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- 2151: Modern European History
- ... all hopes. Many intellectuals began to doubt the Enlightenment and even the future of Western civilization. This state of uncertainty and unpredictability brought out many modern philosophers of that time. One of them was a French poet and critic Paul Valery. He stated that "Europe was looking at its future with dark foreboding." In his writings, he said that "The storm has died away, and still we are restless, uneasy, as ...
- 2152: Freud
- ... gradually began to attract faithful followers and students - along with a great number of critics. While exploring the possible psychological roots of nervous disorders, Freud spent several months in Paris, studying with Jean Charcot, a French neurologist from whom he learned hypnosis. On return to Vienna, Freud began to hypnotize patients and encouraging them while under hypnosis to speak openly about themselves and the onset of their symptoms. Often the patients ...
- 2153: Freud 2
- ... at the University of Vienna, he left his post at the hospital. Later the same year he was awarded a government grant enabling him to spend 19 weeks in Paris as a student of the French neurologist Jean Charcot. Charcot, who was the director of the clinic at the mental hospital, the Salpκtriθre, was then treating nervous disorders by the use of hypnotic suggestion. Freud's studies under Charcot, which centered ...
- 2154: Hannibal 2
- ... rebelling tribes in Italy and the approach of Hannibal. So the Romans sent troops under the command of Publius Cornelius Scipio, to stop Hannibal at Massilia(modern Marseilles, France) (Lancel 21). Massilia is on the French coast where the Rhone River runs into the Mediterranean Sea. The Rhone is a wide river with a swift current, so it was a great obstacle to Hannibal. Scipio's troops set up camp by ...
- 2155: Heinrich Schliemann
- ... to realize his mistake of not recognizing the importance of the "accumulated rubble", which was evidence of human occupation from the prehistoric to Roman era (Duchκne 55). For his digs in 1872, Schliemann hired a French engineer and over 150 workers, and employed the process of stratification, which had never before been used for a major site. It involved careful horizontal digs of each layer of occupation, which helped to establish ...
- 2156: Who Was to Blame for the Cold War?
- ... s aggressive tactics did not end with creating a sphere of influence. Stalin re-established Cominform in September 1947. Cominform represented a union of all of the communist states within Europe, including representatives from the French and Italian communist parties. Even within this communist structure, Stalin had to exert his influence. It was not enough for a state to be merely communist: it had to adopt the Russian- style communism. Furthermore ...
- 2157: The Five Institutions of the Middle Ages
- ... thoughts began togerminate: in 1381, thousands of serfs joined a protest march to London, exploding after generations of abuse. However, it still took an entire millennium before changes began to take place, during the Industrial Revolution in Europe. Finally, the church was everywhere, doing everything! From taxes to crusades, the church involved itself in every aspect of medieval life. The church had its own laws (canon law), its own courts, its ...
- 2158: Henri Matisse
- Henri Matisse, French artist, was a leader of the Fauve group. He was highly regarded as one of the great formative figures in 20th century art and a master of the use of color and form to convey ...
- 2159: Henry Adams
- ... the Virgin Mary, who was always seen as non-sexual. For example, America was ashamed of her have strewn fig-leaves so profusely all over her (Adams, 384). However, during this time of the technology revolution, women were beginning to be viewed differently, especially in Europe. Women were viewed as beautiful and mortal beings. People such as Rodin were representing women in paintings and sculptures sexually. Sex was becoming something more ...
- 2160: To The People Of Texas And All Americans In The World: The Alamo
- ... against a nation of seven million. They did not receive any government aid from the United States but sympathetic Southern states secretly sent troops. The war began with battle of "the Lexington of the Texas revolution" (Downey 46) taken place on October 2, 1835. This little battle consisted of one hundred Mexican troops sent to Gonzales, a town east of San Antonio, to order the settlers to surrender their only cannon ...
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