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Following the French Revolution of 1789, political ideologies began to surface as a result of an increased chance to engage in political discourse, something that was rare outside of the Monarch’s court. As ideas of liberalism, an ideology with a focus on individual human rights began to surface, conservatives with the desire to maintain the Ancien Regime retorted with anti-nationalistic sentiment. In his speech “What is revolution?”, delivered in 1852, conservative Friedrich Julius Stahl…

Throughout human history, different era’s have developed among societies, progressing mankind towards what it currently is today. Characterized by their many different newfound ideologies, these era’s show growth in the ability to think, act, and feel both as an individual, and also as a society. Topics such as religion, government, the economy, and philosophy were all stated, contested, and then evolved repeatedly, defining what people were like all throughout the different time periods. Two…

Clarke employs the metaphor of childhood to illustrate the naivety of mankind in the face of the great technological progress and intellectual ferment during Clarke’s age. Utopia in this context is a vehicle for critical commentary on the complications that arise from a utopia, namely, artistic stagnation, the depreciation of creativity, boredom leading to moral depravity, and the ultimate elimination of evolution. ‘Childhood’s…

The setting is 1930s Mexico, religion is outlaw in the state, more specifically Catholicism. Priests have fled to not receive punishment like persecution. The society is rampant with violence, alcohol, sin, and corruption. Police believe priests are just as corrupt and they dismiss the poor. There is some truth to this statement with priests disobeying the ways of Catholicism. The protagonist of this story is a lost priest who is struggling find his way and escape the authorities. First, the…

John Hancock was a revolutionary, he was the first person to sign the declaration of independence, and he was one of the wealthiest people in massachusetts. He also got to name the United States of America, the act he was inspired by was the Tea Act. John hancock was best known as the first person to sign the declaration of independence, but there are also many things people did not know about him like he was one of the wealthiest people in massachusetts, when John was little his father…

Two big social events happened that pushed the colonies in America towards the Revolutionary War, the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening. The Enlightenment that happened in the colonies stemmed from the Enlightenment that was also occurring in Europe, which was a movement to place a human’s capacity for reason above other factors of social status (Schultz, Mays, & Winfree, 2011). To basically summarize what was happening, at the time the Enlightenment as occurring the popular belief in…

The Gilded Age was a time period of industrial growth in the United States that took place in the late nineteenth century. Its name derived from Mark Twain’s book, “The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today.” In it, he emphasized that the country was not experiencing a “Golden Age” full of success and prosperity, but rather a Gilded Age. Meaning that there was a thin gold sheet masking the corruption actually going on. During this time period immense wealth was earned by individuals who were business…

The majority of France’s 25 million person population rose up and ended unfair ruling in France during the late 18th century. This was the French Revolution. “Ideas more than political or economic concerns, drove the French Revolution up to the summer of 1794.” is incorrect. This historical uprising was sparked by all of these principles at one point or another. The feudal system in France divided the country into three classes, or estates. The first estate was the clergy, who had massive…

The middle ages are often seen as the tunnel of darkness between the Roman Empire’s golden age of culture and Europe’s much later Renaissance. While it is true that for many centuries, Europe was dwindling in progress, the same cannot be said of the Islamic world. Science, Philosophy, and theology all flourished under Islam, seen through numerous Arabic texts written by a handful of renown Muslim scholars. Therefore, the question that should be asked is, as Europe was plunging into an era of…

so much to do with who you are. “The Medieval English saw their economy as comprising three groups- the Clergy, who prayed; the Knights, who fought; and the Peasants, who worked the land.” As stated in the article “Economy of England in the middle ages.” Back then people would always focus on the church. That was what people believed in for a very long time. The people would always go to the church, so for that reason the church was highly respected. Then the Knights, they were important in…