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Botticelli, Humanism and Renaissance Art

for aesthetic as well a religious purposes, and expressed the mythological subjects favored by the humanists, who enjoyed their hi...

Greensboro Sit-Ins

turned into many as the protest continued for almost 6 months.5 In addition, it sparked many other protests throughout the South a...

Sinclair Ross/2 Short Stories

Ross describes Isabel is similar to the way in which Martha, the narrative voice in "A Field of Wheat" endows this cash crop on wh...

Life in Mexico by Frances Calderon de la Barca II

In five pages this text on early nineteenth century Mexican life is discussed within the context of what it must have been like fo...

Critically Assessing Presentation of Christians and Jews in 'The Merchant of Venice' by William Shakespeare

a time and oft / In the Rialto you have rated me / About my moneys and my usances; / Still have I borne it with a patient shrug, /...

Flemish and Dutch Portrait Art of the 17th Century

In five pages paintings by artists de Hooch and Rembrandt are analyzed to explore the importance of portraiture to life in Flemish...

Shakespeare's Villains, Iago vs. Shylock

Othello's Iago and The Merchant of Venice's Shylock are villains who drive much of the action in the plays. This paper examines Sh...

English Commoner Life During the First Half of the 19th Century

In ten pages the life of an English commoner from 1800 to 1850 is discussed in terms of oppressive social and working conditions. ...

A Fictional Young Mexican Living in Texas During the 19th Century

me the story of my birth even though he wasnt home for the blessed event of his first child and only son. He had joined a local m...

Weight Gain, Counseling During Pregnancy

This research paper presents an overview of weight gain recommendations during pregnant that are specifically aimed to address th...

The Concept of Mercantilism

a significant shift in the way that the supporting military forces were utilized. Prior to the mercantilist period the dominant mi...

The Age of Exploration and Onwards - Social and Economic Development

new and more efficient shipping routes. The combined might of the Portuguese and Spanish holdings claimed during the Age of Explor...

Energy Crises Past and Present

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the energy crisis. Comparisons are made between the current crisis and that faced b...

The Reformation

Reformers to disseminate information so quickly (Kreis, 2007). That dissemination include the Bible translated into native languag...

History Of Child Rearing Practices

(Hulbert, 1999). More children were attending school towards the middle of the century and the trend in education was away from th...

Text Analysis of 'Evil in Modern Thought An Alternative History of Philosophy' by Susan Neiman

in Modern Thought points to two cataclysmic moments in history that were responsible for altering the contemporary perceptions of ...

Sixteenth Century Art Marketing

sort of introduction. While an artist could paint portraits, murals or landscapes, or sculpt busts, figures or funeral statuary, t...

'Ovid's Banquet of Sence' by George Chapman

his argument to the priestess who taught him mysteries in his youth, Diotima of Mantinea. Attributing his words to Diotima, Socrat...

Sixteenth Century Keyboard Instruments

the strings.6 The tangents were inserted into the key levers at the lower end, and the top end was flattened for contact with the...

Johannes Kepler and His Contribution to Astrology

advantage of an education and as such was able to afford himself a level of intellectual snobbery, but this is more that snobbery,...

Assimilation, Identity, and Jewish History

consistent throughout the centuries of the Diaspora. In order to remain Jewish, individuals could not adopt the customs of their h...

Historical Causes of the 16th Century Protestant Reformation

In six pages this paper examines the 16th century Protestant Reformation in an overview of its causative factors. Three sources a...

Elizabeth the I of England and Mary Tudor comparing their regimes

This paper looks at the 16th century reigns of Elizabeth I and Mary Tudor with regards to international relations, religious freed...

Ideologies of Machiavelli, Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle on Democratic Rule

of the United States. Without the philosophies of those that lived in the centuries prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence...

The Pope's Elephant by Bendini

were reaped. There did seem to be an exercise of wealth and power due more to the consequence of their trading empires in non-Eur...

Castiglione's The Courtier and Machiavelli's The Prince

also been associated with seriousness and intelligence, however, a man who realized that in order to accomplish a goal one had to ...

South America and the Population Impact of Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century Silver Mining

also set a precedent with regard to the extent of South Americas extended reach into new and previously uncharted territory. O?at...

English Weddings of the 16th Century

Despite their integral cultural connection to the rights of passage associated with weddings, the great wedding celebrations of si...

Sixteenth Century Literature and Parody

quest as being somehow representative of the times in which he lived. Through the use of exaggeration, Cervantes is basically say...

Lusiads by Luis Vas de Camoes

In five pages this Portuguese poem of the 16th century is examined in terms of the expression of dogmatism and nationalism by the ...