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Hobsbaum and Scot on Bureaucracy, Prosperity, and Peace

them. But the threat of nuclear annihilation itself was enough of a deterrence on both sides of the ocean. But Hobsbaum po...

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...

Comparative Artistic Analysis of Gimaud and Bernini

and an introduction of new and exploratory forms. However, the term has now also come to mean other forms of grotesquerie or absur...

Sculpture of Early Japan

figurines represented the earliest of the Japanese deities and were included within the religious observances. One sculpture, in ...

Late Medieval Literature and Art and Human Body Rediscovery

his right hand in blessing toward the Virgin, who raises both palms in what is obviously intended to be surprise. The overall ef...

Gothic Cathedrals of 1100 to 1500 A.D.

a major representative example and therefore more widely reviewed. Following subsections discuss the changes in cathedral constru...

1990s' American Economy

of falling prices always followed these periods of inflation associated with war, so that price levels were quite stable (PG). How...

Romantic and Victorian Literature Contrasted

In five pages this essay contrasts these very different literary styles with the Romantic period's 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' b...

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...

Western Monasticism's Rise and Spread

In five pages this paper examines a period from the earliest days of Christianity to the Reformation period in a consideration of ...

Defense of Socrates in Plato's Apology

(he disguised himself as a woman and attended rites which only women could witness). Socrates is being held responsible for the i...

A History of Jews in America

She corresponded with Grace Aguilar, a Jewish British theologian; Fanny Kemble, a British actress; Catherine Sedgwick, an American...

Place in Sapphira and the Slave Girl by Willa Cather

In five pages the representation of place with regards to the time period's social hierarchy is discussed and includes an explorat...

Analysis ofTwo Greek Statues

the prime of life ("Marble...woman"). This trend included depicting ordinary people, such as this statue, which is known as "The O...

Dante's 'Inferno' Explanationa and Detailed Structural Analysis

In five pages a poetic explication of Dante's poem is presented in terms of explanation of betrayal as a more punishable sin than ...

Forms of Art Technology During the Renaissance

In seven pages this paper examines the technology that was developed to create the Renaissance period's sophisticated maiolica cer...

Overview of How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis

In five pages this 1890 text is examined in terms of how the time period's events relate to its contents. Two sources are cited i...

Extinction of Dinosaurs and the Catastrophism Theory

In eight page this paper discusses the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods' extinction of dinosaurs in an assessment of the catastroph...

American Renaissance

This is not to say that the influence of European authors was not discernible in the work of these authors. For example, Melvill...

The Performance of Unilever

than growth in sales. So, between the period of 2003 and 2007 there is a difficult period, as in 2004 there was a further reorgani...

Hesse’s Siddhartha, A Reflection

researching this topic should relate some incident/knowledge that he/she gained from personal experience versus formal education. ...

Holistic Nursing Journal

discourse that I find confusing. Philosophy has often struck me as an amorphous subject. Its slippery and refuses to be categoriz...

Enlightenment Values in the Character of Phaedra in Euripides’ Hippolytus

what is bothering her, Phaedra seems to describe the Enlightenment philosophy in her observation: "We understand and recognize wha...

German Enlightenment and Faust by Goethe

argued that the German Enlightenment served as the beginning of unique aspirations and an original quest for truth. The journey t...

Declaration of the Rights of Man and Maximilien Robespierre

In five pages this research paper discusses Maximilien Robespierre's political writings and the Declaration of the Rights of Man i...

The Plague and Its Effects on European Society

course, plague was known so the deaths were not completely unexpected, but the disease interrupted lives, and no one knew who woul...

The Evolution of the Criminal Justice System

enlightenment philosophy? What form did those ideas take in classical criminological thought?" First, a look at each of the named...

The Healing Applications of the Hypnotic Technique

Hypnosis is sometimes regarded more as a parlor trick than as an effective approach to influencing human behavior and...

The Common Philosophies of the American and French Revolutions

Introduction The period of western civilization that we typically refer to as the Enlightenment spanned the...

Enlightenment Views of the Reason vs. Emotion in Phadra by Jean Racine

reason for his hasty departure - his forbidden love for Aricia, the lone surviving member of the royal family Theseus defeated. A...