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    equality. The purpose of this letter is to confront the eight clergy men and their backwards views on the issue on hand. The issue that started this debacle between the eight clergy men and King‚ was when King organized a peaceful demonstration in the city of Birmingham. In response to this demonstration‚ police officers used force to arrest King and other demonstrators for failure to have a permit to parade. In the newspaper‚ the eight clergy men wrote about the demonstrations. In response to this‚ King

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    letter glances into the actuality of racial segregation in the 1960s. King writes this letter to the clergy men and intends to address the concerns regarding the wisdom and timing of the nonviolent demonstrations in Birmingham‚ Alabama that King and other leaders arranged and carried out in 1963. King employs all three types of appeals‚ pathos‚ ethos and logos in this letter to the clergy man. Dr. King’s letter brings out feelings of empathy‚ indignation‚ and even pride. Besides explaining

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    interest on this debt. Louis XVI was forced to raise taxes to pay back the debts‚ leading to further tension and revolt. The first cause to the French Revolution was the pressure that taxes placed onto the Third Estate‚ or anyone that wasn’t nobility or clergy. This included the wealthier middle class‚ or bourgeoisie‚ and the extremely poor

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    In 1525‚ the German Peasants revolted against their lords and the clergy‚ but this was not the root of the conflict. From the ninth to fifteenth century‚ Germany was a feudal nation‚ meaning that it organized people into divided social classes where land ownership equated higher status. The two main social classes involved in the German Peasant War were landlords and peasants. The peasants labored on the lords’ land‚ working for them. The majority of peasants were obliged to lords; this arrangement

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    ecclesiastical‚ and societal standards by which this office is made available for leadership. Socrates once said‚ “The unexamined life is not worth living.”1 In the postmodern era of the church we’re experiencing an increasing casualty rate in the clergy as epidemic as found in an article written by Dr. Richard J. Krejcir who said‚ “Pastors are in perhaps the single most stressful and frustrating working profession‚ more than medical doctors‚ lawyers‚ or politicians. We found that over 70% of pastors

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    The main victims of these persecutions were those that publicly refused to sacrifice‚ or voluntarily presented themselves as Christians. Most people would be imprisoned and put on trial where the judge would issue the sentence. Ranging from a simple dismissal of the case to a very rare edict of the death penalty‚ most Christians were subjected to torture and longer periods of imprisonment in order to persuade them to dismiss their Christian beliefs. The author Eusebius quotes a letter from Dionysius

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    heavily unequal to the citizens (third estate) even since the middle ages. a great amount to all of the power and wealth was with the nobility and the clergy. the peasants had to pay most of the taxes and had little to no political‚ social‚ or economic rights. the reasons for the french revolution for many years. the first estate were made up of clergy‚ the church‚ numbering around 100‚000‚ the second estate‚made up of the nobility‚ the upper class‚ numbered around 400‚000 and the last estate made up

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    [Writer Name] [Supervisor Name] [Subject] [Date] Themes in the Canterbury Tales Canterbury Tales by Chaucer The Canterbury Tales is a work written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the late fourteenth century about a group of pilgrims‚ of many different occupations and personalities‚ who meet at an inn near London as they are setting out for Canterbury‚ England. Their host proposes a storytelling contest to make the journey more interesting. The Prologue and the Tales are basically written by Chaucer

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    explains that they should not be so preoccupied with what Church everyone is in‚ because it is the love of God that counts. Again‚ even as he is attacked‚ Joshua tries to put forth his simple and very veracious idea that there is too much emphasis on the clergy and the Church‚ and that worship is shifting away from true religion. “‘Jesus taught that his apostles

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    Civil Disobedience is an insightful peaceful and in many cases more effective than simple violence at addressing ills in society. If one wishes to partake in civil disobedience they must follow three rules or steps‚ one they must identify an ill in society usually involving governmental oppression. second they need to break said laws or or rules they see ill. And thirdly and possibly most important they must accept all punishment without retaliation or resistance. Another major factor in civil disobedience

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