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    ou sign charWould you sign Charles I death warrant? Charles I did not cooperate or want to work with parliament. He believed very strongly in divine right and abided by it throughout his reign. This is what started the civil war. This however does not mean that Charles should have been sentenced to death. Firstly there was no law in English History that dealt with the trial of a monarch and the order was based on an ancient roman law. The public were not allowed into the court until the charge

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    politically touch him. However‚ this all changed when Charles I took over the throne as due to his misdeeds and increasing pressure from the public and parliament‚ he was put on trial which was mind blowing at the time and then finally executed. Such an act had never been seen which had many people in shock‚ especially Charles I since he and many others had thought even considering to put a king on trial was a sin (59). The reason for this was because Charles I was brought up believing that he was the divine

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    between different types of Protestants and factors including financial problems Charles I experienced as King. England was a Protestant country and when Charles I started implementing changes to the church‚ many got upset and fears he was turning the nation to Catholicism. Charles I also didn’t spend his money wisely‚ just like his father‚ and found himself in the need to find more money in different ways. With Charles finding new ways to get money‚ he upset many people. England’s civil war in 1642

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    Charles the First became king in England‚ (also in Scotland) in 1625. He caused many problems with the Parliament because he believed in absolute monarchy. At one point Parliament limited Charles The First’s power and he went along with a petition they had made but soon dismissed the Parliament.King Charles the First made some bold moves against parliament‚ besides not listening to their guidance. Because of his stubbornness‚ so to speak‚ a civil war came about between the crown and parliament in

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    Why did Charles I lose the Civil War? The English Civil War was 1642-1651 and was a series of battles and political conspiracies between Oliver Cromwell‚ the leader of Parliament and King Charles I the leader of the Royalists. The civil war set the supporters of King Charles I against the followers of Parliament‚ this resulted in the Parliament’s victory and the King’s execution. Cromwell’s army was lead by Sir Thomas Fairfax who was one of the outstanding military commanders of the English

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    How does Charles Dickens create tension and danger in the opening chapter of Great Expectations? The firs chapter of ‘Great Expectations’ establishes the plot outline for the story whilst sill introducing‚ its main characters‚ Pip and his world. As both narrator and protagonist‚ Pip is naturally the most important character in ‘Great Expectations’: the novel is his story‚ told in his words‚ and his insights define the events and characters of the book. As a result‚ Dickens most important task

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    How does Scrooge’s character change in "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens? A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol is a tale on the subject of change. It is a quite simple story based on an intervallic narrative composition in which all of the major chapters have a clear‚ fixed symbolic connotation. Dickens’ much-loved short story A Christmas Carol was printed in 1843‚ along with the purpose of getting the attention of the reader to the dilemma of England’s underprivileged

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    - From the biography‚ what incident changed Dickens’ life and helped to shape him as a writer? From reading the biography of Charles Dickens the incident that changed Dickens’ life and shaped him to the writer he became was the traumatic events that occurred in his childhood. Dickens was psychologically scarred because his family was imprisoned and his traumatic experience working at the Warren’s Blacking Factory. - How old do you think Pip is? From the first chapter of ’’ Great Expectation’’‚ I

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    Why did Charles I lose the First Bishops War? The First Bishops War is defined as two conflicts between England and Scotland in 1639 and 1640. The cause of the war was due to the Scottish reaction against Charles I attempt to reform the Scottish church. After the implementation of the Scottish National Covenant against the King’s reforms in 1638‚ the Covenanters became the dominant political and religious force in Scotland. The main reasons for Charles losing the First Bishops War was due to the

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    Wars began from conflict between Charles I and Parliament. The first war lasted from 1642 to 1645‚ the second lasted from 1648 to 1649‚ civil wars put the supporters of King Charles I against the supporters of the Long Parliament‚ and the third lasted from 1649 to 1651. They saw fighting between supporters of King Charles II and supporters of the Rump Parliament. The third war ended with the Parliamentary victory at the Battle of Worcester on September 3‚ 1651. Charles I wanted to unite the kingdoms

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