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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...

Early US Penitentiaries and 3 Concepts

In three pages this paper examines 3 concepts on 18th century penitentiaries with Pennsylvania and the Quaker influence the primar...

Seventeenth Century French Absolutism

Clearly, Louis defended his form of absolutism because of the accomplishments it allegedly produced. Under Louis, in many ways Fr...

Louis the Fourteenth's French Provincial Furniture

strips of decorator cloth and solid wooden beams. Indeed, fashioning a true work of interior design is really no different than t...

Louis the Fourteenth's Court

times, and also included a large number of his own family with his businesses. You could know one of the family members and make...

Nobility of France and Louis the Fourteenth's Influence

In four pages this research paper examines Madame de Sevigne's letters and Moliere's Tartuffe in a consideration of how the French...

Eighteenth Century Art and Its Economic and Sociopolitical Impacts

In three pages artists Francois Boucher and Jacques Louis David are discussed in an examination of how the art of the 18th century...

Limited or Absolute Power in the Monarchy

In five pages this paper discusses the absolute power represented by France's Louis the Fourteenth and Thomas Hobbes' limited powe...

18th Century Painter Francisco de Goya and His Influence

In fifteen pages this paper explores how Goya's 18th century paintings influenced 19th century Impressionists and 20th century Exp...

Louis the Fourteenth and the Absolutism Age

have lost it if he did not cater to the "well to do." Perhaps they were the ones with the real power. At the same time, that thesi...

France's King Louis the Fourteenth and His Absolutism

was an absolute ruler, he kept his nobles living at court and as such their power base was impotent as they lacked independence an...

Similarities and Differences Between the 17th Century Scientific Revolution and 18th Century Enlightenment

matter, "organic and inorganic alike," could be defined in terms of extension and motion (Burns, 1969, p. 567). Therefore, Descart...

France's King Louis the Fourteenth

in Europe. Most of the other countries were busy fighting and maintaining borders, or were battling internal disorder from warring...

Compare and Contrast: San Francisco and Saint Louis

of Asia within San Francisco. One finds themselves, a few short blocks from the business district of the city, smack dab in the mi...

Henry Louis Gates Jr's 13 Ways of Looking at a Black Man

In five pages this paper discusses these 'narratives of ascent' in the collection by Henry Louis Gates Jr....

Compare and Contrast: Jazz by Toni Morrison and Black and Blue by Louis Armstrong

This 5 page paper compares and contrasts Toni Morrison's book Jazz with Louis Armstrong's song Black and Blue....

Jacques-Louis David

of this time was The Intervention of the Sabine Women (Olgas Gallery). And, interestingly enough, this was very political for it d...

Comparative Analysis of the Building Designs of Two Rhode Island House Vernacul1ar v. Fashion-Driven Bldg. Design

long roof over the kitchen (Eleazar Arnold House). An outstanding interior feature is its huge fireplace, which has an oak mantel ...

Johnson’s Veto of the Freedmen’s Bureau

the idea of moving to abandoned lands; in addition, white Southerners, as is well known, were not ready to accommodate the entry o...

Moral Philosophies of Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill

In five pages this essay compares and contrasts Immanuel Kant's 18th century moral philosophy with that of John Stuart Mill's 19th...

American Literature Overview

In five pages this research paper examines American literature from the late 18th century through the 20th century with such autho...

Comparison of Culloden and Crysler's Farm Battles

why? Was it the skill of those providing the defense or was it just dumb luck? The Battle of Culloden in reality was...

Egyptian Architecture and Art and Their Modern Art Influence

the attention of the fashion-setting upper class. Free-standing obelisks were constructed around England, the first, which is stil...

Slavery During the European Renaissance

can be termed neither solely positive or solely negative in regard to its influence on culture and people. There would be tremend...

Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution

the flow of information. Prior to the effects of the printing press, it was relatively easy for the Church to suppress books and w...

The Life and Work of Twentieth Century Architect Louis Isadore Kahn

This paper examines the personal and professional life of Louis Kahn, one of the Twentieth Century's most influential architects. ...

AIDS and the Bubonic Plague

insects is the rat flea." As the disease progressed, the victims heart beat wildly as it tried to pump blood through the swollen...

Golf's History and Evolution

ignored this and similar laws, and early in the 16th century James IV, king of Scotland, took up the game of golf. His granddaught...

Perceptions of Ibn Battuta

In five pages this paper considers the Islamic scholar and the fourteenth century travels that molded his personal and cultural pe...

European Art of the Medieval Period

of fresco (painting on wet plaster) painting, but hand copied manuscripts also became small jewels of painting, called "illuminati...