War is a tradition of humanity‚ for better or for worse. It has defined history‚ geography‚ and cultures around the world. War has been the subject of many literary works‚ from the longest books to the shortest poems. Jessie Pope and Wilfred Owen have two very different views regarding the morality of sending people to fight and die for their country in war. Pope’s "Who’s for the Game" paints war as an opportunity to prove oneself‚ while Owen’s "Dulce Et Decorum Est" characterizes war as a heinous
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else’s life‚ which Pope Francis made it clear when he stated‚ “Every life is sacred” when giving his speech to congress and stating how the
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In this essay I will discuss a poem about encouraging people to join the war who was written by Jessie Pope and the poem is called ‘Who’s for the Game?’ which was written during World War 1. She was an English poet‚ writer‚ journalist and she still remains best known for her patriotic motivational poems and she lived for 73 years. This poem has encouraged many young men to join World War 1 as she said you will be honoured and be glorious but not knowing how terrible the war is. This essay will discuss
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historians now take a pluralist‚ “interdisciplinary”‚ approach when determining the reasons for the First Crusade. These reasons are highlighted in Pope Urban II’s powerful speech‚ Speech at Clermont. His speech‚ in itself‚ is complex through its masterful call to arms. Scholars have generally agreed that the primary catalyst to the First Crusade was Pope Urban II’s Speech at Clermont. In the late nineteenth century‚ scholars overplayed the role of Peter the Hermit as the
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as a whole including not only Catholicism but also the various branching denominations and heresies of Christianity’s rich history. Throughout the year‚ the topic of Pope Francis has come up many a time as he is the current Pope and is solidly involved within many notable world events beginning from his unexpected pontification. Pope Francis is famous for his distinct style when compared to his predecessors. This distinct style comes from Francis’ qualities of simplicity‚ humility‚ and innovation
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In the long-awaited 184-page environmental treatise‚ titled Laudato Si’‚ or Praise Be to You‚ published by Vatican Press in June 2015‚ Pope Francis described how apathy and the reckless pursuit of profits‚ excessive faith in technology and political shortsightedness‚ along with the relentless exploitation and destruction of the environment‚ are to blame. Encyclicals are letters to the clergy and laity of the church that are considered authoritative. The document was sent to the world’s 5‚000 Catholic
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Chapter 9 CONFRONTATION AT RUNNYMEDE Pope Innocent’s controversy with King John was concerning the appointment of an archbishop at Canterbury. An interdict had lasted in England for seven years and seemed to have no effect. When an interdict had earlier been imposed on France‚ King Philip submitted in just over one year. The excommunication of such a pagan as John seemed to the Pope to be of minor effectiveness as well. Innocent was looking for a way to end this long conflict in a way that would
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In the book Doing School‚ Denise Pope‚ the author and a Stanford Graduate with a PHD in curriculum and teaching‚ claims that students are no longer learning anything about the subjects they take‚ or learning the core values/behaviors that the school is supposed to teach. They are in fact‚ learning the values/behaviors that schools despise and are not retaining any of the information taught to them. The reason they are not learning the correct values/behaviors‚ or retaining any information in school
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Making Sense of Advertisements Daniel Pope (from the Making Sense of Evidence series on History Matters: The U.S. Survey on the Web‚ located at http://historymatters.gmu.edu) Advertisements are all around us today and have been for a long time; advertising-free “good old days” just don’t exist. This guide offers an overview of advertisements as historical sources and how historians use them‚ a brief history of advertising‚ questions to ask when interpreting ads as historical evidence‚ an annotated
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Recently‚ Pope Francis appealed to world leaders to seek a new economic model to help the poor‚ and to shun policies that “sacrifice human lives on the altar of money and profit”. It was the second time during his trip to South America that Francis used a major speech to excoriate unbridled capitalism and champion the rights of the poor. He urged politicians and business leaders “not to yield to an economic model which is idolatrous‚ which needs to sacrifice human lives on the altar of money and
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