Xinhai Revolution

The world of today is made possible due to the advancement of technology. Different fields of professions incorporate technology into their line of work to improve skills for better achievement. For example, the film industry started off simply with silent black and white motion pictures filmed by constantly cranking a camera handle back in the 1890s. As the time passed, the world entered into a technological evolution. Slowly, films were being made grander with each decade. Silent motion…

French Involvement in The American Revolution In the year 1778, the defining moment of the American Revolution had come about. In 1778, the colonists were upset with Britain because they were not receiving their neutral rights and they felt the need to rebel against Britain to gain these rights and show them they would not stand for it. The only problem was that they colonists were going against Britain who at the time had the largest army so the colonists were heavily outnumbered. Even tho…

Was Napoleon a Tyrant? Was he someone who believed in the ideals of the revolution? Or merely an opportunist? In Clive Emsley’s book he explores the entirety of Napoleon Bonaparte’s life up until he is finally defeated in 1815. The book is broken up into four parts that give the historiographic facts on napoleons career, the narrative of napoleons life, his assessment of napoleons achievements and supporting documentation. Emsley’s focus is quite broad in the sense that it looks at his military…

Path dependency The theory of path dependency explains why decisions regarding technological developments are based on a chain of unintended events made in history (pfadperspektive 3). David introduced the theory with his article “Clio and the economic of qwerty” (year XXX) in which he describes how the layout of a typewriter keyboard was manifested through several different key events in its early stages of existing. With his article, he introduced a new perspective on technological…

François-Marie Arouet also known as Voltaire was born in a noble and notary family on November 21st, 1964, in Paris, France, and was educated in Collège Louis-le-Grand by Jesuits. He was a Philosopher, Historian, and a Writer. His style, intelligence, and humour made him one of the greatest French Writer and Philosopher. He produced literary work in almost every genre like poetry, play, essays, novels, scientific and historic works in over 21,000 letters and over thousands of books and pamphlets…

Historical accuracy is extremely important while both reading and writing a piece of literature. Especially when one is constructing a work that is centered around an important historical event, such as the French Revolution in A Tale of Two Cities. Throughout the first chapter of his novel, Charles Dickens provides an excessive amount of information regarding France and England, along with the condition of their citizens during the time period. With his often cryptic descriptions of the late…

Road to the Revolution? Many events happened in The Road to the Revolution. The Revolution had many different acts during the time. The acts that happened were the Navigation Act of 1660, French and Indian War 1754-1763, Pontiac's Rebellion and Proclamation of 1763, The Sugar Act 1764, The Stamp Act :1765, Declaratory Act:1766, The Townshend Act 1767, The Boston Massacre, The Boston Tea Party:1773, and the Intolerable Acts:1774. Some of the acts were brutal in The Road to the Revolution.…

The role played by the ideas of enlightenment in the French Revolution can be assessed by distinguishing the main principles of Enlightenment and what the ‘philosophers’ of Enlightenment strove to accomplish and why. Enlightenment is usually referred to as the ‘Age of Reason’. This age saw the appearance of new ideas relating to reasoning and rational thinking. Enlightenment philosophers not only supported but also promoted the concepts of equality and tolerance within society and taught…

centuries, the Industrial Revolution started in Britain and later spread quickly toward other European countries and America. At the beginning, due to the discovery of America, it provided a lot of foods which satisfied the food problem of British. This resulted in the population growth and supplied many labour. In addition, coals and irons were found that lead the operation of machine became possible. These core factors coupled with other various element made the Industrial Revolution took…

Delacroix and Goya, the Romanticists, changed the Europe What is the difference between human and animal? During the Enlightenment period in Europe, scientists had defined the difference between human and animal as human can record history, and human form political societies. During the post-modern art history era, there was lots of art historical movements were appeared and perished. They were involved with the scientific development of human sometimes, and sometimes they were related to…