In succeeding decades, the official portraits of Queen Victoria, gradually aging, reflected her country's sense of its own maturation as a society and world power. ... Settling into the role of fertile matron-monarch, she offered a domestic image to match the booming productivity of the 1850s. ... Finally, as the aged, venerated Widow of Windsor, she became a universal icon, prompting the nostalgic worldwide spectacles of the Golden and Diamond Jubilees in 1887 and 1897. ... The Industrial Revolution shifted power from the landed aristocracy toward an insecure, expanding middle class of b...

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For far too long had European citizens consecutively endured the rule and abuse of absolute monarchs. ... Mimicking the scientists" curiosity, philosophers questioned the basic workings of government and society and in doing so gave rise to the Age of Enlightment. ... The middle-class merchants and farmers resisted paying their taxes, while the poor rioted against these landlords and the insufferable high costs of living that they were subject to. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He can still exhibit his common touch despite having the burdens of being the Monarch but it is natural to wonder how. ... The chorus at the beginning of Act four states that "A little touch of Harry in the night" has kept the men's spirits up, Henry has visited the men and tried to keep their morale high. ... There is much in Henry V that suggests Shakespeare in fact saw Henry V as the most perfect monarch. ... This would appeal to the audience at the time, as Henry V was comparable to Elizabeth I - Shakespeare's patron and the current monarch. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The unifying force of religion is especially evident in that the Ottomans, left as the major Muslim rivals of Byzantium, attracted masses of nomads and urban unemployed who were roaming through the Middle East searching for not only means to gain their livelihoods and but also to fulfill their religious desire to expand the territory of Islam. ... Other instances of religion used as a justification for war include the fall of Constantinople in 1453 where Mehmed, in an effort to further glorify the city as Islamic territory, built several mosques, thus officially claiming the territory for Isla...

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Eliot: "I said the king was an incredibly foolish old man, which God knows he was; and that if he'd been my father I would have run away from home at the age of eight instead of waiting until I was ten...I pointed out that King Lear's opening speech was the height of idiocy. ... The Lear described in many critical essays sounds less like Shakespeare's monarch than the middle-class recreations of Lear in the nineteenth-century fiction of writers like Balzac and Turgenev. ... In order to exercise command, he must project an aura of authority, and this need in turn dictates that h...

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• Grade Level: High School

This construction of an ideal socialist political system is ineffective because Swedes suffer high suicide rates and people do not feel the overall fulfillment pledged by the utopian philosophy that indoctrinated the political system. ...

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