In A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, one of the key characters Madame Defarge embodies the fury and wrath of the French Revolution. ... Madame Defarge also embodied the chaos of the revolution. ... The revolution was also lurking in the shadows of every corner and waiting for just the right moment to be seen and heard. ... The climax of the revolution can be seen in Madame Defarge's break down. ... Madame Defarge in a sense of speaking is the common citizens of France and the revolution. ...

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For better or worse, revolutions dating as far back as The English Revolution, have one way or another formed national relationships amongst each other. The outcome of each revolution, has effected the style and manor of the next revolution there after in the world. ... No revolution since has encountered such a large number of casualties as The Vietnam Revolution did. ... This war would be the Vietnam Revolution. ... The revolution in Vietnam was imminent, and the American government believed it had no other choice but to help South Vietnam fight for its freedom. ...

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History of Labor in America The Industrial Revolution was dawning in the United States. ... Before long, immigrant women replaced the "Yankee" (American) farm girls. ... Labor in America faced a long, uphill struggle to win fair treatment. ... In colonial America, most manufacturing was done by hand in the home. ... To skilled craft workers, the Industrial Revolution meant degradation rather than progress. ...

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America was destined for another, more far-reaching civil rights movement. ... He believed in the immediate integration of blacks into mainstream American life, regardless of the consequences. ... An opposing view suggests that the Civil Rights Revolution of the 60's led to reverse discrimination that some whites complain about today. ... Roosevelt brought the new deal into American life in the early thirties. ... The "forgotten Americans" were the citizens who needed the new ...

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His successors used the new American foothold in the North to declare that the Bering Sea was to be an area in which American authority was absolute. ... Their conviction that they were not equals with the United States in the Union was strengthened when the American government directly interfered with a revolution in Chile in 1891 and a trade dispute in Brazil in 1893. ... Perry opened Japan to American trade in 1853, American businessmen had taken an increasing interest in the commerce of the Pacific. ... Bunau-Varilla engineered a revolution and U.S. warships prevented Colombia from stoppin...

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In a mere forty years, we have had more technological advances than the Industrial Revolution. ... As a result of this technological revolution, the world has become smaller. ... While America was screening test flight pilots from the air force to see who would be the first American in space, America was not able to accomplish this feat, only experienced pilots that can endear the forces of launching a rocket. ... America later stepped up, and became a worthy adversary to Russia. ... America has launched numerous ...

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Not until the spread of the Industrial Revolution in the late nineteenth century, has man possessed the ability to adversely alter, on a global scale, the geologic and climatic cycles that have existed for millennia. ... Regarding unsustainable communities and lifestyles, the blame lies mainly with two specific phenomena, American's love affair with the automobile, and the "American Dream" of owning a home and land outside of the city. ... The "American Dream" of owning a home and land is something almost ...

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He was concerned about equal rights for African-Americans and women. ... Many people of my parent's generation look up to Kennedy and realize his true importance as a real American hero, especially the African-American population. ... John Fitzgerald Kennedy truly is a twentieth century American hero. ... He was an exceptional writer, but not a true American hero. ... Reagan had values similar to those Americans held, and he had a special gift of communicating with the American people. ...

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The American Revolution was mainly a political movement; however there were some social and economic factors. ... However, the predominant reason behind the Revolution was political. ... America was no longer a truly British nation, so they decided to break away. ... The American Civil war was also a necessary evil. ... But after the American Revolution slavery really died it the North, just as it was becoming more popular in the South. ...

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Among the 34 states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. ... Subsequent writers on the American Civil War looked to several factors explaining the geographic divide, including sectionalism, protectionism, and state's rights. ... These four doctrines comprised the major ideologies presented to the American public on the matters of slavery, the territories, and the U.S. ... National Elections Beginning in the American Revolution and accelerating after the War of 1812, the p...

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Americans held about a billion dollars' worth of oil, silver, railroads and land. ... Diaz had the admiration of the international contingent, but what he got from his citizens was a revolution. ... However, he took the long was around Diaz and his Vice-President Ramon Corral, designated November 20 as a nationwide uprising for the overthrow of the Diaz regime, and set the Mexican Revolution into motion. ... Ambassador Wilson complicitly made an intervention for the sake of American lives. ... They were released, and even though an apology was given, Huerta wouldn't off...

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When the settlers first came to America they settled in villages near the coast. As more and more people migrated to America land for farming started to become scarce. ... It then became one of the staple foods of North American colonists. ... Hunting was a very popular pastime in colonial America. ... In the 19th century, sexual lives of Americans began to change. ...

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The Situation of African-Americans in America In their motherland Africa, black people lived together in tribes with the families staying together in the village and leading a live according to strong morals and rites. ... When America was discovered in 1492, Europeans soon realised that Africans were more able to work in the hot sun than native Americans and were also easier to identify as slaves than white prisoners because of their skin-colour. ... A turning point in the Blacks' relation to America was the Second World War. ... In the South, mostly African-Americans of the middle-cla...

