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'Absalom and Achitophel' by John Dryden and Honesty

17th century way of saying "God told him to do it." But one of Davids progeny stood out, this being the brave...

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...

Great Britain's Great Depression of 1873 to 1896

advances that were made in transportation are considered the problem in terms of why consumption of goods form the colonies was so...

International Trade

begun following the example of private corporations. Some governments, such as the state of Florida, have outsourced their entire ...

Book Review of Mexico and the Free Trade Agreement Edited by Victor Bulmer Thomas

In three pages this paper examines NAFTA's winners and losers within the context of the book Mexico and the Free Trade Agreement. ...

Whistle Blowing in the Workplace

In ten pages this paper examines workplace whistle blowing in which there are few winners and many losers with Koch Industries and...

Same-Sex Marriage

right of same-sex couples to marry and New Jersey has granted these couples the "legal equivalent of marriage" (Hull, 2007, p. 748...

The Impact of the Multi Fibre Agreement

to protect their clothing and textile industries and their economies. A range of measures were introduced, the longest lasting of ...

Effects of World War I

This essay discusses how the Fist World War changed different things like society of the winners and losers. The essay comments on...

Seventeenth Century French Absolutism

monarchy reinforced its monitoring of printing, totally strangling the emerging press" (The Library of Congress, 2005). Even the F...

France and England During the 16th and Seventeenth Centuries

of other lands and consequently the subjugation or at least the exploitation of the indigenous peoples in Africa, Asia and the Ame...

France's King Louis the Fourteenth and His Absolutism

was an absolute ruler, he kept his nobles living at court and as such their power base was impotent as they lacked independence an...

Winners and Losers Among Health Care Providers

however. This investigation is concerned more with the dynamics between payers, providers and consumers. Has government healthcar...

France's Natural Resources

an adequate and increasing budget allocated to environmental issues....

Cold War Winners and Losers

In six pages this paper discusses how the Cold War conclusion of the Soviet Union's collapse was due more to Mikhail Gorbachev's r...

What Do You Care What Other People Think?, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, and Life Expectations

In five pages these 2 works by physicist and Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman are examined in terms of the author's inspirationa...

Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon

In five pages this report discusses the winner of the Best Foreign Film Academy Award for 1950 and the reasons behind its enduring...

Gay History

In five pages this paper considers the history of homosexuality in ancient Greece, Japan of the seventeenth century, England of th...

Tour de France Winner Lance Armstrong

In five pages this paper discusses the formidable obstacles Lance Armstrong has overcome in his quest to become a multi winner of ...

World History and Ethnic Group Persecution

The main reason why the Huguenots were unpopular with the majority in France during the time period was because they were not of t...

Urban France and the Role of Women in Revolts for Social Change

French military setbacks in 1646 and after it became apparent that the Spanish war would go on despite negotiations to bring peace...

France of the 18th and 19th Centuries, Radicalism, and Liberalism

deemed it so. In any event, it appears that there is justification for others to rule, despite the inherent encroachment on the ...

Marie de France, Chretian de Troyes, and Courtly Love

the help of a lion that he rescues from a serpent (Braswell). As this illustrates, the story leaves plenty of room for Ywain to p...

Art of the Barbizon School

the French Revolution, began a revolutionary spirit which spread through much of Europe. In 1848, the year in which Marx and Enge...

The French Revolution and Changing Alliances

The French Revolution had a reverberating effect not just on France but on the world. State relations changed dramatically during...

Observations in History, Nationalism, and Military Strategy and Technology

measuring stick against which all the answers to all the questions could be compared to see if they measured up. Not only was sci...

Art Analysis

superb, as its various elements naturally move the viewers gaze into the landscape and onward as the artist takes the viewer on a...

Russian Revolution Impact of Tsar Peter

Romanovs, ascended to the throne in 1689, he created a great deal of controversy with his outlook and in his efforts to totally ch...

Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries' English Feasting History

at the high table (The Table & Table Manners, 2005). This particular table was actually much higher than, or rather raised above, ...

Seventeenth Century Influence on the Eighteenth Century

speeches in his position of Secretary of the Paris Academy of Sciences, in which he did a great deal to enhance both the cultural ...