How successful was Louis XIV in achieving religious unity in France in the years 1661-1715? (24 marks). For Louis XIV‚ achieving religious unity in France was of major concern as it was a challenge to his absolutism. Being a devote Catholic‚ Louis wanted to unite France under Catholicism as the presence of other unorthodox religions meant that Louis was not supported in every way‚ like an absolute King should be. Many‚ including Louis‚ saw the King of France to be ‘The Most Christian King’‚ and
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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS‚ VOL. 43‚ NO. 5‚ SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2007 1341 Unity Power Factor Control for Three-Phase Three-Level Rectifiers Without Current Sensors Bingsen Wang‚ Member‚ IEEE‚ Giri Venkataramanan‚ Member‚ IEEE‚ and Ashish Bendre‚ Member‚ IEEE Abstract—Three-level rectifiers with reduced number of switches (such as the Vienna Rectifier) to improve the input power quality of rectifier systems have been receiving wide interest in the past years. In this paper‚ a new
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for both ’The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ and ’Kubla Khan’. Mankind‚ firstly‚ is explored in both poems by placing the human nature in situations where perhaps instinct acts before reason. In RAM‚ the ancient mariner kills the albatross not for need or in distress‚ or for any reason that mariner can deduce the result. He has unknowingly taken on a huge burden‚ and the quest begins to extract all the rash impulsiveness of mankind. The mariner now must search for moral‚ spiritual and internal
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developed a moderate sense of their identity and unity. However‚ they were still far from having the complete sense of identity and unity necessary for an independent country to flourish. In the early colonial days‚ there was absolutely no colonial unity. The colonies actually saw themselves as rivals‚ competing for land and trading rights. This left them defenseless against attacks by the Indians and the French. The first attempt at creating colonial unity was made by Benjamin Franklin in 1754‚ after
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The Odysseus who leaves Troy changes into a completely different man before he arrives at his home in Ithaca. The hero endures many trials and tribulations induced by the menis of Poseidon‚ but learns from his mistakes and matures much through his trek. Poseidon serves as a symbol of the supernatural and the threatening. In a way‚ he is the abusive‚ but pedagogic father. It is Poseidon who keeps Odysseus in the face of danger‚ and it is Poseidon who keeps him suffering. Until the seventh year of
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the limited appeal of Mazzini’s ideas was the main reason for the slow progress of national unity in Italy in the years 1815-48? In 1815‚ Italy had just emerged from Napoleonic rule and was completely divided into nine separate states; with different rulers and different cultures. By 1848‚ these states had progressed towards‚ albeit merely to a limited extent‚ some kind of national unity – national unity meaning the feeling of being united and together as one country. It could be argued that the
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Deane and Keating all speak about unity in various forms in order for people to relate to the what they are saying which helps them get across the point of there speech. In William Deane’s speech it is an attempt to bring closure and comfort to the victims of the Swiss Canyoning tragedy. Paul Keating’s speech is an attempt to also bring closure to the victims families whose bodies were never found and also to instill patriotism amongst families. In Sadat’s speech unity is used to bring both the Egyptians
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’A Christmas Carol’ is a novella written by Charles Dickens which illustrates a somewhat happy Christmas story that highlights the importance of being a kind hearted person. Throughout his novella‚ Dickens’s shows the reader his intended moral of the story‚ that Scrooge’s transformation at the end of the novella is what Dickens’s hopes that our world will too surely change. This is evident throughout the novella as he depicts Scrooge (before the conversion)‚ the main character; to stand for all that
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religion. Environmentalism velieves that Earth is sacred and needs to be protected from the pollution sinners that are leading mankind to the judgment day. That human have a purpose to take care of Earth through conservation of nature and creating a unity between mankind and the Earth. Environmentalists ignore historical facts that prove there has never been unity between mankind and Earth. They are feeling a void of order and meaning by believing in the concept that we are here on Earth to conserve the
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building the tower because of the human nature by analyzing the power‚ conflict‚ unity and freedom ideas in a philosophical way. Apart from content‚ contextual information such as the original story in the Bible is useful to elaborate the impossibility. At first glance‚ it can be stated that Kafka chooses not to write about any specific person or nation‚ he tells the story in a more general way by talking about mankind. In this quotation “so long as there are men on the earth there will be also the
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