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    Study Guide for French Revolution * Brinton’s model of a revolution: * Symptomatic Phase- all social classes are unhappy (peasants are scared of change‚ bourgeoisie want change) * Moderate Phase- revolution begins in hopes of control (radicals feel like there isn’t ENOUGH change) * Radical Phase- a strong men from a radical group gains and assumes power * Convalescence Phase- revolution has a setback; moderate groups regain power * Estates: * First Estate:

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    Timeline French Revolution 1774 1786 May 5 1789 June 17 1789 June 20 July 14 August 27 1789 1789 1789 June 1791 September April 1791 1792 August 10 September 1793 1792 1792 Summer July 1793 July 1794 1793 to July 1794 Louis XIV becomes King Louis XVI became king and inherited part of the debt from his predecessors. October 1789 Summer 1792 January 21 1793 1795 Bankers refuse to lend government money Bankers refused to lend the government any more money which caused Louis to face serious

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    Vlad The Impaler Essay

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    self-serving military force. On the first Easter of his reign‚ he began systematically purging his boyars. The location of the first attack was a dinner

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    Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1929 to 1953. He was born December 18‚ 1878 and he died in 1953. He was born in Georgia. He was the leader of the Soviet Union‚ he ordered every citizen to the Soviet Union to not surrender and to use a single drop of blood. By saying this he is ordering a massacre killing 27 million soviets in WW2. He killed dissidents‚ sent millions of untrained Russians into the war and industrialized the Soviet Union‚ which required

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    Macbeth - Kingship

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    Shakespeare presents four versions of it. Firstly‚ there is the begin‚ almost ideal kingship of Duncan‚ whose murder constitutes the perversion of this ideal. This is followed by the tyrannical reign of the usurper Macbeth. King Edward‚ though an indirect character‚ he represents the opposite to Macbeth’s reign of terror‚ Edward’s represents the capacity for absolute goodness. Finally‚ speculation remains as to Malcolm’s potential as future King of Scotland. Although a work in process he is the ‘sovereign

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    revolution- enligtment > freedom and equality for all. declaration of independence-1776 war aganist great britian. Estates-general- adam smith- national constituent assembly- louis XVI- king of france and reign of terror maximilien robespierre- reign of terror- declaration of the rights of man and citizen- goethe-1749-1832 the sorrows of young werther 1774 death of marat-1793 the third of may-1808‚ 1814-1815 the raft of the medusa-1818 oil on canvas ch 18 triumph of the

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    versions of it. • Firstly the ideal kingship of Duncan‚ whose murder constitutes the perversion of this ideal and causes disorder in nature. This is followed by the tyrannical reign of the usurper Macbeth. King Edward has supreme regal power and his reign represents the opposite to Macbeth’s reign of terror. While Macbeth’s reign highlights the capacity for evil latent in kingship‚ Edward’s represents the capacity for absolute goodness. Finally‚ speculation remains as to Malcom’s potential as future

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    The thesis of this study is how society was during the French Revolution from 1789 to 1799. French Revolution during this time went through significant changes from the beginning when society was run by the wealthy class and being undemocratic and changed to being a democratic state. From 1789 to 1799‚ the French Revolution was a "cataclysmic political and 1 social upheaval

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    Kingship in Macbeth

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    aspects can be seen from beginning to end of Macbeth and we see how when this order of kings is changed by unnatural means‚ everyone suffers. During the course of the play we see the traits of four kings: Duncan‚ Macbeth‚ Edward and Malcolm. Through the reign of each of these kings‚ we are shown clearly how a country is only stable if the king is good and virtuous. In Shakespearean times‚ a king had absolute power and the welfare of the state depended strongly on him. All people were similar to King

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    plans every night‚ his horrid plans of becoming dictator of Russia. At the time my intuition had told me that the future of Russia held its own Reign of Terror. I had even tried to warn people of the dangerous man to whom the leadership of Russia was to be granted. I broke mirrors whenever he walked by‚ and even wrote on windows “Stalin’s Reign of Terror”‚ but it was to no avail. The people of Russia had not heard my warning‚ and I’m glad you never had to suffer along with the Russian civilians of

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