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acts of Jaballa Matar an unknown speaker got up to speak about the kindness and bravery of Fawzia. The man spoke of his imprisonment by the Qaddafi regime “My mother -I am her only child- was losing her mind. She asked who she could stay with in Tripoli and people told her of a woman who put up mothers of political prisoners” (Matar 120). In spite of the loss that she was…

Turks moved from Central Asia to Middle West in the eleventh CE century. One of the tribes called the Seljuk Turks, occupied Persia and then moved west slowly. Battle of Manzikert in 1071 CE is where the Seljuk Turks met Byzantine emperor and his army. The Byzantine emperor was killed, and army was destroyed. After taken over Byzantine the Seljuk Turks moved into Anatolia. Moving south again the were able to occupy the Holy Land. Religion played a role in the origins of the Crusades or…

The First Crusade was the first and most successful of a series of holy wars that defined the Middle Ages. Ostensibly a religious mission to regain the Holy Land, the crusade changed the ways the nobility interacted and opened western Europe to new ideas. While the goal of the First Crusade was to “rescue” Jerusalem, its most lasting effect was the strengthening of the Catholic Church. At the behest of the Pope, Urban II, a large group of French nobles went to try to recapture Jerusalem. The…

Question two Who was Marsilio Ficino and why are his ideas important Marsilio Ficino was a priest, a doctor, and a musician. He is however known for his works as an author and a philosopher. He was one of the greatest figures of the Italian Renaissance. He played a significant role in the discovery of classical learning by translating several ancient texts into Latin. Ficino used his powerful intellectual and spiritual ideas by using an approach that makes spirituality be part of the total…

International terrorism involves any violent acts toward human life that violate federal or state law with a minimum sentence of twenty five years with labor. ISIS, a new terrorist group that stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, mimicked the name Isis the Egyptian goddess and ruler of the underworld. The organization started their attacks on Syria and Iraq to gain territory and independence, but later on they pushed their forces to many foreign countries. The organization films,…

1) Introduction a) Federalists versus the anti-Federalists where Hamilton supports a central gov’t and Jefferson supports the state’s and people’s rights 2) Federalist and Republican Mudslingers a) The Federalists were mad at John Adams for not allowing them to declare war against France, but they ran up the debt with the war preparations, which established new taxes i) The Federalists already had many enemies due to the Sedition & Alien Act b) Federalists fought back against Jefferson by…

In the 1790s, Thomas Jefferson, who supported a solid state and local government, helped establish the Democratic-Republican Party along with James Madison to restrict Hamilton's Federalist Party, which upheld for a powerful national government with expansive controls over the economy. After his election in 1801, Thomas Jefferson, to a large extent, altered his earlier philosophy as he took upon Federalist actions by purchasing Louisiana, passing the Embargo Act and going to war with the Barbary…

Benghazi Attack In Benghazi, Libya there was an attack at the United States Consulate and CIA Compound. The Benghazi strike was a tragedy for many Americans. It was soon believed that the former United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, was informed about this pre-planned bombard. “ The attack was a response to an infamous YouTube clip mocking Muslims,” exclaimed Hillary Clinton.(Caruso) There were many emails Hillary tried to keep hid from the public, but once they were released the…

Libya is a country bounded by Mediterranean sea, Egypt, Sudan, Niger, Chad, Tunisia, and Algeria. It is the first county to get independence in Africa, in 1951 (History World, n.d.). Libya was colonized by Italy form 1910 to 1947. The colonization started when the Italy troop lost the war prepared for Libya. After sometime, the Italians decided to come back to Libya. Italian kingdom then took control of the Ottoman provinces of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica. Italian have unified the two area as…

Salmagundi was a newspaper created by Washington Irving in the beginning of the nineteenth century that tried to produce a literary magazine that would separate itself from other journalistic writing. This was the first newspaper of its kind, where the authors intentionally tried to depart from journalistic practices. Within its first couple of issues, the periodical established itself as a bold, satirical, and coy newspaper whose purpose was to please the writers, not the readers. For…