Washington led the revolutionary war which began the birth of a new nation which goes under foreign policy, helped with the constitution that had much to do with equal rights, and dealt with the whiskey rebellion. Also Washington set the standards for all of the other presidents which was very important. The 3rd best president based off my criteria is Teddy Roosevelt. Teddy built the Panama Canal, built up the navy,
The 19th century nationalists and revolutionaries went back to the year of 1789. The original French revolution came with the rituals, terms, colors, and names. The 20th century revolutionaries look differently at the 19th century revolutionaries. The events of the French Revolution like the poem written William Wordsworth states, "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive/ But to be young was very heaven!" ("Liberty Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution," Chapter 10 Page 1).
French Revolution and Napoleonic Era Worksheet Steven G. Staples Jr. HIS/114 May 4, 2011 Peter Genovese The French Revolution lasted ten years starting in 1789 and ending in the year 1799. The French revolution was a period of very radical social and political change in French and European history. France was ruled by an absolute monarchy for centuries which ended up collapsing within three years. The older traditional ideas about hierarchy eventually gave in to the new principles of citizenship and rights. According to the text, the first stage of the French Revolution was based totally on the liberty to succeed, own, and compete.
Early life The webpage Wikipedia has following to say about Nelson's early life: Horatio Nelson was born on 29 September 1758 in a rectory in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England, the sixth of eleven children of the ReverendEdmund Nelson and his wife Catherine. His mother, who died on 26 December 1767 when he was nine years old, was a grandniece of Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, the de facto first Prime Minister of Great Britain. She lived in the village of Barsham, Suffolk, and married the Reverend Edmund Nelson at Beccles church, Suffolk, in 1749. Nelson attended Paston Grammar School, North Walsham, until he was 12 years old, and also attended King Edward VI’s Grammar School in Norwich. His naval career began on 1 January 1771, when
He wrote about cosmopolitan life in New York City during Prohibition. A short time after arriving in France, Fitzgerald completed his most famous and respected novel, “The Great Gatsby”. The book shows how Fitzgerald had a divided nature. You see this in the hero Jay Gatsby and the narrator, Nick Carraway. Jay represents the naive Midwesterner bewitched by the American dream who amasses great wealth and uses it to pursue a spoiled, married, upper-class girl, and the love of his youth.
Why Pocahontas is a historically inaccurate movie The Disney Pocahontas story starts with a woman from the Tsenacommacah tribe located in what the English settlers called Virginia. She was daughter of the tribe’s leader, Powhatan. The other main character is John Smith, an English man who came along with the English colonists in the Susan Constant ship. The settlers settled in Native American lands, which made the Native Americans mad. Pocahontas and John Smith were young adults who fell in love sort of like Romeo and Juliet because their love seems impossible.
Verne became one of the most devoted admirers of the American author, and wrote his first science fiction tale, 'An voyage in Balloon' (1851), under the influence of Poe. Later Verne would write a sequel to Poe's unfinished novel, Narrative of a Gordon Pym, entitled The Sphinz of the Ice-Fileds (1897). When his career as an author progressed slowly, Verne turned to stockbroking, an occupation which he held until his successful tale Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863) in the series VOYAGES EXTRAORDINAIRES. Verne had met in 1862 Pierre Jules Hetzel, a publisher and writer for children, who started to publish Verne's 'Extraordinary Journeys'. This cooperation lasted until the end of Verne's career.
It saw different forms of government rise and overtake others between the end of King Louis XVI in 1789 and the overthrow in 1851 of Napoleons vast empire which came to an end in 1870. At this time, France fell to Prussia and was governed by the Third Republic (Hammerstingl, 1998, 1999). Besides government turmoil, religions were faced with scientific advancements that questioned the origins of ancient scripture. The industrial expansion was beginning to take shape. Society as a whole was beginning to change.
methods and influenced the development of European costume throughout the continent, extending to the Americas.” (page 2) “Inspired by the First Empire and coinciding with a narrower fashion period referred to as the Director that ranged from 1790 to 1800, the Empire era lasted from 1790 to 1820. This also known as neoclassical style, this fashion period developed from the political rule of a “Directory” in France following the French Revolution.” (page 1) “The Empire style originated because Napoleon wanted to revive the luxury and republican ideals of ancient Greece and Rome with their classical columns, moldings, and motifs. This
Romanticism and realism Romanticism Romanticism gained fame and momentum as a movement of art in the early 19th century and flourished till the 1850s. It was popular in France and Britain. Romanticism, which emerged as a reaction to the disillusionment with enlightenment involving order and reason after the 1789 French revolution, stressed on emotion and imagination. In romantic art, nature provided an appropriate alternative to the thoughts of enlightenment. In this case, nature was considered as unpredictable, had a great potential for extreme disasters and had uncontrollable power.