How Muslims viewed the Crusades: Update The Final part 2

Almost forgot the bibliography!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/142Pv9qF89wfitMxea1Bs-ys1w6WwAZbaUPoS7GEbTTE/edit?hl=en_US

How Muslims viewed the Crusades: Update The Final

So! Futaba, Giovanna and I stayed after until 5 today (along with Melanie Canales) to film the view points of Muslims during the first, second and third crusades. Futaba was wonderful enough to post the videos to her youtube page here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/FutabaShioda


I have to still help another person out by sharing with them this amazing link I found to help with the 3rd crusade.

I think what I'll take from this project is I'll be more inclined to search Bing now. Google's great but I liked the research websites I found on Bing.

I believe that the video was the best choice for a project because it was a ton of fun. I haven't had so much fun doing a school project since middle school. I wish we could have had an outtakes real to show the class.

How Muslims viewed the Crusades: Update 2

So, 2 days before the project is due and everything is planned out. Giovanna, Futaba and I are staying after musical rehearsal tomorrow and filming a summary (/mainly view point of Muslims) of the first 3 crusades. We'll be using props, shirts, accents, going full out! Probably the most fun I'll ever have with a high school project.

For research I used mainly Bing and also Jon Dirusso for the websites I found, posted here:

http://www.shadowedrealm.com/articles/exclusive/richard_saladin_warriors_third_crusade

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/144695/Crusades/25611/The-Third-Crusade

Tomorrow should be enjoyable!

How Muslims viewed the Crusades: Update 1

Soooo, ya. Today I did what I consider to be the most important part of my project: picked the crusades. I have decided to do the 1st, 2nd and 3rd (easy enough to remember, plus they're the ones that would arouse the most anger in the Muslim world at the time I figure). I'm planning on doing a majority of my project using yahoo, and am partnering up with Jon Dirusso right now for help with 1 and 3. Still need to find a person doing 2. Absolutely no idea how I'm going to present my understanding: not enough time after school to try and make a movie, want to be more creative than a power point, though it is not beneath me. Fun. Week. Ahead.

Fiesta Tradiciones! El segundo pilar del Islam

The second of the 5 pillars of Islam requires prayer 5 times a day, or salat. The prayer requires every Muslim to bow down and pray towards Mekkah, specifically toward the Kabba in the center of the city. These pictures shown from Holiday Traditions exemplify this prayer, toward the center of the city.

Benedict's Rule Questions

4. Monasteries that kept to Benedict's Rule could be considered very useful institutions because they promoted peace and good will towards men. In the section "Of the Reception of Guests", Benedict says "Let all guests that come be received like Christ Himself", demonstrating an emphasis on charity, thereby bettering society.
5. In the section "On The Daily Manual Labor", Benedict states "If, however, the needs of the place or poverty require them to labour themselves in gathering in the harvest, let them not grieve at that". This demonstrates a sense of responsibility to labor, showing that the economy was relatively stable, but was sometimes in desperate need of the help of monks.

"I do not enjoy Bahkti poetry, Sam-I-Am. I do not like green eggs and ham."

The poems were all love poems. If anything they were a devotion to the Kama Sutra. There was only one poem I felt that really reflected the Bahkti movement and Hinduism, and the rest were about love, or food (Don't get me wrong, I love both love and food, but it just doesn't reflect Hinduism)