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- 561: A Tale Of Two Cities - Syndney
- ... negatively- will affect your judgment of his character, and of Dickens' entire work. Some readers take the positive view that Carton's act is a triumph of individual love over the mob hatred of the Revolution. Carton and the seamstress he comforts meet their deaths with great dignity. In fulfilling his old promise to Lucie, Carton attains peace; those watching see "the peacefullest man's face ever beheld" at the guillotine. In a prophetic vision, the former "jackal" glimpses a better world rising out of the ashes of revolution, and long life for Lucie and her family- made possible by his sacrifice. This argument also links Carton's death with Christian sacrifice and love. When Carton makes his decision to die, the New Testament ... a mirror, realizing that the young Frenchman is everything he might have been- and therefore a worthy object of hatred. It's interesting that both Carton and Darnay can function in two cultures, English and French. Darnay, miserable in France, becomes a happy French teacher in England. In a kind of reversal, Carton, a lowly jackal in London, immortalizes himself in Paris. Carton and Darnay have one further similarity- the ...
- 562: Les Miserables
- ... So Cosset agrees with delight to stay with Valjean. 20 years later in Paris we find that Cosset is grown up and Valjean has grown old and withered. This is now the time of the French Revolution and you can smell war in the air. But an old face shows up, Shaver. Who is the sheriff that kept incarcerated for so many years. He has come back to take Valjean again. He ... chest. Who else would show up and rescue the day, Valjean. Not even knowing that he is Cossets love he takes his still alive body away from the battle field and to the hospital. The revolution is now over and the French armies have won but in these last few scenes Cosset and her love get married and at the wedding Valjean and Cossets love recognize each other. There is ...
- 563: Nostradamus - The Man
- Nostradamus For four centuries Nostradamus's prophecies have inspired fear and controversy. His followers say he predicted the French Revolution, the birth and rise of Hitler, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Did he, as his believers claim, predict some of history's most monumental events - from the Great Fire of London to the ... a different place in the church, and while it was being moved a priest looked inside the coffin to reveal an amulet on his skeleton with the year 1700 on it. In 1791, during the French Revolution, soldiers broke into the church in search for money. While in the church the soldiers found food and alcohol that they ate and drank. Claims that a soldier drank wine out of Nostradamus' ...
- 564: Egyptian Cosmogony
- ... of the south that would have the most impact and a better scene was Louisiana, particularly the New Orleans. The New Orleans was known for its relaxed atmosphere and a diverse population of races- African, French, Italian, Portugese- and was home to gambling joints, dance halls, and saloons. The New Orleans jazz had developed a newer kind of sound- "Dixieland"- and brought out a improviser, technically, emotionally, and intellectually. He changed ... of the south that would have the most impact and a better scene was Louisiana, particularly the New Orleans. The New Orleans was known for its relaxed atmosphere and a diverse population of races- African, French, Italian, Portugese- and was home to gambling joints, dance halls, and saloons. The New Orleans jazz had developed a newer kind of sound- "Dixieland"- and brought out a improviser, technically, emotionally, and intellectually. He changed ... they felt. With their sound borrowed and the competition stiff for the almighty dollar, black singers had to speak out. Civil Rights in America were a top issue of this decade. Black singers joined this revolution or it could be said they helped to create it. There were no longer implications that double standards existed in America; it was said point blank. Not only was this protest mirrored in the ...
- 565: Lord of The Flies: Human Nature
- ... the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result." Human nature depends upon the environment in which they are immersed. The idea that children, not humans in general, are swayed by the ideas and actions of their parental figures ... the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result." So with this in mind why do people still rely on human nature to remain the same when it has been proven that human nature is constantly changing. ...
- 566: Book Review The Republican Exp
- ... the textbook. Both sources were good detailed accounts of history during the republican era. The importance and purpose of this book was to give the audience or the reader complete and detailed accounts of the French Revolution. The author s purpose was to tell from begging to end how the French went through many trials and failures before becoming a true form of democratic government. However, the overall impact of these individual memories would not have been sufficiently strong had not literature evoked a collective ...
- 567: The Rise and Fall of American Communism
- ... put out of sight, while the visible national spirit was one of support for the war and the war effort. In 1925, “the Left Wing Manifesto” was published in New York, calling for a militant revolution of the proletariat. With the red scare and the Soviet power struggle between Stalin and Trotsky as a backdrop, the Supreme Court ruled that “such utterances by their very nature involve danger to the public ... authorized a number of attacks on both private homes and labor organizations. Thousands were arrested across the country, and many were held for days, even though Palmer was unable to find signs of an imminent revolution at hand. In these massive invasions, Palmer attacked immigrants, many of whom were Russian, but only a few of whom were Communist. Still, the Red Scare stimulated greater patriotic devotion to the United States, and ... expelled at Stalin’s orders—Ruthenburg had died two years earlier—and Earl Browder took over as the American party’s leader. The Great Depression in the United States revived the Communists’ hope of a revolution. During this period, the party led a number of demonstrations against unemployment. It also led a number of strikes and defended Blacks against racism. Among other things, it championed the cause of nine black ...
- 568: George Patton
- ... cluster of holes he had already put in the target. Still, Patton finished fifth overall, an excellent finish in an event traditionally dominated by European marksmen. After the Olympics, Patton kept busy by visiting the French cavalry school as an observer and studying French sword drill. The latter studies helped him become the U.S. Army's Master of the Sword when he was assigned to teach the use of the blade to fellow officers. Patton, also designed a ... it made the user too vulnerable to attack. These activities kept Patton busy, but he wanted to go to war, so when World War I started in 1914, Patton asked permission to serve with the French cavalry, but the War Department turned him down. In 1915 Lt. Patton was sent to Fort Bliss along the Mexican border where he led routine cavalry patrols until 1916 when he accompanied General Pershing ...
- 569: The Question of Equality
- ... Equality is the fundamental demand of the rebellion of the poor: it should be the ideological force behind the new society. How this egalitarian demand is understood is crucial to the distinction between the Democratic Revolution and the Marxist-Jacobin Revolution. The Marxist answer to the egalitarian demand is the dictatorship of the proletariat, which Maurice Duverger shrewdly describes as an accurate continuation of the Jacobin theory of terror: ". . .Man is born but capitalism corrupts him ... system of oppression, exploitation and alienation development by capitalism, violence must be used. Violence against the state, in the first palace, so long as it is in the hands of the exploiting classes: This means revolution. Next, when the working class has taken power, the force of the state is directed against the exploiters and used to destroy every trace of exploitation: this stage is the dictatorship of the proletariat." ...
- 570: The Enlightenment and the Role of the Philosophes
- ... the enlightened were written to popularize, simplify, and promote a more reasonable view of life among the people of their time. The Enlightenment came to an end in western Europe after the upheavals of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era (1789-1815) revealed the costs of its political program and the lack of commitment in those whose rhetoric was often more liberal than their actions. Nationalism undercut its cosmopolitan values and ... early 1800s, and the cultural leadership of the landed aristocracy and professional men who had supported the Enlightenment was eroded by the growth of a new wealthy educated class of businessmen, products of the industrial revolution. Only in North and South America, where industry came later and revolution had not led to reaction, did the Enlightenment linger into the 19th century. Its lasting heritage has been its contribution to the ...
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