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 Charles Dickens  
 * Born on 7 February, 1812 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
 * Life was filled with poverty and hardship
 * Father was too generous and often failed to pay off debt
 * Charles was 1 of 7 kids in his poor family
 * Experienced youth oppression when forced to end school in early teens and work in a factory.
 * Had to end his rapid school progress in 1824 at age 12 to work at blacking factory to pay off father's debt
 * Eventually went to Wellington House Academy in London
 * Married Catherine Hogarth - Later divorced
 * First book - Sketches by Boz, a compilation of short stories that he previously wrote in the //Morning Chronicle// under the pseudonym “Boz”
 * The poverty and hardship he faced in life had direct correlation to the topic his books.
 * David Copperfield tells the life of a boy with a troublesome life who eventually grows up to be a writer (sounds like someone we know!)
 * Oliver Twist is about an orphan during Charles Dickens’s time that struggles to live in 18th century times, but manages to survive and finds his family
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Books are generally characterized by social evils, injustice, and hypocrisy
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Died on June 9, 1870

<span style="background-color: #000080; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 300%; text-align: center;">The French Revolution (1789-1804) <span style="background-color: #8a7200; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Causes <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; text-align: left;">1. Political and Social Differences <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; text-align: left;">2. Louis XVI and his Mistakes
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; text-align: left;">The nobles and clergy (1st and 2nd Estate) had special priviledges
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; text-align: left;">Common people didn’t have power in politics (They made up Third Estate, who could be easily outvoted by second and first estate)
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; text-align: left;">The nobles kicked the common people out of the Estates General.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; text-align: left;">Common people suffered poverty and hunger while the wealthy lived luxuriously
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; text-align: left;">The common people were upset and decided that they would fight back.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; text-align: left;">Only common people had to pay taxes
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; text-align: left;">Spent too much money on himself and his wife, Marie-Antoinette of Austria
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; text-align: left;">He dismissed people who tried to help the financial situation and the government soon went bankrupt

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; text-align: left;"> 3. Other Inspiration
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; text-align: left;">The ideas of the Enlightenment writers influenced people to fight back and go against their king.[[image:guillotine.gif width="181" height="237" align="right"]]
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; text-align: left;">Americans' triumph over Britain also inspires people.

<span style="background-color: #800000; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">Events
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">24 January 1789 - Food shortage causes Estate General to meet for 1st time in 175 years
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">20 June 1789 - Third Estate declared itself the National Assembly
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">14 July 1789 - Parisians invade Bastille, prison that symbolized absolute monarch. Take weapons and gunpowder
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Nation Assembly started to reform France after winning power dispute against Louis XVI
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> 13 September 1791 - Constitution is drawn up, king agrees to it and pledges allegiance to new Constitution a day later
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1792 - Monarchy was abolished
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1793 - King and Queen were executed by guillotine
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1793 - The Terror era began in which 16,000 people were killed by guillotine
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">1794 - Revolution took place to revolt against The Terror
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Ending Events:
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">1795 - New constitution drawn up in which five people ran legislative system - Some historians consider this to be end of French Revolution
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">1799 - Another constitution drawn up in which three consuls ruled France - Some historians consider this to be end of French Revolution
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">1802 - Napoleon Bonaparte declared himself "consul for life" - Some historians consider this to be end of French Revolution
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">1804 - Bonaparte declares himself Emperor of France - Some historians consider this to be end of French Revolution

<span style="background-color: #008000; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 300%; text-align: center;">Works Cited <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">“Causes of the French Revolution.” TheCorner. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Jan. 2010. <http://www.thecorner.org/hist/f3/fr_revo_causes.htm>.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">“Charles Dickens.” //Incompetech//. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Jan. 2010. <http://incompetech.com/authors/dickens>.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">“Charles Dickens - Books, Biography, Quotes - Read Print.” //Read Print//. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Jan. 2010. <http://www.readprint.com/author-28/Charles-Dickens-books#biography>.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">“French Revolution.” //MacroHistory : World History//. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Jan. 2010. <http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/h33-fr.html>.
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 * 6) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Liukkonen, Petri. “Charles Dickens.” //Authors’ Calendar//. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Jan. 2010. <http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/dickens.htm>.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Merriman, C.D. “Charles Dickens - Biography and Works.” //The Literature Network//. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Jan. 2010. <http://www.online-literature.com/dickens/>.
 * 8) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">“SparkNotes: David Copperfield: Plot Overview.” //SparkNotes//. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Jan. 2010. <http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/copperfield/summary.html>.
 * 9) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">“SparkNotes: Oliver Twist: Plot Overview.” //SparkNotes//. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Jan. 2010. <http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/oliver/summary.html>.
 * 10) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">“The Storming Of the Bastille.” //Essortment.// N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Jan. 2010. <http://www.essortment.com/all/thestormingof_rksu.htm>.
 * 11) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">Wilde, Robert. “French Revolution Timeline: 1789 - 91.” //About.com: European History//. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Jan. 2010.