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    1. Ethical judgments limit the methods available in the production of knowledge in both the arts and the natural sciences. Discuss. 1. a) Define knowledge‚ judgment‚ methods‚ ethics b) How do morals limit the advancement of arts and natural sciences 2. Incorporate ways of knowing 4. a) Arts and natural sciences b) Ways of knowing: emotion‚ log/reasoning 5. Key examples a) Arts: self-mutilation; Damien Hirst – cuts animals in half and displays them b) Natural sciences: embryonic stem cell

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    Many could blame Marie Antoinette for the French Revolution‚ because she was spent the countries money on parties‚ clothes‚ champagne and cake instead of helping the poor people of the country‚ but I don’t think she was why the revolutionist stood up for themselves‚ because there were much bigger issues going on at that time than an Austrian princess. Although she might have been one of the reasons why some joined the Revolution‚ I don’t think she was the one who got everyone to form the Revolution

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    wise decisons and to deal with problems with the French people. Although Louis had lot’s of good Ideas he was weak ruler and he could not make the decisons need at the time. In 1770 when Louis was fifeteen he married the fourteen year old Marie Antoinette‚ who was the daughter Maria Theresa‚ the Emperss of Austria. the marriage was set up to build a stronger alliance between France and Austria. During the fist couple of years they were married she became extreamly unpopular. The reason why she

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    Between 1789 and 1799‚ France went through one of the most dramatic events of modern European History: the French Revolution. The French population went through economic chaos‚ a dictatorship‚ and a civil war as well as other dramatic changes. During these years‚ the French decided to speak up for themselves and they became enemies of the French revolution. Internal enemies included the King‚ Louis XVI‚ Monarchists and Royalists and the Churches that were run by refractory priests. External threats

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    they began to march twelve miles in the rain to force the king to hear their complaints. Although rather loosely organized‚ the women armed themselves and conquered in their demands for bread. They also conquered a king for Paris. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were seized and forced back to Paris at knife point. In 1791‚ women were starting to institute their own political societies. They petitioned‚ marched and demonstrated‚ attended meetings‚ formed deputations‚ and persuaded or coerced political

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    2. What were the short term causes of the FR? 3. What were the long term causes of the FR? | Short term- The country’s economic and intellectual changes weren’t matched by social and political changes. Rural overpopulation created land hunger. Marie Antoinette’s constant unneeded spending.Long term- the privileged groups were controlling France. The French economy being greatly in debt. | 4. What was the spark of the FR? | Spark- the Tennis Court Oath | 5. What were the most important

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    The foremost cause of the war was bankruptcy of the government. The debt in France before the revolution had risen from 1 billion to 2 billion livres. In 1774 when Louis XVI began to rule‚ he spent way too much money on himself and his wife‚ Marie Antoinette. Louis XVI would demand that the third estate‚ the poorest and hardest working of them all‚ to be responsible to pay all the taxes. The second and third estate‚ known as the nobles and clergy‚ would not have the responsibility of paying any taxes

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    At the end of Frances revolution in 1799‚ the French citizens got what they wanted. Starting with the storming of the Bastille‚ the French revolution lasted three years. With the revolution finally coming to an end‚ the French people got a new leader that they long awaited‚ a new government and constitution‚ and all together a whole different country. While at the time‚ people were arguing whether or not the revolution was a necessary event. A little bit more than two hundred years later‚ we now

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    great distant grand cousin on her father’s side and inherit the family house” (13). Cathy’s entire statement about being the “great great grand cousin of the queen of France” is quite ironic given the fact that France has not had a queen since Marie Antoinette in 1755 (12). Later in the novella Esperanza realizes that you cannot necessarily trust every women

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    It was 1789‚ King Louis XIV was on the throne and the ‘Revolution was born in blood’; the French Revolution had begun. The French Revolution began in 1789 on July 14th (Bastille Day) where the commoners of Paris stormed the prison‚ murdered the Governor and the Mayor of Paris. They were not standing for the mismanagement and tyranny of the French monarchy any longer. The Revolution that followed was a bloody massacre of torture and new ideas. Although the French Revolution only caused the people

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