Atlantic+Revolution

Atlantic Revolutions




 * **Freedom:**
 * right to speech, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, property
 * separate from society
 * right to do what you like, as long as it does not violate the law




 * **Equality:**
 * everyone has the same rights
 * viewed equal before the law, regardless of race, gender, social status, etc.
 * no one viewed inherently better
 * deconstruction of social classes

An illness can be viewed through a series of stages; incubation, symptomatic, crisis, and convalescence. In the incubation stage, a person can contract the flu, but the symptoms have not appeared yet. In the symptomatic stage, the infected can exhibit slight symptoms, such as rise in temperature, muscle aches, headaches, and other symptoms. In the crisis stage, the flu may increase in severity, or the victim may overcome the flu and recover. In the convalescence stage, the flu might weaken the victim's immune system, making him more succeptable to future infections, or help strengthen his immune system.
 * Describe the progression of an illness like the flu.**

In the beginning of the flu, a person may not exhibit any symptoms at all, and if he/ she does, it would probably be very mild and weak. At the height of the flu, the victim is in critical shape. The flu would be in its prime, and symptoms would be very apparent, such as coughing, weakness and fatigue, nausea, etc. The illness gets progressively worse, and maybe even to the point where the individual dies. The end of the flu would yield either recovery and immunity to the illness, or be weakened and be more prone to future illnesses.
 * What differences are there between the beginning, the height of the flu, and the end?**

These stages can be applied to HIV/ Aids. In the incubation stage, the infected individual does not exhibit any symptoms for as long as 10 years. In the symptomatic stage, the victim can show symptoms, such as fever, headache, sore throat, and swollen lymph glands, and rash. In the crisis stage, the T helper cells in the immune system can be reduced to a low amount, and HIV would develop into AIDS, and possibly kill the victim. The convalescence stage can be represented by maintaining HIV, so that it does not develop into the more hazardous form, AIDS. When it reaches AIDS, the individual's life can be in jeopardy.
 * Describe specific traits that these stages could share with other illnesses.**


 * Fever Model of French Revolution**
 * Fever Stage || How this stage applies to the revolution you chose ||
 * The Incubation Stage || * Politics dominated by hereditary nobility
 * Social inequality:
 * part of French Peasantry still owed feudal obligations to nobility
 * urban, artisan laborers distinguished as sans-culottes, pants that hung loose to the feet, unlike nobility
 * bourgeoisie/ Third Estate heavily taxed
 * price of bread reached all time high, and bread riots ensued
 * call for degree of economic equality
 * Enlightenment thinkers like Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Rosseau had criticized French system of absolute monarchy during decades leading up to the revolution
 * believed that heredity was not just method of choosing political leaders
 * freely exercising reason through equality of a vote
 * American Rev.
 * French monarchy supported b/c checked Britain's power
 * Enlightened France supported b/c of ideals of freedom and equality
 * King Louis XIV
 * unable to rule --> corrupt
 * 1787 - state debt from Seven Years' War and French support of American revolution proved too great from French monarchy to bear
 * failed to levy taxes on nobility
 * led to economic crisis
 * bankrupt French economy
 * Estates- General revealed weakness of nation ||
 * The Symptomatic Stage || * bread riots because of spike in price of bread
 * anti-capitalist cry for gov't regulation of market to provide a measure of security, particularly to the poor
 * Louis XVI called a meeting of Estates- General
 * Third Estate brought with them grievances from their constituents, but none of their demands were met
 * withdrawal from Estates- General and in June 1789, formation of National Assembly
 * July 14, 1789- Storming of Bastille
 * shows that people could not be repressed by secrecy or political control
 * peasants gained more freedom
 * Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789
 * men are born free and equal in rights
 * rights of liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression
 * sovereignty ||
 * The Crisis Stage || * Reign of Terror- September 5, 1793, - July 27, 1794
 * much of nobility executed with use of the guillotine
 * led by Robespierre
 * Louis XVI executed via guillotine
 * French Republic emerges
 * Committee of Public Safety - 1793
 * protect newly-established republic against foreign attacks and internal rebellion.
 * overlooked Reign of Terror
 * anti-clergy
 * peasants opposed all forms of Catholicism and attacked religion
 * war between nobility and Third Estate ||
 * Convalescence || * Robespierre executed
 * Constitution of 1792
 * guaranteed representative gov't, civil liberties like freedoms of speech, religion, and assembly, and equality before law
 * ended special legal privilege of the nobility and clergy
 * National Assembly granted unprecedented legal rights to women, abolished slavery, and instituted price controls
 * rise of Napoleon Bonaparte in a coup d'etat - 1799
 * maintained equality before law and civil liberties(not freedom of press) in Napoleonic Code of 1807
 * restoration of monarchy- 1814
 * not absolute, but ruled under Constitutional Convention, which placed limits on monarch's authority and provided for a degree of representative gov't in Chamber of Deputies, elected by small, wealthy percentage of French society ||
 * **Fever Model of Egyptian Revolution**

