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    Monologue From The Crucible

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    this tragedy? All the nobles, the wealthy - this goes over their heads, because they were threaten by this piece of history!" "As a monarchy, the Queen wrote it as a tall-tale." Parker snarled, his mass of gray hair falling to his face. Whatever Isaac and Rosa were trying to say, the two of us were deafen by anger. The epitome of ornery, you should say. "A monarchy!" I threw my head back, laughing. "A plutocracy, you meant to say! We are threaten by this history, and so - because we have…

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    from somewhere and be used to kill enemy soldiers overseas. Therefore, they were a part of the army as a whole and aiding the army in putting up the resistance they had even while they were on the losing end. Besides if civilians were entitled to “absolute immunity that would outlaw all warfare” (13) In fact, a pacifistic ideal would never have solved the war, instead it would have blown the whole war way out of proportion say for example, if Winston Churchill was a pacifist and decided to talk…

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    The world wouldn’t be the way it is today without the Enlightenment. If this drastic change in society had not occurred then the majority of countries might still be ruled over by monarchies, absolute and not. Voltaire is thought of as the main literary supporter of The Enlightenment. It was through his many controversial books that he spread his thoughts and what he believed was the truth and purpose of how governments and control over societies should be handled. These ideas are ever apparent…

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    population to abandon their freedom of thought. Opposing the opinion of the majority is therefore disrespectful to a democratic and equal society because he who speaks in attempts to make a change is attempting to have a larger role in the political process than the majority. The servitude problem becomes even more of a threat if the majority is not significant, because a larger portion of the population’s interests would go unnoticed. The functioning of the modern electoral college — rather, a…

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    Holy Roman Empire Essay

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    In the 18th century heyday of absolute monarchy, the Emperor had no such pretensions. He (it was required to be a he) sat at the apex of a system of local, regional and empire-wide legislative, judicial and diplomatic structures. The Holy Roman Empire, during its final two centuries, starting…

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    The Declaration of Independence serves as an argument the colonists made for rebelling against the British. In the Declaration, the colonists justified their rebellion by citing their natural right to “alter or to abolish” a tyrannical government and to establish a new one (Db). The colonists also referred to the king as a tyrant, citing a “history of repeated injuries and usurpations” (Db). Alhough this was the battle cry for the colonists in the Revolutionary War, the Declaration of…

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    Virginia Woolf Themes

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    subjects, Woolf came to accept two needs that women did not have; therefore, stopped them from writing excellent literature. Woolf says that every writer need money and a room of one’s own in order to write. While Woolf’s points are valid, there is more than simply money and space that are needed. The point that Woolf didn’t explicitly list is that women were treated differently in their social spheres due…

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    The Making of a Good or King: Comparing Clovis to Alexander Kings and Emperors are indeed multi-faceted people. Many possess good qualities like military knowledge, courage, and fairness. Some possess negative traits such as inflated egos, propensity for violence, and mistrust. Some rulers have an ability to adapt or change. Most often, a ruler in ancient history embodied a combination of these qualities. Looking at the reigns of the ancient rulers, one sees evidence of how these attributes…

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    situations is that Cromwell was successful at gaining power, while Satan failed at his attempt. Satan was able to gain power after being cast out of Heaven and into Hell and declares that it is “Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav’n”(I.263). Satan therefore believes that they it is better to be in hell than to serve under God in Heaven. In Paradise Lost, once Satan has just awakened in Hell with his fellow fallen angels, he immediately begins to…

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    All three poets wrote satires about the literary world, modern culture in their time, the authors and the readers. Swift, Goldsmith and Pope all used sarcasm in their writing and also believed that they knew more than everyone else, and that they have a better grasp of the world than everyone else. For instance, Alexander Pope wants everyone to think of him as an independent thinker, a man of moral integrity, and a person who does not really care or is bothered by what people think of him since…

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