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- 1551: The Beliefs of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes
- The Beliefs of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes The issue of how and why government is organized was an integral part of the English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution. Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan and John Locke in Two Treaties on Government contributed to the thoughts to the discussion. The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes lived through the civil war and was disturbed by the mess ... If any government abused these rights instead of protecting them, then the people had the right to rebel and form a new government. Locke’s Two Treatises of Civil Government were published after the Glorious Revolution of 1688 brought William of Orange and Mary to the throne, but they were written in the thrones of the Whig revolutionary plots against Charles II in the early 1680s. In this work Locke gives ...
- 1552: Absolute Monarchs
- ... William (The Elector), and Tsar Peter I (The Great) their achievements, policies, and similarities were in view of obtaining desired goals. Many achievements for advancement were accomplished during the late 1700s and early 1800s. The French King Louis XIV created at Versailles, near Paris a elaborate court and in 1680s he transformed a small chateau into the largest building in Europe, 12 miles from Paris. Also, Louis XIV carried off successfully ... 1685 Louis revoked the Edict of Nantes, he forced France’s 1 million Huguenots either to leave the country or to convert to Catholicism. In 1648 Frederick William, backed by both the Dutch and the French, restrained Sweden in northern Europe during the negotiation leading to the Treaty of Westphalia, earning new territory without having to do much. Also, in 1653 the Diet of Brandenburg gave Frederick the right to raises ...
- 1553: Essay On Origins Of World War
- ... neutral grounds, which was Belgium. This act by Germany gave the British Cabinet the decision to enter the war on the Franco-Russian side. His secondary reason for making the move on siding with the French was the fact that he had a moral obligation to aid France based solely on past naval conversations, and his belief that Germany was unjustly defending Austria. Fay believed that Italy and Belgium had little ... This need and want for economic expansion brought forth Germany’s ‘ultimate objective’, which was to claim world power. Fischer then explains how Germany’s confidence was greatly depleting in their military strength as the French and Russians were quickly improving theirs. He also states that although Germany found themselves in a ‘risky situation’, they were confident they could win. Moltke was quoted as saying, “We are ready, and the sooner ...
- 1554: Marie Curie and Her Discovery of Radium and Polonium
- ... baby girl that they named Irene. A few years later she was to become pregnant again with another baby girl that she would name Eve. In 1896, Marie heard that Antoine Henri Becquerel, also a French scientist, found that rays coming from a uranium ore affected a photographic plate in the same manner as X-rays. These rays did not seem to be related to any external source of energy, such ... realized that X-rays could be used to locate broken bones, bullets, and pieces of shrapnel. Marie organized mobile X-ray units to equip ambulances with which she drove to the front line for the French Army Medical Corps, set up more than 200 battlefield X- ray units, and trained 150 women to operate them. The International Red Cross made her head of its Radiological Service. In the late 1920’s ...
- 1555: Pablo Picasso
- ... trips to Paris, finally settling there in 1904. He found the city's bohemian street life fascinating, and his pictures of people in dance halls and cafés show how he assimilated the postimpressionism of the French painter Paul Gauguin and the symbolist painters called the Nabis. The themes of the French painters Edgar Degas and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, as well as the style of the latter, exerted the strongest influence. Picasso's Blue Room (1901, Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.) reflects the work of both ...
- 1556: John Quincy Adams
- ... I was working in foreign relations before I became President. I have experienced many great events, such as when I was appointed as minister to the Netherlands, a mere three days later I witnessed the French invade the country and overthrow the Dutch Republic. This was thought of by many as an attempt for the French to show the United States how strong it was, without exerting any force on them at all. On a different occasion, when I was appointed minister to Russia, I was the leading negotiator for the ...
- 1557: Huckleberry Finn
- ... that took most of their interest was a book. The book was filled wit stories of kings and it makes them start wondering about things. One thing that Jim can't understand is why a French man who speaks French is still considered a man. Obviuosly Jim would be confused, since slaves never recieved any sort of formal education. During all this arguing and wondering they mistakenly pass their destination, Cairo. Unknowingly they kept going ...
- 1558: Bob Dylan
- ... vs. Board of Education of Topeka, the segregation of races in public schools is declared a violatation of the equal protection clause. The Supreme courts decision launched the struggle against predjudice nationwide. While the social revolution was being fought, Elvis Presley, Chuck Barry and Little Richard began playing rock and roll music, music that gave teenagers a vehicle for expression and an identity that was distinct. The early rock and roll ... Clift impressed the idea of self determined rebel upon a new generation, a characterization that seems to have coincided with the defient style of rock and roll music then. All of these elements: conformism, social revolution, rock and roll music, and the "rebel" movie hero, converged into a creative and excepting time for the young Dylan to grow up in, a time for the mainstream American and the youth behind it ...
- 1559: Jane Eyre - Setting
- ... accepted: "I would not now have exchanged Lowood with all its privations, for Gateshead and its daily luxuries." (87). Lowood also allowed Jane to mature into a young lady. She learned to paint and speak French. The skills that she learned in school allowed her to get a job as a governess. After she graduated at Lowood she worked at the school for two years before accepting a job as a ... immediately moved in with them and worked as a teacher at the parish that John worked at. She enjoyed working there, but not as much as she enjoyed working at Adele, because she loved teaching French and painting. Jane's relationship with St. John was strictly a working one. She helped him learn hindostanee (Hindi) in order to prepare him for his new job as a missionary. He would later use ...
- 1560: Mohandas Gandhi
- Mohandas Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, also known as mahatma Gandhi, was a Indian nationalist leader, who established his country's freedom through a nonviolent revolution. Gandhi became a leader in a difficult struggle, the Indian campaign for home rule. He believed and dedicated his life to demonstrating that both individuals and nations owe it to themselves to stay free, and ... Indian National Congress at a conference in London. In 1932, Gandhi began new civil-disobedience campaigns against the British. Gandhi fasted for long periods several times; these fasts were effective measures against the British, because revolution might well have broken out in India if he had died. In September 1932, while in jail, Gandhi undertook a fast unto death to improve the status of the Hindu Untouchables. The British, by permitting ...
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