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History and Traps

discovered that she was pregnant after Harry left for the War. It sounds like a soap opera because Harry did not return from the ...

Folk Ballads and the Theme of Murder

and evolving over time, this form of "news" tended to keep the sensational details, but in most cases, retained very little refere...

Thirteenth Century Motet

In four pages this paper examines the Motet musical composition type that emerged during the thirteenth century. Eight sources ar...

Old English Poem 'The Dream of the Rood'

In five pages this paper analyzes this poem within the context of English life during the 7th and 8th centuries and the relationsh...

Contextual Style Article on Medieval England

In five pages this paper is written in the style of an old English article on country living during the fifteenth century with iss...

Chile and Brazil Democratization

In six pages democratization in these two South American countries are examined in terms of effects from the last century and thei...

1692 Salem Witch Trials

Salem, but our proposed question allowed the possibility of a number of factors influencing the trials and ergot poisoning was ju...

Interview Process and a Sample of Writing

education services to incarcerated special needs students. These students must be provided services if they are under twenty-two ...

Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu

In five pages this essay considers what life was like during the Chinese Manchu dynasty of the 18th century as represented in this...

Charles Dickens on Childhood

In seven pages the ways in which Dickens' portrays childhood during the 19th century in his classic novels Great Expectations, Oli...

Flemish and Dutch Portrait Art of the 17th Century

In five pages paintings by artists de Hooch and Rembrandt are analyzed to explore the importance of portraiture to life in Flemish...

Collapse of the Byzantium Empire

In seven pages this research paper examines how the Byzantium Empire fell to the Ottoman Turks during the 15th century in a consid...

Western Roman Emperors and Power Disintegration

When discussing the fall of the Roman empire, what is actually being discussed is the fall of the "western" empire (including Ital...

Gates and Jobs and Hewlett and Packard

he met his soon to be arch rivals, Bill Hewlett and David Packard. Bill attended MIT part time after a stint at Stanford ( "Agilen...

Christopher Hill's Century of Revolution, 1603-1714

of the text we can see that Hill is taking the reader on a very structured journey which examines the turmoil in 17th century Euro...

Late 19th Century European Imperialism

see how there were many commonalities. Many of the gains made by Britain were focused on the African continent. The desire...

An Interview of a Couple Who Met in the Marine Corps

straight ahead and never acknowledged him, as women all about him were flirting and trying to get his attention. Naturally, it wa...

Sixteenth Century Abandoned Wife Bertrande de Rols

precludes any acknowledgement of anyone outside of the upper classes of any society, however. The "common people" receive little ...

Female Artists of the 19th Century

was considered to be an essential component of every young artist training. Some critics at that time actually argued that no grea...

Seventeenth Century Spain's Decline

a modest decline from such a high could be defined as decline (Luck, 2002). Furthermore, it is the nature of Empires to rise and ...

Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century America Expansion and Migration

The best intentions often brought about an entirely different outcome; while explorers made sure to draw up at least an idea of wh...

18th Century Muslim Reform Movements

Western conquest, similar movements were directed wholly or in part against Westerners. These include the Wahhabis and Faraizis of...

Literacy and Religion

their function was only to labour. As Wood (2002) points out, historians tend to measure levels of literacy by the percentage of a...

Copernicus and Astronomical Theories

constructions called the eccentric, the epicycle and the equant. In the eccentric, the Earth is placed just outside of the center ...

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...

Changing Cities and Migration

research also indicates a number of other factors, which include "demographic shocks, the assistance of friends and relatives livi...

Change Through War

Years War, the French Wars of Religion and the Thirty Years War (Cunningham and Grell, 2000). The fact that warfare was such a p...

Social Science and Religion

acquired even consciousness as well as to have facilitated cultural productions, but excepting religion (2002). Whether Darwins t...

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...

Cook and Cook's Good Faith and Truthful Ignorance and Family Relationships

children that only they can produce. Though mothers were important in the family structure, unmarried daughters or older widows w...