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    in The Pardoner’s Tale. “Ther cam a privee theef men clepeth Deeth/ That in this contree al the peple sleeth,” (Ackroyd 15). The Plague happened six times during Chaucer’s lifetime. During the time of the Plague” the widespread fear of death and sense of helplessness that people often felt when faced with the threat of such a disease, caused people to react in different ways,” (Rossignol 37). Some people responded to the threat of the Plaque by indulging themselves and “living it up” in a…

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    Lockheed Martin Corporation has circa 126,000 employees worldwide and operates in four major busi-ness segments: Aeronautics, Mission and Fire Control, Rotary and Mission Systems & Trainings, and Space Systems (Lockheed Martin Corporation, 2015b). In 2015 the business segment Aeronautics, which includes research, development, production, support and integration services of advanced military aircraft had a turnover of circa 15.5 billion U.S. dollars. The Missiles and Fire Control segment, which…

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    The two authors Hans Eberhard Myer and Ronald C Finucane have different point of view on crusades. Hans Eberhard Mayer believes the only reason and motivation of the crusade was religion whereas Ronald Finucane believes greed of wealth was the motivation to join crusade. Hans believes the crusade was called by the pope urban II. He asked Christians to join crusades to free holy land from Muslim. Who had occupied the holy land. The pope said if Christian helps free the land, god would forgive…

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    (Maurice Duplessis in the election in 1952 campaigning) Maurice Duplessis and the Great Darkness (1944-1959) Maurice Duplessis was Premier of Quebec from 1944-1959 and led the Union Nationale political party. He was a Quebec nationalist and believed that Quebec should be a distinctive society, that it should be a nation instead of a Canadian province. Soon Duplessis created a new flag just for Quebec that had the fleur-de-lys, which, was a French symbol. This pushed Canadians apart because soon…

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    In the first amendment out founding fathers clearly demonstrated their opposition to the intermingling of politics and religion by establishing the separation of church and state. While this was not the only cause, the separation led to a series of religious revivals in the United States from the 1790s and into the 1830s. The Second Great Awakening was a Christian revival movement during the early 19th century. Its primary focus was to create social reform that led to a period of antebellum…

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    important aspects of the Protestant Reformation are Martin Luther's 95 thesis, those who supported Martin Luther and why, diet of worms, importance of Huldrych Zwingli, Catholic counter-reformation, and Council of Trent. These are the most important aspects of the Protestant Reformation because they are the key events or elements that lead up to and helped complete the Protestant Reformation. Martin Luther's 95 thesis is a list of abuses Martin Luther posted on the church in Wittenberg, Germany…

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    Most people say it’s not person who are the change of the view of the people because any other person could have done that action. I say the person is more important. Why? Because it wasn’t anyone else. It was that person. For example, if Martin Luther wasn’t the one to nail his 95 thesis then would the people who went to follow that person still be called a Lutheran? No they would be called whatever the person who stood up to the church’s name would most likely be. But, because of Luther the…

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    The Mathis der Maler symphony (Mathias the Painter) was composed between 193334 while Hindemith worked on an opera of the same name. It’s a three movement work that received a very successful premier under Wilhelm Kurtwangler and the Berlin Philharmonic. The political implications of the work however caused much controversy within the ruling Nazi party; so much so that it led to Kurtwangler having to step down as music director of the orchestra and Hindemith to leave Germany before the outbreak…

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    Today, western Christianity is comprised of a myriad of denominations largely born out of the Protestant Reformation that took place in 16th century Europe. Spearheaded by German scholar, Martin Luther, the Reformation began in an effort to reform corruption within the Catholic Church and soon spiraled into a religious revolution. Social and economic strife as well as vast advances in literacy and a growing sense of nationalism cultivated European life to be a breeding ground for dissent.…

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    The farther back one’s goes in history the murkier beginnings and endings get. Beginnings and ending in this case are time periods, or more specifically the Renaissance and Enlightenment. Part of this is due to the slow spread across Europe in the time long before Internet and phones. Another reason is the natural progression from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. It makes sense that all of the humanism in the Renaissance would morph into using the full spectrum of human talent and…

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