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Evaluation of Printed Sources

Name of Book / Periodical BBC History exclusive magazine
Publisher Thames & Hudson
Date published June 2008
Author / Editor David Andress
ISBN / ISSN N/A
Title of Chapter / Article The World in Revolt
Page numbers 28-29-30-31
Type of publication: textbook / encyclopaedia / gov’t / academic / political / religious / campaign / other(journalistic)
  Evaluation of this source: · fact 1 opinion · objective 1 persuasive · level of bias · assumptions · up-to-date? · reliable? The article’s main source of information is historical events and history as whole, which are based on facts, therefore, the information written is not based on personal opinion. No persuasive statements have been noticed in text, thus, it is objective. The level of bias is low. It must be reliable because being a journal article means that the reliability has been reviewed by journal committee and other authors.  
  Main points: In this article author tries to demonstrate how the events of 1789 were to deprive American, British and French people of the human rights and equality, meanwhile the concept of “freedom” was not certainly defined.   For many centuries slaves, enemies and victims of the French monarchy were tortured and struggled to gain inequality. However, on 14th July 1789, people in Paris attacked the royal fortress and showed their anger and rage to the regency in order to get the human rights. This event was an important spot in French history, when the ‘revolution’ took place and the French monarchy failed to become an absolute monarchy. Since then, The King Louis XVI constrainedly formed an equal and free society up to nowadays.   Meanwhile, Britain had been experiencing difficulties within the government, King George III had health problems and thus he handed the regency to the youngest Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger. At that time, the United States appointed its first President George Washington in January 1789. Both countries were trying to figure out the meaning of ‘freedom’, its consequences and conditions. However in 1776 it had been already roughly defined, where it says that all men are subject to natural inherent human rights and are equal in terms of freedom, which include rights to enjoy the life and pursue happiness. Even though American government agreed on that statement and definition of ‘freedom’, it did not privileged slaves and Indian nations on its land. Whereas, earlier in November 1688 Britain introduced the ‘Glorious Revolution’ for the liberty and social equality. After a century, when Britain was celebrating its liberty in 1788, speaker encouraged French regency to forget the hostility between them and start working with freedom issues and its advantages. However, over some time, France experienced huge disputes with regards to the equality and human rights in the country. On one hand, there were different governmental institutions which defended civil liberty and were in favour of revolution. However, on the other hand, there were others who supported unwritten constituency. From the political authoritarian point of view, there must be a hierarchy in the country and privileged class of top people, but from the religious and moral view, God is the only one for everyone and all people are naturally equal. Despite of all supportive arguments in favour of monarchy, its supporters wanted it to be limited in privilege over other citizens and be accountable to public. All this confrontation started because French government was in debts and thus monarchy questioned the existence of human rights and freedom in France. Eventually, in August 1789 France agreed on total civil liberty and equality (Declaration of the Rights of Man).

 



 


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