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    up in smoke! They just announced that the Ministry of Education has decreed that universities will close at the end of the month!!! I wanted to be an educated‚ liberated woman and study chemistry like Marie Curie and if the pursuit of knowledge meant getting cancer‚ so be it. Now‚ at the age that Marie Curie first went to France I will probably have 10 children. This is a disaster. And that’s not it… They even insulted mom‚ telling her that women that didn’t wear the veil wouldn’t be respected

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    A Tale of Two Cities- A Historical fiction  A Tale of Two Cities is a novel categorized as historical fiction. Historical fiction is a composite material‚ with a portion of history embedded in a matrix of fiction. A Tale of Two Cities is appropriately titled‚ as the novel is the story of England and Revolutionary France; as a result it can be categorized as historical fiction. A Tale of Two Cities is parallel to history in many different respects. The English setting‚ and atmosphere‚ is similarly

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    The thesis of this study is how society was during the French Revolution from 1789 to 1799. French Revolution during this time went through significant changes from the beginning when society was run by the wealthy class and being undemocratic and changed to being a democratic state. From 1789 to 1799‚ the French Revolution was a "cataclysmic political and 1 social upheaval

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    that he inherited absolutism with a very weak and unstable government‚ alone with a peasantry who lived in appalling conditions overburdened with incredulous taxes. After all‚ without doubt he had taken over at the eve of the revolution. His queen Marie Antoinette was a woman of great strength of character and of more intellectual power than her husband which was of a bugger burden. She was a stranger to France and her influence upon her husband was at times evil and most time detrimental. There

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    hoping that they will learn from your experiences and live their life how you wish you could have. I would go back to 1774 when Marie Antoinette became queen‚ and show her my history books‚ and beg her to PLEASE avoid diamonds‚ ignore her brothers-in-law‚ keep a sharp eye on the owners of printing presses‚ show less favor to her son Louis Charles in front of poor Marie Therese so that the little girl isn’t so prone to bitterness‚ follow the advice of her mom and Joseph II‚ try to keep Catherine II

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    change and finally overthrown by the unhappy French citizens. There were many reasons for this action of overthrowing the government‚ some of which being high taxes‚ which only the third estate had to pay‚ the lack of participation that king Louis and Marie Antoinette had shown whilst in power towards ruling the country. King Louis XVI was not entirely to blame as France could have been left in a bad stage from King Louis XV and therefore it might not have been King Louis XVI; s fault entirely however

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    on time but lately I have started to wonder…… where has all the money I have been giving to the government been going? Is it being used for the good of the people? Then a few days ago‚ it was revealed to us‚ the third estate that the king’s wife‚ Marie Antoinette has been using our hard earned money for herself‚ and has even managed to horde some of it! This is outrages! Our poor workers are over straining themselves just to finance her clothes?! It is honestly no wonder France is going through a

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    make wise decisons and to deal with problems with the French people. Although Louis had lot’s of good Ideas he was weak ruler and he could not make the decisons need at the time. In 1770 when Louis was fifeteen he married the fourteen year old Marie Antoinette‚ who was the daughter Maria Theresa‚ the Emperss of Austria. the marriage was set up to build a stronger alliance between France and Austria. During the fist couple of years they were married she became extreamly unpopular. The reason

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    Varennes. This was obviously done in secret‚ for most of the country heavily disliking the two. Using Harry Styles song “Sign of the Times”‚ the lyrics render the emotion that the young Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette had while fleeing for their lives. The song draws a picture of the fear the young King and his bride had‚ and their desperation to save their royal belongings. Why are we always stuck and running from The bullets? The bullets? ~ [Chorus] Just stop your crying‚ it’s a sign of the times

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    as imagery‚ point of view‚ characterization‚ conflict and mood to develop Marie in Love medicine. In Saint MarieMarie is only 14 years old and she is currently with a nun named Leopolda‚ Imagery plays a role of showing Marie to us readers as an Indian female also in Saint Marie; "I could had any damn man on the reservation at the time. And I could have made him treat me like his own life." Visual imagery is used when Marie said she could have any man shows she’s manipulative‚ seductive and beautiful

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