Thursday, March 6, 2008
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Bush’s Crusade
On September 11th 2001 the war on terror really began. Two airplanes crashed into the twin towers, one striking each tower. Because of this action President Bush reacted in an irrational manner by saying in his speech on September 16th 2001 “This crusade, this war on terror is going to take a while.” The use of the word “crusade” outraged because the word means (any of the Christian military expeditions of the 11th-13th centuries to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims.
To compare the current war to the crusades would and is a terrible idea. Not only because it implies the use of military force but it also means the taking over of land. This word which came out of President Bush’s mouth made many people including Middle Eastern people suspicious. There were two groups of people fighting in the original crusades. They were Christian Europeans and Muslim Middle Easterners.
On September 11th 2001 the war on terror really began. Two airplanes crashed into the twin towers, one striking each tower. Because of this action President Bush reacted in an irrational manner by saying in his speech on September 16th 2001 “This crusade, this war on terror is going to take a while.” The use of the word “crusade” outraged because the word means (any of the Christian military expeditions of the 11th-13th centuries to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims.
To compare the current war to the crusades would and is a terrible idea. Not only because it implies the use of military force but it also means the taking over of land. This word which came out of President Bush’s mouth made many people including Middle Eastern people suspicious. There were two groups of people fighting in the original crusades. They were Christian Europeans and Muslim Middle Easterners.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Gladiator Fights
GLADIATOR
A gladiator was a man who was forced to fight in a coliseum against another man or an exotic animal to the death. They were criminals, slaves, and at one point in time Christians. Gladiators fight to the death and they won all their fights for three years they were able to get their freedom.
Boxing matches and UFC fights are similar to gladiator fight in Rome but there is less blood shed. Our society is not much different the people in Rome cheering on the gladiators because we like to see other people get hurt and we like blood shed.
A gladiator was a man who was forced to fight in a coliseum against another man or an exotic animal to the death. They were criminals, slaves, and at one point in time Christians. Gladiators fight to the death and they won all their fights for three years they were able to get their freedom.
Boxing matches and UFC fights are similar to gladiator fight in Rome but there is less blood shed. Our society is not much different the people in Rome cheering on the gladiators because we like to see other people get hurt and we like blood shed.
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Hellenistic Culture
The Hellenistic Culture
It all started when King Phillip II had a dream of conquering the world. He started by conquering Greece, when one of his bodyguards stabbed him in the chest and killed him. Afterwards his son Alexander at the age of 20 took on his legacy and conquered a part of Asia from Egypt to India. With all of these different cultures he decided to make one culture for the region he had conquered into one which is the Hellenistic Culture.
It all started when King Phillip II had a dream of conquering the world. He started by conquering Greece, when one of his bodyguards stabbed him in the chest and killed him. Afterwards his son Alexander at the age of 20 took on his legacy and conquered a part of Asia from Egypt to India. With all of these different cultures he decided to make one culture for the region he had conquered into one which is the Hellenistic Culture.
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