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    War Of The Roses

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    He is the first king to not die in debt; he actually had leftovers for the next ruler. Edward was not afraid to use foul language or joke around, he did what he wanted while being a great king. He was also the first and last king to become a business monarch. He created trading businesses that let him live a luxurious life. By exporting tin and wool to Italy he made enough…

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    travel abroad and learn the language of the land. The audience would benefit from my analysis because it shows an actual experience of a man, who was older, but was still able to endure the painful torment of the teacher and locals, but still managed to bare threw it. David Sedaris was able to capture his first-hand experience and articulate that into a short essay for anyone looking to be as brave as he was and put himself in an uncomfortable situation to learn French. The audience would…

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    this fascination is the desire of the sans-culottes to become an orderly civilian army, but they took their role too far as they arrested those who posed even the slimmest of threats to the republic. The result of this was the radicalization of the French population, which benefits no one. Criticism is necessary to improve, but none was given because it would result in…

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    Tahitian Drumming History

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    The lovely country of Tahiti is located in one of the many French Polynesian islands. On this island, people dance the beautiful art of Tahitian Ori (dance) with the sound of the Tairi Pahu (known as Tahitian drumming; meaning ‘the one heartbeat’). I have grown up with this part of the Tahitian culture and have spent many years dancing it. Through the years I have fallen in love with the culture, so I have chosen to study the history of Tahitian dance and drumming as my topic for my senior…

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    The French Revolutions applications were endless, and a country that this was prevalent in was Switzerland. “It proclaimed the equality of citizens before the law, equality of languages, freedom of thought and faith; it created a Swiss citizenship, basis of our modern nationality, and the separation of powers, of which the old regime had no conception; it suppressed internal tariffs and other economic restraints; it unified weights and measures, reformed civil and penal law, authorized mixed…

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    During the years between 1770s and 1820s, a series of revolutions occurred in the west of hemisphere, which includes American, French, Haitian, and Spanish American revolutions. All of these revolutions correspond to the same series which is known as the Atlantic revolutions. Enlightenment ideas was the most incentive theme to the revolutions, as all of them were inspired by the ideas like equality, free trade, and religious tolerance and became conscious of the current situation that was filled…

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    Death Of Marat Essay

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    During the French Revolution, many significant events took place. The beheadings of King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette, along with thousands of their aristocratic followers in 1792, was a pretty significant one because it meant the end of the terrible monarchy that was ruling over France. However, the change in the arts that the Revolution brought was probably the most important of all. From 1789-late 1790s, the people had enough of their country being bankrupt, and desperately…

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    renaissance man. He was fluent in five different spoken languages and able to read and write two other languages. After the ratification of the constitution, George Washington, the first president of the United States of America appointed Thomas Jefferson as his first secretary of state. Jefferson willingly acknowledged his responsibility as the first secretary of state of the United States of America and moved to the capital in 1790. The French Revolution had quickly occupied Europe’s…

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    Gilles Havard’s article “Protection” and “Unequal Alliance”: The French Conception of Sovereignty over Indians in New France describes the way Indigenous people living in New France were perceived by the French authorities, the degree of citizenship that Indigenous people were given, and how these concepts of sovereignty affected the Indigenous communities both positively and negatively. In France, citizens were considered “regnicoles” (Havard, 2013) – citizens who had the full breadth of the…

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    • State of the government • The military http://www.sparknotes.com/us-government-and-politics/political-science/international-politics/section6.rhtml Main causes of French Revolution: Financial Problems: The country of France had been fighting the Seven Year War with Britain. In order to fund their military…

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