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    supposed to be elected by the clergy of the diocese‚ but in practice‚ anointed kings who claimed themselves to be God’s vicars‚ appointed bishops and invested them with the symbols of their spiritual and temporal authority‚ which made power of the popes been challenged. To promote the idea of papal monarchy‚ reformers seized the opportunity to take the papacy by force while the king‚ Henry IV‚ was still a child and could not react. When Henry IV reached adulthood‚ he continued to appoint his own bishops

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    September 13‚ 2011 The author of this article talks about the school system in North America and tries to reveal to us the tricks and traps. The author—Gatto—is a teacher in New York and is stating that he does not favor our schooling system. The article deals with the problems of boredom‚ is there necessity of it‚ the real purpose of school‚ and what schooling is doing to create addicts and ‘older children’. However‚ Gatto does not only show us the problems of our school system‚ but also reveals

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    Wycliffe and Lollardy During the 1300s or the Dark Ages as we might call it‚ the Church headed by the Pope was the centre of power. The hierarchical ordering of the clergy and the nobility occupying the highest position and the common people occupying the lowest status is unbending. Understanding the role of John Wycliffe in the reformation of the Church is imperative. In a sense‚ John Wycliffe paved the way for later reformations of men like Martin Luther and the Puritans. John Wycliffe spent

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    effects of marijuana‚ suggests that regular‚ long-term use of marijuana leads to deficits in IQ‚ executive functioning‚ motor and learning skills and short-term memory loss(Grant‚ Gonzalez‚ Carey‚ Natarajan‚ & Wolfson‚ 2003; Pope‚ Gruber‚& Yurgelun-Todd‚ 1995; Pope‚ Gruber‚ Hudson‚ Huestis‚ & Yurgelun-Todd‚ 2001; Solowij & Battisti‚ 2008; Grant et al.‚ 2003; as cited by Nehal P. Vadhan‚ Wilfred G. van Gorp‚ and Frances R. Levin 2011; Solowij‚ 2002; Harvey‚ Sellman‚ Porter & Frampton

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    based on a single speech. Jonathan Philips argues that Pope Urban II’s speech in 1095 had managed to draw together a number of key concerns and trends‚ synthesising them into a “single‚ highly popular idea”‚ which led to the First Crusade. Described often as an ambitious politician‚ it is certain that the Pope intended this to happen‚ for various motives‚ and his audience were ready consumers of the information he proclaimed to them. Pope Urban’s motives for his iconic speech in Clermont were largely

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    2003 GENRE: Drama DIRECTED BY: Eric Till SCREENWRITERS: Camille Thomasson & Bart Gavigan MUSIC: Richard Harvey MAIN ACTORS: Joseph Fiennes (MARTIN LUTHER)‚ Alfred Molina (JOHN TETZEL)‚ Uwe Ochsenknecht (POPE LEO X)‚ Marco Hofschneider (ULRICK)‚ Benjamin Sadler (SPALATIN)‚ Claire Cox (KATHARIN VON BORA)‚ Gene Reed (FREDERICK OF SAXONY) The film‚ Luther‚ is set during the period of 1450 to 1750 but more specifically in the 1500’s

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    Anthropology as a Western Discipline Ambrose Bierce‚ the esteemed American satirist of the early 1900’s‚ defined in his Devil’s Dictionary the word “Aboriginies” as “n. Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize” (1). The overtly “western” view aptly captured by Bierce in his description exemplifies the field of anthropology and the methods it employed for quite some time—starting from the period of Antiquity until

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    use time in a way which best makes them feel comfortable with. "The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock‚" by T.S. Eliot‚ is considered a dramatic monologue. Some call the poem the "first Modernist poem". Andrew Marvell‚ an English poet‚ politician‚ and satirist. Marvell is commonly known as a "Metaphysical Poet". His poems are famous for surprising the reader with the use of language to explore questions about love‚ sex‚ the earth‚ the universe‚ and the divine. Time holds a huge fascination for poets in

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    fight.”. This lighthearted tone continues when Pope utilises the idea linking nature of rhyme to contrast the ‘courageous’ options and the ‘cowardly’ options‚ as can be seen in lines 2 and 4. After reading these lines‚ it is clear to the reader that Pope has represented war as a game noble and glorious. On line 11 Pope suggests that the worst thing that could happen to a soldier is to return home on crutches - not death - and on lines 7 and 8 Pope asks every young man if they want to take part

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    I. SUMMARY of Evangelium Vitae Evangelium Vitae (Latin: "The Gospel of Life") is the name of the encyclical written by Pope John Paul II which expresses the position of the Catholic Church regarding the value and inviolability of human life. The Pope issued the encyclical on March 25‚ 1995.This affirmation of the Gospel of Life‚ which is part of and inseparable from the entire Gospel of Christ‚ is fundamental to the Church’s mission to the world‚ and part of the necessary witness of every Christian

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