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Colonial Fashions and How They Evolved

In six pages this paper discusses the seventeenth and eighteenth century evolution of Quaker men's and women's fashions and how th...

Visionary Work Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton

whether it is the latest news from Yugoslavia, or how to do something on a computer. Explanations and curiosities are a way of li...

Femininity in Seventeenth and Nineteenth Century Art

This paper provides a reading of two articles discussing the topic of femininity in seventeenth and nineteenth century art. The a...

Seventeenth Century Works of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

no father to pay a dowry, few choices were available to her. Juana could be the wife of a poor man, the mistress of a rich man, or...

Seventeenth Century Cavalier and Metaphysical Poetry

In twelve pages this paper contrasts and compares the cavalier and metaphysical approaches to seventeenth century poetry in a cons...

'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...

Aphra Behn's 17th Century Literary Works

Indies, and lived an adventurous life of slave rebellions and observed Indian tribal rituals which would later appear in her works...

17th Century Conflict Between English Colonists and Native Americans

They would found the first permanent English colony, New England. Some twenty-one thousand would arrive between 1630 and 1642 (Re...

17th Century Social History of China and The Death of Woman Wang by Jonathan Spence

In five pages this paper examines how Chinese society of the seventeenth century is presented in The Death of Woman Wang by Jonath...

Comedies of the English Restoration

entertainment. This particular period of English history (1642-1660) had been called the Interregnum." Morality was closely moni...

The Letters of Madame de Sevigne

This paper examines the seventeenth century correspondence between Marie de Rabutin-Chantal and Madame de Sevigne. This five page...

England During the Seventeenth Century and the Leveller Movement

In twelve pages the Leveller philosophy and movement of the seventeenth century is examined in this consideration that includes ho...

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...

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 ...

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 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...

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...

Terra Nullius and 'New Holland' Myths

It is important for the student working on this project to understand that European imperialism was about political and national c...

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...

Business Practices in Early History

resulted from the Spartan takeover of Athenian silver mines; therefore, the need for the minting of replacement, silver-plated bro...

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...

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...

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) ...

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...

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...

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...

Female Independence and Seventeenth Century Restoration Comedies

up every day / Some new unheard-of fool for us to play" (Internet source). The prologue alone suggests that Etherege was offering ...

US Public Education

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