Student Council speech Good morning my friends‚ my comrades. Exactly a year and five days ago‚ I stood behind this podium speaking to all of you‚ as a stranger‚ but on this day‚ I stand behind this podium not as a stranger but as a familiar classmate and representative. As for the few who do not know me well‚ I’m Ray Liu‚ a dedicated‚ confident and the mad scientist of last year’s student council. In the past year‚ I have helped the student council organize and set up many different activities
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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 Urban II.<br><br>Fulcher begins his account with a prologue that states how blessed the journeymen of the Crusades were to take up such a conquest. He follows this by speaking on the Council of Clermont. Fulcher describes
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Introduction To fully appreciate the position of the European Council within the European Union we first took a brief look at how the European Union came about. The European project first started soon after the second world with the creation of the ECSC (European Coal and Steel Community) to harmonise relations between the Nations of Europe and to prevent any further conflicts of the scale of the wars that had preceded its creation. The new spirit of cooperation aimed to bring about a new era of
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Introduction- Explanation of the Council of Nicea The First Council of Nicea was congregated by the Roman emperor Constantine in 325 AD. It was the first ecumenical conference of Bishops in the Christian Church and the purpose was to formulate one final understanding of Jesus Christ instead of there being many inaccurate teachings of Him. This led to the creation of the Nicene Creed‚ a uniform statement of the Christian faith. The Council came to an agreement in the Church of Alexandria over the
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City Council Meeting For my project I visited the Los Alamitos City council. The beginning of the meeting started with a call of order then proceeded to the roll call of the board members. After these steps had taken place the Pledge of Allegiance was said and the meeting began. As each speaker had their turn to speaker about their topic I noticed how democratic it was after a person had given their speech each of the board members voted on the issue and the matter was either passed or declines
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Church worked to continue preserving the tradition through its authority questions of supremacy of councils and papacy arose. While the papacy was gaining authority slowly throughout the medieval period‚ Peter of Ailly and the Council of Constance made arguments for conciliar superiority. Through the writings of Ailly and the Council of Constance the importance and authority of councils because the councils are a source of unity and have inherent authority over the papacy. In his writings about how to
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Board to: Members of city council from: assistant city manager subject: the executive search date: 12/2/2014 cc: office of the mayor‚ city clerk and city attorney I have been working as an assistant city manager for a long time. I witnessed the city’s ups and downs‚ and now that the late city manager was asked to resign‚ I thought I should share some of my thoughts with you‚ and with that‚ I look forward to aiding the selection process of our next City Manager. The previous city manager made many
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in the population. According to the definition provided by the United Nations‚ megacities are cities with populations of over 10 million (UNFPA‚ 12). Based on this definition‚ it is expected that the number of megacities in the world will be mostly located in the developing world. However‚ the definition of megacities based on the population size is arbitrary given that the population in any given city changes with context and time. In the ancient times‚ for example‚ Rome‚ which has a population
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summoned the Council of Hieria in which some 330 to 340 bishops participated and which was the first church council to concern itself primarily with religious imagery. Constantine seems to have been closely involved with the council and it endorsed an iconoclast position. The council of Hieria treat itself as the 7th ecumenical council. But 33 years later the Second Council of Nicaea called by Empress Irene that is supported by Pope Adrian I overturned the council of Hieria. The Second Council of Nicaea
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Cities of the Future Presented To: John Gillies Presented by: Devon Francis English Essay Wednesday‚ October 8‚ 2013 The arrival of the cities of the future and what it has to offer such as technology and many other things evolves as everybody awaits to see what the city has to offer and what changes and improvements the city will have also. Many people have these types of question stuck in their heads and wonder: “Could the changes and improvements
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