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    accentuated Franklin’s firm detestation of the idle rich. His ideal was the common man who rose to prominence with great effort rather than aimlessly resting in place (Pencak 186). This also became a significant public view that would later assist in the revolt against England. “Besides urging us to be virtuous, diligent, and frugal . . . [Franklin] proclaimed the superiority of . . . and urged common men to assume roles in the ‘public sphere’ and shape their own destinies” (Pencak 183). By…

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    1. The Ekklesia makes reference to the Athenian assembly, with Ekklesia literally meaning ‘assembly’. The assembly consisted of all the adult male citizens in Athens. It was these men that governed by making the laws of the time. Unlike Spartan democracy, any citizen was allowed the opportunity to propose a new laws or wanted debates, however they were not allowed to vote. The quorum, which refers to the minimum number of members of a specific deliberate assembly, consisted of 6000 men, whom…

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    concrete reality. It was much like the American Revolution to a point. A determined few up against impossible odds against an entire country and her military, but in the long run the poor way that England handled the situation led to the aftermath of the revolt taking hold and giving birth to a political revolution instead (Walsh 13). For Irish nationalists Easter 1916 was the rebirth of their nation and led to the Sinn Fein’s landslide victory in the 1918 election. “Then came a war of…

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    Essay on Poetry “My Son Swears He Has 102 Gallons of Water in His Body” Begin typing below: (Put a heading: Your name, Ms. M. Ambrose, English II; 1st Period; October 26, 2017) From rudimental years to innovative eras, humans have gone through many phases, but one that is ubiquitous no matter what year is the rebellious adolescent stage. Naomi S. Nye’s poem, “Our Son Swears He Has 102 Gallons of Water in His Body” illustrates how a dissident son clashes with his parents over a math problem…

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    son of Freile zum Gensfleisch and Else Wirick zum Gutenberg which was his father's second wife. He got the name Gutenberg by adopting it from his step mother later in his life. There is very little information recorded from Gutenberg's early life, but local records indicate he worked as a goldsmith while he still lived in Mainz. When a revolt happened in Mainz…

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    (post-Oedipus complex) worlds, and is trying to return to the Imaginary. Madsen argues that Edna’s early loss of her mother disrupts the normal Electra complex and instead leaves Edna in psychosexual allegiance with her father, but with “no model of feminine gender construction” (112). Edna’s mother’s death removes young Edna’s possibility of returning to “pre-Oedipal identification with her mother” (113). Because of this disruption, Edna never fully developed. As she begins her awakening, Edna…

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    on land owned by the victors, making Sparta self-sufficient in food and ruler of a slave population seven or eight times as large. Not needing to import anything allowed Sparta to isolate herself from the culture of the rest of the world; fearing revolt by such a large number of slaves forced the country to become an armed camp: thus was determined the character of one of the oddest societies in the ancient world. At the age of seven Spartan boys left home to be raised by the…

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    general themes of imperialism, colonisation, and power addressed in the course, the American Revolution was blatantly anti-imperialist. At its core, it was a revolt against an imperial authority increasingly trying to impose its will up subjects; Professor Burnard mentioned the common analogy of the Revolution being akin to a child outgrowing its mother. In this same line of thought, the general historiographical view mentioned saw the Revolution as inevitable, that America would have outgrown…

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    His divinity was shown even before his birth, when his mother, Mary, conceived him through the Holy Spirit. Jesus had the gift of healing, meaning that if anybody was ill, disabled, Jesus could heal them. One time a leper begged Jesus saying, “If you will, you can make me clean.” Jesus then was “moved with pity…

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    on June 28th 1577 in the town of Siegen in Westphalia (now Germany). “He is one of seven children of a wealthy lawyer. Juan Rubens and while his mother Maria Pypelincks was cultured and educated & . Rubens father was a legal adviser and lover to Anna of Saxony who was the wife of William I of Orange. William I was the main leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish. Peter Paul Rubens father was imprisoned for the affair in 1570 however, he was released and Peter Paul Rubens was born . …

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