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    the most hard working‚ but poor people that had to pay for taxes. Louis XVI was the king of France‚ he did not care about people and was always travelling to Versailles for parties‚ even when they were in a bad situation‚ one example is bankruptcy. Marie Antoinette was the wife of Louis XVI. Women’s that March on Versailles in order to get captures to use against “blackmail”‚ they were important because they captured the king and queen. Louis XVI could have prevented the French revolution‚ if he

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    led to an extreme financial crisis in France during the second half of the 18th century. People were going hungry and it appeared as if the monarchy just continued to spend carelessly. At the time of the Revolution‚ Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI were known for spending carelessly. Marie Antoinette is frequently credited with callously saying‚ "Let them eat cake" in response to finding out that Parisians were starving. However‚ it is probably more accurate to say that she was totally unaware of the

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    Marie Lu is a dystopian novelist whose life began with a very surprising start. Her given name is Xiwei Lu‚ and she was born in Wuxi‚ China on July 11‚ 1984. When she was just five years old‚ she migrated to the United States after the Tiananmen Massacre‚ and settled with her family in Georgia. Marie finished her first full manuscript when she was just fourteen‚ and has kept a steady interest in the dystopian and/or sci-fi genre. Immediately after Marie Lu’s graduation at the Southern University

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    Marie Antoinette queen of France. born November 2‚1755 was married to Louis Xv. Shortly as he died from smallpox disease a young prince was going to take his place. Marie Antoinette was a person they found as majestic and a visible woman not some unknown girl. Marie Antoinette had not managed to take the first step up this particular ladder of power. The role designed for Marie Antoinette was intended to be more like that of the mistress‚ which is taking more advantage of unique advantages and personnel

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    os2bbs.com/os2news/os2history.html Bullard‚ G. (2011‚ December). Meet the Most Interesting Man in the World. Retrieved December 6‚ 2011‚ from http://www.wcax.com/story/16192523/meet-the-most-interesting-man-in-the-world Fröman‚ N. (1996‚ February 28). Marie and Pierre Curie and the Discovery of Polonium and Radium. Retrieved December 11‚ 2011‚ from Nobel Prize: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/articles/curie/ IBM. (2011). Executive Officers. Retrieved December 10‚ 2011‚ from http://www.ibm

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    bankruptcy by the mid-1780‚ This forced the king to promote radical fiscal reform that taxed heavily on the poor. King Louis’s failure to address France’s financial troubles to the content of the poor set in motion the French Revolution. His Wife Marie Antoinette and him were guillotined for treason against the French State in 1793. Although Louis XVI did some good for the French. King Louis’s execution was necessary because his actions caused turmoil and injustice for the citizens of France. Despite

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    the people." A government is meant to rule the people so there isn’t anarchy and chaos. However‚ the people‚ for their sake‚ should control the same government. A government that is not connected to its people is a government ripe for disaster. Marie Antoinette‚ for example‚ ruled but did not know who she was actually ruling. She did not understand that they were starving. She was not connected to her people and her people made her pay for her ignorance. People should not fear the government;

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    quants. They are responsible in creating mathematical models for financial products that the “structure guys”—as called in the article—will transform into a reality. Although according to Nicole El Karoui‚ a professor in University of Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris VI)‚ the equations she is teaching to her students are supposed to be used to solve or cover the risk in the market. But her students use them to create “exotic” products that are sold with “enormous” prices to investors. The catch is

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    devastating hailstorm that ruined crops in much of the northern half of the country. France was ruled by Louis XVI‚ a King who believed he had ‘Divine Right’ to rule France. Louis XIV was a poor leader and was easily influenced by his wife‚ Queen Marie Antoinette. At the time‚ there was a parliament in France known as the States-General‚ which consisted of representatives from each of the main classes or the three “estates” being the nobility‚ the clergy and the peasant who represented the third

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    by a mob of 7‚000 women‚ the King was convinced by Lafayette to move from Paris to the palace in Tuileries. The Assembly began to divide into different parties. One was made up of those against the revolution‚ led by the nobleman Jacques Antoine Marie de Cazales and the churchman Jean-Sifrien Maury. This party sat on the right side. A second party was the Royalist democrats (monarchists) which wanted to create a system like the constitutional monarchy of Britain‚ where the king would still be a

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