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    ensured that all revolutionary groups were suppressed through strict censorship and continuous espionage against their groups. This determination to use Austria’s might to keep Italy weak is demonstrated by her crushing without exemption of the 1831 uprisings in Modena and the Papal States when Austrian forces were very publicly used to destroy‚ without negotiation‚ all those who revolted along with many innocent bystanders. Metternich was determined to ensure that Italy remained‚ ‘a mere geographical

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    remembrance of their glorious history. This encouraged their opposition towards Ottomans’ rules‚ the Serbian Revolution. The First Serbian Uprising gained the Serbs a decade of freedom and independent government but the uprising was eventually crushed by the Ottomans. Having enjoyed political freedom and patriotism‚ the Serbs rebelled again. The Second Serbian Uprising drove the Ottomans out of Serbian territories. Serbia expanded their lands into the territory of Ottoman Empire. Losing the wars‚ Ottomans

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    in the hopes to persuade members of the resistance to remain loyal to the Tsar. In addition to the extensive numbers due to the army’s loyalty‚ it made a spectacle of the rebels; not only did it prove the resistance were the center of an anarchist uprising‚ but displayed they were fighting the country‚ which would ultimately lead to a civil war – which would only make the rights they were fighting for elaborate to achieve‚ if not abolish them completely. One of the main attributes to play a major

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    November Uprising‚ January Uprising and Crimean War arrived in Turkey. Many Polish officers like Michał Czajkowski served in the Ottoman Army. Polish national poet Adam Mickiewicz spent the last months of his life in İstanbul and died there. The house where he lived was later transformed into the Adam Mickiewicz Museum. There is also a Polish village in Turkey named Polonezköy (Adampol). It lies on the Anatolian side of İstanbul and was settled in 1842 by Polish veterans of the November Uprising. In

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    population. It was not until Queen Elizabeth I introduce a policy known as plantation‚ where she gave loyal Protestants supporters land that had been confiscated from Catholic Irish rebels that English control took its hold. The plantation caused enormous uprising from the Catholics and they rebelled for several years causing the death of thousands of people; it was the strong beginning of Irish Nationalism. As Irish discontent mounted‚ the Act of Union came into effect in 1801. At that time‚ five sixths of

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    “I‚ with a number of other girls‚ was in the dressing room on the eighth floor of the Asch Building‚ in Washington Place‚ at 4.40 o’clock on the afternoon of Saturday‚ March 25‚ when I heard somebody cry ‘Fire!’” Unlike those on the ninth and tenth floors (the other two floors that our factory‚ the Triangle Waist Company‚ occupied)‚ I did not climb out of exterior windows in desperation; I was kindly shown to a window in a crash door that I could fit through in order to climb downstairs. Instead

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    in conditions that black slaves and non-black servants faced‚ it becomes clear that out of these shared conditions arises the threat of coalition of the lower classes. An analysis of the responses by the white elites to their perceived threat of uprising points to the eventual solution

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    into the culture. It is important to note‚ however‚ that there is also a blatant and widespread injustice throughout the uprising itself: selective suspension of legal rights and procedures‚ extensive use of torture‚ and the murder of relatively innocent individuals who find themselves in the midst of a war they did not choose to partake in. All in all‚ before and during the uprising‚ we are presented with a situation in which a group of people does not have equal access to the resources of the State

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    Vienna was shaped with conservative political views‚ conservative social views‚ and was later reflected in the time period of 1815-1848. Politically‚ balance of power and legitimacy were restored. Socially‚ the Congress of Vienna stopped most revolts/uprisings from happening. From 1815-1848‚ the Congress of Vienna primarily caused country wide peace. Politically‚ balance of power and legitimacy were brought back. To prevent a country or state from rising up again‚ the men at the Congress of Vienna redrew

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    Subject: English A1 Word Count: 601 Level: Higher The short poem “On Reading Poems to a Senior Class at South High‚” by D.C. Berry expands on its basic sense of imagery‚ by focusing on the key aspect of conveying uprising emotions that the narrator encountered with. Besides the evident presence of visual imagery being used by D.C. Berry‚ he also includes organic imagery as a way of expressing emotions and feelings as they develop‚ as the poem progresses and how the

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