Essays on Ninety Five

- General Description of Renaissance Believed to have originated in Italy in the late Middle Ages, the Renaissance is a cultural movement between the 14th and 17th centuries that spread across Europe and affected the Europeans’ intellectual, political, and cultural life. Many Historians believed that the Renaissance served as the transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern Era, stating that it marked the beginning of the early Modern period. Some questioned the validity of it being an actual advancement and instead may just have been a nostalgic turn for the classical period characterized by the resurgence of interest in ...

The sixteenth century is a century that Europe experienced great change in on many fronts. It was a century that witnessed growth of royal power, discovery of new lands and the appearance of centralized monarchies (Hillerbrand, pg. 3). It was also the century where humanistic ideas of the Italian Renaissance were spreading all over Europe and this renaissance helped secularize the European society. The most revolutionary event in this century was the Protestant Reformation that forced people to make a choice between being a Catholic and being a Protestant. A number of visible signs of disorder within the church pointed to the need ...

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No matter how hard we try to believe that we are living in a developed country and we are literate and modern people, studies show that we still are not free from the shackles of domestic violence. According to a survey conducted by US National Institute of Mental Health, 42.8% of women were victims of domestic violence yet they still were in that abusive relationship (Nauert, 2010). Abusive relationships take the form of physical, emotional, psychological and verbal abuse which might leave the victim dwell in the darkness of reality. With bruised marks and a scared image, the victim tends to lead a ...

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In the early 1500’s, a young German university teacher and monk known as Martin Luther began feeling that major reforms were required in the most famous church at that time, The Roman Catholic Church. There was one particular practice in the Roman Catholic Church that Martin Luther hated and this was indulgences selling. Indulgence selling involved the exclusion or release of individuals from punishment for sin in exchange for money. The individuals were given what was referred to as “letters of pardon”. In 1957, Martin Luther made a conclusive list of personal objections to the practices of the Roman ...