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    instead of a quick or immediate change. In a revolution, a slow change is more effective because you have time to plan for all the mistakes and problems that might happen during a change in government, while with a quick change you must spend time after the revolution is complete fixing the mistakes you didn’t account for resulting in a long drawn out revolution. We see that a long revolution is more effective and successful from the Cuban revolution. Slow change is more successful then quick…

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    Revolution: A sudden change in politics or economics. Can be violent or not. An act of revolutionary violence was during the French Revolution, a sudden change in politics. An act of revolutionary nonviolence was the Industrial Revolution, a sudden change in economics. The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the late 1700’s to early 1800’s. The Industrial Revolution evolved the world around it and introduced new ways to speed up the economy, yet, through…

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    Jacques-Louis David and His Political Art that Influenced France During March of this year I was fortunate enough to get to go to Paris, France where I visited the Musée Du Louvre. There this was one of the paintings that caught my eye. At the time I was in Art History: Neolithic to Renaissance so I had not gotten to the importance of the painting. But I managed to spend much time just sitting and staring at the painting. Something about this massive painting was fascinating. From the cultural…

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    Jacques-Louis David

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    traded off. First, the conflicting grandeur and inequity of Louis XVI’s Ancien Régime, then the tumultuous French Revolution, and finally the magnificently short lived rule of Napoleon. Ultimately, not only is David’s work inseparable from its historical context, he shaped his historical context in a way few other artists had done through his active participation in the French revolution. This close connection with the prominent intellectuals of…

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    The Conformity of Women During the Islamic Revolution Prior to the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iranian women possessed numerous freedoms. Although the country was of Muslim origin, it was quite westernized; women had suffrage, protection rights, education, and the ability to exceed in male dominated fields. Moreover, they had the right to express themselves freely by choosing how they represented their materialistic form. That was until the Islamic Regime decreed that women would no longer bare…

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    The occupants of the Gulf Coast in the 1770s and 1780s saw the American Revolution uniquely in contrast to the revolting settlers in the north. At first, they viewed it as another royal war, battled for land and fortune. In the end, however, the Gulf Coast turned into the main site of Revolutionary War fights that was outside the revolting provinces yet later turned out to be a piece of the U.S. The range had an assorted populace that incorporated the British, French and Spanish, individuals of…

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    Imperialism In Persepolis

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    written and in the pictures that she used in the story. Every image tells a different story, and when put together, they show the bigger picture. In Marjane Satrapi’s novel, she uses graphic images of the themes imperialism, social classes, and revolution to explain what happened in Iran during her childhood. Marjane Satrapi's use of graphic images within her entire book portrayed how imperialism has affected her life in Iran. This image shows three different men who are taking their ̈grab bags…

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    What is a revolution? Revolution is a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system. It is defined as a major change in history and in general of the ruling of government. The revolution was the plain and obvious fact that there was a major change when the colonists overthrew their British leaders and change the constitution. This was more than just a revolution, this was a turning point in history itself, for independence of the nation and the people. After,…

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    Kraus Wim Klooster and Richard Kraus in their respective works, Revolutions in the Atlantic World along with A Cultural Revolution: A Very Short History make the argument that for one to understand revolutions they must first have a firm understanding of many cultural, political and social ideas. They make these arguments by exploring the Haitian, French, American, Spanish American revolutions, as well as the chinese cultural revolution that took place under the lead of Mao Zedong and examine…

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    Persepolis is a book by Marjane Satrapi written about her own life as a young Iranian woman around and during the Islamic Revolution. Throughout this time period, women were forced to wear oppressive veils and very covering clothing to shield their bodies from the delicate men’s eyes. For a woman to wear shorts in that time period was almost the equivalent of someone walking around naked today. They would be beaten, arrested, and even killed for rebelling against Islam. However, women with…

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