Middle English

today. Begining in Africa, slaves were captured and sold by both white slave traders and also by their own people in return for weapons, gold, spices, and other bartered goods. The slaves were then forced upon a ship for months to sail through The Middle Passage until they reached their final destination in the New World to live the rest of their lives as property in servitude. The 18th Century was the peak of the Atlantic Slave Trade, large numbers of slaves were captured on raiding…

A sound is the oscillation of pressure in materials such as the atmosphere, water, or the earth. In spite of the fact that the domain for the pressure oscillations of sound is rather small, there is a significant difference in pressure between the weakest sound heard by a human being (such as the sound of the rustling of leaves), and the strongest sound heard by them (such as the launching of a missile, or an explosion). The size of such difference is measured by the range of the oscillations…

1. Describe the new social class in twelfth-century Italy called the “urban nobility.” How and why did this social class come into being and how did it affect the movement toward republican government. The urban nobility is a new social class formed by the merger of the Northern Italian feudal nobility and commercial aristocracy. The people in this class were nobles attracted by opportunities of long-distance and maritime trade, rising value of urban real estate, expanding communes etc. who…

“‘You’ve got it?’ gasped Frodo. ‘You’ve got it here? Sam, you’re a marvel!’ Then quickly and strangely his tone changed. ‘Give it to me!’ he cried, standing up, holding out a trembling hand. ‘Give it to me at once! You can’t have it!’” (Tolkien 890) John Ronald Reuel Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings is a fantasy trilogy that has set the bar for all others of the genre. It follows a young hobbit named Frodo as he, and his companions, struggle to destroy an evil ring capable of the world’s end. Frodo…

The Early Middle Ages are commonly referred to by historians as the “Dark Ages”, due to several factors, including the lack of written documents that would reveal important details about the lives of people during this time, as well as the state of political unrest and civil uprising that was at play, because of the recent collapse of the Roman Empire in Western Europe. This was a time during which nations and alliances were constantly forming and shifting, resulting in many wars and battles.…

“A real musical culture should not be a museum culture based on music of past ages... It should be the active embodiment in sound of the life of a community- of the everyday demands of people’s work and play and of their deepest spiritual needs.” (Wilfred Mellers, pg. 54). Music is always changing and adapting based on how people feel and what people like. Some people prefer to listen to choral works, while others are more interesting in instrumental music. Throughout history we have been able…

living representative of that better world where people go to college and wear civilian clothes to work…” (p. 67). Here, the dominance that Ted established over the maids is not simply because he’s their boss, but because he is probably part of the middle class. Around the end of the chapter when Ehrenreich reveals that she was conducting her research to the maids, surprisingly, she does not gain an etic…

get excited, but I knew this bookstore was going to be very different from the bookstores I was used to. As we walked into the bookstore, there were two ladies behind the desk making small talk. “Can you believe it's already August?” exclaimed the middle-aged woman who was to my left. “I know! Crazy how fast the summer goes!” responded the elderly woman on my right. They just had to bring that up as three teenagers, who were savoring their summer break, walked in. “Hello, we are here to get…

inequality is when the health of two or more people is decided based on their socioeconomic situation. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, social class is “a division of a society based on social and economic status.” There are three types of social class. The first type of class is what sociologists refer to as the upper class. Class number two is referred to as the middle class. Class number three is referred to as the lower class. The people in these three classes are often…

Affordable housing affecting children and families Introduction Affordable housing in the United States has increasingly become an issue, specifically since the most recent recession in 2008. Living in New York is a huge attraction, where people invariably want to live. However, there are many groups of people that cannot afford the housing that is needed to live a healthy lifestyle. Low-income families constantly struggle with this issue, causing increased stress on family dynamics. While there…