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The Enlightenment ideas greatly affected the French Revolution and the 1789 reforms. John Locke’s “Two Treatises on Government” (1690), The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen (1789), and Arthur Young’s “Travels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, 1789” were crucial influences on these changes. Preceding the revolution, referred to as the…

It had been a major part in the revolution over the last 50 years and mainstay in the armies of more Han 50 countries. The war was fought between the US along with UK against the soviets whose major weaponry at that time was the AK 47 rifle. The US along with UK lost the…

            Germany, a western-central European country is a very rich and productive nation, despite its well-known reputation as being one of the antagonists in World War II. The war caused factions and divisions in the country but it was reunified during the early-mid 1990’s.  Along with this reunification was the effort to strengthen the culture…

I always have respected Olympic athletes, for they spend all their timetraining. Victorious athletes were professionals in the sense that they livedoff the glory of their achievement ever afterwards. Their hometowns might rewardthem with: free meals for the rest of their lives, honorary appointments, orleadership positions in the community. The victors were memorialized in statuesand…

The French and Indian War was a war between the French and the English. It helped create the first attempt at unifying the English colonies in North America. The things that started the war were  religion, and walking over the Appalachian Mountains. It was called the French and Indian War because the French were allies…

In Between Dignity and Despair, Marion Kaplan describes the everyday struggles of the Jewish people in Germany. From beatings to starvation, Jews suffered everything in between. Kaplan makes two main arguments throughout the book, that one; women played a very large role in the survival of families, and two; non-Jewish German neighbors were oppressors, not…

The 1936 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was held in 1936 in Berlin, Germany. Berlin won the bid to host the Games over Barcelona, Spain on April 26, 1931. Nazi Germany saw this as an opportunity to show a positive image of the…

The higher the position within a larger organization, the ore formal will be the dress code with formal suit and tie being worn. The further south one travels, the more informal business dress becomes, with open shirt and slacks being the norm. One thing that is common to all areas and all positions however is…

France is the largest country in Western Europe. It is divided into two regions. Biarritz in the southwest and Luxembourg is in the northeast.The north is mostly plains while the south is surrounded by hills and high mountains, including Mont Blanc (4,807 m/15,771 ft), the highest point in France and in Europe. Between the two…

In his The Miller ’ s Tale Chaucer presents a side of the courtly love tradition ne’er seen earlier. His characters are mean in-between category workers instead than elect aristocracy. There is an interesting comparing between the Miller ’ s characters and those in two of Marie de France ’ s lais that portion really…