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How does Fried rich Gentz distinguish between the American and French Revolutions? Do you see the influence of Edmund Burke in his thinking? He differences he saw between the French and the American Revolution were that While the french were trying to completely wipe away their traditions, the Americans were trying to protect theirs. The Americans were mainly trying to defend the legal rights that they all knew, while the French Revolution was trying to destroy the people in power, and create a new system for France.
What points is Mary Wollstonecraft making in the excerpts you read from the beginning of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman? What would she like to see changed in European society? Mary Wollstonecraft was an early women’s rights activist. She thought that the world only viewed a woman’s importance mainly off of her appearance. She believed that women should have had the same rights as men. Whether that be voting, or government position. She believed in equality across sexes.