Fever Stage || How this stage applies to the revolution you chose || >
 * The Incubation Stage . || * Hosni Mubarak served as fourth president of Egypt from 1981- 2011
 * protestors relate his presidency to a dictatorship ||
 * The Symptomatic Stage || * protests for the resignation of Mubarak in the streets of Egypt
 * demonstrations, marches, acts of civil disobedience, labour strikes, and violent clashes between protestors and security services and supporters of the regime of Hosni Mubarak
 * crowds gathered at Tahrir Squre
 * One Million Strong Protest
 * new sense of national pride
 * Mubarak in an attempt to decrease the growing size of the projected million-manned protests,
 * ordered all government ran public transportation to shut down the entire day
 * has blacked-out cell phone and internet communication with fellow Egyptians the rest of the world, leaving everyday Egyptians to shoulder the burden of demonstrating the Mubarak government without the use of phone or video camera
 * internet blocked, ie. Twitter, Google, Facebook
 * Blackberry and SMS texting blocked
 * police used physical force and guns to tame unruly crowd
 * First Day of Demonstrations- Mubarak speaks about the protests
 * Mubarak's set curfew disregarded ||
 * The Crisis Stage || * idea of Cairo being a "war zone"
 * As of Feb. 16, 365 deaths were reported
 * 1/31 - Mubarak makes public announcement, stating that he will not step down immediately
 * would not run for reelection in Sept.
 * Egyptian military usage of tanks to suppress crowd of protesters
 * 2/10 - thousands of workers went on strike, demanding higher wages
 * streets becoming worse
 * escape of prisoners from jails
 * protesters not satisfied with waiting eight months for Mubarak to resign
 * demanded immediate actions
 * death toll stands at over 100, with over 2,000 injured
 * Mubarak appeared publicly, stating that he would step down, but still exercise some power over the constitution
 * VP Omar Suleiman would take over ||
 * Convalescence || * 2/13 - military ousted Mubarak
 * military takes control
 * Parliament ejected from their seats, constitution suspended
 * Supreme Council of Armed Forces is currently appointing a committee that is going to propose progressive changes to suspend constitution
 * With Mubarak's stepping down, Defense Minister Hussein Tantawi is leading a council of generals who are running the country
 * 2/14 - streets opened, traffic running smoothly through Cairo
 * vacant gov't seat --> Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq is reviewing candidates accepted by the public ||


 * Do you think that this model can be accurately applied to the revolutionary movements occuring today - such as Egypt? - Explain**

The fever model is applicable to current revolutionary movements, such as the one that took place in Egypt. The Egyptian Revolution began with an incubation stage, which includes the rise of Mubarak to the presidency. The protests for the resignation of Mubarak in the streets of Egypt, along withdemonstrations, marches, acts of civil disobedience, labour strikes, and violent clashes between protestors and security services and supporters of the regime of Hosni Mubarak can be viewed as the symptomatic stage. The crisis stage can be represented by the idea of Cairo being a "war zone." As of Feb. 16, 365 deaths were reported. The convalescence stage is when Mubarak finally stepped down and military assumed control.

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