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14.
After Charlemagne’s death, Europe split into two parts, France and Germany. Germany then separated into several small states. Which of the following events followed this time period?
A) Hugh Capet organized a revolt in Germany, which eventually led to its reorganization.
B) The pope began ruling over German lands through the use of religious clergy.
C) Otto the Great united Germany and eventually created the Holy Roman Empire.
D) William the Conqueror established peace between the states, leading to modern democracy.
15.
Harold, an Anglo-Saxon nobleman and William, the Duke of Normandy laid claim to the crown of England in 1066. Their conflict started the
A) Norman conquest.
B) Crusades.
C) Britain conquest.
D) Saxon wars.
16.
The Reconquista was a series of campaigns that involved
A) Charlemagne and the French fighting for control of Northern Europe.
B) conquering parts of northern Italy to form Germany.
C) taking control of all of Italy and forcing the Italian citizens to live under Roman rule.
D) the Christians attacking the Moors for control of the Iberian Peninsula.
17.
For about 400 years France was under the control of many powerful nobles loyal to no one. In the mid-900s which noble family rose to power and, through force and treaties with other nobles, gained control of most of France by the 1300s?
A) Napoleon
B) Capetians
C) Monikers
D) Montagues
18.
Which document was the outcome of the English noble uprising in 1215?
A) Parliament
B) Domesday Book
C) Magna Carta
D) Royal Papers
19.
What was the reason behind Leo IX’s dedication to the reformation of the papacy?
A) He believed that the Catholic Church had become corrupted and greedy.
B) Too many people had drifted away from the church, so there was a need to restructure the faith process.
C) There was a need to rebuild the physical churches, because of the destruction from all the wars.
D) Most of the popes had become too involved with politics and needed to focus on religious matters.
20.
The pope’s influential rise in the Middle Ages resulted from
A) the kings and emperors needing more spiritual guidance before going into war.
B) the fact that almost everyone in Europe was Christian.
C) the church taking control of collecting taxes while the kings were at war.
D) the peasants being so poor they looked to the church for support.
21.
In 1054 the patriarch of Constantinople refused to recognize the pope’s authority, so the pope excommunicated the patriarch. How did this impact the Christian church?
A) This action caused the start of the Crusades.
B) The pope instituted stricter rules on the people to demonstrate his power.
C) The pope increased taxes to build more churches and increase the church’s power.
D) It split the church, creating the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox churches.
22.
The popes had the ability to raise armies like they did against the Muslims of southwest Asia, launching a series of wars known as the
A) battles of piety.
B) invasion of Normandy.
C) Crusades.
D) religious wars.
23.
The popes started to gain power and influence in society by being involved in both
A) collecting taxes and building more churches.
B) the emperors lives and the lives of the noble class.
C) people’s religious lives and politics.
D) military policies and the collection of taxes.
24.
During the Middle Ages, the popes became powerful political leaders by
A) the elimination of corrupt clergy, appointing bishops, building armies, and ruling territories.
B) aligning themselves with kings, lords, and monarchs.
C) raising taxes to build more churches and naming those churches after kings and nobles.
D) contributing church monies to the kings to help fund the king’s wars.
25.
Which pope had enough political power to make Emperor Henry IV wait three days in the snow for a meeting?
A) Pope Paul I
B) Pope Leo IX
C) Pope Urban II
D) Pope Gregory VII

21) D. But what it did was split Christianity; the church is still one. In the opinion of the Orthodox, Rome left the church, and took its parishes with it.

22) C.

For the rest of them, read your assigned reading.

Blessings.
/Orthodox

1. Are these sentences correct:

"Today, travelling is easily in the reach of an average person"

"If you base your whole novel solely on your travels, you risk that your book looks like a tourist guide".

2. And does the term ‘launching day’ make sense to refer to the day that an author makes his/her book known to public, and usually autographes the issues people buy?

Or does it sound better to say: "The book will be released next week, and he will be giving a party to celebrate the event"

Today, travelling is easily WITHIN reach of THE average person

"If you base your entire novel solely on your travels, you risk your book looking more like a tourist guide"

"Book Launching" or "book launch" is used

"The book will be released (or launched) next week, and he will be hosting a party to celebrate the event"

1.Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal in response to
A.the shah’s return to power.
B.Britain, France, and Israel’s attack on Egypt.
C.the refusal of the United States and Britain to fund a dam on the Nile.
D.his defeat in the first Arab-Israeli war.

