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    During the long nineteenth century, political revolutions, industrialization, and European imperialism resulted in dramatic changes in the role of women in Western Europe and Eastern Asia. As industrialization spread in Western Europe, women were no longer able to fulfill their dual role as a mother and a worker. After the introduction of industrialization, laborious tasks were moved from the household to factories and women were forced to choose either the life of a mother or the life of a worker

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    7. With specific reference to ONE or MORE of the Quem Quaeritis tropes, discuss the role played by the Church in the revival of theatre in Medieval Western Europe. The relationship between Christianity and theatre was always a complicated one, however, it was the Church that played a vital role in the revival of theatre in Medieval Western Europe. After a drought of theatrical performance, the Church slowly evolved from presenting liturgical readings to dramatic tropes. Quem Quaeritis tropes were

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    developed all throughout Europe, causing a major turning point in the world, especially Western Europe. In human history, interactions have always existed and they have played a major part in turning points of the world. Interaction, meaning relations of different societies through trading, warfare, and migrations, really contributes to where our world is now because of all of its causes and turning points in our world and history. Before the plague made its way to Europe, Europe was not the best because

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    After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, there was a period in history where there existed no real centralized political authority in Western Europe; however, the church remained as strong as ever. Taking advantage of the inherent power vacuum, the Catholic Church became the highest authority in Western Europe. Due to the lack of other formal institutions, the church became the center of education, thus the clergy comprised some of the best educated and administrated minds in the chaos following

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    partner of the western vote based systems. In any case, in the post-war world, progressively different perspectives made fractures between the individuals who had once been partners. The United States and the USSR bit by bit developed their own particular zones of impact, separating the world into two restricting camps. The cold war was in this manner not only a battle between the US and the USSR however a worldwide clash that influenced numerous nations, especially the landmass of Europe. Without a

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    essay will critically evaluate the evidence for and against secularisation in Western Europe. Although it will examine both for and against, the essay will reach a decision on whether or not Western Europe is secularised. Secularisation is defined by Wilson (1982) as “a social process whereby religious institutions, thinking, and consciousness are losing their social significance”. This is relatively true in Western Europe, due to industrialisation and new technological and scientific research. The

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    The spread of Christianity in Western Europe was both similar and different to the spread of Islam. The rise of Islam starts with the Prophet Muhammad, believed by Muslims (followers of Islam) to be the last in a line of prophets that includes Moses and Jesus. Because Muhammad was the chosen one to be the messenger of the word of God, Muslims from all around the world work to follow the example he set. For Muslims after the Qur 'an (their bible), the sayings and teachings of Muhammad and the descriptions

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    Sir Thomas More composed this story exactly at the time when Europe was religiously being torn apart by conflicts and revolutions such as the reformation, that caused “the separation of the Christians of western Europe into Catholics and Protestant” (khanacademy). Religion for this reason, was as a consequence, an important and hot topic to argue at the time considering all that is occurring. It could be a reason why Hythloday spent so much time and effort discussing that matter with the narrator

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    Music Performance in Western Europe Seeing Europe and it's many treasures over sixteen days in a life changing experience. Not everyone can say that they got to perform in four different countries across Europe or that they have even been to Europe. From sightseeing in London to performing in the mountains of Switzerland there was never a dull moment in our limited time there. It was amazing how different each city is from each other and the cultural differences we experienced. No matter how different

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    It is the opinion of The Author that the most intellectually exhausted debate in the Western European tradition revolves around the existence of free will. This question has been so thoroughly ground to a pulp that if you look up the Wikipedia article on it, one of the first things you will encounter is a simple graphical taxonomy of the possible positions one can take on the issue, which allows one, assuming one believes that their position has not been preordained, to determine where one stands

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