“France and Its Muslims,” by Stephanie Giry takes a hard look at France’s problems with her Muslim population. Due the current political climate throughout the Western World in regards to Muslims, it should come as no surprise that France feels that all problems from the poor is because they are immigrants and Islamic. France has the largest Muslim population in Europe at 4-5 million. France prides herself on egalitarianism and universal democratic culture. The French firmly believe in the separation of church and state, which has led to fear of organized religion influencing the actions of its people.
In his speech before the National Convention, he claims the Church calendar to debase nations and persuades people that a new calendar is a must for every Frenchman. However, Romme is biased towards the production of a new calendar, clearly shown, because he is head of the calendar reform committee (Document 2). The “Institution Concerning the Era of the Republic and the Division of the Year” also supports the new calendar. This document not only looks at the calendar from an intellectual level, but also considers the economy. It claims a new calendar will soon be needed for commerce and the trades, and arts and history.
It was this point that caused much of the contention and caused his wife to continue her crusade to have her husband freed from life imprisonment on Devil’s Island. One of the main issues of contention is that the press was freed from censorship, which caused the press to exaggerate the initial story. It should also be noted that many of the news publication had anti Semitic feelings and were using the fact that Dreyfus was Jewish to bolster the anti Semitic agenda. Edouard Drumont used his publication La Libre Parole to pressure the army and hasten the trial of Dreyfus . It is clear that the press was using the Dreyfus trial to their advantage by circulating false information to get support and profit from the rapid selling of newspapers.
Some of them came together and decided to say that they were pressured into picking Urban and that they need to elect a new pope because Urban is not legit. They elected Clement VII in 1378. This was bad because now the church was split between two popes. Clement VII has always been considered an anti-pope by the church. He stayed in Avigon and was strongly supported by the French.
Social distinctions may be based only on common utility.” Basically saying that every man will be equally views just as any other man would under all circumstances. That document amalgamated a variety of Enlightened ideas drew from the works of political philosophy. The French Revolution was influenced by Brotherhood because the irate citizens of Paris stormed the Bastille together; it was an expression of the power of the people to take politics into their own hands. Fiscal irresponsibility influenced the Revolution because after debts were brought to a higher level than before then taxes were raised on the people to end the financial trap which was not easy and required the support of the aristocracy. Democracy influenced the French Revolution the new construction of politics, in which all individuals were equal, ran counter to prevailing ideas about collective identities defined in guilds and orders.
England was only protestant for six years but catholic for centuries this showed people loved the way catholic life was and they wanted to carry it on. Mary additional took lady Jane greys position of queen Mary cold do this because many people believed that Jane stole the place of Mary and so they believed that Mary was the right queen therefore lady Jane grey was beheaded she was only queen for nine days. Mary could not make England catholiaic again because killing her enemies would make unpopular she was hated in the London area where many of the burning Mary would kill her enemies because they did not choose to turn catholic so she would kill her enemies if they stayed catholic. Mary was 37, unmarried and has no children this was because she said to her country that she was married. Protestants were prepared to die as martyrs, rather than became catholic this was because they believed to stay truthful Also Mary could not make England
Senghor has learned the French language from a young age and he feels that “In French; I express myself better in French than in my mother tongue.” In Conclusion of why the French Language was used as a great tool, in the Colonized perspective is, they can now feel free knowing another language. Senghor concludes that, “As black politicians and writers, feel at least as free in the inner workings of French as in our mother tongue. Freer in fact, since Freedom should be measured against the power of the tool or the creating force.” What did the Colonizers gain out of this? The French gain the respect from the colonized people. They can also communicate with them in a civilized way, and trade all the goods they need and want because they can now communicate with the Africans.
Explain why the Civil Constitution of the Clergy provoked opposition within France in the years 1790 to 1791. (12 marks) The civil constitution of the clergy was passed to remove exterior influences from the governance of France. It stated that all land owned by the church would become state controlled, and French priests would be paid by the state and all church law (probate, moral, divorce) would be controlled by the government. It left Rome controlling only the Doctrine of the Church which clearly angered the Pope and prompted him to issue un-cooperatory orders to all French priests. One of the key reasons that this constitution created and provoked opposition was that it challenged a long standing tradition and caused moral dilemma for
Analysis Minerva tells Trujillo, the dictator of the country, that she wants to go against the law and attend the university. This takes a lot of guts!! She told the most powerful man she despises the fact that she strongly disagrees with one of his laws. Patria values religion a lot and she completely submerges herself into following her religion at the beginning of the book. As the revolution progress, she starts doubting her religious values and her interpretation of the Bible.
Many religions fought against the right for birth control on the stance of them being sinful, and many states followed suet, outlawing the sale of birth control in the early 1960’s. This was an important fight for American women, giving them the power to have a relationship with a man with out the worry of having to have children with him. In 1965 the Supreme Court ruled that law prohibiting women from purchasing birth control were unconstitutional. “Setting a precedent, the Court determined that the fundamental right to privacy exists between the lines of the Constitution. Law prohibiting contraceptive choice violated this sacred right” (ushistory.org, 2012).