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. ... The common people of France were looked down upon by the upper class society, and so most people would look down to Madame Defarge because of her shortness. ... They did not offer any apology to the family for the two lives that they had taken, but the brother of the Marquis did take the time to congratulate him (Dickens). ... Two family members were taken from her by the same man. ... There were two thousand children that lost their parents during t...

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In that same year, labor politicians in San Francisco began to organize "Anti-Coolie Clubs"; five years later there was one in every ward of the city. ... Two disputing Chinese accidentally killed Robert Thompson. ... The man who actually shot Thompson escaped punishment, and only a few of the guilty members were imprisoned at San Quentin for a short period"(Smith 14). ...

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The Roman historian Livy was more of a teller of tales, and he invoked the intervention of the gods to explain cause and effect. ... Medieval works tended to divide into two types of histories. ... Augustine's City of God; it was outstandingly illustrated by Paulus Orosius and continued by such lesser men as Isidore of Seville. ... The two forms were not infrequently mixed. ... But by far the greatest medieval Arabic historian was Ibn Khaldun, who created an early version of sociological history to account for the rise and decline of cities and civilizations. ...

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Abstract Beliefs in conspiracy theories are widespread throughout the world, in every culture and community. They range from a world take over by secret societies to rigged Olympic games. Many are short lived, however, others seem to become self-perpetuating animals preying particularly on th...

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