Historical documents

would be a great idea to publish books that make the teachings of the sixteen documents more accessible to Catholics. This book focuses on three of the documents, you could say one major, Lumen Gentium, and two minor, Christus Dominus and Orientalium Ecclesiarum, papers. The book is broken down into four distinct chapters with subsections in each chapter. Chapter one is the history behind and the forming of the documents. The author traces the “beginning” of the story…

What is Chartism? Chartism is a term commonly used in modern times to refer to a historical political movement which existed from 1838 to 1848. This movement derived from a political document which enforced equity in the workforce. Their aim was to plan a protest which would increase the wages for men and promote other economic benefits for the public. The people who were involved in the Chartism presented three consecutive petitions to Parliament in 1839, 1842 and 1848, but each of these were…

American Declaration of Independence is arguably one of the most important historical documents of our nation, being the first written declaration that officially established the United States of America as an independent country. Although the declaration is unique to any other document of its time, it is clear that it is highly influenced and modeled after the English Declaration of Rights written in 1689. Both documents targeted similar government usurpations and absolute tyranny, were…

The Rationalist time period in American History was a time of change and emotion. Impending revolution overcame people with a mix of both emotion and pride. A plethora of documents signified this period of time including The Declaration of Independence, “The Crisis, Number 1”, and the “Speech in the Virginia Convention” all of these having different persuasive appeals but trying to modify the same cause. “The Crisis” not only uses an emotional appeal to overcome its reader with a passionate…

history, gastronomy, culture, recreation and so much more. As any city, Bogota has faults but also it has strengths that makes it a great city to live. I support my statement with the following reasons; first, the diverse means of transport, also, the historical legacy, and finally, the delicious gastronomy. First of all, the worst part of living at this city is the traffic, is a thing that drives everyone crazy. However there are some options, different of the usual means of transport (cars,…

An act orchestrated by an artist, performance art bases itself on time. Performance art usually contains four main elements: time, space, the body, and the interaction between the audience and artist. Its major purpose is to challenge the conventions of the traditional visual art such as painting and sculpture. When these forms cannot serve or answer an artists ' needs, artists turn to performance to help them explore new ideas and find new audiences. The body and performance art challenges the…

ethnocentric ideas on the various regions of the world. Documents 2, 4, 6, and 8 show European…

the New Testament that date back to the early second century. The accuracy of the New Testament is about 99.9%, proving that the New Testament is very accurate. Compared to other historical documentations such as the Illiad, the New Testament has more original manuscripts and a greater accuracy than these historical documents which are in fact considered accurate.…

History is important because it helps to understand not only the past, but it also helps us to understand and predict the future. Africa is so influential to part of how humankind came to be...Africa is known as the motherland, and is known as the birthplace of humankind. (add who said that) “History is the mother of all social science”. This is why African history is so important, being that it is the birthplace of humankind everything that has happened in Africa is vitale and important. There…

sources are both very important pieces of information that have been used to help support history throughout the years. Without our primary and secondary sources we would not have information to base off of. Primary sources are actual artifacts or documents created during a specific time. Some great examples of primary sources are things like journals, diaries, newspapers, speeches and even things like art and music. All these things were created first hand by someone at a specific time. The…