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    who came after him were despots. For example‚ anyone who criticized the government could be arrested and put in prison without trial. Louis XIV at l east ruled this country efficiently. Last French kings were not good rulers. Louis XIV (1774- 1793) was king at the time of the French Revolution. He was more interested in hunting than governing France. He and his Austrians queen‚ Marie Antoinette‚ lived an extravagant life at the Palace of Versailles. They did not really care about the state

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    Stacy “Liberty‚ Equality‚ and Fraternity” “The King’s blood flowed and cries of joy from eight thousand armed men struck my ears.” A man that witnessed the guillotining of King Louis XVI was left with this graphic image of a memorable event leading to the Reign of Terror. The Reign of Terror‚ otherwise known as the French Revolution‚ was an attempt to form a new government in France. The citizens of France fought against their government and made a new government led by Maximilen de Robespierre

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    what the law required of the people and officials in free states in regard to the matter of fugitive slaves. In other words‚ enforcement of the Constitution on this matter was a gray area decades before the Civil War. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 was an effort to provide a means to enforce the constitutional clause concerning escaped slaves. The act allowed a slave owner to seize an escaped slave‚ present the slave before a federal or local judge‚ and‚ upon proof of ownership‚ receive a certificate

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    Chapter 6 BIG QUESTION: How did a war fought jointly by the colonists and British help pave the road the American Revolution? Use PERSIA to help in analyzing this question. The war against the French helped bring the colonies closer together. The Albany Congress brought up the idea of uniting the colonies to help them succeed in the future. By uniting‚ the colonies had a better chance of being able to take on the British in a war. There were a few mistakes made by the British that also lead to

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    The reign of terror was a period of violence in which occurred from 1793- 1794 after the strong onset of the French Revolution. It was a time of fierceness and anger‚ resulting in the deaths of thousands of people living in France at that period of time. The terror followed the trial and execution of King Louis XVI in 1793 and was incited by the conflict between the Girondins and Jacobins. Soon after‚ King Louis’ wife‚ Marie Antoinette‚ was executed in the guillotine- the new form of constitutionalist

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    man. His main duty was to serve as president of the Senate‚ casting a vote only to break a tie. He supported all the major initiatives of the Washington administration‚ including the financial plan of Alexander Hamilton‚ the Neutrality Proclamation (1793)‚ which effectively ended the Franco-American Alliance of 1778‚ the forceful suppression of an insurrection in western Pennsylvania called the Whiskey Rebellion (1794)‚ and the Jay Treaty (1795)‚ a highly controversial effort to avoid war with England

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    Rev. 2nd Ed. New York: Fairchilds Publication‚ 1997. Kawamura‚ Yuniya. Fashion-ology: An Introduction to Fashion Studies. Oxford: Berg‚ 2005. Mifflin‚ Margot. Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo. New York: Juno Books‚ 1997. Pitts‚ Victoria. In the Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification. New York: Palgrave‚ 2003. Saiki‚ Diana and Carole J. Makela. “Proportion in the Design of Women’s Fashionable Clothing: A 50-Year Retrospective.” Family and Consumer Sciences Research

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    or country. The literature that was obtained specifically impacted the federal government‚ education system and the service industry both nationally and internationally (Testa & Mueller‚ 2009)‚ (Kouse‚ 2009)‚ (Burgess‚ French & Strachan‚ 2009) and (Pitts‚ 2009). It is a term that is used in multiple vision statements and newspaper want ads to attract attention to ones individual organization. However‚ it is still a vague term. Svyantek and Bott (2004) eludes to this vague term in their study on “Received

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    Another great school for a medical major is the University of Pittsburgh. The University of Pittsburgh is an easier school to get into with a acceptance rate of 53.1% which is very high (Colle‚USnews-Pitt). To attend Pittsburgh it costs $40‚000 a year. But out of-state tuition is $55‚000(Collegedata-Pitt). So if someone were to attend out of state for

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    APL&C-Period 1 21 August 2012 You Also Have the Right to Tell a Bigot What You Think By Leonard Pitts S Who is the speaker? Who is the voice that tells the story? The speaker is a syndicated columnist‚ a writer versed in and paid for expressing his opinion in an interesting‚ thought-provoking way. He is educated yet down to earth and not a bombastic or over-inflated or even lover of elevated lexicon or writing style. He is representative of the majority of educated US citizens. O

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