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European Perceptions and How They Have Evolved

but when they found it, they refused to allow any other religion to exist but their own. The new interpretation of religious free...

Prostitution and Perceptions of the 18th Century

of friendship and acceptance brings the woman to the point where she feels remorse and wants to repent. She begins to cry and apo...

18th and 19th Century Underground Railroad Network

The Railroad was not co-ordinated or organised by any one particular group, but operated basically on the cell principle....

Harmony and Balance in Chinese Art Works

opposites."1 Art is perhaps the most obvious place that one can envision the true nature of this balance as presented by the Chine...

Alexander Pope's 'Epistle to Burlington'

the expense of building the latest craze in architecture -- "...to punish awkward pride,/ Bids Bubo build, and send him such a gu...

Life and Paintings of Mexican Artist Frida Kahlo

that had been the result of a bus accident in 1925 at the age of 18. Boldly Timid -- Strongly Fragile In each of her works, espec...

Louis the Fourteenth Bureau Mazarin of the 18th Century

1700s ushered in the French stylistic period known as the "Regence" (Faniel 36). During this era, the writing table, or bureau in...

18th Century Paris Fire and Police Services

has a smoke detector and fire extinguisher, as well as firearms to ward off criminals, things were much simpler in those days. Of ...

Cultural and Political Autonomy Preservation Struggles of Native American Leaders

the Europeans who had invaded Native American lands. The English to whom we most often attribute the negativities of history in r...

18th Century Virginia and Slavery

convicts to be shipped to the Colonies and the influx of Negroes into the States (1944). It did seem that while laws which allowed...

18th Century Literature and Reflections of Commerce and Trade

The Life, Adventures and Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton have as their basis international trade and commerce and the way...

Developments in the English Language in the Middle Ages

not known, although the effects still influence the way we use language nowadays. It was a huge change in the way that English vow...

18th Century France's Revolution and Revolt

Similarly, in France, there would be drastic change as the people were fed up with the monarchy. They really wanted an enlightened...

Feminist Theory and 'The Rape of the Lock' by Alexander Pope

women should be admired for their inner qualities, rather than their outward beauty. However, it is nevertheless true that Pope im...

Russian History's Inconsistencies and Dichotomies

Great," 2003). Peter the Great was somewhat obsessed with creating a Russia that was separate and apart from Asia as well. His St....

Mathematician Leonhard Euler's Life and Works

of lieutenant, but gave up his military commitments when he became professor of physics in 1730: since this mean that he was a ful...

Development of the Early Piano

than was possible with the harpsichord, clavichord, or organ (Leland, 1995). This need was met by a Paduan harpsichord maker nam...

Feminism and Alexander Pope's Poem 'The Rape of the Lock'

he mocks. It is after all a story of a lock of hair stolen while a young woman sleeps. What can be simpler? What can be less impo...

Slavery and Cash Crops in Virginia’s History

the 16th century, tobacco was already considered something of great worth. One author, Thomas Hariot, back in 1590, wrote A Briefe...

Roland Joffe's The Mission and the Film's Portrayal of New World Colonialism and Jesuit Missions

forest, which would later represent the convergence of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina, symbolically depict a convergence of the h...

England and France During the 17th and 18th Centuries

was played out by their government. It has been contended that English land was a critical element in most all of the...

Induction Problem and David Hume

Hume was often at odds with other philosophers when it came to his personal perception of human nature and the ways of life....

Carl L. Becker's Rejection of Popular Eighteenth-Century Philosophers

the chance to break free from such constraints. The global society was ready for a tremendous change in direction following the t...

The Idea of the U.S. Constitution

(States of human nature). Now lets look at the Constitution. The Preamble sets out the purpose of the document clearly: We the p...

Swedish Astronomer Anders Celsius

star through them. He could then compare the magnitudes of the stars by the number of glass plates needed to extinguish the light ...

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

is writing his memoir is conversational, which indicates that he tailored his account to appeal to a broad audience. The tone is ...

La Double Inconstance by Marivaux

who has been abducted from her home and taken to the local palace, is arguing with a servant, Trivet, the Princes factutum. This ...

France of the 18th and 19th Centuries, Radicalism, and Liberalism

deemed it so. In any event, it appears that there is justification for others to rule, despite the inherent encroachment on the ...

Italian Baroque Ceiling Paintings of the 18th Century

which was a term used by philosophers during the Middle Ages to describe an obstacle in schematic logic" (Wallbank, 1992). As such...

17th and 18th Century America and White Slaves

German child sold as a mulatto" (Talty, 2000). There was even a case...