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Works Cited Botelho, Greg. "Egypt on Edge after at Least 278 Killed in Bloodiest Day since Revolution." CNN.

! CNN, 15 Aug. 2013. Web. 21 Mar. 2014. ! ! Even after Egyptians ousted Morsi, the conicts happening in Egyptian society did not cease. The violence that happened in Cairo on Wednesday was the most bloodiest day ever since the revolution two years ago. The violence that occurred was between the government ofcials and those who wanted Morsi to come back and rule over society. The Morsi supporters accused the new military government of waging a full-on assault, and by using the quote at one point [the crew was] "literally walking on the blood of the victims the violence that occurred was portrayed in a more clear image.

"Egyptian Revolution." Opposing Viewpoints in Context. N.p., 2010. Web. 20 Mar. 2014. ! After 30 years of oppression under Mubaraks regime, citizens of egypt nally protested on January 25, 2014. The spark of the revolution was "portrayed through the tragic story of Khaled Said, a normal, typical citizen. Khaled Said was violently beaten to death by the police. In addition, as the time passed, more and more citizens started to participate in protests, leading to the resignation of Mubarak. This website did not provide a lot of information of the overall Egyptian Revolution; however it did give information about the spark of the revolution which caused people to nally stand up for their position in society. By using this website, we were able to add more details to our paragraph of the rst stages of revolution for the Egyptian Revolution. "Egyptians Vote on New Constitution to Enshrine Post-Morsi Legitimacy." CBC News. N.p., 14 ! Jan. 2014. Web. 20 Mar. 2014. ! After a long conict and struggle with the Muslim Brotherhoods leader Morsi, Egyptian citizens are nally voting for a new constitution. However, the voting process that happened was not a peaceful one. Minutes before the polls opened, an explosion struck a Cairo court house, and from clashes between Morsi supporters and government security ofcials, 11 people died and 28 were injured. Although the referendum is the sixth nationwide vote and government ofcials urge citizens to move on , the constitution is not perfect, and supporters of Morsi have named this constitution, the constitution of blood. By reading this article, we were able to notice that Egypt did not have a Thermidorian reaction yet, and was still struggling after overthrowing Morsi. In addition, we could see that there were still clashes between the activists, who now wanted Morsi back in the ofce, and government ofcials. The information covered in this website provided us with facts that portrayed the current situation of Egypt, and how we would have to describe it for the Thermidorian description.

Esler, Ellis. "The French Revolution and Napoleon." World History Volume 1. N.p.: Prentice Hall, ! n.d. 578-90. Print. ! The inequality between the three estates of France was one of the main causes for the French Revolution, and with the economic crises going on in France, the situation even worsened for King Louis XVI. The formation of the National Assembly by the Third Estate proceeded all the way to the execution of Louis XVI. The activists and protesters of the revolution brought huge change in terms of human rights and governmental systems. Many of the ideas that the activists and protesters had came from the enlightenment thinkers such as Locke. Although the textbook covered the stages of the revolution with simple details and facts, this was one of the most important sources of the project. This is because the textbook provided the basic foundation of the French Revolution, and from this knowledge we would add more details as we researched more. By getting a basic grasp from the textbook, we were able to not only use this to explain the stages of the French Revolution simply in our paragraphs, but we were also able to utilize the basic information as we researched with more details in our project.

"French Revolution." World Book. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Mar. 2014. ! France was left with huge debts to pay after supporting the American Revolutionary War, and the Seven Years War. On top of that, the governments decit spending on money led to more burdens for those who were a part of the Third Estate. But while the Third Estate was suffering from such burdens, both the First and Second Estate were living a prosperous life without having to care about taxes. This soon changed when the Third Estate broke apart, formed the National Assembly, but was taken over by the Radicals. The end result of the revolution was an uncountable number of deaths from the Reign of Terror, leading to the death of the Public committee of Safetys leader, Robespierre. With the information gained from the textbook, we could double check on the information and see if there were any details we had missed while reading the textbook. The World Book source was another source that was vital to understand because it was the basics, and in order to know even more about something it is crucial to understand the basic fundamentals of the event. Jinglun, Zhao. "Egypt's Military Reign of Terror." - China.org.cn. N.p., 15 Aug. 2013. Web. 21 Mar. ! 2014. ! The Egyptian military junta was accused by the Muslim Brotherhood for killing 2,200 and wounding nearly 10,000 people. Although the exact number of deaths is unknown, it is undeniable that such deaths are a massacre. After the interim government declared a state of emergency, they quickly replaced all the appointees of the ousted civilian with new provincial governors. The massacre of innocent citizens was not ignored by foreign countries since as soon as such event occurred, foreign countries started to express their concern for the country.

It is back to total military rule -- a veritable reign of terror. This article was our main source while researching the Egyptian phase of the Reign of Terror. It also was helpful because the article stressed the violence of the military, which made it easier to compare with the French Reign of Terror.

