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Article Critique: Adrian Karatnycky, "The Orange Revolution"

reads the piece will probably be strongly reminded of some of the strong-arm tactics of the Republicans in Florida. Karatnycky say...

Galileo's Impact On The Scientific Revolution

connection between science and religion is not easily attained, inasmuch as science is based in a foundation of undeniable proof, ...

Gordon S. Wood/The American Revolution

policies enraged the colonist who saw them as encroachment on their traditionally established liberties. What the British saw as t...

Women in the American Revolution

was developing. But, when her husband was taken it was very hard for her to do nothing. She constantly ended up battling with the ...

The Changing View of Warfare

First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...

The Changing Nature of War

been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...

Dreyfus Affair's Impact on France

of poverty lived on. In the early twentieth century, there was a significant depression and French farmers were hit hardii. One c...

George Washington's Experiences in the American Revolution

and in March of 1776 he used a cannon from Henry Knox ("American Revolution - George Washington," 2005). He would make a mistake ...

Factors in Bringing about the Age of Revolution

and poor urban workers" and this coalition of the middle class and poor "gave the revolution its driving force" (Schmiechen, 1999)...

How Revolutionary was the American Revolution?

enough to overcome racial discrimination or the claims of the south that it needed slave labor to work the plantations (Coombs, 19...

The Cuban and Mexican Revolutions Compared

the effect that the U.S. supported Castros revolt. After all, at least on the surface, it seemed as if he was the lesser of the ev...

The French Revolution and Enlightenment Principles

his most famous sayings is "If God did not exist, he would have to be invented," which we can interpret to mean that man tends to ...

Defending Robespierre

of the twelve?man Committee of Public Safety elected by the National Convention, and which effectively governed France at the heig...

Jimi Hendrix, the Counter Music Revolution, and the 1960s

black colloquialism for sex) and dance (Isserman and Kazin 92). The sexually charged performances of Elvis Presley singing black ...

French, Spanish, and British Colonists

who were most oppressed by the British rule. One author notes that the history of this goes back, beginning: "[I[n 1215 at a place...

Contributions of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo to the Scientific Revolution

Robertson, 2004). Johannes Kepler was another important scientist responsible for the Scientific Revolution (Field, 200...

John Locke and the Right to Revolt Against Government Authority

"Natural rights are those rights such as life (from conception), liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Hence, laws and statutes w...

Contrasts and Similarities Between Haiti, France, and the United States from 1650 until 1850

which they were impacted and, in fact, in the manner they impacted others. France, the United States, and Haiti are particularly ...

Radical Aspects of the Scientific Revolution

the sun around which our planet revolved, not the sun around the earth as was held by the Church (Meeks, 1997). This assertion al...

Russian Revolution and Its Impact

1969). When news of the executive of the tsars family reached London, there were "few tears shed" (Dukes, 2003, p. 9). However, wi...

Significance of the Neolithic Revolution

However, as Childe (2003) points out, adopting cultivation did not mean that the communitys lifestyle became sedentary,...

Why China Did Not Have a Scientific Revolution and Europe Did

both "accepted and encouraged the natural philosophy that evolved into early modern science" (Bekar and Lipsey, 2001). Study has...

French History and the Causes of the French Revolution

young age of five to his death, (1643 to 1715). His mother, however, made the actual decisions regarding the country until her de...

Joseph Plumb Martin's Ordinary Courage

the year 1774 arrived. The smell of war began to be pretty strong, but I was determined to have no hand in it. I felt myself to be...

Transformation and Seventeenth Century England

In 4 pages, this research paper considers the rapid changes England underwent in terms of religion, economics, and politics, citin...

Reasons Behind Colonial America's Decision to Revolt Against England

Interestingly, however, although we looked to our mother country for that support, little was forthcoming. The early years of the...

French Revolution and French Nationalism

that "France is revolutionary, or she is nothing at all" (Polasky, 1996, p. 5). As these statements suggest, French history did no...

Haiti and Revolution

country on the path to freedom. The Haitian Revolution technically took place between 1794 and 1804 but the bloody French Revolu...

A Woman Soldier's Own Story: The Autobiography of Xie Bingying A Critique

dominated every aspect of their lives. As a child Xie was not even supposed to play outside with members of the opposite sex, not...

Scientific Revolution and the Connection Between Science and Religion

great interest and considerable depth. His ongoing quest was not only to determine the role of religion within social confines bu...