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William Penn
Number of Words: 1393 / Number of Pages: 6
... reason why the Quakers were
put through such torture was because their beliefs and culture was different from the
Anglican Church. At that time, any religion that was practiced in England other than
the Anglican Church would be persecuted. They believed that religion shouldn't be
practiced in a church as much as in your heart. The differences that were between the
Quakers and the Anglican Christians was that the Anglicans practiced strict discipline
in their prayers. They would go to prayer every morning, and ask for forgiveness of
their sins. They believed that the sacred authority was the Bible, the ...
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Bystanders Are The Real Criminal
Number of Words: 613 / Number of Pages: 3
... the cause of those who were rescued. The inability of most bystanders to rescue these innocent victims resulted in the unnecessary deaths of thousands of Jews and this shows the guilt of the bystander. Also, another instance showing bystanders’ guilt occurred during World War II, when German bystanders did not act by still supporting their leader Adolf Hitler - or acting as if they did in an attempt to protect themselves from the government they elected. They supported Hitler by attending his rallies, serving in the German military and disclosing the locations of hidden Jews. If, perhaps, more bystan ...
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The Ancient Mariners Of The Mediterranean And Ming Dynasty China: A Comparison Of Seafaring In The Ancient World
Number of Words: 3048 / Number of Pages: 12
... the Son of Heaven.
But how did these great ancient seafarers of the Mediterranean and those of the Ming Dynasty China emerge to become the great lords of the sea? This essay shall explore this question as well as these equally important ones: Who were these seafarers? Where did they sail? What did they do? How did the sail? How were their ventures organized? And why did they go to sea? But in order to fully understand how these questions apply to these two sea peoples, we must look at the cultures themselves to determine how each was called to the sea.
It has been said that the study of worl ...
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Crises During The Presidency O
Number of Words: 2366 / Number of Pages: 9
... welfare and turn an important local interest to its own profit"(Coit 12). Calhoun was not for the secession of South Carolina so he tried to think of a substitute. He borrowed an idea evolved by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798 and 1799. The idea was nullification. Nullification, as Calhoun viewed it, the right of a "single state to veto, within its own borders, a federal law that it deemed unconstitutional-subject to the later approval of at least one fourth of the states. If such approval was not forthcoming, the state should, if it wished, be allo ...
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Evaluation Of The Agricultural
Number of Words: 885 / Number of Pages: 4
... to leave the mir. The mir operated a system like England in the Middle Ages.
Every village had a number of fields which were divided into long thin strips. Each family would have at least one strip in each field so that everyone got a share of the best and the worst land. However, this system was very inefficient, because of the following facts. A lot of time was wasted by travelling between the stripes. Also all farmers didn't like the idea of growing the same crop in each field.. The small field area of the stripes didn't encourage an ambitions of peasants to buy machinery. The old techniques were us ...
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Celts VS Saxons
Number of Words: 532 / Number of Pages: 2
... as Celtic nature due to the fact that they were required to
make the most of becoming a nomadic tribe at times. Due to the popularity
of war and bloodshed the Celts had to become used to losing and winning,
not only battles but members of the community also. Individual Celts became
more individually independent and self-reliant do to the fact that loss was
experienced so frequently. Examples of very independent people are the
Germans. This is because of the loss they have suffered through both World
Wars. Their stubborn and self-reliant reputation has been an outcome of
that.
The Saxons became used to ...
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History Of The Courts
Number of Words: 1246 / Number of Pages: 5
... Each endured their own culture and ways of life; thus, imposing a diverse effect on our society. There is also a notion that, for 200,000 years, archaic humans had been living in hunting and gathering small-scale societies.
Israel's Holy Bible renders a rich ancestry of history, theology, and philosophy which has had a recurring influence over modern man. Israel changed from a nomadic order, which was based on rounding up sheep and goats, to an organized agrarian society.
Their criminal justice system and civilization came from the premise that the descendants of Abraham held the title of th ...
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Baptism
Number of Words: 725 / Number of Pages: 3
... Through we are given our Christian name by our parents, which is blessed by the priest, or deacon, using the Trinitarian Formula. (“In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, I name you…”) This is the beginning of our lifelong relationship with God in His church. First we must believe and have faith in the divine intervention of the Holy Spirit during the of Jesus. In the scriptures according to Mark, (16:16), Jesus said:
“Whoever believes and is baptized, will be saved, whoever does not believe will be condemned”
These words show us that all our invi ...
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Apostle Paul
Number of Words: 998 / Number of Pages: 4
... people to disobey the rabbis and had caused chaos in the synagogues. All true Jews accused Him as enemy of Israel. Saul believed that anyone who followed Jesus should be put to death. With this thought in mind he returned to Jerusalem and offered his service to the high priest to persecute anyone who is opposed to the way of the synagogue. Saul took his job so fiercely that every worshipping assembly feared his name. He had a temper and was merciless. He was quick to punish. Saul literally dragged believers, cast them into prison, and sentenced them to death. Angered by his futile efforts to ...
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Illuminated Manuscripts Of The
Number of Words: 850 / Number of Pages: 4
... most beautiful paintings in this manuscript are the full-page paintings from the calendar that
replace the much smaller fancy first letters.
This particular painting is the picture of the month of May. This drawing is very bright and shiny. In
this painting a knight on horseback rides out to go hawking. The hawker is covered with an expensive white
fur. It suggests that the knight is very rich. It is a male horse and it has very small ears. The knight is shown
at the moment of taking off the hawk's hood, a rarely depicted detail. It is not clear where the knight is
located since the backgrou ...
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