2.Which event led to an increase in conflict between French settlers and Algerian nationalists?
A.Algerian nationalists seized land from French settlers in northern Algeria in 1956.
B.The National Liberation Front was formed in 1954 and fought for Algerian independence from France.
C.French settlers lost control of the government after elections in 1962.
D.Charles De Gaulle, the French prime minister, ordered French troops to attack several Muslim
cities in 1959.

3.What event led to the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry?
A.The shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, was returned to power.
B.The shah used his secret police to replace parliament members that opposed nationalization of the oil industry.
C.Iranians were upset that Russian troops had seized control of the Iranian oil industry.
D.Mohammad Mosaddeq was named the prime minister by the Iranian parliament.

4.Zionism, the Jewish nationalist movement, had been growing and _____________________ since the late 1800s.
A.gaining political strength in the United Nations
B.spreading across Europe and the United States
C.demanding better treatment of Jewish people in all countries
D.calling for an independent state in their ancient homeland

5.Gamal Abdel Nasser promoted Pan-Arabism, or Arab unity, by
A.declaring that Israel had no right to exist in the Middle East.
B.uniting Egypt and Syria in 1958 as the United Arab Republic.
C.declaring war on Britain, France, and Israel in 1956.
D.refusing to join the Baghdad Pact, which was unpopular with many Arab countries.

6.Conflict over the Holy Land between Jews and Arabs ended temporarily in 1291 AD when the Mamluks took control of the area and then controlled it for 260 years. Which group took control from the Mamluks in 1516 AD and controlled the area for another 300 years?
A.Zionists
B.Ottoman Turks
C.Palestinians
D.Egyptians

7.Because of anti-Semitism in Europe, Jews started a movement to create a Jewish homeland. What is the name of this movement?
A.Hebrew Nationalism
B.Land of Our Fathers Movement
C.Zionism
D.Free Homeland Movement

8.What triggered the 1948 Arab-Israeli War?
A.Egyptian troops cut off Israel’s access to the Gulf of Aqaba.
B.Israeli troops invaded Lebanon in an effort to stop attacks by the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
C.Israel formally declared itself an independent state.
D.Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israel.

Please don’t be rude, I’m home schooled and they’ve already made me send back my book.

Cheating is cheating. No excuses. If you find the truth "rude", so be it.

Look up mid-east history.

You might find this site useful:
http://www.mideastweb.org/briefhistory.htm

Prompt: Time has a doomsday book, on whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is written there, an old one disappears. Only a few stand in illuminated characters never to be effaced.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Assignment:
Are there some heroes who will be remembered forever? Or are all heroes doomed to be forgotten one day? Plan your response, and then write an essay to explain your views on this issue. Be sure to support your position with specific points and examples. (You may use personal examples or examples from your reading, observations, or, knowledge of subjects such as history, literature, science.)

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There have been many great minds in the past that have made significant changes to mankind. Some of these past heroes have made their marks in history and are still recognized in our society today. Therefore, some heroes can overcome the obstacle of time and will still be remembered for generations to come.

Albert Einstein, an ingenious mathematician, scientist and philosopher from the 1800s is one of the world’s most influential men. To this day, leading professors, scientists, and students continue to study his works. He has undoubtedly made a great impact in the world because even 200 years after his death, his legacy still lives on.

Philippides, a valiant Athenian soldier from 490 B.C., is still recognized today for his deeds. When the Athenians were on the verge of war with the Persians, Philippides was sent to deliver a message to their neighbours, the Spartans, asking for military assistance. Philippides ran for two days unceasingly and when he arrived, help was denied. With the bad news, Philippides then ran back to his army situated in the city of Marathon. The Athenians thus decided to launch a surprise attack on the Persians and were victorious. The Athenian army instructed Philippides to return to Athens, informing their fellow citizens about their success. After arriving at his destination and running a total of 300 miles in one week, Philippides shouted, “We have won!” and dropped down dead. To honour his perseverance and his heroic deeds, an Olympic event known as the marathon rave was named in his honour. Even two millennia after Philippides’ death, we continue to hold this Olympic event to pay tribute to him.