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The United States found that American business men admired and accommodated themselves to the nationalism found in Iraq. ... This gave a 23.75 percent share in holdings of the Iraq Petroleum Company to American companies. ... Before the Iranian revolution, the distinction between the countries was less religious than ideological. ... During the war, an Iraqi missile hit a U.S. oil ship killing 37 Americans. ... Meanwhile, the American homeland was uneasy about supporting a war in which they did not need to be involved in. ...

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Took an active part in events that lead to the American Revolution. 1776- Jefferson took his seat in Congress as an elected delegate and wrote the Declaration of Independence. ... Three Americans were killed, and eighteen wounded British seized four deserters, three were American citizens. ... American Art began to take shape. 1. ... Smuggling resulted and the American economy plummeted. ... America's industries grew. ...

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William Blake, one of the greatest Romantic poets, was born in London and lived there most of his life. During his life he witnessed many things that affected him. He acknowledged the power of his country but the poverty prevalent there worried him. He did not go to school but he was taught at home...

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Atkins originally wrote his book, New Diet Revolution, in 1972 when he realized what an epidemic diabetes had become in America. ... It was the right time and place for Atkins to reintroduce his dieting ideals to America. ... Today the Atkins diet is more popular than ever with millions of Americans abiding by and growing numbers of popularity worldwide. ... There is no questioning that obesity has become an epidemic in America with a staggering 2/3 of adults being overweight and astonishing 1 in 3 Americans diagnosed as obese, but how far are those who wish to shed the pounds willing to go to...

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When a new nation starts, intelligence is key to grow and sustain their culture, much like the Americas. ... When they landed and started the first colony, ideas of a revolution were already stirring. Soon, the American people were unhappy and decided to take action against the British. ... However, that was just the beginning of intelligence in America. ... In June of 1942, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was created, and became America's first centralized intelligence agency. ...

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The 1960's was home to the Sexual Revolution, Woodstock, the Civil Rights Movement, the British Invasion and the Summer of Love. ... That notion seems rather outrageous today, but Rock and Roll represented a revolution in the 60's. ... Bob Dylan retorted with "Masters of War," Phil Ochs with "I Ain't Marching Anymore," Creedence Clear Water Revival with "Fortunate Son," and The Guess Who with "American Woman." ...

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John Scanzoni developed a model of marriage that is considered by many to be the preferred norm for American marriages even today. ... This type of marriage was made possible when America moved out of an agrarian society and into an industrialized one as it did around 1840 (Bernard 9). ... Goode, in World Revolution and Family Patterns, shows that "the classical family of Western nostalgia" was a false stereotype and thus other stereotypes are similarly in error. ... Under these conditions, business profits grew enormously, and the American working class became the richest in the world. ...

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Abstract An exploration of the aging boomer and how they will age differently from their parents, creates a powerful new epicenter of marketing in America. ... "Freed from the responsibilities of their 40s, boomers will create an adventurous life-stage called "mid-youth" that will push traditional ideas of a 'mature market' into oblivion," (American Demographics, 2001). Cultural Differences Asian, Hispanic, and African-American ethnic groups are growing larger in proportion to the whole population, becoming more diversified. ... This revolution is transforming the way age 50+...

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The Islamic revolution, which took place in Iran, created the first major foreign policy problem for Carter. ... Reagan devoted a lot of his attention to reversing the affects of the Marxist Revolution in Central America and the Caribbean. After the Nicaraguan Revolution got rid of Anastasio Somoza, the United States accused the new government of aiding Marxist rebels in El Salvador. ... Newspapers had also revealed that the United States had turned many profits from weapons sales to help the Contras fighting the Marxists in Central America. ... He also believed that his rivals in Moscow resp...

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The French revolution was the beginning of the end to the Monarchy and absolute rule. The revolution came about for a number of reasons. ... What is considered by many historians to be the turning point in the revolutions is the storming of the Bastille. ... Came the reply, "No, Sire, it is a Revolution." # Following the storming of the Bastille, the peasants begin to take matters into their own hands. ... At the outset of the revolution, Napoleon returned to Corsica in September of 1789 and organized the National Guard. ...

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There was no government that was representative of the people established until the Age of Revolution. ... Without the events of European exploration and expansion, the emergence of the global economy, and the Age of Revolution, the world would not be as modern as it is today. ... The main goals in the expansion were to Christianize the Indians, to gain trading power, to expand their empire, and of course, to gain the great mineral wealth of the Americans. ...

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These ideas preceded and supported the French revolution which was so enthusiastically accepted by many English writers. ... He supported and the French and American revolutions what he also expressed in the poetical works The French Revolution and America. ...

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