History 185 Test #2 04-01-03 The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the era that paved the way for the creation of our modern day governments and societies, was an era of political and social revolutions. ... Louis XVI was unable to collect the revenues necessary to maintain the French Government and pay off its war debts. ... The final stage of the French Revolution occurred when the bourgeois failed at government and their republic floundered. ... This was how he ensured that he would always have loyal people closest to him, to prevent any coups on himself. ... Before the Fre...

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There seems to be a widespread opinion that the outbreak of the French Revolution was on the 14th of July 1789, at the Storming of the Bastille. ... Conversely, post revisionist interpretations focus more closely on culture and language, shifting away from the socio economic factors which provide the basis for the Marxist outlook which they so heavily critique.12 This approach includes notable historians like Furet asserting that the Revolution was centred on the impact of the new Enlightenment thinking.13 By emphasizing how a unitary Revolution emerged from the rigid cultural structures of th...

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Contrary to common belief, women were important contributors to the popular movement during the French Revolution. ... The majority of men believed that women's participation in government was both unnecessary and redundant. ... The cahiers des doleances also demonstrated how a woman's social class determined which issues she chose to embrace and fight. ... Anger with their passive role in constructing the cahiers, irritated with the municipal government, annoyed with the stalled constitutional revolution, and fed up with the shortage of food, all fuelled their discontentment. .....

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Background Information Leon Trotsky is indeed a man that has a lot of impact on the Russian history. ... His presence was a major push for the revolution that took place in the year 1917 and so his impact is still felt today since his ideas are indeed the basis that Trotskyism was formed, and this school of thought is said to be in opposition with the Stalinism theories. ... Even so, the industrial revolution did not come in uniformly and neither did it move swiftly compared to the other countries like the Britain and this forced the peasants to migrate into the rapidly developing towns and ci...

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Proposal Type of study -Overlooking contrasting approaches to a historical personality, issue or event -How has history been constructed and recorded over time? ... The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution lasted from 1966-1976. ... The individual context of the historian, as well as the events surrounding their time of writing, obviously adds impact on the nature of their works. ... So Marcy's pro-Mao work is attributed to his left wing beliefs, Chang's work is linked to her experiences as a participant in the events, and Becker's works are attributed to his insubordin...

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What factors discouraged an early unification of Italy and how were these overcome? ... So a united Italy in 1815 would only mean French domination of Italy, so the powers generally accepted the settlement even though the 1815 settlement ignored the moral principles which first French Revolution and the Romanticism had unleashed in Europe. Even liberal powers like Britain and the mother of Revolution, France did not dare to take the risk of a war which may be caused if Italy was united and this might invite foreign intervention in the young Italy. ... The lead of Mazzini was vague and he was c...

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Though these reforms did not make England a true democracy in any sense, they did incorporate democratic ideals, which would later be used to form the government of the United States (Lefebvre; Pious). ... In essence, these two philosophers said that the people should have input on how their government is run. ... The American Revolution is another important event in the history of democracy. ... In the French Revolution, a similar cause was espoused. ... All over the world, revolutions began to spring up against monarchies, and democratic governments began to develop. ...

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Thus Joseph's mother, Yekaterina, made the more profound impact on his life--it was she who directed his education, first in the local Gori Church School and then, thanks to a scholarship, at the Tiflis Theological Seminary. ... Instead, the young Stalin became a devoted advocate for Marxist revolution. ... In 1917, the Russian Revolution toppled the Tsarist government. ... Stalin was elected General Secretary of the Party in 1922, and although he quickly began to increase his personal power, no one realized how dangerous he was at this time. ... This brief swell of dissent only shows ...

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Essay Question 1: How has the Arab Spring fundamentally changed Middle Eastern society and the evolution of future politics in the region? ... According to this reality and the stated requisites for democracy, the Arab Spring revolutions lacked the basis for democracy in the first place. ... A country's economy is what determines how much influence that country is going to have on the global market. ... Salafists are ultra-conservative Sunni's that are spread between three broad groups; small political movements that have formed in recent months; non-violent Salafis; and violent S...

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"In 1502, the Catholic Church owned 75% of the money in France and in 1522, it owned 50% of the wealth in Germany. ... "Few people have had such an impact on so many fields as Martin Luther. What he did altered not only theology and religion, but also irrevocably changed the course of history. ... He believed that what one construes in their conscience while reading the Bible is how they should live their life since the Bible has all of the answers. ... In sixteenth-century Europe, this was the stuff of revolution" (Strayer 1995: 36). ...

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We first see this stance illustrated during the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1792. ... As Kaufman notes, "if the United States became embroiled in the French Revolution, the young nation would become perilously vulnerable to France's British and Spanish enemies sitting athwart its vital flanks " (Kaufman 8). Washington took a practical approach to United States involvement in the French Revolution and while he may have desired to send military help abroad, he showed restraint and acknowledged that the young republic had far more to lose than to gain if they did get involved. ... D...

