1. The Reveillon Riot was an event that happened 28 April 1789‚ in the district of St. Antoine of Paris where a factory owned by Jean-Baptiste Reveillon who produced luxury wallpapers was attacked. The workers of the factory heard a rumor that the owner was going to pay the highly skilled workers a lower wage than what they were getting paid now. The workers were concerned because with food shortages‚ high unemployment‚ and low wages after the difficult winter in 1789 they had. (worldhistoryproject
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war c) Technological improvement in warfare. d) Migration of labor from abroad. 9. What is any point inside the PPF represent? Why? (2) 10. The following table shows the production and consumption possibilities of two individuals Mr. Brad Pitt and Ms. Jennifer Anniston for loaves of Breads and bottles of Honey. From the situation also
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Kawaihae.[2] Kahekili II resumed his rule of Maui and also acquired cannon. In 1791‚ Kahekili tried to invade the island of Hawaiʻi‚ but was defeated in a naval battle called Kepuwahaʻulaʻula. Kamehameha had to wait for the civil war that broke out in 1793 after the death of Kahekili II‚ and the battle of Nu’uanu to finally win control of Maui.While Maui’s king Kahekili II was on Oʻahu‚ Kamehameha’s war fleet landed in Kahului a few kilometers from the base of ʻĪao Valley. An army consisting of around
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In the novel Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly‚ the protagonist of the story Andi Alpers goes to Paris with her father to finish her senior thesis. Andi is failing school and must finish her senior thesis to graduate. The place where she stays is at the house of one of her father’s close friends who is addressed as G. G is a historian who is fixated on the French Revolution and wishes to create a museum about the French Revolution‚ for this reason‚ he owns many artifacts from the era of the French
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“Gentlemen may cry‚ ‘Peace! Peace!’ -- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! (...) I know not what course others may take; but as for me‚ give me liberty‚ or give me death!” (Henry‚ 1775). Great Britain passed many laws that brewed trouble between the colonists and the British. But there were two laws that stood out the most. The Stamp Act was a law passed by Parliament and was established on March 22‚ 1765. The Quartering Act was 2 British laws passed by the Parliament of Great Britain
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The Reign of Terror -Not Justified 1793 to 1794 is when the Reign of Terror began and end. The Reign of Terror was about 2 years from when Louis XVI was beheaded and around the time 20‚000 people were guillotined. 35‚000 people were killed by officers and officials. The Reign of Terror was not justified.The claim stated can be supported by these 3 reasons: they were threatened in wrong ways for the wrong things ‚ the methods used were not necessary‚ and the reasoning they gave did not match the
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Maximilien de Robespierre was born into a family within France during high political tension. When he was six‚ Robespierre’s mother died during the birth of her fifth child. His father was devastated. Though a successful lawyer in his town of Arras‚ France‚ Robespierre’s father was so upset about the death of his wife that his law practice started to fail‚ and in 1766‚ he left his four children with relatives. Robespierre was raised by two aunts. In 1769‚ he won for himself a scholarship to Louis-le-Grand
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American male at the end of the 20th century. David Flincher’s movie‚ Fight Club‚ depicts how consumerism has caused the emasculatization of the modern male and tells a tale of liberation from a corporate controlled society. In the movie Brad Pitt comments on the new way of life‚ "We are products of lifestyle obsession; murder‚ crime‚ poverty do not concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines‚ television with five hundred cannels and a designer name on my underwear." The film‚ Fight
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male at the end of the 20th century. David Flincher’s movie‚ Fight Club‚ shows how consumerism has caused the emasculation of the modern male and tells a tale of liberation from a corporate controlled society. In the movie Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) comments on the new way of life‚ "We are products of lifestyle obsession. Murder‚ crime‚ poverty do not concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines‚ television with five hundred cannels and a designer name on my underwear." The film‚ Fight
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