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By Faith Fatisal Andong 4354552 Citizenship can be said to be a form of identity. The French revolutionaries labeled it as a means of equality. Every continent, country or nation has viewed citizenship in a different dimension, looking at citizenship from different angles. Citizenship is a technical process in terms of rights. It was born in a way of excluding others from a particular society or association and this makes it problematic because it became a struggle of association. Ethnicities…

Without the spread of public opinions through France in the late eighteenth century, it is likely the French revolution would not have occurred. The spread of ideas along with other factors such as class wars, financial and political crisis; France was able to usher in a new age that benefitted most rather than a select few. This essay will explore the influence public opinions had on the causation of the revolution while briefly looking at the other contributory factors. Before the revolution,…

Chapter Summary Vietnam has a long history of colonial domination under China’s control for about 1000 years, followed by French colonization for almost 100 years. In 1954, Vietnam was finally able to gain independence. However, the conflicts in the country were far from ending. The Geneva Accord divided the country into two regions until elections could be held. Friction between these regions and the potential for uniting the country under communist rule led to the Vietnam War, which finally…

Syria was not as burdensome to the Ottomans as the Egyptians, as the Turks respected the language of the Koran and thus the Syrians accepted them. Damascus became the major entrepot for Mecca, and thus it acquired a holy character to Muslims, because of the blessings of the countless pilgrims who passed through it on the way to Mecca. The Ottoman…

important the French Revolution was in the history of the world. Sitting in my 11th grade history class, my instructor always made it her point to tell her pupils how cataclysmic the year 1789 really was. I was ignorant and a little innocent at the time, not thinking much of the 70 year old professor who I thought had a freaky fascination with the French Revolution. However, I now thank her for forever engraining the “cataclysmic” year of 1789 forever in my intellect. The French Revolution…

had no male heir. Liberty, equality and fraternity were the main ideologies behind the French revolution. This was also weighed heavily upon by the Enlightenment and philosophical ideas. The American revolution showed the French an example of a successful revolution and functioning constitution. To the French,the definition of liberty was freedom from oppression by the government. They also found the french regime unfair, and believed that to achieve equality, a different system would have to…

In many circumstances when situations aren’t going in your favor, you start to panic and take drastic measures in order to make them do so. This is the circumstance that France found itself in after the first few years of the French Revolution. Desperate times suddenly arose due to a new constitution and other laws being put in place that didn’t mesh with their culture. Due to this situation desperate times also called for desperate measures in which France was forced to take. Thus, the entire…

a strong force that is the cause of many things, including literacy, education, and more. Nationalism is the strong belief that the people who share a common language, history, and culture should constitute as an independent nation free of foreign domination. Post the Napoleonic period in France; sectionalist arose because of the French Revolution. The revolution made people aware of culture and ideological movements which divided France. “Nationalists stressed the primary identification of…

Polynesia Population Polynesia has an estimated 691,346 (Not including New Zealand) people to inhabit the earth and spread over different countries. The records show that the population since 1955 has increased by over 400,000 people and still is increasing today. In 1955, the population was 274,119 then by 1990; it reached 547,896 then after 15 years in 2005; it got to 641,022 then to the present we know as 691,346 (Not including New Zealand). The population each year increases from 3.8…

“page” from Medieval time or Feudalism, in the other word – the period was considered as “dark” of European history to Enlightenment age when human reasons enmancipated people from the mould of religion, “modernity” apperance was its product after French Revolution in eighteenth century (Knowles 2008). At that time, idea of “Imperialism” lead European powers: France, Britain, Netherlands, Portugal and Spain expand their “modernity” to other parts of the World and Asia in general, East Asia in…