Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies

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    participated in a revolt in Naples against King Ferdinand’s government where the peasants and even the royal troops took part. Terrified of the revolting people, King Ferdinand vowed to give all adult males the vote through a constitution. However, he had no intention of doing this and did not grant adult men the vote. Ferdinand told the Congress of Laibach that he had been forced to grant change and requested the Austrians to help regain order within his country. Metternich sent the superior Austrian

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    the turmoil that Ferdinand is suffering via the manipulation of lighting, sound, and visual props, all of which embody Ferdinand’s sensory overload while he searches for solace in the wake of his father’s death. To begin, the scene, Act I Scene ii, opens with Ariel singing, “Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands. Curtsied when you have, and kiss'd The wild waves whist./ Foot it featly here and there,/ And, sweet sprites/ bear The burden/ Hark, hark!…Hark, hark!/ I hear The strain of

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    ultimate goal of pleasing others. First, one should establish the scope of the first two thirds that Prospero mentions. In act 4, scene 1, Prospero has given Ferdinand his daughter Miranda in marriage. In doing so

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    a thirst for power is on a ship which Prospero has caused to wreck with a storm, on the island where he and his daughter live. This is part of Prospero’s plan to have Miranda become the next heir of Naples by marrying Alonso’s son, Ferdinand, King of Naples. In Act Two, Antonio and Sebastian, Alonso’s brother, believe everyone else not with them has died in the shipwreck and conspire to kill Gonzalo, a lord, as well as Alonso to make Sebastian the next heir of Naples. Throughout Act Three, Caliban

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    confronts all of the visitors of the island, from the King of Naples to the boatswain and his crewmates. The two most important interactions that outline his change in character are the ones between his brother Antonio, and the King of Naples, Alonso. Prospero takes the initiative and forgives his brother, twice. He confronts Antonio, “I do forgive thee, / Unnatural though thou art” (V.i.88-89) and, “I do forgive / Thy rankest fault, all of them” (V.i.151-152). Lines like these show an overview of Prospero's

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    begin, the scene, Act I Scene ii, opens with Ariel singing, “Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands. Curtsied when you have, and kissed The wild waves whist./ Foot it featly here and there,/ And, sweet sprites/ bear The burden/ Hark, hark!…Hark, hark!/ I hear The strain of strutting chanticleer”(Act I, Scene ii, 375-381, 385-387). Ariel is singing to Ferdinand, son of King Alsono, who has landed on an island after a shipwreck. Prospero ordered Ariel to guide Ferdinand to him, so Ariel sings

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    Finally, Spanish Sicily began to fall apart near the end of the Thirty Years War and in 1647 there was a revolt in Palermo. Spanish troops were sent in and a Cardinal named Trivulzio took the position of viceroy. In 1674 another revolt broke out in Messina, this time mainly led by the upper class who were trying to cling to their privileges. French troops were then sent by Louis XIV to stem the revolt and restore order. Fighting between the French and Spanish ensued and in the end France left the

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    Does Isabella I ring a bell to you? It could sound uninteresting, right? We have discussed her and her husband’s; life in the past lectures of our world History class, and I aim to prove that Isabella I did not have a boring. Have you ever heard about the Queen of Spain? Although she might have seemed boring, she really wasn’t. There was so much in her life that one should know. In my World History class, my teacher lectured about the queen of Spain, Isabella I. Throughout the lecture I was not exactly

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    the revolution in Naples. The King of Sardinia also called for Austrian intervention. Faced with an enemy overwhelmingly superior in number, the Carbonari revolts collapsed and their leaders fled into exile. The constitution was revoked by king Ferdinand in 1821. A decade later Carbonari left their hiding places and staged another round of revolutions in France and Italy. In 1831 the Carbonari fuelled many revolts in central and southern Italy and several cities in the Papal States declared independence

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    Christopher Columbus is an Italian Explorer who had convinced King Ferdinand, the Second and Queen Isabella the First to fund a voyage to Asia to establish trade with China, Japan, India, and the Spice Islands to get valuable spices and silks. Spain went with a foreign explorer because of his benefits over the local explorers. To see what these people's motives are and what they want I will do a background check for the King, the Queen, and Columbus. I’ll also go through why the King and Queen went

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