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Development of the Microscope

study of thin slices of cork and the "boxlike" structures that he observed through his microscope, which he termed "cells" ("Micro...

Native American v Puritan Mindset

This paper reviews the seventeenth century accounts by Mary Rowlandson and Increase Mather. Rowlandson was held captive by Native...

Mary Rowlandson's Narrative

This essay pertains to Mary Rowlandson's seventeenth century account of her capture by Indians. The writer discusses its contempor...

Mughal, Persian, and Ottoman Muslim Empires Compared

As this empire grew in influence, they expanded into southeastern Europe, particularly the Balkans and Greece (The Ottoman, Safavi...

Comparing the Movie 'Elizabeth' with 'New Worlds, Lost Worlds The Rule of the Tudors 1485-1603' by Brigden

preface of her book, author Susan Brigden confesses to the broad nature of her book "New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudo...

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 ...

Seventeenth Century English Levellers Reformers

seen within the context of the "new" Protestant message which emphasized the equality of all men before God. John Lilburne address...

China's Seventeenth to Twentieth Century Qing Dynasty

ordered men and to where the Manchu clothing rather than the clothing style, during the Ming Dynasty (Minnesota State University)....

Aphra Behn's Oroonoko

could also speculate that it was her involvement in the policy of intrigue that gave her a view of the underbelly of society that ...

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century British History and Authors

as one author states, "The medieval church was defeated and the educated classes embraced scientific rationalism. Art, architectu...

Holland, Surrounding Countries, and Seventeenth Century Art

land and the pastimes of the Dutch people who were an increasingly prosperous merchant middle class" (Anonymous Dutch Baroque Peri...

Impact of Isaac Newton and That Apple Tree

the notion of gravity. Although its uncertain if the story is true (Newton was known for observing the fall of apples from his mot...

England's Civil Wars and Their Possible Causes

King Charles II, the quashing of remaining rebellions in Ireland and Scotland and the installation of parliamentarian Oliver Cromw...

Literary and Historical Meaning of Boris Godunov by Alexander Pushkin

In five pages this report discusses the historical tragedy that was inspired by the ill fated czar of the late sixteenth and early...

van Ruisdael and El Greco's Seventeenth Century Landscapes

In a paper of 5 pages, how the spiritual and as well as physical homes are reflected in van Ruisdael's Wheatfield and El Greco's T...

'Hedda Gabler' and 'Phaedra'

In this 5 page paper, the heroines of the respective works are compared and contrasted particularly in terms of how they depict wo...

Seventeenth Century Love in Poetry

celebration of Gods love, as well as a poet that addressed the purity of a love for a woman. In better understanding this we discu...

Seventeenth Century Courtly Culture of France and Women

as well as what occurred at other levels of the social scale. For example, literature and the arts represented a great part of Fr...

François de La Rochefoucauld and Blaise Pascal

pessimistic about human beings and their propensity toward self-love. He thinks of virtually all human relationships as being driv...

Everyday Life in Traditional Japan by Charles J. Dunn

alone could carry the long swords (Dunn, 1977, Sellen, 2002). Dunns appreciation of some of the key elements of the classes explai...

Belshazzar's Feast by Rembrandt Van Rijn

on the boundaries between the Christian world and the largest Jewish community in Holland (Internet source). Kren and Marx (2002) ...

Underwear Since the Seventeenth Century

wear. There is obviously no physical reason why anyone needs to wear a girdle so the point of the girdle then, is for the woman t...

US Public Education

in their efforts to educate all Americans without fear of financial loss or discrimination. History of Public Education Since the...

Seventeenth Century 'Old English' Literature

observing the "loud mirth in the hall," yet unable to be a part of such fellowship due to no fault of its own, but rather the circ...

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...

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century French Battles According to George Lefebvre and Roland Mousnier

In five pages Lefebvre's and Mousnier's views on what contributed to the French uprisings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centur...

John Donne's Seventeenth Century Love Poetry

in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest ;...

Seventeenth Century French Absolutism

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

Transformation and Seventeenth Century England

In 4 pages, this research paper considers the rapid changes England underwent in terms of religion, economics, and politics, citin...

Writers of English Prose

assist Bacons advancement" (Abacci Books). Yet, despite that all he had accomplished, and despite all that Essex had provided him,...