no choice but to go to war to stop Philip * The War of the Spanish Succession (1702 – 1713) * France and Spain vs. England and Portugal * Portugal gets a guarantee that they wont be taken over by Spain * England wins * Treaty of Utrecht (1713) * (Philip will still be king of France) * No union of Spain and France * Gibraltar and Minorca - Straits of Gibraltar (Spanish island) granted to Great Britain * Great access to
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In the story The Necklace by “Guy de Maupassant”‚ Mathilda‚ the main character throughout the story‚ remains static from start to finish. Her materialistic desire combined with her love for attention is still evident after years of hardship and struggle. She [suffers] immensely due to the fact that she cannot have everything she [desires]. The poverty she faces contradicts her expectation that she deserves “all the refinements and luxuries of life” (1). These thoughts consume her and the objects
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Baron de Montesquieu was a French philosopher who lived around the late 1600’s and early 1700’s. This was before the French Revolution. He believed strongly in Thomas Locke‚ who was another French philosopher. Montesquieu also wrote many books that greatly influenced the society he was in at that time. Although Montesquieu was thought to be fair‚ he believed in slavery. Other ideas that he had were that women were not equal to men‚ but could still run government. He believed that
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The Spanish civil war is often seen as a fundamental divide between right and left- the first major struggle between Fascism and Communism. The Spanish civil war started distinctly as a Spanish civil war born out of Spanish disputes‚ but it was soon to take on an international character. The military situations were practically equal to both sides before the foreign intervention. However‚ after Germany‚ Italy‚ and USSR intervened the situation changed dramatically. In general‚ the decision by foreign
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their surrounding natural resources which would be then used in trading‚ selling‚ and building ships‚ etc. Although both the British and the Spanish colonies existed for the profit and the power of the core nation‚ the two nations featured different systems of colonial administration.
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historians state that the Spanish American war allowed the USA to expand its sphere of influence through strategic and economic gains. The link to political driven conflict appears in the abundance of amendments and doctrines created allowing the USA to intervene in Cuba in order to remove the Spanish‚ who were in violation of the ‘Monroe Doctrine’. The Spanish-American war is controversial due to the idea that the Americans had blamed the sinking of the U.S Maine on the Spanish in order to create a catalyst
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The immediate origins of the 1898 Spanish-American War began with the Wilson-Gorman Tariff of 1894. The American tariff‚ which put restrictions on sugar imports to the United States‚ severely hurt the economy of Cuba‚ which was based on producing and selling sugar. In Cuba‚ then a Spanish colony‚ angry nationalists known as the insurrectos began a revolt against the ruling Spanish colonial regime. When Spain sent in General "Butcher" Weyler to stabilize the situation in Cuba‚ he put much of the population
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Duchess de Alba (Maria del Pilar Teresa Cayetana de Silva Alvarez de Toledo (1762-1802): -fashioned herself after the fiery maja-serves as a flirtatious role-play emblematic of aristocrats during the enlightenment‚ epitome of spanishness -proactively challenged conventional feminine roles/conduct‚ elevating national dress to the level of high couture to assert her individualism -Jean-Marc Nattier’s Madame AdelaYde-de-france as Diana + Goya’s Duchess of Alba as a Maja feature aristocrates in role-playing
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A Hero Doesn’t Always Wear a Cape A hero doesn’t always wear a cape. Mine wears a badge. My hero is my mom. She’s experienced heartbreak and tragedy‚ but she powers through it all. My mom grew up in Springport‚ MI with her Mom( Carol Caudill)‚ Dad(Don Caudill)‚ and her brother (Tim Caudill). She is sort of short with dark‚ brown hair. While my mom was in high school many tragic things happened to her‚ but the worst of all of those things was her Dad being diagnosed with leukemia. At a young age
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“Reaction Paper” “Baler” The film is based on the historical event known as "The Siege of Baler‚"where 57 Spanish soldiers held fort in the town of Baler for almost one year (October 1898 to June 1899) during the final moments of the Spanish occupationin the Philippines. The film’s story is actually a romance between a Filipino-Spanish soldier (played by Jericho Rosales) and a Filipina Baler native (playedby Anne Curtis). Baler is a classic set love story played in the role by Anne Curtis and
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