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Although Louis IX’s attempts at crusading were failures, they cemented his reputation as a

Translated into English, the Germanic word, “wergeld,” literally means …

Which of the following is NOT commonly used in the diagnosis of mental disorders?

Write 400-500 words analyzing Walt Whitman’s “I Saw in Louisiana A Live-Oak Growing.” You may examine any of the literary tools we have learned about this semester in order to explain what you think the greater meaning of the poem could be, but you must choose one to focus on. Use specific evidence from the poem since I have provided it below.  I Saw in Louisiana A Live-Oak Growing by Walt Whitman I saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing, All alone stood it and the moss hung down from the branches, Without any companion it grew there uttering joyous leaves of dark green, And its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself, But I wonder’d how it could utter joyous leaves standing alone there without its friend near, for I knew I could not, And I broke off a twig with a certain number of leaves upon it, and twined around it a little moss, And brought it away, and I have placed it in sight in my room, It is not needed to remind me as of my own dear friends, (For I believe lately I think of little else than of them,) Yet it remains to me a curious token, it makes me think of manly love; For all that, and though the live-oak glistens there in Louisiana solitary in a wide flat space, Uttering joyous leaves all its life without a friend a lover near, I know very well I could not.

The fifth pillar of Islam involves going on a pilgrimage to …

  The Carolingian Empire declined due (in part) to invasions by the Magyars, Muslims, and ____.

  Under Protestantism, women  

Which of the following were invented/improved in the Middle Ages?

Edward I made the territory of ________ a settler colony of England.

In 1071, Byzantium lost Armenia and wealthy Anatolia to the