1802

It was around 1799 that the French Revolution would finally come to an end. For Britain, the elites were strongly opposed to the Revolution’s ideologies - Liberty, equality, fraternity – afraid they would lose their political power. There was, unavoidably, a pressure for change: in this period, only middle and upper class men could vote. The press was under the censorship of the time leading to the government creating the “Taxes of Knowledge” - taxes and duties that would be imposed upon…

The industrial revolution was time of change from late 1700s through the 1800s. It was the move from working out in the fields to working in factories. There were many positive affects from the industrial revolution, but there were also many negative affects. The spread of the industrial revolution began in Europe around Great Britain, which spread to other countries and then to other continents. There are many things to be covered over the time of the industrial revolution, but one area to…

August: Osage County “August: Osage County”, written by Tracy Letts, is undoubtedly a brilliant play about a dysfunctional family that is obligated to deal with veiled duplicities and cruelty. The storyline follows a dysfunctional family who gather together after the father leaves home, offering no word of his whereabouts. The issues of this play transcend all periods of time and place. The plot of the play is intriguing and the characters are well developed, slowly unveiling their secrets. The…

was a delegate to the state constitutional convention. He was Tennessee’s first congressman, then he became a senator. He gave up his senate post after a year, for a job closer to home. His new job was as the judge of Tennessee’s superior court. In 1802 Jackson challenged, then Governor John Sevier for election as the major general in command of the states militia. Sevier was the states leading politician. Jackson beat him for the generalship, but the…

Jane Austen was not known for her interesting or memorable life. Many label her life as “uneventful” or “dull.” The stories she creates in her novels seem as if they couldn’t be any more different from her own life. Jane Austen’s novels are exciting and full of romance and adventure. Jane Austen never married, but she did yearn for a husband, someone for her to love. At first glance Jane Austen’s life had no similarities to her novels, but her experiences did influence her writing. Jane…

Jane Austen’s love life was worse than Oedipus Rex’s. However, that did not hold Austen back. Without a husband, she had more time to write novels. She wrote three novels by the age of twenty five (Spark Note Editors). Jane Austen is now one of the most well-known authors in this world. One of her more known novels is Persuasion. Persuasion is a romantic novel written in the 1800’s. It is about a young woman named Anne Elliot. She is the protagonist in the story of Persuasion. Anne Elliot is a…

The legal concept of terra nullius is a Latin expression deriving from Roman law, meaning "nobody's land". It is used in law to define a region which has not been subject to the sovereignty of any state, or any previous sovereign has relinquished power. Sovereignty over territory which is considered a terra nullius may usually be acquired through colonisation. However, historians also to use the term to showcase a set of opinions prevalent in colonial administrators. While the concept is not…

William Clark. The issue of not owning the territory between already occupied land and the Pacific Coast was solved in 1803 when Jefferson sent James Monroe and Robert R. Livingston are sent to France to compromise with Napoleon Bonaparte. Previously in 1802, Bonaparte closed the port of New Orleans to the United States as France was in control of Louisiana. Monroe and Livingston’s trip to France resulted in the United States paying fifteen million dollars for the entire Louisiana Territory,…

Senegal started as a French colony, and was one of the oldest. It started off with a strong and equal trading relationship with multiple other nations in Europe, and continued until the full realization of colonization in the late 19th century. The history of the independence era was markedly lead by Leopold Sedar Sengor, who would eventually become independent Senegal’s first democratically elected president. Much of its economy relies upon its agriculture, specifically peanuts and gum trees.…

As we were laughing, I hopped on the butterfly and Riley jumped on after me. Soon, we were in the heading to 1802. The butterfly whirred around a building eventually landing on a farm. Riley and I stepped off and immediately knew exactly where we were. It looked like a plantation in South Carolin. Men and women were lined up and down the rows plowing and planting…