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A History of the Ku Klux Klan

This fourteen page paper reports the history of one of the most controversial organizations in the U.S. The author details its or...

Witch Hunts and Their Decline

In four pages this research paper examines reasons why the European witch hunts were finally in decline around the late 17th and e...

Frederick Lewis Allen's The Big Change

In four pages a book synopsis is provided along with a discussion of the social and economic conditions that existed during the fi...

PE's History

In five pages this report discusses physical education programs in an historical overview that includes eighteenth century German ...

Spiritual Development in Historia Calamitatum by Abelard

Spiritual development in European religious orders during the 12th century are discussed in an overview of Historia Calamitatum by...

John Demos' The Unredeemed Captive and Intercultural Relationships

In ten pages this paper examines intercultural relationships as featured in the text's portrayal of early 18th century Native Amer...

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...

Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror

Crusades, insurrection, the Schism of the Church, and massacres of Jewish people were but part of the horrors of that century. Th...

The Historical Context of All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

poetry, essays, stories and novels from men who had never envisioned themselves as literary artists. From their painful wartime e...

'Yvain, the Knight of the Lion' by Chretien de Troyes and Reciprocal Relationships

the time when the Christian movement was beginning to gain headway in England. Most of the rural areas were still pagan believing ...

Twentieth Century's Most Significant Discovery

important to all forms of life. Wilson said: "Looking back on the sheer volume of innovation that took place during the century, ...

Poetry and the Reflection of Women's Status

rather than reality. This conclusion was probably made through the poets use of the repetition of the word "if." Any piece of lit...

Comparison of Culloden and Crysler's Farm Battles

why? Was it the skill of those providing the defense or was it just dumb luck? The Battle of Culloden in reality was...

Christine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies

In six pages this landmark fifteenth century feminist text is analyzed in terms of how the author portrayed the connection between...

Comparing Nursing Definitions of Virginia Henderson and Florence Nightingale

In seven pages this research paper examines how nursing was defined in the 19th century by Florence Nightingale and in the 20th ce...

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and Themes of Destiny and Choice

In six pages 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and 'The Knight's Tale' are discussed in order to examine how the themes of destiny and cho...

The Social Construction of Gender in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

This paper examines Shelley's novel as a metaphor for social issues of the nineteenth century. This five page paper has one sourc...

Charlemagne, Different Biographical Perspectives

Charlemagne has been interpreted differently by different writers over the centuries. Those differences in interpretation are app...

La Religieuse by Denis Diderot

She pressed me in one place and then another. In a soft and low voice, she asked me to increase my efforts, and I did so." Again ...

Law and Economic Analysis

In five pages economic analysis along with bankruptcy will be assessed within the context of Charles Rowley's statement, 'The econ...

U.S. History, Labor, and Equality Questions

who threatened the racial caste system for that matter (747). When threats failed to yield results, planters could call upon the p...

Feminism in the Last Two Hundred Years

This 5 page paper considers feminism, which has been around as an organized movement for nearly 200 years. The writer argues that ...

Black Literature and the Influence of the Black Panthers

In five pages this paper discusses how black literature was influenced by the late 20th century's Black Panther party. Five sourc...

An Analysis of the Novel, Princess of Cleves

This paper analyzes Madame de Lafayette's book, Princess of Cleves and the French court during the sixteenth century. This five p...

18th and 19th Century Equality and Liberty

In five pages this paper examines equality and liberty and the tensions that arose during the late eighteenth century and early ni...

Racism/Views of Moody and Douglass

This discussion address the experience of two prominent black writers concerning their experiences in the mid-ninettenth century a...

Cartesian Thought and Gilbert Ryle

In five pages this research paper contrasts and compares 16th century mind concepts of Rene Descartes and 20th century counterpart...

Life of Medieval Author Geoffrey Chaucer

In 5 pages this paper examines the 14th century life, career, and writings of Geoffrey Chaucer that culminated in The Canterbury T...

A 'Personal Narrative' of South America by Alexander Von Humboldt

cheese" (37). He tends to make such quick and facile deductions. However, on direct observation, Humboldt is flawless, and many of...

The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo Ginzburg

The writer analyzes the book The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller by Carlo Ginzburg and argues that ...