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In five pages this paper discusses how this play is not a commentary on 17th century religious issues but deals instead with compl...
gain greater understanding of the motivation behind these witch hunts, one must first consider the Puritan society of the late 160...
In five pages this sermon of the 17th century is examined in terms of its complexity of function as both an allegory and Jeremiad....
was discussing the other. No one would readily accuse him of slandering them because to do so would be admitting that the descript...
of the seasons, which have been going on their course throughout all of history. "And Titan on the eastern hill / Retires himself,...
Donne takes a similar view in that he feels the ladys insistence on being concerned about honor is highly illogical, but he goes a...
Moliere and Restoration theatre are two of the main examples of comedy in the 17th century. This paper examines what purpose comed...
In three pages this paper examines Restoration poet Aphra Behn and how her prose rebelled not only against Puritanism but also aga...
In 5 pages this paper examines the sonnet structure of this 17th century poem and considers its use of religious metaphor. There ...
In five pages this research paper examines the Puritan jeremiad sermons of the late 17th century in a consideration of the reasons...
In 5 pages this paper examines the depiction of slavery in the 17th century novel by Aphra Behn in terms of historical accuracy. ...
In six pages this paper examines the French Huguenots and considers why they left for America in a discussion of their 17th centur...
The sole reason for a colony (in the eyes of the sponsoring Nation at least) was to provide greater wealth to the mother country. ...
of understanding into a cultures ideals and belief systems. The purpose of art, the creation of art, the interpretation of art, an...
Ghana, Dahomey on the Ivory Coast, and Shama on the Ghana coast, were locked into a complex cultural and economic exchange which g...
new and more efficient shipping routes. The combined might of the Portuguese and Spanish holdings claimed during the Age of Explor...
In five pages vacuums and gases and how they have been studied since the 17th century are the focus of this paper that includes ex...
to hearth and home. Her expression is one of serenity, and reminds one of the Madonnas expression. In this respect, then, women we...
and against what was perceived as the lavish and licentious nature of the Catholics, paintings with religious subjects were forbid...
trader exchanged his cargo of Africans for food in 1619. The Africans became indentured servants, similar in legal position to man...
In fifteen pages this paper discusses how Russia was affected by the growing 17th century power of Sweden. Ten sources are cited ...
that requires the transmission or transposition of the parts of those beings (1998). However, substances are simple unextended ent...
also saw mind and body as two separate substance. The Descartes position on the mind-body problem combines the idea of substance d...
In five pages this paper discusses the quest for scientific knowledge that began during the 17th century and considers the develop...
tonal. However, there is also no denying that this tonality differed from what would come later (Chafe xv). A mode is a specific p...
In five pages this paper examines these two Chinese individualist painters of the 17th century in terms of how life and artistic s...
In five pages this research paper considers the music of Heinrich Schutz, often regarded as the greatest 17th century German Baroq...
outburst which has done much to mould French genius of more recent times. The latter part of the century, which has been called t...
assumptions came to predominate Western cultural thought (Olson 18). Prior to this era, during the medieval period, the proper a...
In three pages this paper presents a brief overview of women's subjugation from the ancient period until the 17th century. One so...