Politics: The Renaissance

The Renaissance

Written by Amber Whitman

The Renaissance Era was a period dating from approximately repparttar

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16th century. It was a time of great change for Europe and repparttar 125948

world, as a whole new culture was beginning to emerge. Beliefs were tested. The idea that humankind ruled nature developed, and has contributed greatly to modern science and technology.

It is thought that Renaissance political thought was very instrumental in forming repparttar 125949 government in repparttar 125950 United States. The idea of freeing government from repparttar 125951 religious aspects of repparttar 125952 church, thereby becoming more independent, was repparttar 125953 key idea in this reformation. Many inventions were also developed in this period, repparttar 125954 most important being gunpowder, repparttar 125955 printing press and repparttar 125956 compass. Another extremely important aspect of repparttar 125957 Renaissance was repparttar 125958 creation of prosperous cities, and is reflected today in our own society.

Trade increased dramatically, not only in repparttar 125959 standard items of barter and exchange, but also in repparttar 125960 area of luxury items as well. With repparttar 125961 expansion of trade, towns grew wherever repparttar 125962 trade routes met. Capital that accumulated through trade was eventually available for other enterprises, notably banking and industry, much as happens with capital gains today. Great gains were made in education. However, these were not without a good amount of controversy. There were two distinct type of education, one of which was scholastic, which concentrated on repparttar 125963 study of logic, and repparttar 125964 other being philosophy and repparttar 125965 nature of reality.

Fahrenheit 9/11

Written by Gary R. Hess

I watched Fahrenheit 9/11 a few days ago and found many aspects of repparttar

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movie I had heard before. Many from newspapers and others from news radio shows or CNN.

The movie starts out showing repparttar 125948 2000 Presidential Election. It goes through repparttar 125949 Florida debacle and shows video clips of what happened on repparttar 125950 Senate floor. There were several people who testified on behalf of repparttar 125951 people in Florida about repparttar 125952 wrong doings. However since no Senator had signed repparttar 125953 petition it could not be heard. By all recounts that occurred in Florida Al Gore won. The race wasn’t even close.

The next segment showed George Bush’s limousine driving down repparttar 125954 middle of Washington doing repparttar 125955 famous walk to repparttar 125956 White House. However repparttar 125957 limousine did not stop. It actually kept driving because of repparttar 125958 largest protest ever was occurring, people throwing vegetables and eggs at his car every chance they had.

After this, it went through repparttar 125959 part of George Bush going on vacation... For those of you who do not know George Bush has spent more time away from repparttar 125960 White House than any other President has. Not by visiting other countries or taking new conferences (which he has done repparttar 125961 least by any president in history) but by visiting his ranch in Texas.

The film then goes onto September 11th. It explains what happened that day by showing a series of videos. It shows where Bush was at repparttar 125962 time and actually shows exactly what he did as well. While repparttar 125963 video showing Bush sitting in a classroom full of children while repparttar 125964 second plane hit repparttar 125965 World Trade Center a series of other videos show, it introduces repparttar 125966 Bin Laden family.

The Bin Laden family knew George Bush Jr. and George Bush Sr. way before either became president. The Bin Laden family had money put into Mr. Bush, several million dollars in fact. Since George Bush Sr. would not help Bush create his own business he instead got help from repparttar 125967 Bin Ladens. Around eight businesses were bought for Mr. Bush, but only one succeeded. The one then was sold to another company where Bush was left on as CEO.

The clip then goes back to George Bush sitting in a classroom eight minutes after he was told about repparttar 125968 tragedy that happened in New York. He did nothing but sit there in front of repparttar 125969 children and read to them. Some might think this was a good thing where he could comfort repparttar 125970 children, however they did not know and couldn’t conjure what had happened. Also Bush did not address repparttar 125971 American citizens during this time where repparttar 125972 American people needed to hear from their Commander and Chief.

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