Glorious Revolution

1. Summary on Glorious Revolution
The Glorious Revolution was the overthrow of King James II of England. The Glorious revolution is also known as the Revolution of 1688. The group responsible for the overthrow of King James II was a Union of Parliamentarians and William III of Orange-Nassau also known as William of Orange. After overthrowing King James II, William of Orange became king of England and became known as William III of England. This revolution is also known as the Bloodless Revolution but that is not necessarily true. There was a good amount of bloodshed in this revolution. So basically the purpose of this was to get rid of James and to restore the protestant influence in Europe.

The reason why I think this was an important Revolution is the following. I think it is important to be able to have all kinds of people in power and that there religion should not determine whether they are eligible or not. If the king was making the whole nation catholic and I was a protestant I would not like this. King James II also presented himself as a butt hole and a person who treated his people bad. King James did not allow any protestant to be in power and killed all those who had been in power. It was important to those who were protestant to get rid of King James and he deserved it. That’s all I have to say about the subject.

2. Define Satire
Satire is something meant to make fun of human nature or a person. On “Comedy Central” there are a lot of examples of satire. There is a television show on this channel called “Little Bush”. If you haven’t guessed what the shows about yet let me tell you. This show makes fun of the current president George W. Bush. In the show he is a little cartoon character and is real short and talks about the stupidest things you can image. The show uses real events that happen in real life to President Bush. The only difference is that on the show they slightly exaggerate President Bush’s reaction to these events. “Lil Bush”

3. Response to “A modest Proposal”
When i finished reading "A Modest Proposal" i didn't really understand the point of it until i thought about the story for a couple of minutes. What i think Jonathan Swift was trying to do is making fun of how the Irish wont help out there own people. In this story he makes fun of how the kingdom is setup and how the wealthy people have so much money, but don't bother helping people out. He mocks the way the wealthy act towards the beggars but in turn don't want to help them out.

4. Response to The Diary of Samuel Pepys
In this diary Samuel Pepys writes about two things. First he talks about the coronation of Charles II. Another thing he talks about is the fire that wiped out most of London. This journal entry was kind of hard because the way people wrote during this time.

When Samuel talked about the King he kept talking about how he was around for everything and how it was so nice to have been there for such occasion. Here is a phrase which i read in the book " i went from table to table to see the Bishops and all others at their dinner, and was infinite pleased with it". So you can see that for people in this time being around for the coronation of the King was a big thing and to eat around the King was also a big deal.

The fire that destroyed London was also mentioned in the diary entry. Samuel Pepys described how the fire was growing by the minute and how the people didn't even try to put the fire out. He mentioned how he was worried and couldn't sleep the night the fire started to spread towards his house. In this phrase he talks about how the people were not trying to put out the fire, "and nobody to my sight endeavoring to quench it, but to remove their goods and leave all to the fire". The journal entry described how the people were all running with their belongings. The reason i believe people took there belongings was because that's probably all they owned besides there home. Well this journal entry was rare but interesting.

5.whats important to people during restoration
Many of the things i believe were important to these people was things like their belongings and their money. Another things was also being around for big events like the crowning of the king. The reason i say this is because its what i read in the diary of Samuel Pepys. In the diary it says " Everybody endeavoring to remove their goods". That phrase right there is a good example of goods being important to the people of this time. Another thing was being able to attend important events. In a diary entry Pepys talks about how there was going to be a feast at the kings place and how alot of people where going to be there for it. So this clearly shows that events like these were always filled with people fo this time.