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I did learn alot this year in mr. Wojo's class. i wish i could  think of everything but my brain is fried at the moment. farewell mr. Wojo. and watch out for the narwhals on the way out the door into your next chapter of your life.

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I strongly believe that Shakespeare was the true renaissance man. Just by reading his books and plays you would know about the underbelly of the times, the political views, and many more cultural things. he would always have things like that in his plays so people could relate to the storys. he is truly a great rennaisance man, and alot can be learned from his books

finals 8

Romanesque period

 Many castles were built during this period, but they are greatly outnumbered by churches. Fortifications were made as churches. These churches had thick walls made of stone so they could withstand anything that was thrown at it. They hardly had any windows and if they did they were small so that attacking enemy's would have trouble shooting arrows into the church. The taller parts of the church is where the archers would get into position. Ready to fire at attackers.

During this time the church was more focused on keeping itself safe. Providing protection to its people, and gaining power, then it was on expressing passion for the Christ. For example Speyer Cathedral created by Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor in 1030, begun as an expression of imperial power and architectural innovation. They were more influenced by power back then. They didn’t care about how beautiful they're cathedrals were as long as they had power

Gothic architecture is a style of architecture that flourished during the high and late medieval period. It originated in 12th century France and lasting into the 16th century, Gothic architecture was known during the period as "the French Style," with the term Gothic first appearing during the later part of the Renaissance.

the style was born in the mid-12th century with the intention of making churches look like heaven: soaring, colorful, and bright. The biggest difference in Gothic style was the use of flying buttresses. These support structures or towers, set off from the main walls and attached by arches, displaced the pressure from the roof outward. Essentially, this meant the buildings could get taller, walls could get thinner, and there could be a lot of stained-glass windows. Gothic churches sport huge, ornate, petaled round masterpieces called rose windows. Further, Gothic cathedrals were also much pointier than their predecessors, with pointed arches and tall spires (instead of blunt towers) characterizing the style.

Gothic architecture is most familiar as the architecture of many of the great cathedrals, abbeys and churches of Europe. It is also the architecture of many castles, palaces, town halls, guild halls, universities and to a less prominent extent, private dwellings.

It is in the great churches and cathedrals and in a number of civic buildings that the Gothic style was expressed most powerfully, its characteristics lending themselves to appeal to the emotions. They were usually tall as if they were "reaching up to god", And had A LOT of windows to let "gods great glory and light shine in". Most churches were made in the shape of a cross to symbolize Christ on the cross. The golden tabernacle originated from these gothic churches. The gold represents the greatness of the body of Christ and how well respected it should be. The apse of these buildings were very flowing and unified to resemble unity and calmness of the heavens, where as Romanesque apse's were separated for protection and stability

finals 7

1) The spread of the Black death caused panic in Europe. People started to believe that the world was slowly ending and everyone became very careful about everything.
2) it starts as a black ring around your hand and it starts to spread through your body it slowly eats away at your skin and your insides, and is very very dangerous. people walk around with posies in thier pockets, hence "pockets full of posies" in the childrens song, i try to cure it with worms stew but it doesnt seem to cure it. no one seems to find a cure. once you have it you become a lost cause. theres no solution
3) the black death has affected america before but not directly. many irish people moved here in search of a new home during the black death in england and the potato famine. i think that if it were to strike the people of america we would try using decontamination techniques and make a huge deal about it. we would lock people in decontamination rooms and try to keep others from becoming infected. it would probably for some people become an STD situation. something you keep to yourself and not tell anyone until its to late. soon half the country would be infected. fast food chains would be sued and shut down for "food contamination". half the marketing industry would be shut down. the food industry that is. it would be chaos. 

Finals 6

These crusaders are savages. We raised most of their ancestors up as muslims and now because of the coming of Jesus they are converting to Christianity. they believe that just because it is a holy place for them that it should rightfully be thiers. Greedy savages. Well you know what? It is an even greater holy place for us to and it has been for a long time and they should know this by now.If they want Jerusalem we arnt going to just hand over our holy land. Your going to have to fight us for it. kick all of the christians out of Jerusalem they might rise up against us to fight for their religion and to take Jerusalem.
This is OUR land and you arnt going to take it from us until everyone of us is killed in cold blood.  
1) http://richardscrusaders.wikispaces.com/

finals 5!

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/books/review/book-review-among-the-truthers-by-jonathan-kay.html?ref=sept112001it is very fair to say that the united states is like the roman empire in allot of different ways. people have seen this for centuries the similarity between us and the romans. Our democracy the way we run our government, was taken from the Romans. They would have thier president who was voted for every so many years, and so do we, every four years we pick our new president our new ruler. Both of us (Romans and the U.S.A.) have different branches in our government and also have diffrent beliefs within our government which makes it so diffrent. in no other government is there such a fight between thoughts and votes and presidency. why? becuase no other government has more then one ruler! Most of the time at least. we are allowed to vote in what we believe in that was a brand new thing to the romans. usually it was the ruler who made all the decisions. but now "wait we can decide what happens? YIPPEE!" its the same for the U.S. also.


 Heres a similarity. on the top of this news paper http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/hr.asp?fpVname=AL_OAN&ref_pge=gal&b_pge=1, there is an article named "Council Approves sewer, trash rate increases". it talks about how the council is voting on sewer waste and trash. now there are two things in there that relate to the romans. the first thing is that, they both have sewer systems. imagine that? the second is that we both had councils that were used by the public. we have the public council, and they had the Council to the plebes which gave poor romans the chance to have a say in roman government which is the same thing the the public council does.


another thing that is always a fight in the united states is the Liberals vs. Conservatives. The roman government had thier own difference's and fights. the Patriarcs Vs. the Plebians. "The distinction between patricians and Plebeians in Ancient Rome was based purely on birth. Although modern writers often portray patricians as rich and powerful families who managed to secure power over the less-fortunate plebeian families, most historians argue that this is an over-simplification. As civil rights for plebeians increased during the middle and late Roman Republic, many plebeian families had attained wealth and power while some traditionally patrician families had fallen into poverty and obscurity." most patriarcs were judges or priests. and the plebians were lower farmers.


I beleive that america might fall just as the romans did. And in the same way also. the Romans stopped being rome. they stopped picking presidents and started choosing emporers. And the United states is starting to stop being the united states. we went from the people having tons of say and power and choice in our government. And now the government is taking over everything. just look at "Obamacare". they choose weather to help people or not. the government is getting to much power. And i dont think its right. my advice to who ever doesnt know what im talking about. read "animal farm" I guess "African americans", and hobo's, and homosexuals, and everyone that has a stereotype. are "MORE EQUAL" then all the rest of us. so they deserve more things and more help. and the government is the ones choosing weather or not to do this, rather then the people. you know those things called tax's? how much of the things on there did you have a say in weather to pay for or not?

finals 4

Herodotus was more of a general speaker he tried to convey his thoughts and what happened into a story and create a great sounding story, his works weren't always accurate and he would exaggerate things. when i look at this passage it conveys his writing by the way that
thucydides was very specific he would tell history as it is and would never exaggerate. He would tell everything that there was to be told it was more history and recordings then it was a story. In this passage it says that "Military prosecutors have refiled terrorism and murder charges against Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other men in the Sept. 11 attacks, using a revamped trial process at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the Pentagon said Tuesday.

The charges allege that the men were responsible for planning the attacks that sent hijacked commercial airliners slamming into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania, killing nearly 3,000 people.

Prosecutors have recommended that the trial be a capital case, which could bring the death penalty. " this  is how he would write his history books. he would give all of the information that was needed to understand and nothing else. it was easy to understand the happenings becuase of this