French Directory

manipulate others into doing what they want with it. During the French and the Haitian revolution, middle-class minorities such as Robespierre and Toussaint were able to instigate the common people to fight against the order of their world by saying that they were fighting for the right of the majority. In the end, however, the ones who the revolution ultimately empowered were the instigators themselves, not the common people. The French Revolution is commonly thought of as a time when the…

Curfews In the article, “Minor restrictions” by Anthony Cowell from SIRS says that, the U.S. Department of Justice has reported the criminal offences made by juveniles from 1988 to 1992, has gone up by 26 percent. In 1992, the typical offender was younger than it was in 1988. Youth under 16 were responsible for 62 percent of of offences against people. By 2010, the number of juvenile arrests is estimated to double according to the Department of Justice. Murder alone, is expected to increase…

In Tennessee William's, “A Streetcar Named Desire,” he uses his main character Blanche Dubois, to demonstrate how her current experiences relate to her past. Throughout the play, Williams uses Blanche’s life experiences to illuminate that the hardships she has faced, were also faced by many women throughout history. In “A Streetcar Named Desire,” Williams was able to use Blanche’s story to call attention to the injustice of gender inequality. In the beginning of the play, Blanche moves in with…

Throughout chapter five of Charles Dicken’s “A Tale of Two Cities,” anaphora and asyndeton are utilized in order to depict how the poverty in France was driven into the minds and lives of the peasants due to the negligence of the rich, conceiving a revolution lead by the people. Dickens renders the situation for the peasants in France 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…

performed by different events such as resenting their governing country or to be simply inspired and motivated as America, France, and Haiti were. As both the French and Haitian were inspired from the American revolution, it shows the greater importance of the American revolution. This is what made the American Revolution was more successful than the French Revolution and the Haitian Revolution. The American Revolution had a key role and an influencing factor to other countries with their…

In the excerpts from On the Corruption of Morals in Russia, Shcherbatov is particularly disturbed by the fact that the desire for luxury and extravagance was becoming what drove court life and what was valued most by the Empress. Shcherbatov believes that values such as loyalty, nobility and devoutness were replaced by greed, ostentation and envy. Shcherbatov gives several examples of the declining morals of the Russian court, with the strongest example being that of Count Shuvalov. According to…

Quebec has played a special role in French history of Canada. They spoke French in France, they feel that the way of living in France is still different from the North American mentality in Quebec. However, it doesn't mean that Quebec culture is exactly the different as the rest of Canada. I think it would be dangerous for them to do based on their history, traditionalism and their deep passion to do. Canada is at the reason why Quebec even existed. I think Quebec should not separate. Canada is…

The term '”terrorism” was first used in English during the French Revolution, when the Jacobins, rulers of the revolutionary state, employed violence, including mass executions by guillotine, to intimidate regime enemies. Back then, the definition of a “terrorist” was: “an adherent or supporter of the Jacobins, who advocated and practiced methods of partisan repression and bloodshed in the propagation of the principles of democracy and equality” (oxforddictionaries.com). It was in this context,…

common people, each had their grievances to the throne. Pouring in from the provinces, grievances of the people all had the common theme of political and social reform, most definitely for matching the new outlook on religion and government that the French adopted from the Enlightenment. The hopes of the bourgeoisie, represented in Abbé Sieyès’ pamphlet, expressed how the Third Estate was the nation’s voice in the government, highlighting how the two were about identical. The Third Estate…

Indeed, it is important to look at the social limits of westernisation. It is questionable whether most peasants, by the end of the eighteenth-century, were westernised. They represented almost ninety-percent of the population, and most of them were not affected by Peter's decree on Western dress. Additionally, more than half of them were serfs.1 Considering that serfs were the largest demographic group in eighteenth-century Russia, it is clear that the West directly influenced only for a…