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while China posed a threat, it was not deemed to be nearly as strong. Of course, things have not gone well for Japan in more recen...

in the new land, combining instruments and styles for a new sort of folk music. In relationship to the most classical type of mu...

took until 1791 for the states to agree on the ten that have endured (Mount, 2005). However, as needs arose, and different concern...

people believed that America, and being American, were incredible realities that spoke of freedom and a bright future. In unders...

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...

this regard. The following discussion of Austens Northanger Abbey will explore the way that Austen depicts the nature of emotion a...

had children to raise on my own and my financial situation was not dire, but I had to earn a living and I turned to writing. Alc...

collective unconscious (Allen 175). Therefore, Maria Josefa expressing her desire to marry a "handsome male on the shore of the oc...

Similarly, in France, there would be drastic change as the people were fed up with the monarchy. They really wanted an enlightened...

and understood in many different ways. We are not only given one perspective but two that work together in different and powerful ...

to surface and Johann Bernoulli convinced Euler to pursue mathematics full time. As a mathematician, Euler published over 866 book...

Francis Hayman for the Rotunda at Vauxhall Gardens during the Seven Years War. Jonathan Tyers, the proprietor of Vauxhall Gardens ...

the Constitution (and its Bill of Rights) is a living document, which was written in such a way so as to fit the times. While this...

Sarah Siddons was a well known personality of the age, perhaps the most famous actress. This presence of character is represented ...

painter of Louis XVs mid-18th-century France, the very paradigm of all that was best in a style of sensitive artifice coming after...

also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...

which was a term used by philosophers during the Middle Ages to describe an obstacle in schematic logic" (Wallbank, 1992). As such...

little time for themselves, or to think about doing anything rather than staying ahead of what needed to be done. Because ...

until the outbreak of the War Between the States during the middle of the century), the country almost seemed to be two polar oppo...

with the Iroquois in the seventeenth century and the Thirteen Colonies in the eighteenth."3 This author also indicates that a larg...

when someone relocates to another country, should he or she support the old homeland, or should they side with the new, chosen cou...

were able, through circumstances, to identify themselves with the people. This isnt too far from the campaign run by Bill Clinton ...

film had prompted someone to commit heinous crimes. The other side claims that the society is violent and people want to see viole...

can see this is Book IV, lines 32-113. It is perhaps this section that gives us the most intricate look at the theme of religion, ...

indicative of a disdain for authoritarian institutions. Vathek is a powerful man who indulges in vast excesses. Beckford makes it ...

introduce the acceptance of new experimental techniques (Porter, 1999). The Iatrochemist was a physician that studies chemical p...

work, Candide, is a direct commentary on the search for lost spirituality and humanity, which typifies the eighteenth century writ...

did improve British relations with Native Americans, the colonials were irate, as they saw the entire point of the French and Indi...

of Boston and Philadelphia. Rather, the film endeavors to expose the man behind the myth. It discusses his life essentially in c...

as being different sides of the authors true character and argues that in "literature as in life, we must choose" (Brans 437). T...