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Social Media and Revolution engages historical and theoretical analyses to examine the role of the social media in instigating social revolution. Through the lenses of Habermas' theory of the political public sphere and Dahl's theories on democracy, this thesis compares the Fren…

According to the doctrine of purgatory, souls departing life in God's grace who haven't yet received remission of their sins, will suffer a temporary punishment in purgatory in order to be purged of sins and ready for heaven. Le Goff (1984), a scholar of medieval history, states…

This dissertation treats the reign of the Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III (1703-1730) in the context of the European early enlightenment. Intellectual historians have generally placed the Ottoman Empire outside the Enlightenment movement, while Ottoman historians have viewed the early …