La burguesí, consciente de su papel preponderante en la vida economica, desplazo del poder a la aristocracia y a la monarquí absoluta. ... La Revolucion Francesa se encuadra dentro del ciclo de transformaciones polaticas y economicas que marcaron el fin de la Edad Moderna y el comienzo de la Edad Contemporánea. ... No se daba la causa de la detencion porque "tal era la voluntad del rey". Existí la censura previa y no existí la libertad de consciencia. ... Las causas ocasionales de la revolucion. francesa fueron la debilidad de carácter del nuevo...

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La romanizacion de la Península Ibérica, y de sus pueblos fue el comienzo de la historia de España. Guerra P nica (264 - 146 a.C.), la victoria definitiva de Roma con la conquista y eliminacion total de Cartago (146 a.C.) senalo comienzo de la romanizacion de los pueblos europeos. ... La dominacion de Roma fue causa de la formacion de Hispania. ... La religion de Roma y la adoptacion de esta son los más importante consecuencias de la Romanizacion de la Península Ibérica. ... El reinado de los Reyes Catolicos fue el paso decisivo de la Edad Media a la Morde...

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The Duc de Guise traveling to his estates stopped in Vassy to hear mass. ... At Orleans, an assassin killed the Duc de Guise. ... The Second War (1567-1568) Even though the Duc de Guise had died, the Guise faction remained powerful and the Cardinal de Lorraine consolidated his power even more. ... They instead escaped to La Rochelle and raised an army to begin the third war. ... However, at Jarnac, under the leadership of the king's younger brother, Henri de Anjou, the Protestants suffered a defeat and the Prince de Conde was killed. ...

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Religious parties in Israel The religious parties aim to establish a Jewish State governed by the Jewish religious code, the Halacha. Some parties do not recognize the legitimacy of the State of Israel and are thereby making a concession towards their ideology by participating to the democratic electoral proceeding. They explain it by the necessity to access to political power to create a religious State. All of them consider the pursuit of the Jewish colonization on the territory of Great Israel as legitimate ( «  Eretz Israel   ») and are opposed to the creation of a ...

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The life of Eva Maria Duarte Peron compared to the life of Ernesto Guevara Lynch de La Serna. ... On other hand, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna was born on June 14, 1928, in Rosario, Argentina, to Ernesto Guevara Lynch, a Civil Engineer of Irish descent, and Celia de la Serna of Spanish descent. ... He received his primary education at home, mostly by his mother, Celia de la Serna. ... At home he was impressed by the Spanish Civil War refugees and by the long series of squalid political crises in Argentina which culminated in the 'Left Fascist' dictatorship of Juan Peron,...

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In the Essai sur l'admissoin des femmes au droit de cite (Essay on the admissions of women to the rights of citizenship), published in July of 1790, he argued the need to expand the principals outlined in the Declarations of the Rights of Man to include the rights of women. ... Condorcet stood with only a handful of men on supporting women's rights, but there were numerous amounts of women who were ready and willing to speak up and demand what they deserved, most notably Olympe de Gouges. ... Early in the morning of October 5th 7,000 women rallied outside the Hotel de Ville and set o...

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But of all the characters that undertake this search, perhaps it is the story of Jake La Motta in Raging Bull that for many reasons presents the greatest challenge to understanding redemption's role in the narratives of Scorsese's films. Is Jake La Motta a redeemed character at the end of Raging Bull? ... Take for example scriptwriter Paul Schrader who has said: "I don't think it is true of La Motta either in real life or in the movie [that he has achieved redemption]; I think he is the same dumb lug at the end as he is at the beginning....

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We took a taxi to Bedford Hotel which was located on a quiet street in the heart of Paris near the Madeleine, opera and Place De La Concorde. ... After strolling around the Eiffel Tower, we took the metro from the metro station, Charles de Gaulle Etoile, to the station, Bir-Hakeim, as we wanted to see the Arc de Triompe. ... Standing in a direct line between the Louvre and the Grande Arche de la Défense, I could tell that the monument linked the past with the present and offered an amazing view. ...

