So the third estate sat on the tennis court of the king's palace, this is known as the Tennis Court Oath. ... Before the Revolution, the people in France couldn't even afford new housing or improvements to their existing homes. ... The ideas from America, their Revolution and the Declaration of Independence, gave people in France ideas about how to change their current form of government, an absolute monarchy, to a new kind of government. ... People started using philosophy and reason to try and come up with new ideas. The people also started to question things about their government...

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• Grade Level: High School

Most of Europe lies in latitudes more northerly than New York, due to which it has warm, Atlantic currents with moderate temperature. ... In a century marked by immense political unrest, public debate between the classes, and resurgence in new forms of art and culture, citizens are taking part in Caesar's grand Roman tradition. ... We sat at a table on the terrace of a café facing the Trinité church just down the street from the Galeries Lafayette. ... After we sat around h...

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• Grade Level: High School

In response to the new thinking that was sparked by the Enlightenment, Romanticism, the Industrial Revolution and other changes in society, bloody and peaceful revolutions took place all over Europe. ... Because of the growing literacy of the middle and even the lower classes, and new technology in printing, the people of France became more and more interested in the affairs of the state. ... He tried intimidating them with his army, then he tried coaxing them down and recognized their representative claims, and eventually fell silent and just sat back and watched. ... The also took it upon ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Through Historical, Biographical, and New Historical critical analysis of the author, and the time period, we will see that the effects of the war and how it greatly influenced this piece of literature. ... After dinner she sat by the fire to warm herself and the soldiers climbed up into the loft to go to sleep. ... As it was discussed in class that even today, we are affected one way or the other by the tragedies that took place on September 11, 2001 in New York City, and Washington D.C. ... Two years before the birth of Katherine O'Flaherty (Kate Chopin), in 1848, there was a Wome...

• Word Count: 2584
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School