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Sociopolitical Analysis of Tartuffe by Moliere

In six pages this paper presents a sociopolitical analysis of Moliere's seventeenth century play. Two sources are cited in the bi...

Salem Political Order and Witchcraft

In eight pages this paper examines how the witchcraft that characterized Salem, Massachusetts of the seventeenth century was actua...

New Jersey's History

In five pages the seventeenth through nineteenth century history of the state of New Jersey is discussed with the Lenni Lenape tri...

Education and Bureaucracy

In five pages this paper examines the increasing bureaucratization of education in America since the seventeenth century. There i...

Social and Domestic Abuse in Death of Woman Wang by Jonathan D. Spence

-- and did his society support his right to do so? In order to answer this question, we need to look at the background of Chinese...

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...

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...

Myne Owne Ground by T.H. Breen and Stephen Innes and Race Relations

In four pages this paper examines seventeenth century race relations as presented in Breen and Innes' text. There are no other so...

Eastern Indonesia, Commerce and Poverty

In seven pages this paper discusses Eastern Indonesia of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in a consideration of economics a...

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...

Impact of Isaac Newton and That Apple Tree

the notion of gravity. Although its uncertain if the story is true (Newton was known for observing the fall of apples from his mot...

Literary and Historical Meaning of Boris Godunov by Alexander Pushkin

In five pages this report discusses the historical tragedy that was inspired by the ill fated czar of the late sixteenth and early...

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...

'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...

Long and Short Term Causes of the English Civil War

The English Civil war was also not strictly English, involving as it did Ireland and Scotland as well. The conflict, in fact, orig...

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...

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...

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) ...

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...

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...

US Public Education

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

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...

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...

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...

Aphra Behn's Oroonoko

could also speculate that it was her involvement in the policy of intrigue that gave her a view of the underbelly of society that ...

Gunther/Death Be Not Proud

A 3 page book review of John Gunther's memoir of his son's illness and death. The title of this book is drawn from John Donne's Me...

Velazquez/Los Borrachos

the figure of the mythological god. Bacchus is looking away from the young man in front of him, his eyes shifted to the side, with...

Transitions During the Enlightenment Period

secular tone ("The Enlightenment," 2006). The eighteenth century would begin the Age of Reason where there was intellectual discov...