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- 641: The Evolution of the Monroe Doctrine
- ... wars were making a slaughterhouse out of Europe and created another series of events that reshaped the New World. The effect these wars had on the Monroe Doctrine was the European version of the American Revolution -a direct result of the French Revolution. The revolt against Spain in Latin America led to, more than any other event, the basic principles of the Monroe Doctrine. This clearly represented that in the West of both North and South America ...
- 642: The Story Of English
- ... its aftermath. If it is reasonably confident that Bishop Odo commissioned the Tapestry, debate still reigns as where to it was constructed, and by whom. It basically comes down to the allegiances. If one is French, they would like to believe that it was made in France. There are so many clues in its construction that indicate otherwise. Whereas it is known as the Bayeux Tapestry in England, it is sometimes ... at the battle. It seems to unreal that a woman would be able to perceive some of the seems depicted without actually at the battle. It ws most likely designed by a man, who was French, and who possibly was involved in or was an eyewitness to the battle. The Tapestry that exists today covers the arrival of Harold in Normandy and concludes with his death and defeat of the English ... a work entitled the Palaeographia Britainnicus. No attempt was made to investigate it further by the English. In 1792, the seeds of the civil war has been sown. The Tapestry was in danger when the French revolution begun. It was at this time that the very existance of this masterpeice held in the balance. But for the actions of one man, a Lambert Leonard Leforestier, it would have been lost. ...
- 643: Chivalry In Chaucers Canterbur
- In his Canterbury Tales, Chaucer fully explicates the cultural standard known as curteisye through satire. In the fourteenth century curteisye embodied sophistication and an education in French international culture. The legends of chilvalric knights, conversing in the language of courtly love, matured during this later medieval period. Chaucer himself matured in the King's Court, and he reveled in his cultural status ... also mocks her conception of sophistication. For Chaucer, sophistication represented more than table manners and "Frenssh… of Stratford at the Bowe."(General Prologue, 124,5) Curteisye required an intimate, first hand knowledge and experience with French culture. This Prioress had learned her French in an English convent school, hardly the equivalent to Chaucer's travels in France. Chaucer creates the feeling that the narrator is basing his statements not only on the nun's actions but also ...
- 644: A Tale Of Two Cities
- ... footsteps in her home in Soho, which is the first example of foreshadowing. The steps that she ususually heard always represented people who came in and out of her life. Yet, the night before the French Revolution began she heard "Headlong, mad, and dangerous footsteps" (198). These noises which she heard made her uneasy and she questioned her guests "They are veyr numetrous, and very loud, though, are tthey not?" (197). Lucie ... at home, for these hurries and forebodings by which I haveen surrounded all day long have made me nervous without reason? (197). The fear within Lucie Manette on that tevening foreshadowed the threat of aa revolution. The footsteps are the first example of foreshadowing. Gaspard wrote outside of the winehsop with the spilled wine "blood," which is the second example of foreshadowing. " The fellow pointed to his joke with immense ...
- 645: The Queen Of Spades, Pushkin
- ... had been part of Russian nobility for six hundred years. He was educated by a series of private tutors and governesses and had access to his father's large library of seventeenth and eighteenth-century French classics. In 1811 the young poet was enrolled in the first class of the lyceum at Tsarkoe-Selo, the site of the Czar's summer palace. This special school had recently been established by Alexander ... of Pushkin's standing with the Russian government was to grow even worse. In 1825 a group of idealistic young Russian military officers, who had been influenced by the spread of democratic ideas following the French Revolution, attempted to overthrow the Czar Nicholas I in the earliest days of his reign. History has come to call this dramatic episode in Russian history "the Decembrist Rebellion." After the uprising was successfully put ...
- 646: Stalin and The Soviet Union
- ... exiled by imperial police in 1908 because of his illegal underground activities. His escape the next year was followed by further arrests, exiles, and secret trips abroad during the years leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917. In 1912 Lenin elevated Stalin, who by this time had adopted the Russian pseudonym meaning "man of steel," to the leading Bolshevik Party body, the Central Committee. At Lenin’s behest, Stalin wrote ... to Siberia before the essay was published in 1913. Stalin was released from exile upon the overthrow of the Russian monarchy in the February (or March, in the New Style calendar) phase of the Russian Revolution. He went to Petrograd (later Leningrad; now Saint Petersburg), where he became a member of the party’s Central Committee bureau. He then asserted editorial control over the party newspaper, Pravda (Truth). Although he did ... former Russian Empire in Eastern Europe and Asia, it had its capital in Moscow, the ancestral seat of the Russian emperors, or tsars. Its title alluded to the soviets, or workers’ councils, of the Russian Revolution of 1917 that catapulted Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks (later renamed Communists) to power. The first state the Bolsheviks established bore the name Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (RSFSR). It was the largest of ...
