Francis I of France

When studying any form of history, it is necessary to assess all of the sources, whether they be primary or secondary, in order to receive a better evaluation of the credibility and information provided in the text. It is important to study primary sources in history because they can be directly related to the topic and time period that you are addressing and, when thoroughly studying the author, the intent, and background information, you can have a firsthand experience compared to a textbooks…

One of the fringe benefits of being an English or History teacher is receiving the occasional jewel of a student blooper in an essay. I have pasted together the following "history" of the world from certifiably genuine student bloopers collected by teachers throughout the United States, from eight grade through college level. Read carefully, and you will learn a lot. The inhabitants of Egypt were called mummies. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is…

certain to identify any individuals associated with each approach. Be thorough in your answers. Auteur Approach: This is a filmmaking theory in which the film director is perceived a creative force in the motion picture. The theory has its bearing form France in late 1940s.Auteur theory as was named by Andrew Sarris, an American Film critic is an outgrowth of Andre Bazin and Alexandre Astruc cinematic theories. The basis of this theory is that the director is in an exclusive and irreplaceable…

Aquitaine. Eleanor of Aquitaine is an example of a woman who inherited land because she took a hand in politics, which made her very powerful and an attractive match for kings. She was the highest member of the nobility over an area of a third the size of France, and she negotiated her own marriage contract when she married King Henry II of England. Another was Empress Matilda. Apart from her failed claim to the throne of England, she did establish herself as the heir to the land of…

first published in the Quarto edition in 1600, although it is suggested, that this play was ‘first put on in court in 1595’ (Salgado, 1975: p. 116).Whether this play was made in the early 1580s or later than that, became a controversial matter. Francis Meres’ in his Palladis Tamia Wits Treasury (1598), mentioned A Midsummer Night’s Dream as ‘one of a dozen Shakespeare plays’(Stritmatter, 2006: p. 81). This clearly suggests, that this play had to be written before the year 1598. The critic, Eva…

Queen Elizabeth I, better known as the Virgin Queen, was England’s longest reigning monarch. She claimed the throne at the age of twenty-five and she ruled for forty-four years, until her death. Jessica Creton, from The Elizabeth Files, states, “A woman being in charge of England was not seen as a good thing, [but] she has changed this vision forever.” So the question stands, how did this extraordinary woman, of the sixteenth century, do it? Elizabeth I of England was born on September 7, 1533,…

Ripper, due in part by MacNaghten, he is one with little evidence (Rubinstein 4). Meanwhile, according to John George Littlechild, chief inspector and head of the Special Branch at Scotland Yard from 1883 until 1893, had asserted that American Doctor Francis Tumblety was a major suspect of being Jack the Ripper. Tumblety was Irish born in approximately 1833 and was the youngest of three brothers and eight sisters. Many had described him negatively with words such as “a dirty, awkward,…

1. “Sick man of Europe” is a term used to describe the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century. The Ottoman Empire went from the most powerful state to a state that had weakened and were losing provinces. Due to all the loss the Ottoman Empire encountered the Turks began to assert themselves and the set out to overthrow Abdul Hamid. 2. Lusitania was the name of a British ocean liner. It was attacked by the German submarines during their blockade of 1915. This attack on Lusitania…

being in Africa so much that he released many different books surrounding the topic. In 1935, he released the novel Green Hills of Africa. On top of this release, he published more short stories, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber. Two years later, he releases To Have and Have Not. Within the next year, Hemingway explores a different side of writing. He released his first play titled The Fifth Column and the First Forty Nine…

they expanded but meanwhile they were making money and using their knowledge as an advantage over the natives. This is where the quote “God, gold, glory, and slaves come into place. These were the Europeans chief motives for their expansion. God which I already talked about as in religion (Christianity), then Gold, as in economic improvement and natural sources like precious “metals, rubber, kola nut, salt” according to Midlo (p2). Also Glory as in being able to stand up tall in everything,…