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    Leopold Sedar

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    20 December 2001) Léopold Sédar Senghor was born in Joal‚ Afrique Occidentale Française (French West Africa now Republic of Senegal)‚ to a Serer (third largest ethnic group in Senegal) Father and Roman Catholic mother. In 1928 Senghor traveled to Paris to continue his studies on a partial scholarship. He became the first black African to become an agrégé‚ the top qualification for a teacher in the French education system‚ and became a professor of African languages and civilization at the École Nationale

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    The French Revolution 1769: Aug 15: Napoleon born 1785: Napoleon becomes Second Lieutenant 1789: May 5: The French Estates-General meets at Versailles Jun 17: The Third Estate meets separately and declares itself National Assembly Jul 14: Storming of Bastille Aug 14: Nobles and clergy in the National Assembly renounce their privileges thus ending feudalism Aug 26: Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizen Franco-British relationship (1789-1815)

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    individualistic society that was not as much of a stranger in their own land. It allowed for the French speaking individuals of Quebec to feel as though they belonged and had a position within Canada as a whole not only Quebec. Both the women’s liberation movement and the Quebec decolonization movement of the 1960s were wrought with social justice‚ change and developments. They both pushed boundaries and gained a lot of ground in very short period of time‚ which allowed the individuals within the

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    which was putting a limit on the United States promise and from there the only thing that could have been done was to completely disengage. Richard Nixon was elected that year; he promised voter’s ‘peace with honor‚’ which to Nixon described the Paris Peace Accord to end the Vietnam war. But of course this was more easily said than done; peace talks were going on but there was little dedication from either side and they made very slight progress. At this time‚ Nixon had created a plan; ‘Vietnamization

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    Michael Jones

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    Name ----------------------------‚ Date ________________ In class assignment total points___50__ CHAPTER 16 – EUROPE TO THE EARLY 1500s: REVIVAL‚ DECLINE‚ AND RENAISSANCE 1. As compared to its experience in the early Middle Ages‚ western Europe in the High Middle Ages was a. more decentralized. c. less militaristic. b. less isolated. d. more religiously diverse. 2. During the late Middle Ages‚ a. kingship was despotic and absolute. b. kings

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    Napoleon Bonaparte

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    background of war‚ made possible the rise of a military dictator. Since childhood‚ Napoleon was taught stratagies and tactics to help him succeed through battles. At the age of fifteen‚ he entered the advance military school‚ the Ecole Militaire in Paris. Napoleon was promoted to a general at the age of twenty four‚ where he was put in charge of the Italian campaigns. After conquering most of the Italian Penninsula‚ Napoleon gained the support of the government and earned the respect of Sieyes and

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    the art world. Surrealism is a movement of great liberation of the mind that emphasized the imaginative powers many great artists have expressed over time. Surrealism is a modern art style in which visual arts and literature are based on fantasy and the world of dreams. In Europe‚ it thrived from the mid- 1920’s to long after the end of the World War II‚ which was about from 1939-45 (Scholastic). The Surrealist movement was established in Paris by a small group of writers and

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    Mass media in Algeria: a historical account - Several problems face the researchers in this domain • Lack of documents. • Absence of archives & materials. According to a researcher “the first difficulty that we encountered in our research was the documents and the newspapers collections. The complaints about this problem by the interested researchers are unanimous. The newspaper collections are dispersed‚ incomplete or do not exist at all‚ most of the time there are no archives

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    Following the conclusion of World War II‚ Nickolaus Lehner‚ who had once been incarcerated at Dachau‚ settled there after liberation. After some years Lehner visited Auschwitz‚ which bore stark contrast to Dachau; following liberation the barracks and structures at the camp were destroyed‚ leaving behind a barren landscape with only foundations to mark the former locations of the barracks. On the other hand‚ the barracks of Auschwitz still stand and the landscape of the death camp is still dominated

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    Boston‚ MA: Wadsworth‚ Cengage Learning. The WWII Dresden Holocaust – A Single Column of Flame. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://rense.com/general19/flame.htm Weider History Group. (2006). Retrieved from http://www.historynet.com/world-war-ii-the-liberation-of-paris.htm United States History. (2012). Italian Campaign. Retrieved from http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1742.html United States History. (2012). North African Campaign. Retrieved from http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1727.html

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