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However, a French neurologist, Georges Gilles de la Tourette, was fascinated by these supposed "demons- in the person. ... The disease later became known as Gilles de la Tourette syndrome. ... The gene, called Gts (Gilles de la Tourette syndrome) gene, primarily affects the functioning of neurotransmitters, the brain's chemical messengers, which carry signals from one neuron to another across a gap called a synapse (Goldman, 1995, p. 69). ...

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In both cases, Futurist and Anarchist art became symptomatic of the movements' wider desire for political and social liberation, as Varias puts it, "Paris' fin-de-siècle character was also evident in the struggle for stylistic freedom and aesthetic expression that its avant-garde poets, painters, and sculptors led against the conformist demands and... the rigid, oppressive forces of traditional standards"4. ...

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Feàring the loss of lànd, sociàl stàtus, rights ànd employment, màny tenànt fàrmers decided to emigràte in the pre 1815 period. ... In the làte 1820s with the kelp industry so poor, ànd the crofters unàble to meet their increàsed rents, most làndlords turned to sheep fàrming to màintàin their estàtes. lthough some of the evicted crofters ànd cottàrs found work in other townships or in the Lowlànds, màny were forced to emigràte. ... In Middle River, the prosperous MàcRàes ànd Càmpbells were, by the 1860s ànd 187...

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They were recruited by Tome de Sousa which was the governor-general and he wanted them to fulfill the crowns wishes for a converted Indian population. ... In Sao Paulo, they came across an enigmatic Jesuit named Ruiz de Montoya he soon became to supreme leader to all the Jesuits. ... Furthermore, the governor of Rio de la Plata province had little incentive to send scarce troops and supplies against an enemy who was nominally of the same nationality. ... The Jesuits traveled into the Rio Grande de Sol region, there they began to set up reductions. ...

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Pedro Sarmiento, Alfonso de Spina, and Tomas de Torquemada were perhaps the three most influential men in changing the attitudes of the Spanish government and people to make laws harsher for Jews and former Jews alike. ... Franciscan friar Alfonso de Spina targeted the Conversos and gave new life to old rumors. ... De Spina was very successful. ... De Spina's books and preaching is what spurred Torquemada to become what he did (Stalcup 116).. Dominican friar Tomas de Torquemada was appointed inquisitor general, and became a symbol of religious cruelty (Haught 66). ...

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Columbus" rescue on June 28th, 1504 withdrew the Spanish presence entirely, and it would be five more years before the Spaniards would return In November 1509, Juan de Esquivel's seventy man party established the settlement of Seville la Nueva near present day St. ... Despite these efforts by Juan de Esquivel, Jamaica would never figure prominently in Spanish colonial efforts because it possessed no precious metals. ... Esquivel's immediate successor, Francisco de Garay proved to be cruel, avaricious and arrogant towards colonist and Arawak alike. ... His successor, Don Pedro ...

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PLACE: La Mancha, Spain. The luminosity of the rocky wilderness of the Sierra Morena in La Mancha serves to separate the various scenes that take place there- Don Quixote's penance, Cardenio's meeting with the curate and barber, Dorothea's story- and it provides, as well as safe refuge from the police force. ...

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As a rule, Classicism can be characterized as an issue in writing, visual workmanship, music, or construction modeling that draws on the styles of antiquated Greece and Rome, particularly fifth- and fourth-century b.c.e. Athens and late Republican Augustan Rome. The term can be confounding, in light of the fact that it has tackled numerous different implications. It can allude to a general stylish portrayed by clarity, style, and symmetry, or to a style that is by and large considered epitomizing enormity or flawlessness. Case in point, the vast majority would distinguish the Boston Pops as en...