Einstein and Philippides have proven that great deeds accomplished by great people will always be remembered. No matter the length of time that has passed, their names will live on. As Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once said, “Only a few stand in illuminated character never to be effaced.”

Add one more example (one more paragraph) and you’ve got yourself a near perfect score.

Great introduction, clear thesis, great structure. But always use three examples. Second paragraph should be longer, it needs a little more support. What did Einstein offer to the world? Talk about his invaluable discoveries and get it closer to the length of the third paragraph. The more you write, the higher the score. Excellent grammar and use of vocabulary, however your final quote seems to contradict your thesis.

Hope this helps.

The hammer throw is a track and field event in which a 7.3 kg ball (the "hammer"), starting from rest, is whirled around in a circle several times and released. It then moves upward on the familiar curving path of projectile motion. In one throw, the hammer is given a speed of 29 m/s. For comparison, a .22 caliber bullet has a mass of 2.6 g and, starting from rest, exits the barrel of a gun with a speed of 410 m/s. Determine the work done to launch the motion of (a) the hammer and (b) the bullet.

The book says the answers are (a) 3.1 x 10^3 J and (b) 2.2 x 10^2 J, but I have no idea how to get there…

To solve this problem, we must assume that energy is conserved. (This isn’t stated in the problem, and is not true in general in these real-world examples, however we must assume conservation of energy in order to solve the problem with the information given).

Work = Kinetic Energy = (0.5)(mv^2)

For Work in Joules, the mass is in units of Kg, and the velocity is in units of m/s.

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PREFACE:

The last memories would soon perish. Event after event they’d fade as if nothing had occurred. I had foreseen that, but had no idea how to avoid it. I could already perceive the terror annihilating the source of my joy, imperiling the lives of ones I loved and yet there was no time to relapse. The smiles of the people I’d lost had been mangled, frozen expressionless as they vanished. Everything stopped turning as I was beginning to fall out of existence, holding no subsistence but volition to keep my sanity. With fate being the only scourge of this humanity, I knew death might be the perfect recovery.

CHAPTER ONE:

A pile of ashes stood out among the dead bodies, tossed beside the leftovers as famished captives scavenged for anything edible. It grew more and more recognizable when I crouched over the devastated figures to make sense of the chaos. Then I saw it, each grain of sand sculpted flawlessly the shape of my dad’s arm stretching out to protect the child next to him from the corpses that had probably seemed to be falling from above. I rooted in one place, shocked as I tried to assume what had happened. My father had lunged towards the innocent child to shield him with his body weight upon the child’s front as a dome; that would explain his crushed spine. And then he held it a foot off the child’s abdomen so that the boy could manage to scramble out. Apparently, the rescue mission hadn’t worked as well as I thought my dad had been expecting.

"Dad…." I said quietly, afraid the soldier who I guessed had shot the child as he’d escaped would think I was his brother. Fury was launched into me as the tears scuttled their way down across my freckled cheek. It was my dad there who looked just the same as the broken skeletons he’d saved this child from, suffocating from the smell of the burnt limbs. I’d always known my dad would never change. Altruism had been a characteristic of him as he would have jeopardized everything he had possession of for whom in danger.

The panic didn’t last long as I could not hope for a better ending. I brought myself into a sitting position, waiting while the remnants of my father clustered around me. My nous refused to confirm his demise though these views evidenced it. Reluctantly, I let the doubt suck in as his incinerated skin brushed against mine before dispersing away. "Goodbye dad, I won’t be far…" I choked out the last words in the same level of tone as I had before. I hadn’t spent a lot of time with my father; I’d thought it wasn’t something I couldn’t do later, or do at all in that case. I slumped on the ground, acquiescing with my dad’s disappearance as memories started flourishing in my head. As impossible as it might sound, I didn’t know if I was capable enough to relinquish his life as doing that would require me to forget him. I looked up to watch the ashes that had once been my father wafting where they were blown, circulating in the air. With a single blowing sound, everything went obscurely blurry. It squalled away the descending leaves as they rustled against each other, moving anything that stumbled in the way, and then flying unresistingly in the same direction, unleashing the freedom within. My eyes followed the whirling movement of the sand as I suddenly lurched to my feet.

