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- 241: Comprehensive New Orleans
- Comprehensive New Orleans In a country containing so much diversity and history, it is practically impossible to locate one city which embodies American diversity. a colony started by the French was the first area to fully integrate culture and religion. The city of New Orleans, now prosperous form its diversity, epitomizes the American Melting Pot . It is complicated to relate such different backgrounds, but with ... of history, culture, religion, and integration on a small scale, a reader is capable of applying the values to the American culture as a whole. In 1699 the first plans for New Orleans were born. French-Canadian, Pierre le Moyen, Sieur d Iberville left France to found a colony on the Gulf of Mexico. Sieur d Iberville set up a fur trading for originally on the north gulf coast, then moved ... portion of the territory. Wen Iberville died in 1706 the land under his jurisdiction was given to ho brother, Jean Baptiste de Moyen Sieur de Beinville. Beinville had great plans for the development of the French colonies and in 1717 he submitted plans for a new settlement to the Company of the West. In 1718 France agreed with Beinville s plans and authorized him to establish the settlement, according to ...
- 242: Russian Revolution
- Russian Revolution The roots of the Russian Revolution of 1917 were deep. Russia had suffered under an extremely oppressive form of government for centuries under the rule of the czars. During the 19th century the nation was filled with movements for political liberalization ... December 1825. Members of the upper classes, including many former soldiers, staged a revolt after the death of Alexander I. The revolt failed, but it provided an inspiration to succeeding generations of dissidents. The next revolution took place in 1905, after the Russo-Japanese War, which Russia lost. It appeared briefly that public discontent would force Czar Nicholas II to establish a constitutional monarchy. Such a change would not have ...
- 243: Vietnam War - The Conflict In Vietnam
- The Vietnam conflict began in the late nineteenth century. The French conquered Vietnam and made it a protectorate. For nearly forty years, Vietnam had not experienced settled peace. The League for the Independence of Vietnam ( Viet Minh ) was formed in 1941, seeking independence from the French. On September 2nd,1945, Ho Chi Minh proclaimed it independent of France. The French opposed their independence from 1945 to 1954. The first representatives of de Gualles government landed by parachute in Saigon and Hanoi on August 23rd, 1945. The French wanted to reestablish their rule in ...
- 244: US Intervention In Haiti
- ... uses of the state and the meaning of nationhood. The roles of this history and the class structure are at the roots of the current crisis in Haiti. In August, 1791, the slaves of the French colony of Saint-Domingue revolted against their enslavers and after twelve bloody years of war they created the world's first black republic. This was the only successful slave insurrection in history.(3) The new Haitian elites, composed primarily of the grown children of mixed marriages between French plantation owners and black slave women, instantly began to treat the rural peasant/slave masses in the same fashion as the French overlords had. They turned the fiscal and marketing systems into mechanisms that would allow them to siphon off the wealth produced by the peasants. They heavily taxed food and other necessities while leaving luxury ...
- 245: A Tale of Two Cities: Inner Soul and Human Emotion
- ... an example of social criticism in literature. Dickens uses this novel to express his disillusionment with society and human nature. Besides the central theme of love, this story has another prevalent theme, that of a revolution gone bad. He shows us that, unfortunately, human nature causes us to be vengeful and, for some, overly ambitious. This book describes how, even with the best of intentions, our ambitions can get the best ... Dr. Alexandre Manette, unjustly imprisoned in France for 17 years. Though Lucie marries Darnay, Carton still loves her and in the end, gives his life to save Darnay for her. Dickens, who was fascinated with French history, especially the French Revolution, begins by criticizing the aristocrats' treatment of the poor people of France. In the seventh chapter of book two, the Monsieur the Marquis had accidentally driven his carriage over a young child, killing ...
- 246: Art
- ... artists. The Neoclassical period began in 1789. It combined a new scientific approach and appealed to the intellectual who believed in power of reason to uplift society. This movement became associated with republican ideas of revolution and was said to belong to the age of reason and revolution.( Russel 25) Flowing this period, in the early eighteenth century, a period labeled Romanticism evolved. In this period, confidence in reason and artificiality of court life was characterized by a great value of emotion. Often ... the most part, times were good, life was simple and wild imagery in art reelected a carefree nature. Realism and social protest occurred at the beginning of the nineteenth century; the inception of the industrial revolution encouraged a capitalist economy. The paintings of this time involved social criticism of many political figures, judicial and police systems, to rebel against the changing ways. Again, the realistic portrayals of daily life were ...
- 247: National Constituent Assembly
- ... these later groups that the brewing discontent lay, but none shared a common discontent, and few shared a common goal. It would be the most radical of these reactionary groups, who seized leadership of the French people, in the nation's time of need. The National Constituent Assembly originated from the National Assembly, and its purpose was to write a constitution that would create a new France, one that was based ... Head of State, but wanted the people's rights and values outlined in a constitution, rather than decided by the King. In 1789 the Constituent Assembly began developing a Constitution, because it was what the French people wanted - but their moods quickly changed and the proposed constitution became a calamity. Some reforms made by the National Constituent Assembly were significant in furthering France economically, socially and democratically - many of the reforms ... the Estates system was abolished, Nobles lost their privileges and their land, those that didn't conform fled to foreign countries and became emigres. Some plotted against France, and vowed to return and end the revolution. These accusations were thought to be only rumours, until King Louis himself, obviously unhappy with the abolishment of his absolutism, was found guilty of conspiring with Austria's King Leopold to declare war on ...
- 248: Pierre Elliot Trudeau
- Pierre Elliot Trudeau Published in 1968, Federalism and the French Canadians is an ideological anthology featuring a series of essays written by Pierre Elliot Trudeau during his time spent with the Federal Liberal party of Canada. The emphasis of the book deals with the problems ... Trudeau are quite blatant through his immense historical knowledge and political shrewdness). Although he brings up the possible implications of a rejected Federalist state, he seems to scorn and laugh at the idea; "Separatism a revolution? My eye. A counter-revolution; the national socialist counter-revolution". Such passages are indicative of the attitude Trudeau held towards the political disorder of his own country and magnifies his disgust towards the sluggish and immobile Duplessis regime. Throughout ...
- 249: Causes Of The American Revolut
- The American Revolution, also known as the United States War of Independence, was an uprising by which 13 of Britain's colonies gained political independence. By the middle of the 18th century, differences in life, thought, and economic interests began to grow between the colonies and Britain, the mother country. The French and Indian war caused considerable war debts in Britain, and as a means of generating revenue, Britain implemented taxes within the colonies. The colonists felt that these taxes were unfair. Although the colonies were still ... and separation from Britain. Having an almost completely self-governed society, they resented the restrictions placed on them in the form of taxes and trade restrictions, and so began their political rebellion. Thus, the American Revolution began as an economic conflict, but soon developed into a passionate dispute over personal rights and political liberty. One of the first of many seeds of the American Revolution was the Stamp Act. This ...
- 250: Australia's Future
- ... this butchery won popular acclaim. The mob were delighted to see previously privileged members of the community publicly murdered. Indeed this was the crux of the matter, this is what they really wanted. The popular French uprising of 1791 had little to do with Liberty, Fraternity and Equality, it had more to do with indulged children who discover they can defy parents. This was a revolt against authority, the populace would ... with parents, teachers, police and government in Australia in 1990s. The community no longer accepts any authority without question, and is suffering the inevitable consequences - its eventual dissolution. Which is why professor Toynbee set the French Revolution as the start of the fall of western civilisation. The French revolution was not unique, the Russian revolution was very similar. Despite the relative prosperity of Russia in the early 1900s, a malcontented populace ...
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