As a young child, I always wanted to be royalty. I dressed up as a princess for Halloween, I read hundreds of books on the Medieval times and the Elizabethan age, and I even tried stealing our house from my parents to turn into my own personal queendom. Despite all that hard work and hope, I was still just an ordinary American kid, without any chance of securing an apartment for myself, much less a queendom. Or so I thought until I read the book Do Not Open, by John Farndon over the summer before sixth grade. It was full of fascinating facts, including information about secret organizations, presidential assassinations, and most importantly, micronations.
When I first googled micronations, I was infatuated with the idea of creating my own
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Now that I have the opportunity to get school credit for my musings, I will finally be able to answer some of the more pressing questions about micronations. How could any random person, no matter their age or financial status, claim a piece of the United States or any other country without any legal repercussions? I would think the leaders of these countries would get a little testy and treat any new “countries” cropping up with zero tolerance and force them to succeed any land that they have claimed their micronation back to them. Where did the earliest micronation get the idea to start their own “country within a country” ? My guess is Australia. And are there any micronations that are recognized as real nations? I know of many very small countries, like Luxembourg and Monaco. Are they considered …show more content…
I spent a whole class period finding nothing concrete. Most of the sites I visited were ran by actual micronations. It’s difficult to tell fact from fiction on micronation websites. Many micronations have made up legends or histories that are masqueraded as the truth. However, there were several sites with information about how the leader of their micronation decided to start one. After finding many similar stories concerning the birth of a micronation, I changed tactic. I moved my search direction away from micronational websites and towards newspaper and magazine articles. After perusing several articles in various online magazines, I found an article in the New York Times that specifically talks about the many false histories and other tourism gimmicks that many micronations use the gain funds. I also found an article from a college newspaper website discussing a student at their college who started his own micronation.
However, the real gem of my search exploits was Wikipedia and many Wikipedia sources. Despite the fact that many of the sources are in Italian or French, the English ones were a huge help in confirming all of the facts on the Wikipedia page. I was even able to find an answer to the questions I was
hierarchy of women in relation to their nobility and social class, so Elizabeth When a Princess,
They have over 678 stores in the United States.The person who first started it his name is
The first book in Cinda Williams Chima’s Seven Realms series, The Demon King, takes place in a world teeming with its own social issues. One such topic that is prevalent in the book, is the conflict between the different political powers in the queendom. The main character, Raisa, also battles with the role she is expected to fill as the heir princess and what it means to be of the royal line. Readers can also see the familiar pattern where winners shape how history is perceived, often skewing what really occurred.
"History of the Monarchy." Kings and Queens of England. 21 Mar. 2002. Online. Available. <http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page10.asp.26> Mar. 2002
...that King's characters are so thick that the teachers only cared when it was too late. Along with the traditional assets to a fairytale plot, there is also the heroine fighting the battles and problems set before her to become the master of her own kingdom, therefore having the ability to rule her own life – just as Carrie White was able to do (Winter 33).
Upon the death of her sister--in November of 1558--Elizabeth ascended to the thrown of England. Until Mary’s rule, no woman--apart from the unrecognized rule of Matilda, daughter of Henry I--had ruled England of her own right1. Much like her sister, Elizabeth began her rule widely accepted and welcomed2. There were, however, still many who felt that women were unable to rule, being that women were said to be the weaker sex. John Knox argued that, “God by the order of his creation hath spoiled women of authority and dominion, [and] also that man hath seen, proved and pronounced just causes why that it so should be.”3 Women had always been no more then property, first to their fathers and then their husbands. If a women were to be the anointed queen of a realm of her own right and then marry, whom was beholden to whom? A woman was to do as instructed by her husband in all things, yet a sovereign was to be under the command of God only.
Talking of the Royal Family. London: Routledge, 1992. 173. Print. Blackmore, Simon Augustine.
The personal and court life of a public royal figure was not as glorious as one may
Queen Elizabeth I, also known as the “Iron Queen”, was a remarkable woman of her time, she ruled with great power and longevity. She was one of the greatest feminist of time. Coming to the throne in 1558, she took the place of her father, Henry VIII. She was given one of the most difficult jobs fit for a man or King, ruling England. At the time women were second class citizens, they could not vote nor own properties and such. Surprising England with her intelligence and fierce rulings, she changed herself to make better decisions. She proved through her rulings, to everyone that females were strong and could rule just as well as a king. She refused to marry, giving a feeling of “I don’t need a man for anything.” The Queen was responsible for giving females a voice in literature and it is shown through Shakespeare’s writings.
Being an aristocrat and having royal blood does not mean that one will become a criminal but it can have its advantages to contribute to one’s knowledge of being
Queenship in the Middle Ages has taken a back seat in history to the predominately known and discussed Kingship, much like how typically in history women have taken a back seat to men. It has been revealed, however, that queens were often very important instruments or contributors to a King’s reign. Despite society’s efforts to minimize the role of queens and make them less important, queens directly affected a king’s reputation through their own and through their influence. These attributes, therefore gave queens the power that was so adamantly denied to them.
Two hundred years ago, during the reign of Queen Victoria in England, the social barriers of the Victorian class system firmly defined the roles of women. The families of Victorian England were divided into four distinct classes: the Nobility or Gentry Class, the Middle Class, the Upper Working Class, and lastly, the Lower Working class . The women of these classes each had their own traditional responsibilities. The specifics of each woman’s role were varied by the status of her family. Women were expected to adhere to the appropriate conventions according to their place in the social order . For women in Victorian England their lives were regulated by these rules and regulations, which stressed obedience, loyalty, and respect.
Queen Elizabeth the first was one of the first woman monarchs to rule alone in the history of Europe. Her character, the way she ruled, and even her gender transformed her country’s go...
The mandate of History can be described as studying our ancestor’s actions, successes and failures with the intent of students attaining the ability to understand parallels between modern times and our ancestral past. This study is conducted in hopes of enlightening the learner’s mind, in order to avert repeating the mistakes made in the past. Norman Cantor was a Professor at New York University where he taught History, Sociology, and Comparative Literature. After he retired from teaching, he wrote a series of books illuminating his life’s work. One of his last published literary works was, “The Last Knight, The Twilight of the Middle Ages and the Birth of the Modern Era”. In this profound and deeply enlightening novel he discussed the life of John of Gaunt and his family, as well as the wealth and privileges that were awarded to them for simply being born into nobility. To an educated mind, he successfully drew parallels between the elites of high society today and that of this landed aristocracy of the middle ages, not just in a comparative analysis of their wealth but in the desire to maintain the status quo in regards to the division of the social classes.
Search engines, specifically Google, have probably contributed more to the distribution of knowledge than any other invention since the creation of the printing press. Google was created by Larry Page and Serge...