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- 51: Causes Of The French Revolutio
- Causes of the French Revolution On July 14, 1789, several starving working people of Paris and sixty soldiers seized control of the Bastille, forever changing the course of French history. The seizing of the Bastille wasn’t caused by one event, but several underlying causes such as the Old Regime, the raising of taxes, the American revolution, and the idea and beliefs of ...
- 52: The French Revolution
- The French Revolution On July 14, 1789, an angry mob of French commoners stormed the Bastille in Paris. These low-class citizens had only one thing on their minds as they initiated a nation at war, and that was revenge - revenge on the King and the ...
- 53: French Revolution 4
- The causes of the French Revolution, being provoked by this collision of the powers of the rising bourgeoise and an sinking aristocracy defending its privileges, was the Financial debt of the government and the long-standing political differences in the government. Over the course of twenty-five years after the Seven Years' War, the government of France could not manage it's finances on a sound basis. This was worsened when France aided the American Revolution against Great Britain. The Government had reached great financial debt. The problem lied and continued because of the government's inability to tap the wealth of the French nation by taxation. There was a ...
- 54: Cinematography: Everything You Need To Know
- ... stroboscopic disk and projected with a magic lantern to reproduce an image of the horse in motion. Muybridge shot hundreds of such studies and went on to lecture in Europe, where his work intrigued the French scientist E. J. MAREY. Marey devised a means of shooting motion photographs with what he called a photographic gun.^Edison became interested in the possibilities of motion photography after hearing Muybridge lecture in West Orange ... tricks of all: simply by stopping the camera, adding something to the scene or removing something from it, and then starting the camera again, he made things seem to appear and disappear. Early English and French filmmakers such as Cecil Hepworth, James Williamson, and Ferdinand Zecca also discovered how rhythmic movement (the chase) and rhythmic editing could make cinema's treatment of time and space more exciting. American Film in the ... the 1920s relied heavily on the striking visual qualities of the northern landscape. Mauritz Stiller and Victor Sjostrom mixed this natural imagery of mountains, sea, and ice with psychological drama and tales of supernatural quests. French cinema, by contrast, brought the methods and assumptions of modern painting to film. Under the influence of SURREALISM and dadaism, filmmakers working in France began to experiment with the possibility of rendering abstract perceptions ...
- 55: Study Guide For European Histo
- ... and Mary, guaranteeing the Protestant succession, and laying down the principles of parliamentary supremacy. 6. Edict of Nantes.- An edict of 1598 signed by Henry IV of France granting toleration to Protestants and ending the French Wars of Religion. It was revoked by Louis XIV in 1685. 7. Boccaccio.- Giovanni Boccaccio (131375), Italian writer, poet, and humanist. He is most famous for the Decameron (134858), a collection of a ... of indulgences. Anglican - the official Protestant Christian religion of the English state Humanism - Renaissance intellectualism and celebration of the human as an individual Galileo Galilei - Italian astronomer; most famous scientist of the European new scientific revolution; credited for telescope and helocentrism (Sun is central, Earth around Sun) for which he was placed under house arrest by Church for most of his life Huguenots - followers of Calvinsism in Western Europe Laissez-faire - "self-govern," the theory of John Locke that people should govern themselves and hold the sovereignty Voltaire - French intellectual; wrote Philosophical Letters Concerning the English Nation after visiting England for two years in which he explains the greatness of religious tolerance as practiced in England, the theory for which he is known ...
- 56: The Life of Adolf Hitler
- ... One day, young Hitler went rummaging through his father's book collection and came across several of a military nature, including a picture book on the War of 1870 - 1871 between the Germans and the French. By Hitler's own account, this book became an obsession. He read it over and over, becoming convinced it had been a glorious event. "It was not long before the great historic struggle had become ... Hitler loved to read, he was a lazy and uncooperative student in school. In Autumn 1903, when he returned to school after summer vacation, things got worse. Along with his poor grades in mathematics and French, Hitler behaved badly, knowing he was likely to fail. With no threat of discipline at home and disinterest shown by his school teachers, Hitler performed pranks and practical jokes aimed at the teachers he now ... and uninterested in his faith and hardly bothered to make the appropriate responses during the religious ceremony. Shortly after this, Hitler left the high school at Linz. He had been given a passing mark in French on a make-up exam on the condition that he not return to the school. In September, 1904, he entered another high school, at Steyr, a small town 25 miles from Linz. He lived ...
- 57: Jacques Louis David
- ... been refused him four times, causing him to attempt suicide by starvation) he accompanied Vien to Italy in 1775. His pursuit of the antique, nurtured by his time in Rome, directed the classical revival in French art. He borrowed classical forms and motifs, predominantly from sculpture, to illustrate a sense of virtue he mistakenly attributed to the ancient Romans. Consumed by a desire for perfection and by a passion for the political ideals of the French Revolution, David imposed a fierce discipline on the expression of sentiment in his work. This inhibition resulted in a distinct coldness and rationalism of approach. David's reputation was made by the Salon of 1784. ...
- 58: Jacques Louis David
- ... been refused him four times, causing him to attempt suicide by starvation) he accompanied Vien to Italy in 1775. His pursuit of the antique, nurtured by his time in Rome, directed the classical revival in French art. He borrowed classical forms and motifs, predominantly from sculpture, to illustrate a sense of virtue he mistakenly attributed to the ancient Romans. Consumed by a desire for perfection and by a passion for the political ideals of the French Revolution, David imposed a fierce discipline on the expression of sentiment in his work. This inhibition resulted in a distinct coldness and rationalism of approach. David's reputation was made by the Salon of 1784. ...
- 59: The Causes of the American Revolution
- The Causes of the American Revolution The American Revolution was huge turning point in American history; it was the mark of the end of the British rule and the beginning of the new self-governed America. There have been many debates on the reasons that the revolution began to take place. Some of these reasons have stronger debates then the others and they range from several different aspects in the American and British history. There are many different causes of the ...
- 60: Rousseau And The Artists Of Th
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, (1712-1778) was a French social philosopher and writer. His book Du Contrat Social, ou Principes du droit politique (Social Contract) published in 1762, emphasised the rights of the people over the government and was a significant influence on the French Revolution . Rousseau believed that people were not social beings by nature. He stated that ‘Society corrupts individuals by bringing out their inclination toward aggression and selfishness’ . Fundamental to Rousseau’s beliefs for the utopia of ...
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