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They felt it was too harsh, that it was a forceful 'dictated' peace, and most importantly, they felt they had not lost the war, and so did not deserve such severe punishment. ... On the 8th November 1923 Hitler and the Nazi party held the "Munich Beer-Hall Putsch" in an attempt to stage a National revolution, and seize power to rule the nation. ... Some believed the failed putsch was a significant downfall of Hitler that merely underscored how insubstantial and powerless the Nazis were. ... Due to economic fragility, Germany didn't keep up with its reparation payments, and the F...

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No soul dared to threaten the authority of king or church as those who did might be tortured or burned at the stake. ... Certain aspects of seventeenth century philosophy left room for human err, such as the easily influenced mind and its ability to misrepresent information, beside the already prevalent social tension amongst classes of the time that would have a eruptive impact society's subconscious. ... The American Revolution today can be summarized as the uprising of American patriots against the British rule's unfair taxation to the colonies. ... Can he, then, be trusted wit...

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The social and material environment into which Emma was born and the unusual course her life took had a profound impact on the development of her personality and greatly influenced her views of society and government. ... I wanted him to love me, but I never knew how to reach his heart. ... This distribution of power in her family had a major impact on her personality and would lead to her radical attitude. ... Her request for a modest raise of her wage was met with remarks about her "extravagant tastes", because she complained about her miserable wage which did not only cover her expe...

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One possible answer draws on the different values of societies around the Atlantic and, more particularly, the way groups of people involved in creating a trans-Atlantic community saw themselves in relation to others in short, how they defined their identity. ... The epidemiological impact of the Old World destroyed not only Native American societies, but also a potential labor supply. ... A revolution in ocean-going technology gave Europeans the ability to get continuous access to remote peoples and move them against their will over very long distances. ... Just as Brazil overlapped on the ...

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In other words, what did he want to achieve in German domestic policy, and, given what he wanted, did he succeed or fail? ... For what we are arguing here is that Biz has a very important impact on the history of democracy in Germany. ... The first key to understanding Biz's domestic policy is determining how he came to power in Prussia in 1862. ... How could he dump a man seen as a hero? ... As the man responsible for domestic policy, how could Biz increase his power within Germany without a guiding political philosophy or party affiliation? ...

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Habib Bourguiba did something similar in Tunisia which points to the fact that state ideology plays a major factor to gender roles in the society; case study examples of this will be given in later on in this paper. ... Islam even goes to the extent of stating that if a government (Islamic) prohibits women from working , that government has violated Islamic Law. ... All this points to that Islam is arguably the reason why women are not getting equal rights, but one could go back to Asma Barlas (2002:3), who argues that misreading of the Quran is a big issue in Islam, since men often read it ho...

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Since the industrial revolution, the demand for energy has surged. ... The total hydropower electricity supply for Africa is equivalent to the total electricity consumed in United Kingdom, Italy, France, and Germany all together[ElB12] . ... Energy efficiency programs will decrease the impact of these crises. ... How can a country or a continent develop without having a strong government that contributes by formulating and regulating rules to support the energy sector. ... Another way to encourage people to buy is that the government can buy electricity from people. ...

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Thus during these times bureaucratic structures did not exist. ... Government intervention is also significant in present times. ... Games involved large numbers and specified positions and differentiated tasks did not exist. ... Marxist theory however, addresses the impact of industrialisation with regard to how new forms were shaped out of various class-cultural conflicts from 1750/80 to the 1840's. ... Consequently the power-elite felt the need to control such behaviours and events of the French revolution likely did nothing to settle their concerns. ...

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The principle task of this essay is to demonstrate how each transport mode contributed to the growth of this highly competitive market for tourism. Modern tourism involves many different types each that in turn have had an impact on the transport means. ... We need to consider how certain technological changes have made mass tourism possible. ... For a good discussion of how the mode of transport is inseparably linked to the tourist product type Cooper et al. ... The Channel Tunnel created a quick and easy access to France which has proved most popular for day trippers. ...

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A Dutch academic who maintains a good website on globalisation, Ruud Lubbers, defines it as a process in which geographic distance becomes a factor of diminishing importance in the establishment and maintenance of cross border economic, political and socio-cultural relations Left critics of globalisation define the word quite differently, presenting it as worldwide drive toward a globalised economic system dominated by supranational corporate trade and banking institutions that are not accountable to democratic processes or national governments Globalisation is an undeniably capitalist proce...

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It is a dilemma to whether consider it as an effort provoking negativity and uprising, however, what stands is a fact is that history has provided us with numerous examples of how revolt has contributed in bringing about a change or perhaps a withstanding model for the humanity and society to follow. From the enlightenment period that lead to the French revolution to the uproar of Nelson Mandela's efforts to protect his race till the very recent protests in Egypt against Mohammed Morsi, rebellion has produced itself to be an inevitable quality in humans evoking as a result of resistance o...

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