which he referred to Islam. First, Pionke analyses some parts of Carlyle’s…

Treatment of Jews in the Middle Ages Anti-Semitism has been an issue throughout history, resulting in hate and persecution of the Jewish people all around the world. Discrimination in the Middle Ages like many times in history caused a dispersion of Jews across Europe. Even through hardships and suffering, the Jewish people refused to forget their past and insisted on remembering those who suffered and died for their people, beliefs, and traditions. From 400 CE to 1500 CE, anti-semitism reached…

in the comfortable classes, especially for women” (pg. 80). Valium wasn’t seen as a narcotic or even seen as being an addictive substance. Because the usual antidrug coalition of government, the medical authorities, and the middle-class cultural crusaders were…