The King James Bible: the Story Few literary works have had as tremendous an impact uponthe world as the King James Bible. ... However, manyhave no idea of how the King James Bible came to be. ... John Reynolds at theHampton Court Conference, which was a meeting of the bishopsof England called for by King James. ... 97).King James loved the idea. ... The listof translators and job of each company is as follows:Westminster, First Company (10): Lancelot Andrewes, JohnOverall, Adrian de Saravia, Richard Clark, John Layfield,Robert Tighe, Francis Burleigh, Geoffrey King, WilliamBedwell, Richard ...

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At the top was the king, who was considered to be the sovereign lord. ... English barons formed an allegiance that forced King John to sign this agreement, which limited the king's powers of taxation. ... The king had a predetermined relationship with those below him: the vassal was required to attend the lord at his court, help administer justice, offer the King advice, swear his loyalty and contribute money. ... Swearing homage meant that the noble or baron was to be the king's man until death. ... Conversely though, the feudal link between king and vassal was in reality a cont...

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In his book, Martin Luther King talks strongly against inequality with reference to the racial discrimination. King felt that the blacks were also supposed to be given an opportunity to become better people. ... John F. ... Just as it was said by Chief Justice John Roberts, "the only way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discrimination on the basis of race.... King also believed in a better future. ...

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American History King Philip's War: An Exercise In Failure In 1675, the Algonquian Indians rose up in fury against the Puritan Colonists, sparking a violent conflict that engulfed all of Southern New England. ... (Lepore 18) King Philip's war was not the basic Indian war that plagues American history. ... (Lepore 28) This angered Metacomet, sachem of the Algonquains, (also known as King Philip), to organize a party devoted to a forceful rebellion. John Sassamon, a devoted Indian Christian and a former friend and advisor to Metacomet, heard of this, and released the informati...

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King Hrothgar who sees to the protection of the land could be portraying as Lord. ... Jesus Christ was sent by God and he is recognized as the only bigoted son that everyone believes as the intermediary to God so also is Beowulf as well was sent by King Hrothgar to deliver his people and as intermediary to the king. According to John 4:34, In King James version, "Jesus saith unto them, my meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work" so also beowulf was sent to do the job of the king who portray as God in the poem.. ... Hrothgar, who represent as Lord in the po...

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Protestants were already calling to reform the Roman Church and Reformers such as German Martin Luther, Frenchman Jean Calvin, and King Henry VIII, played significant roles in contributing to reforming the Catholic Church. ... It could be this, that many have followed John Calvin's teachings, and from this, the Calvinistic church was brought in. ... He reinforced the "Blue Laws", which was the life of a strict and regulated life, and John Knox led the French Calvinists who supported Calvin from France to Scotland to the Scottish Presbyterian. The third most popular church was also fou...

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The main villain of "Much Ado" is Don John who is the illegitimate brother of Don Pedro, the Prince of Arragon. ... Don John states that "I am not a man of many words," leading the audience to come to the conclusion that he is shy. ... There are various parts in the play in which Tybalt and Don John act in very similar ways. ... The mood change is very similar in "Much Ado," as Don John causes trouble to almost everyone. ... In Elizabethan England it was seen as extremely sinful to deceive the King, so that made the audience despise Don John even more. ...

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With the narrative style of a novel rather than a historical record, Demos tells the story of Eunice Williams, a captured daughter of honored minister John Williams, to turn the worlds of master and captive upside down. ... John Williams himself would bicker perpetually with the Jesuits while in captivity. They would argue vehemently over the veracity of each faith, never truly gaining ground on any point; however, John Williams often embellished these arguments in his narrative The Redeemed Captive Returns to Zion. ... The narrative itself speaks of her, increasing the sympathy felt by New...

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John Keats was a respected English writer from the Romantic Era, specifically known for his poetry. ... In John Keats's poem, "Ode to a Nightingale,"" he characterizes the Romantic Era through his discontent with the tiredness of the real world, and he attempts to use the nightingale as a representation of an ideal world where beauty and love are not subject to change. ... "The tales of King Arthur were especially resonant to their imaginations. ... This freedom allowed authors like John Keats to express themselves through their poetry like they had never been able to before. ... John Ke...

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On June 11th 1776, a five men committee consisting of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston and Roger Sherman was appointed to write a draft of the Declaration by the Continental Congress. ... Afterwards a trial was held but the British, represented by John Adams and Josiah Quincy III, were acquitted. ... Even the king cannot be immune to the "Laws of Nature". ... Following the preamble is a long list of, historical and political, wrong doings by King George III, who is referred to as "He". ... It appealed to its audience because it was written...

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Transcribed in 1436, two years before Kempe's death, the autobiography takes place in King's Lynn, Norfolk, England. ... The author, a well-off middle class townswoman, lives in a medieval English town of King's Lynn. Born in 1373, she marries John Kempe, a cloth maker and has fourteen children with him. ... Margery returns to the household, after spending many years apart from him on her pilgrimages, to care for John. ... Nevertheless, she cares for John Kempe, serving him and if he were Christ himself (2012). ...

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During the Glorious Revolution, tensions drew in America over the crowning of King James II. ... (American Enlightenment [1], 2) Other political ideas reached America, such as John Locke's publications on contractual government and the divine right of kings. ... Descartes" theories were opposed, however, by British philosophers of the empiricist tradition, such as John Locke, who believed that all ideas are derived from the senses. ... As John Locke wrote in The Reasonableness of Christianity:In this state of darkness and ignorance of the true God, vice and superstition held the world; no...

