Edward William Godwin

You know that game you play in the mirror Bloody Mary ya that's based off me hi my name is Mary Tudor also known as Bloody Mary. I was the first child that survived birth to Henry the 8th and Catherine of Aragon I was born on February 18th 1516 at the palace of Placentia and was already promised to marriage at the age of two I was married to the prince of France but my father at the age of 9 made me get a…

The Tudor Dynasty reigned over England after the War of the Roses, a bloody succession crisis ending with Henry VII, the first Tudor, becoming King of England. The Tudors reigned from 1485 to 1603, and despite their long reign the time in English History was rife with dramatic change and disorder that shaped the British Isles for centuries to come, with no small part owed to the Tudors. However, the Tudors reign or socio-economic causes for change and subsequent disorder must be evaluated. For…

Queen Elizabeth I Imagine if as a child, your birth was the most disappointing thing of your father’s life, your mother got executed and you had to live with your stepmother and her husband. This all happened to Queen Elizabeth I in her life and a lot more. She grew up in a very difficult family and she ended up living with her stepmother after her father and mother died. Her father wanted a son instead of a daughter so she was a huge dissapointment. Queen Elizabeth I shows her importance in her…

Before Henry VII of England came into power, England was coming out of a fragmented feudal society and was in need of a strong ruler and government system. Rule was shifting from an oligarchy of nobles to a monarchy hungry for power and successors. The church was steadily losing its power as everything became increasingly more secular. As the church lost power rulers such as Henry were gaining. There was a need to sustain and increase this power. Niccoló Machiavelli wrote The Prince in 1513…

queen of England, governing with relative stability and prosperity for 44 years. She was queen for so long they named the time “ Elizabeth Era”. She died in 1603. In Elizabeth's early life the throne seemed very slight once her half-brother Edward was born in 1537. Roman Catholics, indeed, always considered her illegitimate and she only narrowly escaped execution in the wake of a failed rebellion against Queen Mary in 1554.…

short play, “Good Night, and Good Luck.” based off the CBS news show See It Now in 1954 that was later made into a movie directed by George Clooney and Grant Heslov, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy makes a rebuttal to the statements said by newscaster Edward R. Murrow about McCarthy. Murrow stated that his methods towards Communists were unfair and unethical. Murrow did not agree with McCarthy, he believed in the something completely different. Murrow shared this belief, going against McCarthy, on…

Lambert Simnel not only had the claim to the throne by claiming to be the grandson of Edward IV but also substantial support. Simnel had several factors working in his favour, he was claiming to be a Yorkist in a country where many people were looking for a Yorkist king. Henry had just recently taken over the country, a Lancastrian who no…

the Duchess of Burgundy who had previously also supported Simnel and were eager to see Henry replaced on the throne. When the Irish believed Perkin to the the Earl of Warwick Perkin denied it, claimed though to be Richard, Duke of York and son of Edward IV. This would have given him…

However, he had a sister, Isabella, whose son was Edward the third and was the King of England. Despite this, the throne was passed down to the King’s nephew in France, Philip Valois. King Edward the third sent a note to Philip renouncing his title to the French monarch creating a dispute over the throne; this was one of the main causes for the start of the Hundred Years’ War. Another main reason for the war outbreak was because in 1066 CE former King William the Conqueror was the Duke of…

In the article, A Star is Made, Anders Ericsson, a 58-years old psychotherapy professor at Florida State University, tried to answer the question “When someone is very good at a given thing, what is it that actually makes him good?”. To answer this question, he conducted an experiment, about memory training. This experiment involved a person hearing a series of number and then repeating it. After a few trials, he concludes that memory itself is not genetically determined, but instead though a…