Charlemagne's father, Pepin, continued this process throughout his rule and passed his beliefs on to Charlemagne. ... Pepin, in the Merovingian tradition of the time, split his kingdom between his two sons. ... Charlemagne actually defeated them many times, but due to their faithlessness and their propensity to return to their pagan lifestyle, the Saxons lost many lives in the prolonged battles with the Franks. ... The feudal monarchy created by Charlemagne had two definite characteristics: absolute power limited only by advice given by nobles and the Church and power based on a contr...

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Perhaps the most striking distinction between the two literary periods is the social rank of the military. ... When Aude is informed of Roland's death by Charlemagne, she replies to Charlemagne: "These words mean nothing to me. ... The idea of piety was so strongly pressed on the military men that they would pray and beg God for his mercy as the lay dying on the battlefield. " (Oliver) dismounts and lays himself on the ground and resolutely confesses his sins aloud, his two hands joined and stretched upwards towards the sky. ... These are perhaps the most important features in the lives o...

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This conclusion is come to after examining the lives of the women in the two stories and the power that they were able to exert over their own densities. In both stories, the women live in a male dominated society and therefore their respective fates" are largely determined by the principle men in their lives. ... Brominade, the Infidel Queen whose husband is eventually defeated by Charlemagne, appears only towards the end of the text, and is given comparatively little to say. ... The notion of an ideal and pure love is a shared theme between the two stories. ... The story says that "a woman...

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For more than two hundred years, The Declaration Of Independence continues to speak for people worldwide who are in favor of democracy. ... Winston Smith, the protagonist of 1984, lives in Victory Mansions, forty-five year old flats with everything falling to pieces. ... As with the person who lives in the place, Mrs Parson, is equally miserable and helpless v/s "colorless, crushed-looking, with wispy hair and a lined face" (22). ... Since nobody would bother to question its authenticity, and then "once the act of forgery was forgotten, would exist just as authentically, and upon the same e...

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After two of the three contestants died, Saladin was chosen over the last one remaining, becoming the Emir of Egypt. ... There were still two big cities to conquer so that he could have a firm hold on The Middle East, and those were Aleppo and Mosul. ...

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"The belief in mind control is symptomatic of a general social disease that stems from the sensation that we have very little control over our lives. ... (Orwell 110) The Party believes the people only need to have two emotions; love and hate. ... Once everyone forgot about the act of forgery he would have existed as authentically and upon the same evidence as Caesar or Charlemagne who really had existed. ...

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• Grade Level: High School