Homework instructions: Please no outside source unless its from the book.

Read Chapter 13 –  European Recovery & Renaissance

Answer the following questions properly and use only the textbook as reference, avoid using too much outside source.

1. What code of conduct is associated with the term Chivalry?  Discuss the relationship of chivalry to the feminist movement today.

2. What was the “Black Death?” Discuss how it impacted European society.

3. What is humanism? Why were the writings of Ancient Greeks and Romans important to humanists?

4. What values do you believe were important in Renaissance society? Why is the renaissance often thought of as the first “modern age?’

Write 500 words answering each question below :
 

1. What are the implications for our understanding of Beowulf of Wiglaf’s judgment of his leader in the following passage?“Often must many men, for the will of one,
   endure exile, as it has happened to us;
   we could not convince the beloved prince,
   the keeper of the kingdom, by any counsel,
   that he not greet the gold-ward,
   let him lie, where he long had been,
   inhabiting his abodes until the world’s end;
   he held to his noble destiny.” (3077-3084a)
   Note Hygelac’s similar attempt to dissuade Beowulf from going to Denmark to fight Grendel reported in lines 1992b-1998.
    
2. How would you argue that Brutus, not Julius Caesar, is the most important character in Shakespeare’s play and that the play should rightly be called Marcus Brutus and not Julius Caesar? 
3. How does the marriage of Adam and Eve as presented in Books 9 and 12 of Paradise Lost resemble the marriages of the Wife of Bath and Jankyn, Margery and John Kempe, Portia and Brutus, and Calpurnia and Caesar? 
4. In the battle of raunchy poems, who wins, the men or the women, by creating the more devastating poems about the other sex, Aphra Behn (“The Disappointment”) and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (“The Reasons that Induced Dr. S. to write a Poem called ‘The Lady’s Dressing Room'”) or John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (“The Imperfect Enjoyment”) and Jonathan Swift (“The Lady’s Dressing Room”)?

For your thread, answer at least 1 of the following questions of your choice (you can discuss as many as you like):

1. Briefly summarize the history of private prisons in the United States and advise their current status and/or popularity. 
2. Compare and contrast criminal justice organizations with nonprofit organizations.

At lease 500 words

One of the most critical outcomes of armed conflict is the impact on societies. Armed conflict has far-reaching effects and substantially impacts societies. For this discussion, please choose from the following is a list of conflicts the United States fought after 1918. Please post a discussion with a description of 1 major consequence the conflict had on the United States society and how this war affected American sensibilities. Please also discuss if the chosen war changed the way Americans viewed themselves and how the war may have altered America’s role in the world.
Choose 1 war from the following list:

• World War I
• World War II
• Korean Conflict
• Vietnam Conflict
• Cold War

Use the following outline to format your response:
Paragraph 1

• Analyze 1 major consequence the conflict had on United States’ society.
• How did this war affect American sensibilities, including the way Americans viewed the war and themselves?

Paragraph 2

• Did the war change America’s role in the world? Explain your answer.
• Was the outcome of the war beneficial or detrimental to the United States (or a combination of both)?

Note: The scope of this assignment is to analyze how U.S. society changed because of armed conflict and not to provide a summary of the conflict.
Respond to at least 2 or more of your classmates’ Discussion Board postings. Be sure to respond to your classmates’ postings with substantive and respectful responses.

Name and describe the main characters of omega city the forbidden fortress

Answer these questions in essay format: The Black Death (a combination of diseases including the Bubonic Plague) hits Europe in 1348 and kills off approximately 75% of the human population. So, let’s test your Black Death IQ. Write an essay on the Black Death in which you answer all of the following questions. DO NOT write a list of answers to the questions–I am looking for your ability to tell me what it all means, too. Also, be as specific and detailed with your information as possible. 1) The best guess is that the Black Death was spread by the bite of infected fleas that live on the Black Rat. Why were there so many rats? Why were there so few cats to kill the rats? And what other roles did humans play in rat overpopulation? 2) In any given town where the Black Death hit, it counted the members of which two occupations among its first victims? Why is it that those individuals would be especially vulnerable? 3) In searching for a cause for their suffering, who did Europeans blame for the Black Death and how did they seek revenge? Name at least two of these groups and give at least two detailed examples of this persecution. 4) What changes in social customs and attitudes came about in Europe as a result of the Black Death? 5) What changes in literature and art came about in Europe as a result of the Black Death? 6) How did the Black Death affect the Muslim world? In particular, who was blamed for the disease; and how did the treatment of Muslim victims differ from the treatment of victims in Europe? Most important here, how does the course of scientific inquiry in the Middle East diverge from that in Europe in the wake of the Black Death? 7) What did an “innocent” nursery rhyme like Ring Around the Rosie have to do with the Black Death? (in your research you may run across a school of thought that says it didn’t…ignore that school of thought)