Catherine‚ Frederick and Louis - Unenlightened Tyrants in an Enlightened Age It is better to be feared than loved‚ if you cannot be both. -- Niccolo Machiavelli‚ - The Prince The Enlightenment is touted by modern historians as a time of intellectual and social advancement‚ an era of optimism and freedom unheard of in earlier times. The era of absolutism is seen as a time of mounting liberty that contributed to the rise of democracy in the Americas and elsewhere. In reality‚ the "Enlightened Despotism"
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"Chromium was discovered by the French chemist Nicholas Louis Vauquelin at Paris in1798. He was intrigued by a bright red mineral that had been discovered in a Siberian gold mine in 1766 and was referred to as Siberian red lead. It is now known as crocoite and is a form of lead chromate. Vauquelin analysed it and confirmed that it was a lead mineral. Then he dissolved it in acid‚ precipitated the lead‚ filtered this off‚ and focused his attention on the remaining liquor from which he succeeded in
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community. They wear specific colored clothing‚ jewelry‚ make certain hand signals‚ use certain graffiti‚ and specific jargon. It’s usually assumed that gangs are composed of only males who have most likely dropped out of school and are unemployed. Louis Rodriguez is the author of "La Vida Loca: Two Generations of Gang Members"‚ and he writes about his and his son’s gangbanging experiences.
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Louis Comfort Tiffany’s eclectic sense of design incorporated the styles of the Arts and Crafts‚ Aesthetic‚ and Art Nouveau movements (Johnson 8). He had an eye for ornamentation in which he transformed every piece in a room into a humanly functional work of art (Johnson 27). Light and color were strong for forces in the design of his spaces to create a sense of exoticism and romance (Johnson 33). Though his designs were lavish‚ he strived to make his spaces livable and enjoyable by the user‚
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"Why‚ sir‚" said I‚ "if I knew where I was going‚ or what was likely to become of me‚ I would tell you candidly. Essendean is a good place indeed‚ and I have been very happy there; but then I have never been anywhere else. My father and mother‚ since they are both dead‚ I shall be no nearer to in Essendean than in the Kingdom of Hungary‚ and‚ to speak truth‚ if I thought I had a chance to better myself where I was going I would go with a good will.” Davie is explaining to Mr. Campbell that he was
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The Missouri Compromise The Missouri Compromise‚ written by Henry Clay‚ attempted to limit the slavery boundaries; it was later declared unconstitutional and is also considered one of many events that led to the American Civil War. The compromise became a precedent for settling subsequent North and South disagreements over slavery and duty issues‚ and it remained in effect until rescinded by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. The Missouri Compromise eased tensions between the North and the South
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Missouri Compromise In 1819‚ the territory of Missouri applied for statehood. It was the first new state to be taken from the land acquired in the Louisiana Purchase. The issue of Missouri attempting to become a state sparked much debate and controversy. The debate in Congress was mainly about sectional power and not whether slavery was right or wrong. The people from the North disagreed with the added representation in Congress and in the Electoral College. Since Missouri would be a slave
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In 1820‚ the United States Congress passed the Missouri Compromise. Before it was passed the Northern states and Southern states had different ideas of the states. The North wanted to limit slavery‚ while the Southern states wanted more slavery. Missouri wanted to become a slave state in 1820‚ but the Northern states wouldn’t allow it. As a compromise‚ Missouri could be a slave state as long as Maine was added as its own free state‚ thus the Missouri Compromise. Along with these factors a rule of
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Paper #1 The two female protagonists from the stories Ms. Emily and Louis Mallard were both disturbed by societies views on how ladies should act and behave themselves. Both women were from a time when society thought that women were not able to have their own lives but there sole purpose for being on earth was to take care of their husband and their children. Each women struggles in their own way to find their identity and take control over their lives and become accepted by society for what they
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The Missouri Compromise was a bad solution‚ because it did not solve the slave problem but it was also a good compromise because it lasted for several years and temporarily solved the conflict of whether or not the new states would be slave states or free states. Perhaps the more important aspect of the Missouri Compromise was the agreement that no territory to the north of Missouri’s southern border could enter the Union as a slave state. That part of the compromise effectively stopped slavery from
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