Clermont-Ferrand Essays

  • Pope Urban II and The Crusade

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    people, Pope Urban’s speeches claiming that “Deus vult!” (God wills it) encouraged many Christians to participate and take the cross. Pope Urban II naturally had a religious control over his people and when he gave his speech at the Council of Clermont in November 1905, he constantly referred to it as the will of God. His speech reminded them that the Crusades were their “concerns as well as God’s” . Throughout his speech, the Pope is constantly trying to align the need for men to fight with t

  • Reform and Renewal

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    The First Crusade was called in 1096 by Pope Urban II. The reasons for the First Crusade was to help obtain Jerusalem known as the holy land. During this time period the Muslims were occupying Jerusalem. First Crusade contained peasants and knights’ whose ethnicities consist of Franks, Latin’s, and Celts which were all from the western part of Europe. To get peasants and knights to join Pope Urban II objectives in return of a spiritual reward called “remission of all their sins” which was to be redeemed

  • Urban and the Council of Clermont

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    and the Council of Clermont There are many accounts of that day in November, 1095. Some were written by monks, others by bishops, and even a few by warriors themselves. Historians are constantly asking, "What exactly did Pope Urban II say at the council of Clermont to persuade Christians to set forth on such a difficult venture as the Crusades?" One man, an early 12th century cleric named Fulcher of Chartres wrote perhaps the best historical chronicle of the events at Clermont and the speech of

  • Uncovering Crusader Motivations: An Analysis of Pope Urban II's Speech

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    The Crusades were a very dark time in the history of Christianity. The years in which they took place were riddled with massacres, butchery, torture, and many other horrendous acts. It has left many modern scholars wondering why members of Christianity, which preaches peace, would condone such actions. They are left with trying to derive the motivations of the crusaders from pieces of writing that have survived. In this vein, a speech of Pope Urban II’s has provided an interesting avenue for investigation

  • Michelin Tires Research Papers

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    One of the new plants was located in the same city as the original one which is Clermont-Ferrand. In 1925 Michelin bought a 22,230 acre plantation in Dautieng, and a 13,600 acre plantation in Thuan Loi, Indochina. The reason for doing this is because they wanted to have their own rubber plantations. After these plantations had started more

  • Blaie Pascal Contributions

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    Mathematical Contributions of Blaise Pascal Introduction Blaise Pascal was born on June 19, 1623 in Clermont Ferrand. His nationality was french. He died in 1662. He was credited for his imaginative and subtle work in geometry and other branches of mathematics. His work influenced later generations of theologians and philosophers, helping make mathematics what it is today. Blaise Pascal is considered part of the foundation of the very heart of mathematics.

  • Blaise Pascal Essay

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    even a Christian philosopher, but the one thing that most remember him by is a mathematician. Pascal was a very successful man, but in order to fully understand how his success came about, one must go back to his beginning. Pascal was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France, June 19, 1623, and died August 19, 1662 in Paris, France. He was the third child, and the only child to Etienne and Antoinette Pascal. He was extremely close to his two older sisters, Gilberte and Jacqueline. Jacqueline became a nun

  • Crusades: Effects Of The Crusade

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    The Effects of the Crusade The Crusades were formed in 1095 through 1291. It was believed that the idea was sparked from the sermon that was preached by Pope Urban II at Clermont-Ferrand in November 1095. When armies of Christians from Western Europe responded to the plea of Pope Urban II to go to war against Muslim forces in the Holy Land. Their main purpose was to recapture the Holy Land. They also wanted to reunite the Christian Church, increase prestige of the Church, and reduce feudal

  • The Millau Viaduct and The Hampden Bridge

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    holiday seasons as it was the only way across the valley. The Bridge is situated in the communes of Millau and Creissels, in the south of France. The Millau Viaduct is the final link in the A75 AutoRoute, a superhighway which stretches from Clermont-Ferrand to Pezenas. This is a large, continuous highway where cars can travel at speeds exceeding the normal speed limit, and is long and straight, allowing cars to travel right though France directly and quickly. The Millau Viaduct is the tallest suspension

  • Who Invented the Pascal Triangle?

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    only three years old. He was the only son and was extremely close to his two older sisters, Gilberte and Jacqueline. Blaise’s father, Etienne Pascal who died in 1651, was exceptionally good at Maths. [Where he lived]: Blaise Pascal was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France, where his father worked as the President of the Court of Aids, which was one of the highest courts in France during the 15th to 18th century... ... middle of paper ... ... http://ptri1.tripod.com/ http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kazimir/history

  • William Clifford And Blaise Pascal

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    thoughts and teachings that you do not need to have evidence to believe in a higher power. This paper will continue to give more examples of Pascals teachings of non-evidentialism and why I agree with them. Blaise Pascal was born on 19 June 1623 in Clermont Ferrand. He was a French mathematician, physicists, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher. He was a child prodigy that was educated by his father. After a horrific accident, Pascal’s father was homebound. He and his sister were taken care of

  • Blaise Pascal

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    concerning the methods for determining humanity's place in the universe. Blaise Pascal was a physicist, a mathematician, and a man of God. He was a Renaissance man of the scientific revolution. On June 19, 1623, Pascal was born in the small town of Clermont-Ferrand, France, to Antoinette and Etienne Pascal. When Pascal was just three his mother passed away. After this, Etienne Pascal moved Blaise and his two sisters to Paris, France. Here his son would be able to learn. Etienne Pascal was very concerned

  • Blaise Pascal's Influence On American History

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    when their time has passed; it is not the dates on the tombstone that define the man but the dash in between. Such was the case in the life of theologian, philosopher and mathematician, Blaise Pascal. Pascal was born on the 19th of June 1623, in Clermont-Ferrand France and died at the age of 39 of tuberculosis on the 19th August 1662 in Paris, but the bulk of his career, his success and life achievement began in his early years. As a young boy, Pascal’s lost his mother and soon afterward his father

  • Blaise Pascal's Legacy

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    INTRODUCTION Blaise Pascal was of no doubt the most influential, if not the most influential philosopher and thinker of the modern age. Pascal is know as a genius worldwide and and a wizard with numbers and inventions. Much like the most influential philosophers of the Christian faith, St. Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas, most every if not every Christian apologist will harken back to Pascal. With his genius in understanding the human (metaphorical) heart, he pushes people in all the right

  • The Development of Personal Computers

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    how far into history the desire of humans to use a machine for calculations goes. Another early relative of the computer was created in the seventeenth century by Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician (Long and Long 33C). Pascal was born in Clermont-Ferrand on June 19, 1623 and his family settled at Paris in 1629 (Fowlie). In 1642 the young prodigy developed what is now known as "Pascal''s Calculator" (or the "Pascaline") to speed calculations for his father, a tax collector. Numbers were dialed