"Wait!" I ordered, scudding across the field as if trying to catch something. It didn’t slow and I knew it would be stupid to force it to. As I trudged to a stop, exhaling heavily in the process, I noticed the attention I didn’t want to have from this soldier focused on me. The humidity increased as the sweat drops glittered off my skin, skidding along the cheekbone down my jaw and then branching off into a couple of paths as they landed on my neck. I froze dead, the blood rushed through my veins so fast that my skin started discoloring. My forehead creased as I shook any thought off my head, eyes wrinkled up. This time I was ready, preparing myself to the bullet that was going to plunge into my body and amputate the pain that felt like an ordinary rib now. Once again, there wasn’t much time, one eternal minute to be exact. Seconds ticked by. I counted them off, surprised on how well my last words matched this scene. The silhouette of this soldier emerged as I squinted into the mist that was spreading all over the field. A new unfamiliar wave of fear washed through me, crumbling my bones apart before I could pull myself together to face the death that was greeting me. I didn’t consider it "killing"; I thought euthanasia would be the right definition to what it was as I knew it’d be a matter of time for me to reunion with my father. Instinctively, I collapsed on my left knee, genuflecting as if to worship him as his mighty figure ascended.
"Get up kid" A cold voice commanded as the hair on the back of my neck bristled, sending an edge to the horror that shivered down my spine, squashing the ankles to the ground. I hesitated, for a reason I felt more protected with me stooping this way. My bones got pulverized from being bent that long. It hurt, but I didn’t complain; too frightened to make a sudden movement. I tried to calm the systems down as I curled up into a ball, glimpsing at him.

"I told you to get up!" He yelled before I could notice him composing his dark features. His brows furrowed as his narrow pea eyes pointed at me like a blade pinching a soft bulge. I breathed hastily in and out, stretching one leg out and then the other, thinking too hard while doing so.

"You want me to force you stand up? Move it!" It was easier to recognize him this time. The voice, the glare, the scent, it was him. The nightmare that had taken my dad’s dreams, now coming to take mine.

I only read the first few paragraphs of chapter 1 but it’s good so far and I would buy it if it were in the stores.
Very good.

PREFACE:

The last memories would soon perish. Event after event they’d fade as if nothing had occurred. I had foreseen that, but had no idea how to avoid it. I could already perceive the terror annihilating the source of my joy, imperiling the lives of ones I loved and yet there was no time to relapse. The smiles of the people I’d lost had been mangled, frozen expressionless as they vanished. Everything stopped turning as I was beginning to fall out of existence, holding no subsistence but volition to keep my sanity. With fate being the only scourge of this humanity, I knew death might be the perfect recovery.

CHAPTER ONE:

A pile of ashes stood out among the dead bodies, tossed beside the leftovers as famished captives scavenged for anything edible. It grew more and more recognizable when I crouched over the devastated figures to make sense of the chaos. Then I saw it, each grain of sand sculpted flawlessly the shape of my dad’s arm stretching out to protect the child next to him from the corpses that had probably seemed to be falling from above. I rooted in one place, shocked as I tried to assume what had happened. My father had lunged towards the unknown child to shield him with his body weight upon the child’s front as a dome; that would explain his crushed spine. And then he held it a foot off the child’s abdomen so that the boy could manage to scramble out. Apparently, the rescue mission hadn’t worked as well as I thought my dad had been expecting.

"Dad…." I said quietly, afraid the soldier who I guessed had shot the child as he’d escaped would think I was his brother. Fury was launched into me as the tears scuttled their way down across my reddish cheek. It was my dad there who looked just the same as the broken skeletons he’d saved this child from, suffocating from the smell of the burnt limbs. I’d always known my dad would never change. Altruism had been a characteristic of him as he would have jeopardized everything he had possession of for whom in danger.

