ENLIGHTENMENT The Enlightenment is the period in the history of western thought and culture‚ stretching roughly from the mid-decades of the seventeenth century through the eighteenth century‚ characterized by dramatic revolutions in science‚ philosophy‚ society and politics; these revolutions swept away the medieval world-view and ushered in our modern western world. Enlightenment thought culminates historically in the political upheaval of the French Revolution‚ in which the traditional hierarchical
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Charles Strickland One of the best novels by William Somerset Maugham can be considered the novel “The Moon and Sixpence”‚ which describes the fate of a strange creative personality and a great artist at the same time Charles Strickland‚ the prototype of a famous artist of 19th century Paul Gaughen. His talent and genius were recognized only after his death and his work became his posthumous monument commemorating the artist’s extravagance and greatness at the same time. His character‚ views
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Causes of the French Revolution On July 14‚ 1789 a large mob stormed the Bastille‚ and killed the commander and some other soldiers. The fall of the Bastille marked the beginning of the French Revolution‚ and was a symbol to the people of France representing years of abuse by the monarchy. Also‚ this event served as a wake-up call to King Louis XVI. Unlike any other short protest or riot‚ this event actually challenge to the regime. As the French Revolution progressed‚ French society underwent a
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their new taste for sugar‚ tea and cocoa. A similar view was taken by Rousseau‚ who stated that he could not bear to watch his fellow human beings be changed to beasts for the service of others. Religion entered into the equation when Diderot‚ author of the Encyclopedia‚ brought up the fact that the Christian religion was fundamentally opposed to Black slavery but employed it anyway in order to work the plantations that financed their countries. All in all‚ those influenced
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Renaissance means ’rebirth’ or ’recovery’‚ has its origins in Italy and is associated with the rebirth of antiquity or Greco-Roman civilization. The age of the Renaissance is believed to elapse over a period of about two centuries‚ approximately from 1350 to 1550. Above all‚ the Renaissance was a recovery from the Middle Ages and all the disasters associated with it: the Black Death‚ economic‚ political and social crises. For the intellectuals‚ it was a period of recovery from the "Dark Ages"; a
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Chapter 17 vocab. * Treaty of Westphalia – Ended thirty years war in 1648; granted right to individual rulers within the Holy Roman Empire to choose their own religion – either Protestant or Catholic. * English Civil War – Conflict between 1640 to 1660; featured religious disputes mixed with constitutional issues concerning the powers of monarchy; ended with restoration of the monarchy in 1660 following execution of previous king. * Proletariat – Class of working people without access
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Zealand (Aotearoa) in the west and Easter Island (Rapa Nui) in the east. It also includes (from northwest to southeast) Tuvalu‚ Tokelau‚ Wallis and Futuna‚ Samoa (formerly Western Samoa)‚ American Samoa‚ Tonga‚ Niue‚ theCook Islands‚ French Polynesia (Tahiti and the other Society Islands‚ the Marquesas Islands‚ the Austral Islands‚ and the Tuamotu Archipelago‚ including the Gambier Islands [formerly the Mangareva Islands])‚ and Pitcairn Island. At the turn of the 21st century‚ about 70 percent of the
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differentiation strategy by carefully positioning the package holidays to optimize the company performance. Instead of the typical destinations where all the tour operators compete‚ add other places with little offering‚ like the Bahamas‚ Hawaii‚ Tahiti‚ Costa Rica and Belize. The only issue with this solution is that it could necessitate an important amount of funds for introduction and awareness marketing. The second alternative is the opposite of the first‚ but they are not incompatible. Many
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ideas of main enlightenment thinkers‚ the philosophes‚ made mark on the century. In Diderot and D’Alembert’s Encyclopédie‚ the philosophe is described as a man who ‘trampling on prejudice‚ tradition‚ universal consent‚ authority‚ in a word‚ all that enslaves most minds‚ dares to think for himself’ . If the movement’s mother country was France‚ there were philosophes all across Europe. Some of the most famous were Diderot and Voltaire in France‚ D’Holbach in Germany or Hume in Scotland. The philosophes
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Uncle Marcos The story Uncle Marcos is about a girl named Clara and her uncle’s relationship and of Uncle Marcos’s past. Clara hasn’t seen her Uncle for two years but still remembers a perfect image of her Uncle Marcos. She retained an image of him since her childhood and every time she wants to see him she would close her eyes instead of looking at the old photograph they had in the drawing room. He was buried in the middle of the courtyard in a long black coffin. Uncle Marcos would come to
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