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    The demise of the Whigs was rather a consequence of the ideological homogeneity that had escaped them. Portland was driven away from Fox because their priorities did not allow common ground. He was to become aligned with Pitt because theirs did. Whilst Fox valued liberty above all else‚ Portland did not; he was anxious for the maintenance of social order. The French Revolution made this impossible to go on ignored for‚ in the face of the tumult over events in France‚ the new political scene‚ as

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    The factors that led to the American Revolution In 1763 the British defeated the French in the French and Indian War which shifted the power to Great Britain in North America. The British‚ however‚ were attacked by Indian tribes in fear that they would allow colonist to invade their tribal lands. The British reacted with the passing of the Royal Proclamation of 1763 which limited colonial expansion to appease the Native Americans but this angered the colonists who thought that

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    of the late 18th century. Georges Jacques Danton first gained prominence in revolutionary circles when he became the president of the Cordeliers Club‚ one of the first groups to incite radical action of disposing the monarchy‚ King Louis XVI (1754-1793) A month after the Flight Varennes‚ the Champ de Mars Massacre occurred Danton and he fled to London fearing counter-revolutionary

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    parliament of the 18th century. The film narrates William Wilberforce’s journey through time with many flashbacks. William‚ the son of a rich merchant‚ studied at Cambridge; this is where he met his close friend and future priminister‚ William Pitt. Pitt encourages Wilberforce to outlaw the slavetrade and fight against parliament. With his support and advice on how to conquer the government‚ they get over 3‚000 signatures wanting to abolish the slave trade. Without his connections

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    Frege and Russell Frege’s Theory of Language Frege’s theory of language is based on his commitment to the compositionality theory which suggests that “the meaning of a sentence is a function of the meanings of its constituent parts plus its syntactic structure.”(1x) Combining this theory with a theory he previously had committed to‚ the referential theory of names‚ which suggests that a names’ semantic role is only to pick out an object‚ created a problem that can be seen most clearly in identity

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    IMAGE CREATS DREAM-WORK Tang Bing Goldsmiths University GMTC Autumn Term Professor Marianne Franklin November 14‚ 2013 (words: 2‚260) Introduction “It is the images we see in ads which give them significance‚ which transfer their significance to the product. This is why advertising is so uncontrollable‚ because whatever restrictions are made in terms of their verbal content or ‘false claims’‚ there is no way of getting at their use of images and symbols. ... [It] is images and

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    History.com states‚ “Enacted by Congress in 1793‚ the first Fugitive Slave Act authorized local governments to seize and return escaped slaves to their owners and imposed penalties on anyone who aided in their flight. Widespread resistance to the 1793 law later led to the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850‚ which added further provisions regarding runaways and levied even harsher punishments for interfering in their capture” (“Fugitive Slave Acts”). In 1793‚ the Fugitive Slave Act allowed

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    king’s execution‚ priests who would not accept government control‚ and rival leaders who  were stirring up rebellion in the provinces. How to contain and control these enemies became  a central issue.    Robespierre Assumes Control ​ In the early months of 1793‚ one Jacobin leader‚ Maximilian  Robespierre‚ slowly gained power. Robespierre and his supporters set out to build a “republic  of virtue” by wiping out every trace of France’s past. Firm believers in reason‚ they changed  the calendar‚ dividing t

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    revolution. Olympe de Gouge (1748 - 1793) perhaps became one of the outstanding and outspoken women during the revolution. She was a play writer whose writings focused on gender roles and equality between men and women. She wrote the “Declaration of the rights of woman and female citizen” in 1791 to elevate the status of women to have a full right just like the men. Her writings influenced the revolution even though she was charged with treason and guillotined in 1793. Her proposition on voluntary taxation

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    Just imagine how our lives would be if all of the technology and inventions we have in today’s modern society were never invented. A history marking event called the Industrial Revolution began in England in the middle of the 18th century and spread to the rest of Europe and the United States in the early 19th century. This era changed the way people worked and lived in drastic ways. New machines were invented and a large part of the population moved from the countryside to urban areas. In the early

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