Reign of Terror

Presto grabs the rope with his other hand and he goes up. “Let me down!” shouted Presto. Alec bites the rope and Presto came down. Continuing to chase Alec. Alec tries to break Presto’s arm, but Presto bites him. Alec screamed,”Owww!” Presto goes get another carrot and started to tease Alec with it. Alec sat on the chair and Presto went to grab in the hat but, Alec had other plans. Alec planned to make Presto feel his own pain. Alec started to do bad things to him. Alec shocked him again…

After we came back from winter break, everyone had forgotten what had happened except Priscilla, Munk, Martin, and the cobras. If you don't know what happened let me tell you. Munks Motegbd were in charge at this school. One day, Priscilla came and her only friend was getting bullied by munks cobras. Priscilla went over to stop him and up came munk. He was a whole lot shorter than Priscilla, and also more confident. As soon as he started helping the other one of his cobras, she walked up to him…

During the French Revolution, the blood thirsty mob marched 15,000 people up to the guillotine and decapitated them. The peasants fueled by an oppressive religion and abusive government, exploded into a full atheistic horror. During the French Revolution, the peasant mob overthrew the Notre-Dame cathedral, renaming it the temple of reason, and executed all the church attending members. The author, Charles Dickens, wrote A Tale of Two Cities illustrating this moment in history. Considered by all…

There arise two problems when discussing the doctrine of double effect, the first being the close connection theory, and the second being choice description relativity. First, we’d discuss the choice description relativity. The idea behind choice description relativity is that you can explain the harm away to make it foreseen and unintended. In both CC and HC, the doctor intends to have the fetus and mother survive, and if given the chance to save both, it is expected they would. By stating this…

The inclination to engage in violence during the Storming of the Bastille was not an exception but the norm. Less than a month after this monumental event, peasants revolted, destroying a number of medieval documents and forcing feudalism to be abolished. The violence would continue on October 5, 1789 with the March on Versailles, which is perhaps one of the most shocking events of the revolution. Thousands of women marched on Versailles declaring their need for bread. Their anger was directed…

La France sous Napoléon Bonaparte: Self-Promotion Over French Ideals Napoléon Bonaparte, although sometimes regarded as a magnificent leader, only managed to control his empire by defying essential concepts presented by the French Revolution. Napoléon acted egocentrically rather than promoting the ideals of the French Revolution, many of which he transgressed frequently. As a result of these actions, Napoléon succeeded in deceiving his people, also preventing a united French society. In short,…

“In time of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a saviour.” This is evident in the French Revolution, specifically the Terror (1793-1794), which was a period of anarchy in France. A despot refers to government which holds all the power and uses it in an oppressive and tyrannical way. The revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre seemed despotic during the Terror, through several of his actions such as; his exploitation of fear, his de-Christianisation of France and his organized…

Reactionary terrorists involved in activities known as white terror were like opposing attacks towards the activities of the revolutionary terrorists. The collective efforts to oppose the French Revolution in 1795 was considered counter-revolutionary in nature. The First White Terror was primarily one of the first attacks demonstrating reactionary terrorism. This attack was lodged by a majority of people whose relatives had been victims of the Great Terror or those whose lives were threatened by…

in this demented but partly secure society. They were glad to touch the brown backs of the fence that hemmed in the terror and made it governable”(152). In this scene, the use of the word “eager” to express Ralph and Piggy’s enthusiasm provides a deep contrast with the use of the imagery to describe the situation. The imagery, such as the words “demented” and “hemmed in the terror”, give off a negative connotation that displays the underlying mood of the situation. Ralph and Piggy fail to see…

Looking at this source you can easily conclude that the very muscular man on the bottom would be the third estate and everyone riding on him would be the first and second. The author of this source would have been a third estate sympathist, showing that the third estate was the backbone or the horse that carried the other estates around. The third estate being made up of the majority of people had to give the most. They paid more taxes and no say in government they were blindly led around…