Scottish Enlightenment

Napoleon's Changes Napoleon made many great changes in our world , but he also made some bad ones. One thing for sure, he was a great leader. Napoleon's first change was improving education. He restarted the primary schools and made new secondary system schools, called lycees, while ,also, making many other schools for the people. He improved the training teachers received and promoted education for girls as well. Napoleon ,also, made his own laws called the “Napoleonic Code”. These laws were…

Since the time that King Louis XVI became the king of France in 1774, the country started to suffer abounding affairs. All of the abounding affairs France had was caused by King Louis XVI, which later led to French Revolution. The French Revolution was primarily created by the social inequalities, economy, and political reasons. King Louis XVI ruled by the divine right theory which made him control all of the country's decisions, The Social inequalities of France during the 18th century was very…

Aimee: Welcome to The Interview with the President. This weeks guest takes us the whole way back to the begining of America, Please Welcome George Washington. Gery: I am very excited to be here today. Aimee: We also have three other guests, a French Rebel, an American Republican, and a French Monarch. The Monarch and the Rebel are separated for obvious reasons. Today’s topic is the French Revolution. When did the revolution start George? Gery: The revolution started in 1789, but has lasted…

In addition to the long-term factors, there are intermediate factors that led to the revolution. The major factor was the poor economic status of France that was worsening long before the revolution. Her economy got worse when King Louis XIV engaged in battles such as aiding the Americans that contributed to the worsening economic situation as she lost her colonies to Britain. However, King Louis XIV attempted to intervene and through his government, he called for a meeting of the Estate…

Rene Descartes, born in the late 1500’s, was a well-known French, natural philosopher. During his time period, the Age of Enlightenment, the Scientific Revolution was shifting the world. Thinkers and discovers such as Copernicus and Galileo from the method of scholasticism in the medieval times, brought new studies of modern science to this era. Scholasticism is what are past down truths that have been assumed from our knowledge of religion and philosophy throughout time. Scholasticism should…

Tale of Two Cities One Pager: Echoing Footsteps In Dicken’s A Tale of Two Cities, the passage in chapter twenty one plays an important part in book two because it shows how the violent revolution began in France and how that can end badly for Charles, Lucie and Dr.Manette in England. This passage finally leads up to the revolution that the Defarges and the Jaques have been planning for so long and also builds the suspense for what will happen if either of the three characters go back to…

wasn't quite America. Being controlled by the Europeans and the King was ultimately a crucial factor for creating our country. With the age of enlightenment, Modernity was born. Individuals thinking for themselves, and breaking free from "tradition", allowed them to escape in to another life; a better life. The societal differences before and after the enlightenment, drastically oppose…

Voltaire, author of the short novel, Candide, employs exaggeration in order to satirize the optimistic thinking of pre-enlightenment philosophers. Voltaire’s cynic point of view is clear throughout the novel as unending horrors befall the main character, Candide. Pangloss, Candide’s mentor and teacher while he lived with his uncle in Westphalia, is the source of the novel’s main idea of optimism. On the other hand, Martin, his traveling partner later in the novel, represents everything that…

BACKGROUND Belgium is described to be a small nation-state created in 1830 located in Europe that is divided into two major ethnic groups; the Dutch speaking Flemish and French-speaking Walloons. This conflict has not particularly been a violent one but as been long withstanding. The territory was controlled by the French following the French Revolution. This significantly benefitted the French-speaking Walloons economically and politically and was resented by the Flemish who often felt…

Ralph Waldo Emerson has been exulted as a transcendentalist. He wrote several essays that expressed his ideals, concerns, and what he hoped would lead people to think for themselves. Emerson wanted people to think for themselves and not mindlessly conform to the government doctrines simply because they were told to, "Their two is not the real two, their four is not the real four: so that every word they say chagrins us and we know no where to begin to set them right. Meantime nature is not slow…