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The Reign of Terror At the onset of the French Revolution, the revolutionaries who felt that the Monarchy of Louis XVI was tyrannical and could no longer be trusted to protect to people of France exclaimed the tenements of Fraternity, liberty, and equality. It was on these tenets that the Frenc...

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La Blanche: Female slave of mixed ancestry. ... When she looks at her child, then at the quadroon "the son of La Blanche, one of their slaves "her "blood turned like ice in her veins, and a clammy moisture gathered upon her face," the narrator says. ... "As white as La Blanche's, " he says. ... However, conversation between Desiree and Madame Valmonde indicates that he apparently found time for La Blanche, the slave woman whose name (French for white) suggests that she was of mixed heritage, with light skin that made her a tolerable sexual object for Armand. Desiree, speaking o...

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His next step in the process to gain recognition as an individual designer was with De Parisi, Genny which was another established label in Italy. ... And on October 22, in Paris, during the show " Obiettivo Moda", illustrating the professionalism between Versace and internationally renowned photographers (Avedon, Newton, Penn, Weber, Barbieri, Gastel,), Jacques Chirac assigns the "Grande Medaille de Vermeil de la Ville de Paris" to Versace. ...

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He also had an infantry and cavalry corps under Rawlinson and was in close contact with de Mitry by the forest of Houthulst. ... The main attack was on the front lines south of La Basée Canal, where they attacked the British Expeditionary Forces. ... By dawn, the Germans had already damaged or destroyed close by battalions in La Vallée and Ennetieres. ... General De Mitery was informed by his IV corps that the French and Belgian were holding, however, they were continuously attacked by German forces. ... Under D'Urbal's command, he had Grossetti's division on th...

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Municipal Police Director Emile Hennequin had already set up 1,372 teams of officials composed of two "gardiens de la paix- or Peace Officers. ... (Sarah's key) The French Jewish council or the UGIF (Union Generale Des Israelites De France) saw itself as a relief organization and in order to keep performing this function it need not to provoke the Gestapo or antagonize the Vichy. Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, coordinator of the Vichy government's anti-Jewish program, proposed that children be taken to homes in Paris which were run by the UGIF. ...

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One of the most noted turning points in American History is the Civil Rights Movement. Almost every aspect of this country today, would not be the same if it was not for the African American leaders that stood up in their communities during the mid 1900's and preached words of a United States that was free from oppression against people of color. These leaders were fearless, dedicated, well-spoken men who advocated African American strength and pride, as well as the unthinkable acts that were made against people of color during their time. Two main groups of the Civil Rights movement were...

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This is where Juana Belen Gutierrez de Mendoza decided to join in on the fight, which emphasized individual rights and new opportunities for "women in education, politics, and employment " (HTM 104) she wanted women to have equal rights in everything. ... Other women who also joined were Sara Ramirez, "a teacher, writer, and labor organizer, she also edited La Corregidora " (HTM 109); and Elisa AcuÙŽña y Rosete, "a teacher, writer, political activist and later published La Guillotina " (HTM 109). ...

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Second Style: 1908 to 1919 Begins with Fireworks (1908), which he extends to his three great ballets: Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911), and The Rite of Spring (1913) Higher use of dissonance, with themes often taken from folk music Varied rhythms with extensive use of percussive elements in all instruments Tonally, he basically uses diatonic materials including modes and continued use of ostinato Expanded virtuosity of orchestral members, utilizing solo instrumental writing (often in extreme ranges) Rite of Spring Real Audio for Emory Student Only o Introduction Works o ...

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Once Upon a Time, fairy tales weren't written for children... In spite of their name, the popular fairy tales usually have very little to do with fairies. We took the name from the French "contes des fee", and the French literary fairy tales of the 17th century do feature far more fairies than the tales which are best-known today. The Grimm brothers collected the folk tales of the German people to make up their volume, but fairy tales are more than just folk tales. The German term for them is "Mãrchen", a word for which there is no satisfactory English equivalent - it is ...

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