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Family Life in the American Colonies

(Demos, 2000, p. But this common kitchen tool was also "used by conjurers magicians in obscure ceremonies of fortune-telling" in t...

John Demos, Joseph Plumb Martin and Wartime Experience

one stroke" (Demos 29). Williams and his five children make it to Montreal alive. Once they arrive in Montreal, the Indians begin ...

Colonial Culture

he is not Dutch. He is only really being given the education as an outward sign of respect and acceptance. Even though he proves t...

Historical Anthropology Questions

A 9 page paper that answers three questions about historical anthropology. Topics include evolution of social cultural change, col...

Colonial Women’s Public Role and Legal Status

formal education or technical training, women would be hired. The obvious vocational choices were extensions of their housekeepin...

Derek Walcott's 'Omeros' Theoretically Studied

spiritual awakening. CHARACTERISTICS OF AN EPIC POEM: Epic poems all share similar characteristics which define them as such. Fo...

American Colonial Regional Comparison of Two Areas

the North and South but there are many differences as well. A student writing on this subject may want to compare and contrast ...

History of American Women

single women over the age of twenty-one and widows had the power to make contracts and hold property in her own name (22). A marri...

Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe and Modernity v. Tradition Discourses

come together as one to protect the land during times of war (Olaniyan 22, Lindfors 23). Ezeulu was the arrow of god because the ...

Examples of Post-Colonial Strife In Literature

the British rule has officially ceased. And so, through his personal experiences, the character of Camagu mirrors the turbulence ...

The Transformation of Virginia and the Church's Impact

make their mark on the land was to build lavish buildings, which also included their churches. Isaac states that through the conti...

Interactions Between Native Americans and Early Europeans from Columbus to Cortez

came to yearn to sail to that land. He dubbed his plan to accomplish that goal the Enterprise of the Indies. He sought financial...

Early American Poetry

would end without seeing "half my days thats due" (line 13). This suggests that Bradstreet is giving birth in middle age, which s...

The Spanish-American War and Its Aftermath

the Spanish-American War, which was publicly motivated by American sentiment to free Cuba from Spanish rule, sentiment grew in the...

Poverty, Women, and Social Work

community solidarity which...provided a sufficient rational for local responsibility" (Trattner, 1999, p. 16). Furthermore, the po...

Haiti and Intervention Politics

that the United States and United Nations simply have not had very good records in terms of nation building. While the U.S. inter...

History of Colonial Order Construction

in the art and imagery of history, so too is it represented in todays modern images. The world has witnessed a parade of...

Colonial Peru and the Short Story 'Rosa's Day'

and private places; the divisions which existed between regular days and festive days; the divisions which existed between the vil...

Colonial Age and Wilderness Literature

sailers would pilfer to sell, give, or exchange with us, for money, sassafras, furs, or love...when they departed, there remained ...

Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest by Steven Stern

resources against possible intrusions by other groups (Stern 22). Therefore, economic decline or improvement became intrinsically ...

NC During Colonial American and Early Republic History

Bays, Rivers, Isles, and Islets belonging unto the Country aforesaid; And also, all the Soil, Lands, Fields, Woods, Mountains, Far...

Bedarf Deutschland Der Kolonien? by Friedrich Fabri

the reasoning of a philistine" (Fabri, 1879). Fabris (1879) composition overtly addressed the fact that Great Britain possessed ...

Africa's Colonial Rule and its History

In seven pages this paper examines how Africa developed colonial rule in this historical chronicle that includes the tribal classe...

Colonial Powers and Gender Differences

outwards. When we look at this time we can see that there was already a change, the loss of colonial power was...

Decolonization of the British Empire

well off as the invading country. This can be said of both India and Africa as recently as the 1940s and 1950s. The school of thou...

William Bradford and Captain John Smith as Examples of American Colonial Writers

to tell its readers of the new lands and enterprises they had acquired and fought for (Bassett: Smith, 2002). The first historian...

Before the American Revolution, King Philip's War

time things were peaceful. The general attitude on the part of the colonists was that they felt sorry for the natives and their p...

Thomas Paine's 'Common Sense' Pamphlet

the style the writing. This pamphlet was phrased in language which was understandable by the common man (Kashatus 53). In this hi...

Native Americans/Preserving Independence

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

Catholic Church: Colonial Times to Present Day

Mississippi valleys and later in the Spanish regions of Florida, the Southwest and California, Catholics were a decided minority i...