Final Essay

I looked down at my yellow tunic and blue pants. Unlike other soldiers around me, I didn’t have armor. Our commander slowly brought us to a stop in front of what appeared to be Constantinople, the city we sought to take over. We had been attacking the city for over a month and still we hadn’t made it past the protective wall. They laid a chain across the mouth of the Golden Horn to stop our ships from approaching the city. “Charge!” Our commander yelled from atop his white horse. I took off running with towards the walls. As we ran I smelled body odor, blood, and death. The sound of heavy breathing, crossbows being fired, swords clashing, and screams of pain filled my ears. Dead bodies littered the ground around us. As I neared the wall I threw the ladder I had in my hands against the wall and started to

The downfall of Constantinople was one of the greatest fortified cities in the world. The Fall of Constantinople was the takeover of the capital of the Byzantine Empire, and happened after an attack by the Ottoman Empire against the defending army. The commander of the attack by the Ottoman Empire was Emperor Constantine XI. It all began when Constantine found a new capital at the Bosporus, which he named Constantinople. Sultan Mehmed II, ruler of the Ottoman Turks, was the leader of the assault. The city of Constantinople was defeated by around ten thousand men. On the opposing side, the Turks had between one hundred thousand and one hundred fifty thousand men on their side with the advantage. This battle and attack lasted for fifty days. The Turks used huge cannons to destroy the walls and warships were used by the Turks as well.

I have put myself in the place of one of the soldiers in the boat. I am a reinforcement and a support to those already fighting and trying to conquer Constantinople.

Processing the crime scene will be essential to bringing forth criminal charges against any assailant of the crime of rape. In the case of a rape the prime crime scene is the rape victim. Biological evidence is inevitably left behind. There could in this instance be evidence left behind on sheets. In this scenario the bed of the ‘No Tell Motel’ will likely have some physical evidence such as hairs, bodily secretions, possibly condoms left behind in the trash or flushed down the toilet, clothing of the victim or the assailant. The crime scene has been contaminated by sightseers from the motel (management), and visiting

Art is one aspect of the past that has carried on for decades. Art in any form may it be poetry, novels, and playwright, sculpting as well as painting, has been an outlet for generations and continues to be an outlet and a means for expression. This paper will discuss “ The Mona Lisa” one of Da Vinci’s most famous paintings, as well as another great painting, Antonio Veneziano’s

In Simon Young’s essay “Universities, Governments and Industry: Can the Essential Nature of Universities Survive the Drive to Commercialize?” Young implies many universities increase their focus on commercializing rather than focusing to increase a higher branch of learning for university students. Throughout the essay Young voices his concern for this issue through the use of statistics, concrete facts, research and by acknowledging the issue Young is able to inform his readers about the increase rate of commercialization from universities which he believes is a universities purpose. Young notes 40 years of his life were spent at Universities and this allows the gain of credibility. Young’s audience are members of psychiatry and

Here is some information about your Final Exam: * The exam covers the entire Managing Organization Change book, multiple articles throughout the term which were referenced in all lectures, all lectures, the Cracking the Code of Change article specifically (Beer and Nohria, Harvard Business Review). Although the exam is comprehensive, the essay questions will lean heavily over the latter few weeks of class. The multiple-choice questions will be over all TCOs. * All TCOs are covered. * There will

These last five weeks in EXP 105 has really helped me learn a lot about learning in general, and also it has helped me to understand myself as a learner. If I had to explain the concept of learning to someone who has not yet taken this class, I would tell them that it is simply knowing who you are as learner and knowing what are your intentions are when it comes to learning.

Between the 16th and 18th century a power shift began to occur between Christian Europe and the Turkish Empire. Turkey, being one of the most successful, thriving and longest lasting empires of the world, began to deteriorate in the shadow of the rising European powers. The late 18th century saw Europe ascending as a leading world power. This paper will argue two of the major reasons that contributed to the shift of power from the dominant Turkish Empire to Europe. Firstly, after the death of Sultan Suleiman in 1566, the Turks failed to advance militarily while the Christian empires, who had already advanced far ahead, underwent significant military advancement. Secondly, the policy of a Sultan being chosen for quality and character was replaced with a new policy of inheritance, which contributed to the rise of unskilled and incompetent Sultans running the empire, further contributing to the decline of the Turkish Empire.

During the early 1900’s, the Ottomans took over many places around the middle east therefore forcing families and people to escape the area which is now Turkey. The area there suffered severely and many people lived in fear. About 1.5 million people died during this massacre. My great-grandparents from my mother’s side were one of those people who were lucky enough to escape.

Throughout the history of many successful countries, there were times of war and despair. Wars not only destroy humans and buildings, but cultures and ideas as well. For one country, its harmonious state of peace was terminated. When the Ottoman Empire attacked the Hungarians in the sixteenth century, they triggered numerous conflicts lasting many years that would leave devastating battle scars on Hungary’s face. It all started when the Sultan of the Ottoman’s waged a war that would change the route of Hungary’s history forever: The Battle of Mohács.

Sensitive Items is a range of items which varies from those which are essential to the mission to those which contain information which is sensitive in nature (i.e. giving access to secure communication, movement of troops, their equipment, support lines or the general idea of the mission.) There are many reasons these items need to be secure and accountability maintained for them. Some of these reasons include the potential to pose a threat to mission success if fallen into the wrong hands, the ability to complete the mission if not maintained by the troops themselves, the security of those around you if not maintained, and the ease and flow with which the

Another important siege in the early days of the empire was in 1331 when Iznik surrendered to the Ottoman attack. The significance of this meant that the Ottoman Empire despite not fully embracing gunpowder yet, did have the capabilities to potentially set its eyes on Constantinople. “The loss of Iznik brought it home for Emperor Andronicus that he would not necessarily be able to ensure the survival of what remained of his empire and most critically of Constantinople”(Finkel 14). It is at this point the Ottoman Empire begins developing a new and more strategic form of using their military. Prior to this time the Ottomans had had success gaining

The person that I chose to put myself in place of is a peasant of the Byzantine Empire during the time when the Ottoman Turks were calling a full out war on the Byzantine Empire. My family and I are fleeing from our home land to swiftly get away from the attacking soldiers, running at the empire from every direction. When I look back I can see all of the soldiers in their ships, drifting to the empire. Near the walls, there are Ottoman soldiers using ladders to get over what once was our walls. I can see the many soldiers attacking each other and firing arrows and other weapons at each other. All I can smell is the fire burning what once was our home land, as death sweeps through. When I listen, I can hear the familys around me screaming and

The July 1571 attempts of the ottomans on breaching the wall almost succeeded by nearly taking the Rivetinna Bastion and scaling the walls. The venetians are said to have done a good job on making the walls impenetrable. Venetian commander had foreseen this attack tactic and countered the attack with explosive which resulted in burying 1000 Ottoman soldiers. However, their winning strike was cut short in August 1571, by losing 6000 of 8000 soldiers to diseases and starvation, this forced the garrison commander to surrender.