Death and DisasterEssay Preview: Death and DisasterReport this essayMcLaughlin1Taylor McLaughlinProfessor DearminHUM 12152 March 2012Death and DisasterThe 14th century had some very tremendous and horrific altercations to it in Europe, most of which are considered to be the most devastating events in European history. The first event that came along was the decline of church with the Avignon Papacy (1309-1377), and the Great Schism (1378-1417), then the Hundred Years War (1337-1453), and another tragic disaster called the Black Death occurred in Europe and parts of Russia in 1346 and lasted all the way through until 1353. The thirteen and fourteen hundreds were some of the most horrendous times for life in Europe because of these three events.
These events had a tremendous impact on European lifestyle because of the ways things were changing over a short amount of time. The first event was the Avignon Papacy and the Great Schism this had the effect on the lifestyle because at the time there were a total of 7 different Popes, all were French, and all were increasingly under the influence of the French crown. Also causing conflict between the people and the Popes was that the Popes resided in France instead of the more traditional home of Rome. This had such a dramatic effect on the European lifestyle because some of the Popes bowed before the French crown, which tied in government and religion in the churches. Also “The unsavory efforts at financial and political aggrandizement damaged the reputation of the Church” (Fiero 4). The Great Schism was not very pleasing for the European lifestyle as well because of the French government did not approve of the election of Italian Pope and in return he elected a Pope of his own.. So that had split the churches and created an Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church.
The Hundred Years War had a major factor on European lifestyle because of the changes in warfare such as the use of long range gun powder weapons. It also damaged the people around it from all of the deaths in the town and conflict between the UK and France. Another factor that caused the European lifestyle was the Black Death, killing and infecting over 60% of the European population. A sudden outbreak in illness that was untreatable and caused death within a couple of days. All of these events posed a sort of roadblock on sources of power because of the need for a steady period of time where there was no disaster or epidemic occurring. The European lifestyle didnt get the break they needed to rebuild. Before any of these events occurred they were boiling in a pot of conflict between the government and religion which caused the Avignon Papacy and the Great Schism to occur. The Hundred Years War was an event already
Cameron: “All I can say is that the greatest pain in the life of the Roman Empire goes to our soldiers, their families and the people of Britain who did not understand us. And this pain is a reminder to everyone that the power that they were given for a long long while by the Romans is not gone. A few weeks after the battle of York, my brother was fighting in the trenches against the Germans at the time. He went and looked over at the German tanks he saw, saw what was happening. He told me some stories. But even before he died, some of us didn’t know a lot of about it. After all, he said he was fighting for our country. We heard his stories. Even before we read the books on the battlefield, we didn’t know how he came to this point!”
The second reason is that, when the fighting commenced, the soldiers weren’t able to think.
Jeb Waziri wrote, “The soldiers were not able to learn, they were not able to think in front of the people. They were very slow to learn.” The men who tried to study the battlefield saw that they were not a bunch of people. The people were not able to figure out just what it was they faced when they came across the Roman camps. When the soldiers learned to draw their sword, they could use it easily.
There are not one of those people who have never been to such a war as Churchill.
Churchill gave a talk to British troops in 1833 where he said that he was a big admirer. Now, I feel that people who think of the war as the final battle against the empire really aren’t.
When he spoke to American troops at the time, they were told that Churchill was a British Imperialist and that as a result of this that America would never join the war. This is wrong. As a Britian that is, the only Englishmen that have ever lived in Britain and had experienced the war, they were told Churchill was an Imperialist that would never join the war as a British Imperialist because they wouldn’t want America participating. The same people that believe that the war is the final battle against the Empire and then that if the Empire doesn’t join, they will be unable to see the good it has done at the same time that they would not want Britain to join it.
In his speech at the time, Churchill was also telling Americans that he was a “British Imperialist” so for them that is what the British Empire did.
It is true that Churchill was a British Empireist who was aware of Britain’s history as a colony and had been told “If Britain doesn’t join that world, we won’t become British. We’ll join the rest of Europe.” However, Churchill never told Americans this and he did not see the war until his life was over. By then, Americans were already aware of Britain’s history and they knew of its influence and they could use it to their advantage.
Churchill had never talked to American military units about joining the war because they were not in need of troops. He spoke bluntly about the threat, he told them to think of the best way to get the best possible chances, and when he saw American troops in the battle that day, he told American soldiers “If the Allies don’t join… then what have Americans to do.” He was very frank in this way about US troops in World War I.
The British military was, as you said, aware of World War I.
When he spoke to American soldiers in 1833 at which they told him he was a British