Pope Urban II The Crusades were one of the most astonishing movements during the last thousand years. The Crusades spanned hundreds of years in total and took tens of thousands of Europeans miles from their homes to a far off foreign land. During the Crusades much blood was shed‚ many lives were lost‚ and a lasting legacy was left by the Crusaders‚ the effects of which can still be felt today. The man who is credited with starting the Crusades was Pope Urban II. The Crusades were not a
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Going into Sophomore year‚ starting my Urban class with Mr. Berkson‚ I was worried. Although I had heard he was a great teacher‚ something about being in a different class then I had planned worried me. Going into Sophomore year‚ I had planned to join Eastern Religions‚ but after going through some serious consideration‚ I decided to switch into Urban. To this day‚ my decision has not let me down. I enjoyed Mr. Berksons class all year‚ for many reasons. These reasons include his great humor‚ his
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rural-urban tensions in the 1920s America in his essay “Flappers and Philosophers‚ and Farmers: Rural-Urban Tensions of the Twenties” published in 1973. He begins with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Flappers and Philosophers that represented the “age of wonderful nonsense” and reflected the rapid modernization in the 20s. The essay is an agricultural history piece that primarily focuses on the rural experience‚ reactions‚ and transformations in a period of increasingly sharp and unequal rural-urban contrasts
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In the second half of the nineteenth century‚ there was a second Industrial Revolution in Western Europe that brought new industries‚ sources of energy‚ and goods. This changed the entire human environment and Europeans believed that this material progress was a sign of human progress; they thought that the new scientific and technological accomplishments would improve humanity and solve all of their human problems. Western Europeans’ views began to change; there were new concepts and ideas that
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Nationalism rose rapidly in the 1820’s and influenced foreign policy. In 1816 voters elected James Monroe‚ and during his presidency‚ the economy grew rapidly‚ and a spirit of nationalism and optimism prevailed—”Era of Good Feelings.” In central and south America there were many revolts which had turned into a revolution. The idea of liberty had stirred the people of Latin America ever since the English colonies gained their freedom. The United States took a deep interest in what seemed to be a repetition
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RURAL –URBAN LINKAGES‚ THEIR ROLE IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. BY:LADYANGE INTRODUCTION Although policy makers and the development community have widely used the phrase “rural development. The concept of rural development has changed significantly during the last 3 decades. Until the 1970s‚ rural development was synonymous with agricultural development and‚ hence‚ focused on increasing agricultural production. This focus seems to have been driven primarily by the interests of industrialization
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Urban Agriculture in and around Monrovia‚ Liberia Timothy Kortu Since the end of the war that raged from 1989 to 2003‚ Liberia has suffered from chronic food insecure and basic socio-economic infrastructure. Urban urban poverty‚ improve food security and enhance urban waste management in Monrovia and other Liberian cities. Recently the government acknowledging food security in the country. rity‚ due to the destruction of its agricultural sector agriculture provides a strategy to help reduce
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Rural life vs Urban life Nowadays the smaller rural communities are considered to be more sociable and pleasant to live in than larger urban communities. Are these assumptions factual or are they merely based on sentiment? The most important difference can be found by comparing the sociological structure of farm life to the same structure in a city. Larger communities enable all members to have more privacy than in smaller communities‚ thus a certain sense of “anonymity” arises which in it’s
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Background to the study Noise is a disturbance to the human environment that is escalating at such a high rate that it will become a major threat to the quality of human lives. In the past thirty years‚ noise in all areas‚ especially in urban areas‚ has been increasing rapidly. There are numerous effects on the human environment due to the increase in noise pollution. Slowly‚ unresponsively‚ we seem to accept noise and the physiological and psychological deterioration that accompanies it as an inevitable
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The urban population boom from 1860-1900‚ it marked a dramatic shift in the United States from its traditional rural‚ to the new city lifestyle. The accepted fourteen million immigrants flooded in‚ ranging in all variations of ethnic backgrounds. From the English to the Russians‚ and all those in between‚ the many immigrants sought to escape problems ranging from poverty‚ warfare‚ political and religious persecution and natural disasters that plagued their homeland. With the arrival of the newcomers
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