The Haitian Revolution was one of the most successful slave revolutions of all time. During the period before the Haitian Revolution‚ Haiti was one of the richest countries in the Western Hemisphere: fueled by slave labor. Slaves were forced to work as long as the sun was up and they often spent all day chopping or hacking at sugar cane with a machete. If the slaves refused to work‚ they were shot or beaten. This upsets me because people of color were treated like lesser beings because of their skin
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[pic] The Green Revolution The world’s worst recorded food disaster occurred in 1943 in British-ruled India. Known as the Bengal Famine‚ an estimated 4 million people died of hunger that year in eastern India (which included today’s Bangladesh). Initially‚ this catastrophe was attributed to an acute shortfall in food production in the area. However‚ Indian economist Amartya Sen (recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economics‚ 1998) has established that while food shortage was a contributor to the
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The French Revolution Enlightenment ideals reflected in the French Revolution by creating Enlightenment canon of basic text‚ by selecting certain authors and identifying them with the Enlightenment in order to legitimize their republican political agenda. Enlightenment ideals were also reflected by Edmund Burke in which was one of the first to suggest that the philosopher of the French Enlightenment were somehow responsible for the French Revolution‚ and his argument was taken up‚ and elaborated
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Lecture 13 The French Revolution: The Radical Stage‚ 1792-1794 The proof necessary to convict the enemies of the people is every kind of evidence‚ either material or moral or verbal or written. . . . Every citizen has the right to seize conspirators and counter-revolutionaries and to arraign them before magistrates. He is required to denounce them when he knows of them. Law of 22 Prairial Year II (June 10‚ 1794) Inflamed by their poverty and hatred of wealth‚ the SANS-CULOTTES insisted that it was
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of the majority of a population‚ problems began to unveil. The French Revolution was a major part of the world’s history and most importantly Frances. The French Revolution changed France in every way; powers were given to regular people‚ not just the nobles and Kings. The three biggest causes of the French Revolution were the American Revolution‚ political inequalities and Bankruptcy of the government. The American Revolution was a revolt of North America; North America didn’t want to be a part
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------------------------------------------------- THE CUBAN REVOLUTION AND ITS IMPACT ON LATIN AMERICA “Analyse the impact of the Cuban Revolution on both Cuban society and the wider Latin American world” The Cuban Revolution of 1959 has profoundly shaken the economic‚ social and political foundations of Cuba itself‚ however its impact on Latin America was not as predominant. The inauguration of Fidel Castro over Fulgencio Batista was the beginning of a communist regime in Cuba‚ which has now
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The Digital Revolution 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on questions 1-8 which are based on the Passage below. Wheel of Fortune: Emma Duncan discusses the potential effects on the entertainment industry of the digital revolution A Since moving pictures were invented a century ago‚ a new way of distributing entertainment to consumers has emerged about once every generation. Each such innovation has changed the industry irreversibly; each has been accompanied by a period of fear mixed with
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Power is used as a theme in the book “Persepolis’ because it uses the definition of the word power as the capability of doing or accomplishing something. The word power fits in this book because Persepolis is mainly based on gender inequality and how the females are basically treated less than males. One of the major issues in Persepolis is how the views and expectations of women changed in revolutionary Iran as author Marjane Satrapi grew up there. At a young age‚ she wants to fix social inequalities
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The Age of Revolutions is often a term used for a period of time‚ usually between 1760 -1848. Although the term encompasses many revolutions across the globe‚ it isn’t very often that these events are examined as a whole; compared and contrasted to show the similarities‚ differences‚ and even some potential catalytic properties between them. The book The Age of Revolutions in Global Context‚ c. 1760-1840‚ put together and edited by David Armitage and Sanjay Subrahmanyam‚ is a book of essays collaborated
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St. Petersburg to war front and loses battle. March revolution -1917- protest spread through St. Petersburg and the royal palace is taken over. -Czar abdicates -Provisional government ( Duma ) takes control lead by Alexander keresnky. -Provisional gov unpopular after decision to stay in WWI October ( Bolshevik ) revolution- 1917 -Bolshevik are Marxist ( communists ) -Lead by VI Lenin " peace‚land‚and bread" -Won support of people ( especially peasants ) 1918 -1918 march the Bolshevik
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