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    Peasant Life in the Middle Ages

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    The Peasants life journey, through the Middle Ages was tough. The life of a peasant was hard and not easy or respected. A peasant’s work was never appreciated by the high social classes. Peasant life should be acknowledged for the work and impact it had on British History. The peasants of the middle ages were farmers, servants, and carpenters. They would work all jobs to provide for their family. According to Dianne Zarlengo “Their class formed the economic back bone for the society” (10). Peasants

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    Antisemitism in the Middle Ages

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    In the year of 1492, most people instantly think of the Columbus’ discovery of the New World. But in the joy of the discovery of the New World also comes the tragedy of the Old World. The Spanish Inquisition was one of the darkest periods of time in Jewish history. Christianity’s view of other religions as inferior is portrayed in many well-known pieces of literature, including one of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays, The Merchant of Venice. Towering over Shakespeare’s romantic comedy

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    The Harsh Lives of Renaissance Children

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    children’s school lives. As long as they were receiving somewhat of an education and securing a future for themselves (and their family’s name) was all that mattered. “If the broader culture 'knows' anything about children and childhood in the Middle Ages, it is that medieval culture didn’t know anything about children” (Classen). Childhood, schooling, and parenting were very different in the Renaissance generation. Education was scarce because there was not much else to learn besides the family trade

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    Anorexia Nervosa

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    Catherine’s case, among many others, proves that Anorexia exists since the Middle Ages, and it is not a modern illness. Beauty was considered something completely different back then, and the media was nonexistent. So neither beauty nor the media can be contemplated as the cause of Anorexia Nervosa. They surely help perpetuate this illness, though, because the media controls what goes in the minds of people since a very young age, and spreads the idea of losing weight faster than it could have ever been

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    Voltaire and The Enlightenment

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    The eighteenth century was a crucial changing point in the European history because of The Enlightenment. The Enlightenment was revolutionary because of Voltaire, a writer that used his ideas to attack the established Catholic Church, and to propagate the freedom of religion, scientific thoughts, skepticism and experiential philosophy. Voltaire was born in 1694, a year that was under the regiment of Louis XIV. At that time, the aristocracy ruled France in an extreme way that most commoners were

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    The Gilded Age Of America

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    help build and maintain a better America. The Gilded Age, during the late 1800’s, was a time in America where we experienced explosive economic growth, serious social problems, new innovative technology, and the rise of corporations and corruption in politics. We have learned from some of these things that we went through in the Gilded Age and fixed them, but we are still facing some of the problems we faced back then, today. During the Gilded Age, America experienced many economic and technological

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    Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales

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    The Canterbury Tales serves as a moral manual in the Middle Ages. In the tales, Geoffrey Chaucer portrays the problems of the society. For instance, Chaucer uses the monk and the friar in comparison to the parson to show what the ecclesiastical class are doing versus what they are supposed to be doing. In other words, it is to make people be aware of these problems. It can be inferred that the author’s main goal is for this literary work to serve as a message to the people along with changing the

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    also referred to as the Middle Ages was the period of time between the demise of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance era; this was the period from the 5th century to the 17th century in Europe. During this time, society conformed to the feudal system which was based on the hierarchy approach which upper class had control over the lower class. Included in this class structure were kings, lords, neighboring kings, peasants and church leaders. In the Middle Ages, art evolves as humans continue

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    Pat Frank’s Alas Babylon

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    Blessed because “the more distance between you [Fort Repose] and the fallout particles, the less radiation you [Fort Repose] received (Protection in the Nuclear Age 4).” Soon after The Day Randy takes over and becomes somewhat of a dictator of an alliance of people that included Lib and Bill McGovern, Doctor Dan Gunn, Alice and her friend Florence Wechek, Sam Hazzard, along with Preacher and his family. Electricity

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    weakness or illness that usually lasts for a long time and is caused especially by old age. Progeria is the severe disease of the infirmed aging branch and is defined as a progressive genetic disorder that causes children to age rapidly, beginning in their first two years of life. Progeria only affects one in eight million people in the world. The term Progeria is gathered from the Greek word geras, meaning old age. Children with progeria usually don’t show any signs when they are birthed but in a year

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