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This paper will discuss how Jonathan Riley-Smith’s book The First Crusaders 1095-1131 evidences a different reasoning for the time and cause of the First Crusade. In high school, the brief mention our instructor gave of The Crusades we were taught that it was either for financial gain or for the expanding of a Noble’s lands….

The movie “REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE” is directed by Nicholas Ray, and is about a teenage boy named Jim Stark. Jim just moved into a new neighborhood, and he seems to be depressed because his family keeps moving from place to place because of Jim. This makes it really hard for Jim to have friends….

Yes. America is in a second gilded age. The phrase “Gilded Age” was coined by Mark Twain, effectively summarizing America’s state in the late 19 century; the façade of a land of opportunity, but really a land of inopportunity. While America was indeed a land of opportunity, rapid economic growth, and class mobility, the people…

John Brown, an American abolitionist once wrote “Slaves are, and of right ought to be as free and independent as the unchangeable Law of God, requires that All Men Shall be.” His goal was to carry out and accomplish the abolishment of slavery, however, he died before the Thirteenth Amendment was passed in 1865 abolishing…

First Invasion: The War of 1812 Synopsis The War of 1812 was motivated by many different factors. The matter of conflict with Native Americans was one of them, and it was more important to face because of the growing suspicion that Britain was arming them against us. Warhawks, young Republicans, were those most strongly advocating…

What does being an American mean to you? When you search “what is an American” on the internet, it is defined as “relating to or characteristic of the United States or its inhabitants” and “a native or citizen of the United States.” Being an American or having an American Identity doesn’t just mean that you’re…

The book “The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832” discuss the causes, course, and consequence of the flight by slaves to join and help the war. it also focuses on the war years of 1812- 1815, the book conflict in a longer history of slavery and freedom in Virginia. It also focuses on…

Although Rome’s decline and fall was partially caused by factors that were outside of the empire, internal factors caused Rome to become vulnerable to those outside factors, which made the fall of Rome more feasible; factors such as corruption within the government, unnecessary spending of Roman treasury, and the growing differences between social classes were…

“Modern Times” is a silent movie written and directed by Charles Chaplin in 1936, through which he wanted to represent his observations and anxieties of the 19th century. It is dependent on pantomime, a style that does not use any sounds except for sound effects century and is understood universally. Though it was a depressing…

Fahrenheit 9/11 is a film and a documentary that was made by a political commentator who is also a director and a film maker in USA in the year 2004. The documentary film covers the presidential period of George W. Bush, the war on terror and how all this is covered in the media as…