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    attempted uprising of opposition to Tsar Nicholas II was unsuccessful due to the separate groups of opposition. The revolutionary forces were made up of different social classes of Russia‚ such as the industrial workers‚ the peasantry and political groups such as the Social Democrats and the Kadets‚ each with separate reasons for revolting – for example the Kadets’ wish of developing a constitutional monarchy. The October Manifesto‚ a concession by Nicholas II weakened the by settling the problems

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    Title: (A) Write short pen portraits of Wilhelm II and Nicholas II explaining their rank‚ how long they had been in power and what kind of leaders they had been up to 1914. (B) Explain the meaning and political message behind any two of the following snippets from these telegrams: Kaiser – ‘deserved punishment’ Tsar – ‘ignoble war’ Name: Laura O’Reilly Student no: 14708891 Module: HI117 Writing the History of War and Society Lecturer: Dr Gearoid Barry Tutor: James O’ Donnell Word Count:

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    Internet has radically benefitted our civilization; legitimate concerns exist on the detrimental effects the Internet has on mental cognition. Nicholas Carr’s article in The Atlantic and The Wall Street Journal as well as Bobby Cole’s article in Insider Technology document concerns on the Internet’s detrimental effect on minds and cognition. Nicholas Carr states that Internet causes division and diversion of attention. We are constantly distracted by emails‚ alerts‚ messages and Facebook notifications

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    “The old order collapsed because it failed to solve economic problem” The Russian Revolution of February 1917 was not directly attributed to the Tsar’s failure to solve economic problems. There were a wide range of causes to the downfall which can’t be directly associated to the failure to solve economic problems. Russia’s industrialisation as a result of the reforms of 1891 proved crucial in the fall of the old order. After Witte’s reforms of the late 1890s the population of Petrograd doubled

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    statement: ‘The October Manifesto marked the formal end of autocratic government; for the first time the Tsar was forced to share his law-making powers’ The October Manifesto was a vague but insincere promise of political reform‚ issued by Tsar Nicholas II at the height of the 1905 Revolution (J. Llewellyn et al‚ “The October Manifesto).The Manifesto‚ a document proposed by Sergei Witte‚ which demanded civil liberties and the creation of a Duma‚ was an important stage in the 1905 Revolution‚ as

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    zealot Old Major and the highly despised Czar Nicholas II into Farmer Jones. There are many more allegorical figures and plenty of events to mirror those of the Russian Revolution. The series of events in the Russian Revolution strongly resembled those during the Animal Farm Revolution. In both cases‚ a new form of

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    Willene Joan D’ Costa NASE 318 Professor Kiszewski 12/11/14 Food Security in Ethiopia Ethiopia‚ located in Sub Saharan Africa‚ is one of the many countries in the world that is the most affected by food insecurity. Food security in Ethiopia has comparatively improved in recent years. However‚ due to factors such as political set up‚ severe poverty‚ climate‚ etc.‚ this problem is far from being solved. In recent years‚ Ethiopia’s economy has grown considerably as compared to other Sub-Saharan countries

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    Dante's Inferno Analysis

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    ecclesiastical offices and sacraments‚ strike a chord with Dante the author. In reality the fraudulent clergymen‚ located within Dante’s eighth circle of hell‚ were politically corrupt. To sum up their reality-based sins attributed to them: Pope Nicholas III‚ the first inhabitant of the third Bolgia was accused of not only simony but also of political nepotism. Pope Boniface VIII’s desire for the papal growth was so strong that any and all obstacles‚ like the papacy itself as held by his predecessor

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    and the national morale was virtually non-existent. The Russian people had had enough of the impotent Tsar Nicholas II. Russia‚ unlike the rest of Europe‚ was backward society. In Russia‚ they still had many serfs. The Russians knew they needed to industrialize if they wanted to become a global power. People began to realize that their current state system was stated ineffective as Nicholas II was opposed to a modern constitutional political system with concepts of citizenship‚ law‚ and property

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    The Decline and Fall of the Romanov Dynasty It can be argued that Grigory Rasputin was responsible for the fall of the Romanov Dynasty to an extent. There are many aspects that Rasputin was the cause for Nicholas and his family losing their powers over the people of Russia. It is believed that Rasputin was only the catalyst that brought about widespread revolt. Rasputin played a very important role in the lives of the royal family‚ especially to the Tsar and Tsarina’s only son ‚ Tsarevich Alexei

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