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 CBSE Class 10 Socail Science Revision Notes History Chapter- 1 The Rise of Nationalism in Europe 1. In 1848, Frederic Sorrieu, a French artist, prepared a series of four print visualizing his dream of a world made up of ‘democratic and social republic, as he called them. 2. Artists of the time of the French Revolution personified Liberty as a female figure. 3. According to Sorrieu’s utopian vision, the peoples of the world are grouped as distinct nations, identified through their flags and national costume. 4. This chapter will deal with many of the issues visualized by Sorrieu. 5. During the nineteenth century, nationalism emerged as a force which brought abouts weeping changes in the political and mental world of Europe. 6. The end result of these changes was the emergence of the nation-state in the place of the multi-national dynastic empires of Europe. 7. A modern state, in which a centralized power exercised sovereign control over a clearly defined territory, had bee...

  The Voice of the Rain  by  Walt Whitman   summary   Speaker enquired from the soft falling shower as to whom or what it really is? Though it may appear to be very strange to express it in words, yet the soft rain seemed to give the speaker an answer which can be translated as follows: that it is the poem of the earth that rises eternally from an impalpable; not palpable; incapable of being perceived by the sense of touch; intangible: difficult for the mind to grasp readily or easily:(of powder) so fine that when rubbed between the fingers no grit is felt; something that cannot be touched; portion of the land and the bottomless sea.  Upward to heaven, to the immeasurable heights of the sky, from whence it vaguely forms, altogether change and yet the same. It descends to lave; (of a river, sea, etc.) to flow along, against, or past; wash: Obsolete. To ladle; pour or dip with a ladle: wash or bathe; the droughts; a period of dry weather, esp. a long one th...