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Overview of the Edison Project

that has a student enrolled in the Edison Project receives a home computer. Edison uses these computers to keep in communication w...

Patrons and Renaissance Art

In five pages this paper discusses Renaissance art in a consideration of the patron's role as an artistic benefactor and influence...

1968 Film Romeo and Juliet by Franco Zeffirelli

In three pages this paper examines the filmmaker's various cinematic techniques and include elements such as utilizing teenage act...

Claude McKay and Harlem Renaissance

In ten pages the Harlem Renaissance of the 1930s is examined in a consideration of how Claude McKay's writings embodied the spirit...

'The Decameron' by Giovanni Boccaccio

In three pages this essay discusses how these tales reflected the changing society of the 14th century as a result of the Black De...

Transitional Figure Petrarch

In nine pages this paper discusses how Petrarch provides the Medieval to Renaissance transition and examines the poet's letters an...

Michelangelo and Bernini/Statues of David

writing that the primary motivation behind Michelangelos sculpture was "the expression of thought in stone" (Burns 412). Furthermo...

Mona Lisa and the Renaissance Humanistic School of Thought

drudgery, disease and misery of the Middle Ages. The Hundred Years War and the plague marked the end of this period, and as Europe...

Caribbeans and Harlem

creates a very interesting and intriguing mix of people who were not easily stereotyped as most whites would have assumed. Watki...

Religion and Change from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Century

properly! Religion is, and always has been, a driving force in society. This was...

Langston Hughes The Trumpet Player

golden tones he creates" (Davis 276). This "new Harlem" apparently changes more dramatically than we think; Schatt notes that the ...

Italy During the Renaissance Era and the Roles Played by Nonelites and Women

result, court mistresses commonly took on the role of both lover and confidant, creating a lineage through childbearing that suppo...

Italian Renaissance and Humanism

In five pages the Italian Renaissance is examined in a consideration of how humanism affected Medieval thinking, religion, and soc...

Judaism During the Renaissance

In five pages this examines the Renaissance period with the focus being upon Judaism's art and culture with the faith and treatmen...

Reforming the Catholic Church and the Renaissance

In seven pages this paper examines how the Catholic Church's reform movements of Lutheranism and Calvinism were the result of Euro...

Humanist Moral Philosophy During the Renaissance

In nine pages this paper examines human nature and morality issues from the perspective of the Renaissance. Three sources are cit...

3 Artworks from the High Renaissance Period

for it seems to change expressions as we look at it (Pioch, 2002). What we have is a portrait of a real woman, a woman who loves ...

Renaissance Art - Three Works

Madonna is another version of the Madonna/Child pairing, but this time Christ is an infant. The relief, which is 74.5 x 69.5 centi...

Spirituality and 4 Periods of History

In four pages this paper considers spirituality during early Christian, Medieval, Renaissance and Reformation, and in the contempo...

Bellini, Durer, and Ribera and an Art History Examination

clearly painted religious ideals of the time. It was also a time of romantic ideals as well, and the wondrous images and colors, a...

Love Songs of the Renaissance

that were performed with four to six singers, comprising a group of individuals making different sounds and imitations. "A madriga...

The Renaissance and Female Composers

a woman did have talent and want to compose, Brown tells us her only choice was to enter a convent, where she would "receive the p...

Comparative Analysis of the Renaissance and Modernism

status of the individual" (Burns, 1969, p. 395). The context of culture changed as cities expanded and increasing trade brought in...

Male Historians and the Challenges of Women's History

social relations formed by them impinged on the lives of Renaissance women in different ways according to their different position...

Sport of the Gods by Paul Dunbar and Symbolism

In five pages this Harlem Renaissance period text is analyzed in terms of symbolism particularly in the title. There are no other...

Superstition During the Renaissance

superstitious practices that were adhered to so rigidly, it should not be surprising that the citizens of the Renaissance also bel...

Historic British Literary Heroes

imaginations. In examining the changing role of the hero in English Literature, five British literary periods will be examined. F...

Western Paintings

was a time of the "rebirth" of the individual in thought and life style, this unique need to express the individual can also be se...

Benjamin Franklin

In eight pages The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is used to gain some insights into this true Renaissance man and great Ameri...

Is Hedonism The Basis For The Best Life?

compensated for their time. This economic structure teaches children that nothing comes without fair exchange, and validates that...