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The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Ini six pages this paper first examines the playwright's life and effects of the Great Depression on Miller and his writings and t...

An Introduction to Sixteenth Century Anabaptism

This five paper paper reviews the book The Anabaptist Story An Introduction to Sixteenth Century Anabaptism by William R. Estep. T...

Sixteenth Century Torture as Criminal Punishment

The book had been in continuous circulation for a period of over a hundred years. This was more "than any other book of similar sc...

European Witch Hunt of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Its Reasons

orthodoxy on the fact of "witchcraft" (duBarry at ~greywing/ Malleus.htm). In the second half of the fifteenth century there...

Literature of the Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries and Women's Debate

In 2 pages the 'debate about women' during this time period are examined in a discussion of Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, an...

The Journey to the West Sixteenth Century Novel by Wu Cheng'en

heaven, the Monkey King was happy to visit until he discovered why they had invited him. As a result, he flew back home and revol...

Dangerous Beauty Film and Roles Based on Gender

In five pages this 1998 movie is considered in a discussion of gender based roles and how sixteenth century Venetians managed to c...

The Military Revolution Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800 by Geoffrey Parker

the "civilized" world. It appears that Parker understands that those merchants, in turn, petitioned their governments to pay for t...

Perfect Society Concept and Utopia by Thomas More

In 5 pages this paper discusses whether or not contemporary society would regard More's Utopia as perfect in a consideration that ...

Sixteenth Century African Women

In ten pages this paper analyzes women's roles in African society during the 1500s. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

An Analysis of the Novel, Princess of Cleves

This paper analyzes Madame de Lafayette's book, Princess of Cleves and the French court during the sixteenth century. This five p...

Jesuits and St. Ignatius of Loyola

In nine pages this paper examines St. Ignatius of Loyola's life, religious conversion, and founding of the the sixteenth century J...

Mercury Uses, Iatromechanics and Iatrochemists

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

Letters of Dames Madeleine and Catherine Des Roches

to take on a work, apologies for the lateness of a manuscript, etc.; however, the majority of the letters demonstrate the erudite ...

Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Spanish Conquest

In eleven pages this paper discusses the role the Catholic Church played in the Spanish Conquest of this period. Six sources are ...

History of the Civil Rights Movement in America

the Union. It was Lincoln who had endorsed the Reconstruction plan, but Congress was far more cautious. Congress determined that...

Incas and Aztecs

leaders. In another section of the document we note that people were provided to help transport goods, and that the leaders wou...

One Man's View of the Sixteenth Century

Worms, Ginzburg presides over marriage of history and anthropology by considering how the separation of cultures into "high" and "...

Contrasting and Comparing Sixteenth Century French and Dutch Painters

the old ways. During this time, it was determined that mankind was capable of being redeemed, that contrary to what the church sta...

'The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality' by Bernard Williams

almost visceral, level. Whether or not the student agrees or not will generally be based on a personal belief system, ideology, re...

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...

Indian Sultanates from the Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries

be known as the Delhi Sultanate, early India succumbed to the "invaders" (Metcalf et al 4) whose original objective was to bolster...

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...

Early Monopolies of Europe During the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Centuries

(Bisson 639). The goals of this organization included breaking the Portuguese monopoly on the spice trade and expelling the most r...

Western Domination from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries

than any other nation in the world the Western world was coming into an age of discovery that would set the stage for all the deca...

Sixteenth Century Spain

the entire imperial system was based on (Payne 2002). It was also the social norm to accept the aristocracy as leaders (Payne 2002...

European History and Religion from the Sixteenth Century to Today

seventeenth century. During the Enlightenment, there was a change in thinking and a transitioning from religious thought to i...

The Affectionate Shepherd by Richard Barnfield

old man fall helplessly in love with the fairy queen. As Kenneth Borris points out in his analysis of this work, much of the poem...

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 ...

Sixteenth Century Society Critiques of Las Casas and Erasmus

that part of human behavior; however, this text is not primarily a satire, as such, but rather a complex analysis of European soci...