- 647: Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X
- ... integrationalist philosophy, whereby he felt that blacks and whites should be united and live together in peace. Malcolm X, however, promoted nationalist and separatist doctrines. For most of his life, he believed that only through revolution and force could blacks attain their rightful place in society. Both X and King spread their message through powerful, hard-hitting speeches. Nevertheless, their intentions were delivered in different styles and purposes. “King was basically ... of society. “He had mastery in language and could project his ideas,” (Internet, Remember Malcolm X) This creativity in language helped build the Black Muslim Movement in the United States. In his “Definition of a Revolution” speech, delivered in November 1963, Malcolm X openly justifies violence as a way of gaining equality. “And if it is right for America to draft us and teach us how to be violent in defence ... do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country,” (pg. 253, Malcolm X: The man and his times). He encouraged blacks to hate white America and to revolt against them. “Revolution is bloody, revolution is hostile, revolution knows no compromise, revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way,” (pg. 255, Malcolm X: The man and his times). In his speech “God’s Judgement ...
- 648: Western Expansion Of The U.S.
- ... Mexico. Eventually the Spanish established the city of Santa Fe in 1689. The eastern corridor was through modern day Texas and led to the establishment of San Antonio. The eastern expansion was caused by the French expansion into modern day Louisiana. The Spanish crown wanted a buffer between the French in Louisiana and central Mexico. The last corridor of expansion was in the west, through the sea, which led to the establishment of San Diego in 1769 and Los Angles in 1781. The Spanish were not the only European power to colonize the new world; French, English and the Dutch also settled North and South America. The Spanish and the French settled what is present day U.S.-Mexico border region. The French settled modern day U.S. midwest, while ...
- 649: The Old Gringo, By Carlos Fuen
- ... Old Gringo is a fiction novel written by one of Latin America s most renowned and eloquent authors, Carlos Fuentes. Filled with war, adventure, love and more, this novel takes you back to the Mexican revolution fought in 1912. This contemporary fiction is based on many themes found and experienced by the main characters in this novel. The relationship between Mexico and the United States, the drive to find one s ... while Harriet thought it was a place of escape from home and a new life across the frontier. The setting was essential for the plot because it is based on an actual event, the Mexican revolution, thus needed to fulfill the storyline. The setting also influenced one of the major themes of the story, the historical relationship between the United States and Mexico. As you can see, the setting of this ... spinster, who decides one day in 1912 to break loose from her humdrum life by taking a job as governess in Mexico. Once she arrives, she is immediately caught in the middle of the Mexican revolution. Here, she meets the general, Tomas Arroyo, and the American author, the old gringo. Harriet is described as a, quick, elegant, and a beautiful woman of thirty. In a discussion with Miss Harriet and ...
- 650: Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X
- ... equality philosophy, whereby he felt that blacks and whites should be united and live together in peace. Malcolm X, however, promoted nationalist and separatist doctrines. For most of his life, he believed that only through revolution and force could blacks attain their rightful place in society. Both X and King spread their message through powerful, hard-hitting speeches. Nevertheless, their intentions were delivered in different styles and purposes. "King was basically ... of society. "He had mastery in language and could project his ideas," (Internet, Remember Malcolm X) This creativity in language helped build the Black Muslim Movement in the United States. In his "Definition of a Revolution" speech, delivered in November 1963, Malcolm X openly justifies violence as a way of gaining equality. "And if it is right for America to draft us and teach us how to be violent in defence ... do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country," (pg. 253, Malcolm X: The man and his times). He encouraged blacks to hate white America and to revolt against them. "Revolution is bloody, revolution is hostile, revolution knows no compromise, revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way," (pg. 255, Malcolm X: The man and his times). In his speech "God’s Judgement ...
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