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Essays 301 - 330

Architecture of Westminster Abbey and Its French Influence

of King Louis IX (1226-1270)(Martindale). Around the decade of 1220-1230, it became clear that medieval engineering expertise had ...

Wilson and Henry in The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

to enlist in the Union army. He leaves his mother and the farm behind, which have always offered him a sheltered existence. We see...

'Where I Lived & What I Lived For' by Henry David Thoreau

that he was "in haste" to buy it before the owner finished making any more "improvements," i.e. changes that Thoreau implies he hi...

Act III, Scene 2 of Henry IV, Part One by William Shakespeare

Hal will give his full allegiance (Grossman 170). While the audience undoubtedly realizes, since the plot is drawn from English h...

'The Children's Hour' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

the midst of conversation, a factor that appears to be typical of Longfellows verse. The entirety of the poem, while formally stru...

Fiction Writing and Philosophy of the Romantic Era

truly fulfilled, and in fact he likens this fulfillment to a nearly spiritual ideal. On the other hand, there was...

Literary Social Criticism

punishes her by labeling her with the letter "A" and through social ostracism. Thoreaus argument with the state in "Civil Disobe...

Families in the Works of William Shakespeare and Happiness

of shallowness in schemings clothing, while rejecting the honest and heartfelt response of Cordelia, the only daughter who truly d...

William Shakespeare's 'Absent' Mothers in Six Plays

"What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see / She is your treasure, she must have a husband; / I must dance bare-foot on her we...

Sharon Kay Penman When Christ and His Saints Slept

which involves the story of King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine (Penman, 2002; Penman, 1995). Maude was considered as t...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 'Paul Revere's Ride,' Its Inaccuracies, and the Real Paul Revere

slumber to acts of resistance. However, Fischer demonstrates that Revere did make his famous ride and that the ride was signific...

Social Evolution During the Nineteenth Century

their perception of his genius. (Gould 26) Where gender behavior is concerned, a complicated and controversial issue of de...

Bard's Personality as Reflected in His Plays

were specifically constructed to entertain royalty, it was the impassioned actions of his characters that leave little doubt that ...

Arguments of Henry Hazlitt

so on until that $250 is keeping everyone in business. The hoodlum who broke the window becomes an instrument of spreading busines...

Relationship Between Henry IV and Prince Hal

that he has mercy as well as wisdom. None of this his father sees. King Henry IV tells his son in scene ii, Act III, that familia...

Henry Clay Frick's Art Collection

In five pages this paper examines the publicly donated art collection of Henry Clay Frick after his death in terms of how the vari...

William Shakespeare's Histories and New Historicist Criticism

which make up the spectrum of everyday life of the period. Spiegel (1997), for instance, makes the point that one can see such tex...

Madame Butterfly and Cultural Context

while, the duplicity of each of these dichotomies becomes apparent. In fact the first direct comparison would be that of Gallimard...

Hypothetical Debate Between Presidential Candidates Socrates and Henry David Thoreau

best and brightest citizens." After the candidates shake hands, the moderator presented the first topic for debate, that of taxat...

Henry David Thoreau's Concept of Wilderness

He believed nature and the wilderness to be the source of strength, vigor and inspiration. He even referred to the wilderness as ...

William Shakespeare's King Henry VIII, The Two Noble Kinsmen and Doubling

The overall story of "The Two Noble Kinsmen" follows fairly well its primary source that is Chaucers "The Knights Tale" from his c...

Twenty First Century Transcendentalism

to be called "transcendentalism" (5). The individuals who wrote about this faculty referred to it by different names -- e.g., "sp...

Virtue in Henry V and Brave New World

are eventually reintroduced to the "regular" world and everyone finds out that John was born of Linda (his mother) and they become...

Entrepreneur Henry Ford

to be innovators -- and they build things and ideas that are substantial and different (Thompson, 2004). Ford wasnt an entrepreneu...

The Antebellum Economy of the United States

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

Civil Disobedience and Abortion

"That government is best which governs least....For government is an expedient by which men would...

Master Student Dr. Henry Lee

person, a person who strives to do his best in his given profession. Lee writes: "There are tens of thousands of professions in ...

Male Protagonists in The Rover by Aphra Behn and The Life of Henry the Fifth by William Shakespeare

deck our kings, / Carry them here and there, jumping oer times, / Turning th accomplishment of many years / Into an hour-glass" (2...

Patrick Henry and George Washington

George Washingtons early life, leading people to speculate that it was typical for a boy of his class and status (George Washingto...

Film Review of Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas

the voiceover. According to reviewer Patricia Kowal, this inclusion of a female perspective furthers the gangster genre because it...