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The Magna Carta was written in 1215 due to the misbehavior of King John. After his brother died, John became king and demanded that nobles pay higher taxes to support his wars in France. Unfortunately, this was not a popular idea among the nobles. Powerful barons joined together to revolt against the king, even threatening to take his life. John’s consequence was one of the most significant documents in world history, the Magna Carta, which stood for “Great Charter” in Latin. This imperative…

In the book the great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, symbolism is used to describe in the color green, the valley of ashes and in the eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleberg. The color of green is used to the book to symbolize the hope of Gatsby winning the love of Daisy over. This is possible with his money and his love for her. The money helps him achieve this by finally being in the class as daisy. He now has the hope to pursue his dream. Green also symbolizes the green light at the end of…

The word ‘success’ is a single word that can unfairly summarize an individual’s lifetime of hard work and dedication. This one word can take on different meanings for different individuals, but it typically signifies an achievement of a personal goal. The pursuit of success is what characterizes the American Dream, and leads individuals to idolize the United States. The American Dream is the ideal that every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through…

The differences between the three primary forms of government, oligarchy, tyranny, and democracy are as follows: oligarchy is governmental rule being in the hands of a small group of men who belonged to wealthy families. This form of leadership could be found in the city-state of Sparta where its citizens were known for their military self-discipline. There were three parts that made up Spartan oligarchy: military chiefs who were assigned as the state’s religious leaders and generals of its army…

John F. Kennedy once said, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” During the 1700s, Toussaint L’Ouverture and Napoleon Bonaparte lead violent revolutions that propagated many changes that perpetually impacted the world. Despite the many differences between them, the similarities they shared were salient. Furthermore, both leaders held mass revolts and violent riots, demanded equality among their people, and destroyed their former government. Due…

People who are desperate for wealth create an illusion that they can receive benefits from breaking the law. Wealth is considered having a great sum of money or valuable possessions. In The Great Gatsby and Wall Street, both of the main characters demonstrate illegal actions to get out of a poor situation and start achieving their goals. In the book The Great Gatsby, James Gatz was born into a poor life. His parents were farmers and barely making ends meet. James never believed that lifestyle…

France, this has been proven by the following arguments of Making himself absolute power, the Financial aspect of his heir, The Wars he had conducted. The common French people paid the government when we think about it, many of the kings and queens that ruled France knew this but still decided to act on such terms, making the life for the French…

power under the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte. "All in all, French armies wrought much suffering in Europe, but they also radically changed the lay of the land." (doc.3) ― J. Christopher Herold, The Age of Napoleon The Seven Years War was a conflict between many European powers, involving two major groups, Great Britain Prussia, Portugal, Hanover, and other small German states on one side. In the early 1750s French expansion into territories the British wanted…

The French Revolution had many causes for its occurrence including, but not limited to, their leader, unfair treatment of the estates, and poor living conditions of the lower class. This led the people to revolt and made life even more chaotic for the residents of France. Their government, an absolute monarchy, gave King Louis XVI the right to do whatever he wanted for the “well-being” of France. As explained in Document 1, “He ruled by the divine right theory which held that he had received…

The death of Henry II was the most significant event that started the French Wars of Religion. With his death, Francis II became the new king. Francis II was related to a devout Catholic family know as the Guises. The Guises were in critical positions in the monarchy. Those positions were the French Army and the Church. The Guises family learned of a plot by a rival Protestant family to remove Francis II from power. Leading the Protestant family was the Bourbon Duke of Conde. He was sentenced to…