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    How Does Oppression Within “Like Water for Chocolate” and “The House of Bernarda Alba” Lead To Unnatural Consequences? In both ‘Like Water for Chocolate’ and ‘The House of Bernarda Alba’ rebellion against oppression is a strong theme‚ with both Tita and Adela struggling to break free of their mother’s authoritarianism. However‚ it is important to realise that with both characters‚ the authors are using them to symbolise their own journeys. Federico Garcia Lorca uses Adela’s strong willed fight

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    The great rebellions that happened during the 19th century in the Qing dynasty‚ proved to be costly. Notably the biggest and most dangerous of the rebellions was the Taiping Rebellion. The Taiping Rebellion was so widespread‚ that the Qing considered it to be more pressing than the second opium war against the Europeans. The Taiping Rebellion had taken over 20 million Chinese lives over the course of the rebellion. Why did the Taiping Rebellion and other Rebellions during the middle of the 19th century

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    Rebellion in Catching Fire

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    The Start of the Rebellion ​Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark’s stunt to win the last Hunger Games has inspired the beginnings of an uprising against the Capitol. This has put Katniss and her family’s life at risk. She tries to fix what she has started‚ and finds out she cannot; she then uses her influence to cause a rebellion in the districts. The author uses the protective control of the government and the rebellion to show what happens when a government takes citizens’ freedom away. ​Suzanne

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    Shays’s Rebellion Pakanun Ou-Udomying (Ploi) United States History Mr. Coulombe Kent School December 10‚ 2012 The outrageous American Revolution War left a lot of scars and bruises that had major affects on the country. On August 29‚ 1786 in Massachusetts‚ a rebellion broke out as one of the results that came after the war. This rebellion was led by a veteran from the American Revolutionary War‚ Daniel Shays‚ which was why this significant rebellion is called Shays’s Rebellion. The economic

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    John Lambton‚ Earl of Durham‚ was appointed Governor in Chief of the Canadas‚ sent to investigate the rebellions in Upper and Lower Canada in the spring of 1838. Both rebellions had occurred in the previous year of 1837‚ and were led by Louis-Joseph Papineau (Lower Canada Rebellion) and William Lyon Mackenzie (Upper Canada Rebellion). Britain realizing that change was in order to be able to successfully administer the colonies‚ delegated Durham with finding the source of the conflict that had led

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    the Sepoy Rebellion was caused. Some say that it all began with how the grease for the cartridges of the rifles had been made from fat of cows and pigs. Others say that it had something to do with religion‚ the English Government‚ ignorance‚ the bad management‚ and disaffection of the army‚ or ignorance. Could all these have been factors of how the Sepoy Rebellion was caused? Evidence from these documents show that the Rebellion began because of the English Government. The Sepoy Rebellion was caused

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    Whitney L. June 7‚ 2012 The Animal Farm Rebellion George Orwell’s fiction novel‚ Animal Farm‚ is an allegory because its events and characters represent key events and people from the Russian Revolution of 1917. An allegory is a work in which it has two meanings‚ a literal one‚ and a symbolic one. Animal Farm is basically a retold story of communism in the setting of a farm. In the beginning‚ the wise boar‚ Old Major‚ talks of the rebellion. The other animals get convinced that what he speaks

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    An Lushan rebellion: Happened during peak of Tang culture in the first half of the eighth century during Xuanzong’s rule. Recently appointed military governor of non-Chinese origin‚ An Lushan‚ earns favor of Yang Guifei; Xuanzong’s beloved wife‚ as a result‚ earns favor of Xuanzong‚ who grants An Lushan favors‚ primarily allowing him to place 160‚000 troops near the North and Northeastern frontier. An Lushan launches a rebellion in 755‚ storms Luoyang and Chang’an. Xuanzong flees but is betrayed

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    17th Century English Literature Discuss the ideas of rebellion and authority in Paradise Lost by John Milton and George Herbert’s Denial and The Collar. Paradise Lost was published for the first time in 1667‚ whereas Herbert’s two poems were published in 1633. This period was called the Restoration. It started in England in 1660 under King Charles II‚ who restored the monarchy in England‚ Scotland and Ireland. The literature at that time was dominated by Christian writings and praises to God

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    because of the color of their skin. The legacies of slave rebellion leaders such as Nat Turner‚ Gabriel Prosser‚ and Denmark Vassey have and continue to be heroes for thousands of slaves worldwide. ------------------------------------------------- Thesis Statement (Usually the last sentence(s) in the introduction): ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Tacky’s Rebellion Together with a small group of Ashanti followers‚ he

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