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    In her esteemed work, “The Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man,” Hannah Arendt, a prominent Jewish-American political theorist, juxtaposes Nash and conveys her skepticism of universal rights. Per Arendt, the aftermath of the events that transpired on August 4, 1941, namely the beginning of World War I (WWI), specifically statelessness and rightlessness, prohibit the world from achieving a cosmopolitan-from-above framework. By comparing the days preceding and following the

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    We live in a world that is based around freedom and rights. As citizens, we expect to have a say in how we live everyday life, whether it involves employment, owning a house, or who we elect as president of the United States. Either way, our world is based around our natural rights. After the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen was written, this caused a wave of revolution. This Declaration had an impact on populations such as Haiti, but also had a major impact on countless other slave populations

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    There’s a reason why we have a right-hand man instead of a left-hand man and maybe it has to do with the fact that on average a right-handed person lives longer than a left-handed person. According to a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Tuesday, from California State University psychology professor Diane Halpern, left-handed people live on average nine years less than right-handed people. She came to this conclusion after studying over a thousand death certificates

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    Heinrich Himmler, Hitler’s right hand man and one of the Holocaust’s most powerful people, was one of the men responsible for the systematic oppression of Jews, centralized concentration camps, and the organization of The Final Solution. Early and Personal Life Heinrich Himmler was born on October 7, 1900 in Munich, Germany. Born to a Roman Catholic family, his parents were his father, Joseph Gebhard Himmler, a school teacher, and his mother, Anna Maria Himmler. He had two brothers, Gebhard

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    In light of recent racial tensions and events that lead one to question the rights of their fellow man a debate has occurred. The American currency particularly the 20-dollar bill is being updated and a new face is required to illustrate the American spirit. The current face of the bill is Andrew Jackson a man who has indeed contributed to the legacy of the country. The proponents of changing the bill have their own champion, a woman named Harriet Tubman. They believe that she has contributed more

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    The Declaration of the Rights of Man was approved by the National Assembly of France on August 26, 1789. The Declaration of the Rights of Man was a statement to the aristocracy about the publics despise for specific policies and corruption within the current government. The French Assembly set forth these rights to contest the laws and policies of previous governments. Whereas, the Declaration of the Rights of Woman was written by Olympe De Gouges in 1791. Within the Gouges Father’s play, Les Droits

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    the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" in 1789, until 1944, French citizenship was restricted to males. even supposing women were active in the French Revolution, and many assumed that citizenship was their own by right of their participation in the historic liberatiory movement. Olympe de Gouges, a playwright of France at the time of the Revolution, spoke for not only herself however several of the women of France, when in 1791 she herself wrote and publicized the "Declaration of the Rights of woman

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    The Atlantic Revolution

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    People in the America’s and eastern nations such as France were trying to rebuild their nations with an idea that all men are created equal, that they are given the right not from authority, but by birth. From the “Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen” in France which was their laws to give men freedom, to a wealthy man in Venezuela named Simon Bolivar who helped free his country from Spanish rule only to struggle with making his country a federation after the destruction, you see that

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    of the Rights of Women”, written by Olympe De Gouges, is a document that proves how in the 1790’ s women were trying to break-free from the belief that men have all the rights. This document was published in 1791 and it was made in comparison to the “Declaration of the Rights of Man” which was published in 1789. Olympe De Gouges wrote this document because she felt that despite having the French Revolution women were not receiving the rights they deserve. In the “Declaration of the Rights of Women”

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    To what extent were Enlightenment ideas responsible for the outbreak of the French Revolution and the reforms of 1789? Included sources attached: John Locke, “Two Treatises on Government”, 1690; The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizens, 1789; Arthur Young “Travels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, 1789” The ancien régime, the time before the outbreak of the revolution, was divided into three estates. The first estate, for the people of the highest position in France belonged

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