The panic didn’t last long as I could not hope for a better ending. I brought myself into a sitting position, waiting while the remnants of my father clustered around me. My nous refused to confirm his demise though these views evidenced it. Reluctantly, I let the doubt suck in as his incinerated skin brushed against mine before dispersing away. "Goodbye dad, I won’t be far…" I choked out the last words in the same level of tone as I had before. I hadn’t spent a lot of time with my father; I’d thought it wasn’t something I couldn’t do later, or do at all in that case. I slumped on the ground, acquiescing with my dad’s disappearance as memories started flourishing in my head. As impossible as it might sound, I didn’t know if I was capable enough to relinquish his life as doing that would require me to forget him. I looked up to watch the ashes that had once been my father wafting where they were blown, unleashing the freedom within. My eyes followed the whirling movement of the sand as I suddenly lurched to my feet.

"Wait!" I ordered, scudding across the field as if trying to catch something. It didn’t slow and I knew it would be stupid to force it to. As I trudged to a stop, exhaling heavily in the process, I noticed the attention I didn’t want to have from this soldier focused on me. The humidity increased as the sweat drops glittered off my skin, skidding along the cheekbone down my jaw and then branching off into a couple of paths as they landed on my neck. I froze dead, the blood rushed through my veins so fast that my skin started discoloring. My forehead creased as I shook any thought off my head, eyes wrinkled up. This time I was ready, preparing myself to the bullet that was going to plunge into my body and amputate the pain that felt like an ordinary rib now. Once again, there wasn’t much time, one eternal minute to be exact. Seconds ticked by. I counted them off, surprised on how well my last words matched this scene.

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As said, you are a fantastic writer. The prologue was a bit of a iffy, but it sets the stage for the first chapter.

This is definitely publish worthy I’d like to know a little more about the book (like the summary and genre) before I’d decide to buy it, though. Having read this far, I would probably read at least a chapter more before I decide I really like it. anyway, great talent!

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And if you could, I’d appreciate you emaling (via ya!) me the title of the book once this thing is in stores

Hope I’ve helped & good luck with your book

Its about a young political genuius who rises through the ranks to become one of the greatest
president of the United States. That is untill halfway through his first presidential term trouble in the middle east starts up and he launches a full blown war, but near the end of his term, knowing because of the war he’ll lose re-election, he uses goverment funding to start a private army who sole purpose is to protect Israel from it enemies. Through a series of events it is shown that this private army is in fact a powerfully large one with many cells in countries all over the world. It is also shown that this army has nuclear warfare capabilities. Leaders of many countries feel threatened by this army, who is only loyal to our protagonist and Israel, and feel uneasy with the many cells within their nations borders. They charge our protagonist with war crimes and a series of "cat and mouse" events begin. Though all this time our protagonist is trying to tell them that his army is just a security force to protect israel, they dont listen. With these events escalating it finally reaches its boiling point. Countries in the U.N luanch a massive attack on all the city-cells located all over the world in every nation. Only then is the true power of this army shown. Battles break out everywhere, all leading to the massive luanch of a majority of the worlds nuclear missels by this army unto their attacking enmies and the complete anhilation of Israel. After the aftermath its clear that the only strong organized force is the protagonists army. Most goverment or other armies around the world is either non-existant or barely alive. Our protagonist then see’s its now his responsibilty to take power over the world to lead it to reconstruction as he is the only person capable of doing it.

EXTRA: to clarify some points
The whole reason our protagonist tries to protect Israel is the prevent it’s enmies from destroying it like it says in the book of revalation
The army and it’s cell member are mostly christians who belive in our protagonists cause
It was never our protagonists goal to take over the world, it just happened.
Most events follow the Book of Revalations
The perspective of how want to write this book is kinda wierd. The first few chapters up up untill he is president, are seen through our protagonists eyes. After that chapters are in the perspective of either our protagonist or randoms (civilians, police officers, millitary generals) and how they see and interpet the events happening. Nut this is all happening on a linear storyline.

It sounds like a power fantasy. Your protagonist sounds like he might be the anti-Christ. You’ve put a lot of thought into your synopsis. Now is the time to go ahead and write your story.

The launch event for Michael Nath’s novel La Rochelle, held at 309 Regent Street, London. Includes a short reading from the book.

For more on La Rochelle and Michael Nath please visit http://www.route-online.com

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Barbara Klunder, illustrator and author of “Other Goose Recycled Rhymes for Our Fragile Times,” talks to Marc Glassman of Pages Books & Magazines about her childhood inspirations at her official book launch, August 30, 2007.

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