Among the longest ruling monarchs of all time‚ Louis XIV was also one of the most influential in European history. King Louis XIV managed‚ in nearly seventy-five years of rule over France‚ to change the structure of all of Europe. Within France‚ Louis had nearly absolute power with an almost non-existent Estates General‚ and poorly constructed and scattered “parlements.” Economically‚ taxation was biased toward the aristocracy‚ leading to corruption practiced to substitute for lost income. With the
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Louis extended his generosity to helping the victims of the Pearl Harbor bombing victims by donating a total of $65‚200 that he earned from a fight. Within a period of fewer than three months after the donation‚ he donated $45‚882 that he had also earned from a fight to the Army Relief Fund. When the war was over‚ Louis was determined to retire from professional boxing having to save enough money in the bank and with his dignity still high. However‚ he lost both. The reason behind this was that Louis
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It was 1789‚ King Louis XIV was on the throne and the ‘Revolution was born in blood’; the French Revolution had begun. The French Revolution began in 1789 on July 14th (Bastille Day) where the commoners of Paris stormed the prison‚ murdered the Governor and the Mayor of Paris. They were not standing for the mismanagement and tyranny of the French monarchy any longer. The Revolution that followed was a bloody massacre of torture and new ideas. Although the French Revolution only caused the people
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Lucy says to Lewis‚ “working with these people has changed you”. Has Lewis really changed at the end of the play? ‘Cosi’‚ written by Louis Nowra‚ is an intriguing (this is not a review Matt‚ so don’t use these descriptions) play that explores the minds of patients in the mental asylum and how they progress over time whilst being in the real world. (arent’ they removed from the real world whilst trapped in the confinements of the asylum?) However it is not a patient that changes the most during
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Louis XVI was born into royalty‚ and unexpectedly became King at a young age. Oblivious to the world outside his palace‚ Louis XVI spent enormous amounts of money on himself‚ his lifestyle‚ and his wife‚ Marie Antoinette. He ruled France with more absolute power than any other French monarch‚ however‚ this power wasn’t used to France’s advantage. Louis XVI believed in the divine right of Kings‚ therefore‚ it was his conviction that he was directly connected to God. Consequently‚ the King justified
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WWII has been one of the most memorable events in history‚ but beneath all of it are the deprived POWS and the confined Japanese-American internees. Louis Zamperini before he was stationed as a bombardier on a B-24 was a olympic runner. Louie had been captured by the Japanese after his B-24 crashed in the ocean and was marooned on a raft with two of his friends. Miné Okubo is a American with Japanese heritage and has a talent for making art. She was going to college for an art degree until she
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To answer this question‚ I would have to say that I do agree with the decisions made by the french assembly on sending citizen Louis to the guillotine. King Louis was the worst king France had seen‚ and to kill him would clean the government of dysfunction caused by the terrible decisions he had made in his tenure to the throne. The King had no knowledge of what it took to rule people‚ and he had barely any capability to keep any of the classes happy all at once. We start out with the untimely
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Canillac who did not have a good reputation in the land. Because of his reign‚ he was able to collect taxes on special occasions‚ but abused this privilege by collecting taxes annually. This ruler was influenced by Louis XIV and his extremely long reign. To make a long story short‚ Louis XIV tried to have power over everything and everyone possible‚ including the clergy. Absolutism became a well-known term during this period and basically was a political theory that sought to ?encourage rulers
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The 1992 comedic play ‘Cosi’‚ written by Australian prolific writer‚ Louis Nowra‚ is a play set in 1971 at a mental institution situated in Melbourne. The central protagonist‚ Lewis Riley‚ a young inexperienced director‚ endeavours to direct the inmates in a performance of Mozart’s opera‚ ‘Cosi Fan Tutte.’ Throughout ‘Cosi’‚ Nowra displays characters that are characterised as normal‚ but display rare various degrees of “insanity”. Over the course of the play‚ the playwright has encouraged his audience
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In Louis Uchitelle’s book‚ The Disposable American‚ he explores the decline of job security and the concept of “lifetime employment” in the United States as well as the underlying shift in government involvement and public perception that accelerated mass layoffs of workers and precipitated the notion that workers must solely bare the full financial and emotional burden of their discharge rather than businesses or society. Chapter 6 and the discussion on government legislation in the late twentieth
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