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    to escape from attending boring dinner parties and to get rid of his narrow social ties. Both Jack and Algernon has to follow social obligations of Victorian Society, which does not value honesty, responsibility or compassion but only money and aristocracy. To live his life completely and to find the love in his life, Jack acts as Ernest in the town…

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    La Vende Rebellion

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    solution to put France back on her feet. In the Vendée the peasant and commoner were living in the austerity and they participated to the elaboration of the “cahiers de doléances”. The bourgeoisie at the general estates represented them. The aristocracy of the Vendée lived modestly in the countryside. They also participated to the “cahiers de doléances”. They wanted a more democratic monarchy. Finally, the clergy also lived as poor as the parishioners. They have a serious impact on…

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    Senates In Ancient Rome

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    The Roman Empire began when Augustus Caesar became the first emperor with 2 triumvirates: Pompey and Crassus. This civilization was balanced. Rome had three types of government including monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. All of these governments united in Rome. The Roman Empire also had senates. A senate is a body of legislators chosen from a group of elite families. The main job was to set the policy for the consuls. Rome was divided into 2 broad classes: Patricians and Plebeians.…

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    to be extremely impoverished, such that while describing the peasants’ lifestyles, he inserts the word “Hunger” at the beginning of each sentence. This use of anaphora exemplifies the situation of complete and utter destitute in France under the aristocracy; such that this prevalent use of the word hunger conveys the terribly poor situation in France, and it is continuously forced into both our and the peasants’…

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    Conservatism during this time was rooted in the formation of societies and governments similar to the Old Regime, in which the aristocracy ruled. These governments seemed democratic because they weren't being controlled by an absolute ruler, but they weren't truly democratic. As shown by the ratification of the Carlsbad Decrees, which limited the spread of different liberals ideas and beliefs, conservatives did not want revolution and they especially did not want people to speak out against the…

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    Satire in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, a young boy leaves home and embarks on a journey. In his time, people of higher status were seen as more intelligent than others. Through satire, Twain suggests that class does not correlate with intelligence. First, the high class’s limited intelligence is exposed when Buck incorrectly spells Huck’s alias. When Buck’s father asks for Huck’s name, he says, “George Jackson, sir” () Huck…

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    first guaranteed function of government was a republican government in every state. Stemming from an uncompromising commitment to the core values of sovereignty our Founding Fathers adopted the core ideology of Republicanism as a total rejection of aristocracy. This philosophy, from the inception of the United…

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    the necessity of carrying out legislative power and says that job should lie with the government, of which there are three. The three main forms of government are monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. Monarchies are best suited to controlling large unruly populations, as it is the strongest. The use and necessity of aristocracies or democracies can vary. Because the ruling body is separate from the sovereign, there is typically disputes between the two. Usually, the state will outlast the…

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    mid-1700s discontent grew among the people of all three estates. The first estate, composed of the catholic clergy had long been resented for its privileges because they paid no taxes. The second estate the aristocracy was also resented because of its long standing privilege. The aristocracy also occupied…

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    In the “Manifesto of the Communist Party” by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the intro explains the complicated social ranks in ancient Rome and the Middle Ages. Communism is a common way of organizing a society in which a government should own things. The vision of Karl Marx of the economic and social system is explained through bourgeois and proletarians. Bourgeois is the middle class whereas the proletarians are the lower or working class. The bourgeois class has gained power and put the an…

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