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- 1181: Medieval Castles
- Medieval Castles In 1494 the armies of the French king, Charles VIII, invaded Italy to capture the kingdom of Naples. They swept through the country and bombarded and destroyed many castles. This invasion signaled the end of the castle as a stronghold of defense ... Europe. Many of the stone castles of the late Middle Ages still stand. Some are tourist attractions, in various states of repair, along the Rhine River from Mainz to Cologne in Germany, dotted about the French countryside, or perched on hilltops in Spain. The original French castles had been built on open plains. Later ones, however, were situated on rocky crags, at river forks, or in some position where advancing enemies would find approach extremely difficult, if not impossible. The ...
- 1182: Representation of Women through Art
- ... of art from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century. These articles are titled "Judith Leyster's Proposition - Between Virtue and Vice" by Frima Fox Hofrichter, "Happy Mothers and Other New Ideas in Eighteenth Century French Art" by Carol Duncan, "Morisot's Wet Nurse: The Construction of Work and Leisure in Impressionist Painting" by Linda Nochlin, and "Like an Artist" by Janis Bergman-Carton. First, the article "Judith Leyster's Proposition ... to the decent, uninterested woman. She tries to give the viewer her point of view as a woman during this period of time. Next, the article "Happy Mothers and Other New Ideas in Eighteenth-Century French Art", by Carol Duncan talks about the representation of mothers and families through art. It also talks about the unhappiness in arranged marriages and the authority of the father figure in families during the eighteenth ... role model of a woman to represent. These paintings brought about a great influence in the modernization of women during the eighteenth century. In the article, "Happy Mothers and Other New Ideas in Eighteenth-Century French Art" by Duncan Carol, a new modernization of the female gender began. Prostitution was no longer represented through the paintings in this period. Painters, and society as a whole, started emphasizing more on women ...
- 1183: Existentialism
- Existentialism Existentialism is a concept that became popular during the second World War in France, and just after it. French playrights have often used the stage to express their views, and these views came to surface even during a Nazi occupation. Bernard Shaw got his play "Saint Joan" past the German censors because it appeared to be very Anti-British. French audiences however immediately understood the real meaning of the play, and replaced the British with the Germans. Those sorts of "hidden meanings" were common throughout the period so that plays would be able to pass ... in 1940 but managed to escape, and become one of the leaders of the Existential movement. Other popular playwrights were Albert Camus, and Jean Anouilh. Just like Anouilh, Camus accidentally became the spokesman for the French Underground when he wrote his famous essay, "Le Mythe de Sisyphe" or "The Myth of Sisyphus". Sisyphus was the man condemned by the gods to roll a rock to the top of a mountain, ...
- 1184: The Senegal Tribe
- ... 1800's, there was no Senegal but there was a nation that became Senegal much later. The tribe was ruled by Samori Toure when the Europeans started coming. Samori Toure signed an agreement with the French in an effort to keep the land they had owned for centuries. Unfortunately, the French broke the agreement and war broke out for 7 years. The people of Senegal were defeated in 1898. This war was one of the few examples of overt resistance during the colonization of Africa. The ... on the North Western coast of Africa, making it easily accessible for the Europeans. Also, one very negative feature was the flatness of the land, which made the natives face the superior weapons of the French head on. Bibliography Websters Concise World Atlas Barnes and Noble Books, New York 1995 Scramble for Africa Anthony Nutting E.P. Dutton and Co. , San Francisco 1971 World History Burton F. Beers Prentice Hall , ...
- 1185: Airships
- ... steering systems, it is used to carry passengers and cargo. It obtains its buoyancy from the presence of a lighter-than-air gas such as hydrogen or helium. The first airship was developed by the French, called a ballon dirigible, it could be steered and could also be flown against the wind. TYPES OF AIRSHIP Two basic types of airship have been developed: the rigid airship, the shape of which is ... Atlantic on Apr. 4, 1933; the Macon first flew on Apr. 21, 1933, and crashed in the Pacific on Feb. 12, 1935. HISTORY OF NONRIGID AIRSHIPS The first successful nonrigid airships were built by the French. In 1852 Henri Giffard built an airship of 113,000 cu ft powered by a steam engine. The brothers Albert and Gaston Tissandier constructed a 37,500-cu ft airship propelled by a battery-powered ... At the turn of the century the Brazilian aeronaut Alberto Dumont built and flew a series of small airships in France, all of which used gasoline engines. Blimps were effectively used by the British and French in World War I in maritime reconnaissance against German submarines. The term blimp, a British slang expression of unknown origin, came into use about this time. In World War II, the United States was ...
- 1186: Capital Punishment and Issues
- ... more than 200 capital crimes were recognized, and as a result, 1000 or more persons were sentenced to death each year (although most sentences were commuted by royal pardon). In the American colonies before the Revolution, the death penalty was commonly authorized for a wide variety of crimes. Blacks, whether slave or free, were threatened with death for many crimes that were punished less severely when committed by whites. The Reform ... England and America this reform was led by the Quakers (Society of Friends). In Europe, a short treatise, On Crimes and Punishments (1764), by the Italian jurist Cesare Beccaria, inspired influential thinkers such as the French philosopher Voltaire to oppose torture, flogging, and the death penalty. Encouraged by the writings of the philosopher Jeremy Bentham, England repealed all but a few of its capital statutes during the 19th century. Several states ...
- 1187: History of Punishment and The Code of Hammurabi
- ... laws and edicts of the Babylonian king Hammuarbi. Hammurabis Code was engraved on a block of black basalt; it stood 7 ft. 5 inches. Between the years of 1901 and 1902, a team of French archaeologists found Hammuarabi's Code in Susa, Iraq. It was broken into 3 pieces and was restored and placed in Louvre in Paris. Where did Hammurabi get his idea of punishment? Hammurabi claims to have ... were more than 200 capital crimes recognized and as a result from this 1000 or more people had been sentenced to death every year. Most of the sentences were commuted by royal pardon. Before the revolution in American colonies, the death penalty was used for a variety of crimes. Blacks were threatened with death for same crimes committed by a white man (punished less harshly), it did not matter if the ...
- 1188: Capital Punishment
- ... the rack. One of the most notorious ways of executions was being beheaded by a guillotine. This machine, invented by Joseph Ignace Guillotin (1738-1814), became the official instrument of execution in France during the French Revolution. It dropped a huge knife that cut off the victim's head. It was regarded as quick and merciful. The guillotine was used until 1981, when capital punishment was abolished in France. The death penalty ...
- 1189: Methods of Execution
- ... concerned. While the aforementioned methods are widely known to be still in use, the following is most likely thought to have disappeared long ago. Beheading, which is known mainly because of the guillotine in the French Revolution, is still being carried out by sword in countries such as Saudi Arabia. Like hanging, beheading was originally thought of as quick and sure but recent medical finding show that oxygenated blood still in the ...
- 1190: Euthanasia In Today's Society
- ... we like to ourselves. They have a point since it all goes back to how we formed our nation. We formed it on individual rights that we modeled after the ideas of Rousseau before the French Revolution. Pro-euthanasia people also believe that anyone should have the right to turn away medical treatment if he believes that the side-effects, whether pain or the burden of being tied to some machine or ...
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