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    October 2015 French Revolution In the course of time, humans have continuously overthrown their government because of its corruptions and excessive oppressions. The French revolution, one of the most important event in human history, paved the way for many other countries to the path for democracy. Although considered the most powerful country in Europe at the time of the revolution, France needed desperately to amend its policies and appease its enraged people. The reformers of the French…

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    Causes of the French revolution France 1780s; was at the brink of chaos, the people of the 3rd estate (people without noble/church stature) wanted change. During the time of the 1700 the nobles treated the third estate without respect. They taxed the third estate heavily. Also giving the third estate little to no privileges. The third estate did not consider fighting for their rights until they heard about the American Revolution and the ideas of enlightenment. However once hearing those…

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    For the slaves in Saint-Domingue, the most important result of the Haitian Revolution was becoming free citizens due to the slave uprising and the ideas and consequences of the French Revolution. Before the revolution took place, slaves had little to no rights. They were considered property, they had to work everyday, and their living conditions were horrible, causing the majority of them to die young. These inequalities fed a will to be free in the enslaved residents of Haiti. The majority of…

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    After weeks of the king’s execution, external and internal France wars started to grow. A civil war broke out between two opposing political groups; Girondins and the Jacobins and France was also at war with Austrians and Prussians. At this time the government was declared a Republic and so the Jacobins, led by Maximilien Robespierre, went around killing all who were opposed to the republic and all who were supposedly counterrevolutionary. From January 1793 to July 1794, France was governed by…

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    The French in America After leaning the exploration and some colonies in the U.S., I read the book A student’s History of the United States which is written by Edward Channing. I found that French is also one of the essential parts of the colonies in the US. The following essay will explain the process how French planted their colonies in America. Let’s start with the early French voyages. The leader of the first French expedition to America was Verrazano who was an Italian instead of a…

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    signaled the start of the Algerian War of Independence. French police and military out posts located in the Aures Mountains were targeted by the Algerian National Liberation Front; FLN for short. The series of rebellious events that occurred between 1954 and 1957 against the French in the capital of Algeria ultimately led to Algeria gaining its official independence from France on the third of July in 1962. A truce had finally been reached between French President Charles de Gaulle and the…

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    Dickens’ Sympathy Towards Revolutionaries in A TAle of Two Cities “Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples; too often we judge ourselves by our best intentions.” - George W. Bush. In his writing, Charles Dickens regularly sides with the lower class people because of his experiences. However in the historical fiction novel, A Tale of Two Cities Dickens sides against the revolutionaries for their hypocrisy. Just by the way that Dickens starts off the novel, “It was the best of…

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    Each of the letters (a,b,c, and d) represents a particular condition. The stimuli were randomized so that no one participant saw more than one condition per set. For example, participant 1 would see (1a, 2b, 3c, 4d, 5a, etc.) and participant 2 would see (1b, 2c, 3d, 4a, 5b, etc.). This sequence was continued for each of the 24 participants. This way, there was an even number of judgements across conditions for each participant. In addition, fillers were used to ensure that participants…

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    The Essay Mother Tongue was written in 1990 by Amy Tan. This was written for people like her, who had trouble accepting the way their parent´s spoke. It was written to share an experience not many have and is about what she had to do because of her mother´s speech. These things can be known by inferred from the text and read the small bio before the reading. This text takes the form of an essay. this is apparent because it is written in a more formal fashion and is written in spaced paragraphs…

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    Alain Ducasse Alain ducasse was just a kid when he started to learn about food form his partnets.As a kid Alain love food and his partnets own a farm so he grow up with the tatse of how things work. But soon as he grow up he went to own many restaurnts in diffrent countrys with star rating and one of the youngest only at 33 yers old was given a 3 star rating. For some people alain is somebody people look up to because he’s created more for people to love like “restaurants, cook books,…

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