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We get a convincing proof of this phenomenon in the third transcription involving John Cockerell and an enormous estate in the Barbados. ... "Drink to the health of King George" seems like a very popular cheer, according to the second transcript. It is worth considering that King George I, much like his successors, was not a particularly charismatic or commonly liked leader6: Anglicanism, the doctrine for which George stands, is the true object of the toast. ... Jacobites are dreaded, scorned, and often paralleled to biblical antagonists such as the Assyrians and their allies.8 The f...

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Of these qualities, chivalry is essential and shown often throughout "Sir Galahad", The Canterbury Tales, and Sir Torre's short quest in John Steinbeck's "The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights.... His understanding response towards the woman shows his readiness to undertake his king's task while considering the warnings humbly. ... Sir Torre's quest was one less of religious significance and more simply completed in servitude of both King Arthur and Merlin. ... Many knights "were expected to serve both god and the King," both of which are re...

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During this period of time, there were some very important people emerging in the history of United States, John Wilks from Great Britain was very famous and significant among them. ... Colonists looked to John Wilks as somehow a successful example for fighting for liberty, or welfare, against the established authority. ... Besides these commons, John Wilks had established personal connection with some of these colonists and offered them advice of what could be done at certain points. ... The prevailing petition movements also showed this particular attitudes among the colonists that they th...

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Although Britain had won the war, King George II decided to undertake a new colonial policy intended to tighten political control over its rather autonomous colonies. ... This aggravated the colonies in America as the King wanted them to help pay for their defence and the expenses. ... "The Bloody Massacre in King-Street,"6 which was probably the most effective piece of war propaganda, depicts the British massacring peaceful colonists in cold blood. ...

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The story opens in England, October 26, 1775, with King George III of England addressing the British Parliament on the war in the North American colonies. ... McCullough offers the British perspective on the events in faraway North America first, re-creating the debate in Parliament over the king's decision to quash the rebellion. ... He writes evenhandedly about the British generals Howe, Henry Clinton, John Burgoyne, and Charles Cornwallis. Howe had served under General James Wolfe, who called him "the best officer in the King's service.... Readers interested in a wider view...

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The Victorians recognised that they were breaking down the systems of: Christian orthodoxy under the rule of the church, civil government under the rule of the king and nobility, the social structure of fixed classes, each with its recognised rights and duties and the economic organisation. ... In the Subjugation of Women, John Stuart Mill argues that "what is now called the nature of women is eminently an artificial thing v/s the result of forced repression in some directions, unnatural stimulation in others. ... John Morley believed "it was the age of science, new knowledge, searching cri...

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When King Henry VII dissolved the Catholic Church and made the Church of England rendering the Pope powerless in all English affairs (Williams, 4), some people, non-conformists, were not happy. ... They were known by 3 different names, their leader William Bradford called them Pilgrims, those who held them in contempt called them Brownists, and to King James and his court they were known as Separatists (Williams, 48). ... John Winthrop who lead the fist great wave of settlers in the spring of 1630, published in England, before his departure, a declaration of the colonists" attachment and grat...

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" is there any inhabitant in America so ignorant, as not to know, that according to what is called the PRESENT CONSTITUTION, that this continent can make no laws but what the king gives it leave to; and is there any man so unwise, as not to see, that (considering what has happened) he will suffer no law to be made here, but such as suit HIS purpose." ... After the end of the civil war in England, and the restoration of King Charles II, England closed its grip on the colonies. ... Faced with the discontent of the colonists, ranging from insubstantial talk right up to the open rebellions ...

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Instead, every man in the kingdom was considered to be the king's army and it was the duty of everyone to protect the kingdom. ... In this case, it was determined that subjects of the kingdom had the right to be protected from searches and seizures that were unlawfully conducted, even if they were conducted by the king's representatives. ... Often juries were brought together to accuse political opponents of the king of various crimes in order to do away with their opposition. ... Therefore, when the votes were tallied in the election of 1796, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson received...

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Throughout the sixteen hundreds, Great Britain was more involved in solving the Constitutional issue of who was to have more power in English government, the king or parliament. ... "North was the kind of politician George had been looking for ----a plodding, dogged, industrious man, neither a fool nor a genius, much like the king himself. ... The spokesperson of the colonies, John Dickinson, wrote in his "Letters of a Pennsylvania Farmer," on the issue of direct taxes. ... The Massachusetts Government Act said that the Governor's council had to be appointed by the King and limited town m...

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Martin Luther King was a key player in the civil rights movement. ... King addressed his well-known speech 'I have a dream' here.This essays aims to discuss the success of the Civil Rights Movement by playing special emphasis on the structural changes of the American society as well as the organizational strength of the movement. ... King mobilised the African-American community within the movement. ... The minister was king (Austin,2003). ... The practice of sit-in's formed the student nonviolent coordinating power which helped administer a need for civil rights legislations...

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Historically, the concept of human rights has existed in European thought for many centuries dating back to the time of King John of England around the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, under a number names. After the king violated several ancient laws and customs by which England had been governed, his subjects forced him to sign the Magna Carta (or Great Charter) that lists a number of what later came to be known as human rights. ... However, the concept of universal rights took root with the expansion of this idea by philosophers such as Thomas Paine, Henry David Thoreau, and John Stuart M...

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In John Dickinson's "Letter 2" from Letters from a Farmer he writes, "If Great-Britain can order us to come to her for necessaries we want, and can order us to pay what taxes she pleases before we take them away, or when we land them here, we are as abject slaves as France and Poland can show in wooden shoes, and with uncombed hair", [Dic68]. ... In a letter from a Boston merchant named John Andrews to his brother in Philadelphia it says, "I sincerely believe they [the British Parliament] intend to carry out their threats, which are to make the town a desolate wil...

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