Laub, Zachary. "Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood." Council on Foreign Relations. N.p., 15 Jan. 2014. ! Web. 19 Mar. 2014. ! The article contained basic information of the Muslim Brotherhood all the way to the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood is Egypts oldest and largest Islamist organization which was previously banned by President Mubarak because of its previous attempts to overthrow the government. However, when President Mubarak was ousted, the Muslim Brotherhood took charge of the ofce and started to enforce its power unlike Morsis promise of a fair government of the people. This article extremely helped with clarifying who the Muslim Brotherhood was, their history, and what they had done over the past. By accessing this website, we were able to clearly identify the events and ideas that were going on through the moderate phrase of the Egyptian revolution, and the struggles the Egyptians were having with the Muslim brotherhood trying to take too much power. In addition, the explanations of the Muslim Brotherhoods actions allowed us to make connections to why the citizens and activists had protested against the political party. Levs, Josh. "Egypt's New President: U.S.-educated Islamist." CNN. Cable News Network, 25 June ! 2012. Web. 20 Mar. 2014. Mohamed Morsi, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, was the rst freely-elected president of Egypt. When Morsi campaigned for his position, he promoted the idea of supporting womens rights, democracy, and peaceful relations with Israel. But before becoming the president of Egypt, Morsi had a long history behind him where he was arrested numerous times for his attempts to overthrow the government under Mubarak. This article was vital for writing the paragraph about the moderate stage for the Egyptian revolution. Because we had already seen several articles about the Muslim Brotherhood, we were able to see several connections in this article with articles written about Morsi. By doing so, we were able to clarify certain facts that we used later on when completing our paragraph. Michael, Maggie. "Mubarak Faces Egypt Protests On 'Day Of Rage'" The World Post. N.p., 25 Jan. ! 2011. Web. 21 Mar. 2014. ! Tuesdays demonstration was one of the largest protests Egypt has ever seen for many years. Thousands of protesters had gathered in the streets of Cairo and clashed with police ofcials in an attempt to end the 30 year regime of Hosni Mubarak. The news of the demonstration quickly spread

throughout social media, where many people saw what had occurred in the streets. Despite this huge chaos, Egypts government stayed quiet, and this demonstration stood as the moment people stood up for their rights. Many of the protesters were those inspired by Tunisias success of overthrowing its government. This site focused mainly on the Day of Rage which occurred on January 25th, and because it did so we were able to see the exact purpose of that day, and how serious the chaos was in the protest. We also compared the information to the information we found in other sites such as CNN to double check our information for the purpose and violence that occurred on that day. Although it was hard to pull out the most important information from the site because it was signicantly long, it was denitely helpful in giving us a clear image with details, helping us write our paragraph on the rst stage of revolution easier. Reed, Claire. "Will Egypt's Post-Morsi Era Be Safer for Women?" BBC. BBC, 12 July 2013. Web. ! 21 Mar. 2014. ! Women were extremely undermined and ignored when Morsi had ruled. Although Morsi had promised to support womens rights, and improve the situations for women, reality was that it was only his saying in his presidential elections. Women during the Morsi regime were not viewed as humans; instead they were viewed as sex toys where a number of women were sexually abused. But now, because Morsi has been ousted, women are hoping for their position and status in society to improve to reach the same equal status as men do. This article was crucial to see how women were treated in Egyptian society. By reading this article, we could see several connections with the ideas women had and the ideas Mary Wollstonecraft had during the enlightenment period. The information and quotes used in this article were helpful when it came to describing the enlightenment thinkers that inuenced the Egyptian revolutions.

Shenker, Jack. "Bloody and Bruised: The Journalist Caught in Egypt Unrest." The Guardian, 27 Jan. ! 2011. Web. 19 Mar. 2014. ! The protests going on in the Tahrir square were far from the violence ordinary citizens could imagine. Hundreds of people were destroying abandoned police cars while lines of riot police were charging towards people at a fast rate. With those who were arrested, the police completely ignored them as they shouted Do you think you can change the world, not even caring about how harshly they were treating the individual. Although this article wasnt a fact packed article, it clearly delivered the message of how brutal and harsh the police treated the citizens. By seeing the type of violence and emotion portrayed in the protests, we were able to see why the activists were mad about the abuse from police ofcers. "TIMELINE Revolution in Egypt." Los Angeles Times. N.p., 19 June 2012. Web. 21 Mar. 2014. ! The spark of the revolution was all from ordinary citizens. Khaled Saids violent and tragic incident and an Egyptian man setting himself on re after a conict with local authorities attracted

the attention of citizens. When the citizens succeeded in ousting Mubarak, they now had a new government leader, Morsi, and were hoping for an improved life. But as time passed, their hopes and expectations fell as Morsi enforced rules upon his powers. This in time lead to another overthrowing of a leader who was starting to take too much control over the people. The Timeline was very helpful in organizing the events that happened throughout the Egyptian Revolution. At rst, everything seemed to happen all at once, and everything was out of order, but after looking through the events that was organized on the timeline, the order of the events started to become clear. We were able to see how the citizens protested, overthrew their leader, and why they wanted to do so. By using this timeline, we were able to choose which details we would have to use when writing our paragraph in such a limited amount of space. "

"Timeline: Whats Happened Since Egypts Revolution?" PBS. PBS, 17 Sept. 2013. Web. 19 Mar. ! 2014. ! The Egyptian Revolution was a long struggle where the Egyptians continuously fought with each other, the government ofcials, and the leader. The whole revolution started on the day of rage, when the Egyptians stood up for themselves on January 25th. From this point, Egyptians overthrew Mubarak, voted for Morsi, the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, and later on ousted Morsi for enforcing too much power. With the timelines from the Los Angeles Times and PBS, we were able to identify which events both timelines chose, and focused on them to see the main inuences and impacts made from those events. Along with the Los Angeles Timeline, we could gain a clear perspective on the stages of the Egyptian Revolution, and compare it to the anatomy of Crane Brinton to see which events t for the stages stated in Brintons anatomy.

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