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Chinese Export Paintings from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries

In eleven pages this paper examines the distinctiveness of Eastern culture as represented in exported paintings from China between...

19th Century America and Homosexuality

In thirty four pages this paper examines homosexuality in 19th century America in a consideration of social attitudes, lifestyles,...

The Adventures of Ibn Battuta, a Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century by Ross Dunn

In five pages this paper discusses Ibn Battuta's travelers and how the Middle Ages' Muslim experiences is brought to life in this ...

Economic Patronage for the Arts in the 20th Century

Closes work from the 80s and the 90s loses something of his earlier provocativeness. Lucas II (1987, of the painter Lucas Samaras)...

Europe During the Seventeenth Century, Faith and Religion

believe, truly was the Age of Reason in that it caused the people to consider their existence more carefully and in a spiritual fr...

Debates During the Eighteenth Century Age of Enlightenment

with the fall of man and the origin of sin was metaphorical rather than literal. Not surprisingly, such thinking was considered b...

Seventeenth Century Works of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

no father to pay a dowry, few choices were available to her. Juana could be the wife of a poor man, the mistress of a rich man, or...

Twentieth Century Education and the Influence of Jean Piaget

In five pages the four stages of education developed by Jean Piaget are discussed in this consideration of his 20th century influe...

America's Late 19th Century Urbanization

Introducing such revolutionary concepts as were developed during the latter part of the nineteenth century truly transformed the w...

18th and 19th Century 'Great Awakenings' in America

life in particular?revivalism (Foner; Garraty PG). Although the initial impetus of the first Great Awakening would subside...

Seventeenth Century Comedy

Moliere and Restoration theatre are two of the main examples of comedy in the 17th century. This paper examines what purpose comed...

Fourteenth to Eighteenth Century Families of Europe and the Roles of Women

Women's roles in European families from 1300 to 1700 are examined in five pages. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

20th Century Civil Rights

of race-hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nation; discrimination that still exists in housing, education, and emp...

Late 17th Century Puritan Jeremiad Sermons

In five pages this research paper examines the Puritan jeremiad sermons of the late 17th century in a consideration of the reasons...

European Scientific Revolution of the 16th and 17th Centuries

in the numbers of scientists and "practitioners" (cartographers), instrumentmakers, navigators, and so on), and the consequent cre...

19th Century Literature A Comparison of Heroines from Two Stories

This paper compares Charlotte Bronte's heroine of Villette with Jane Austen's heroine of Persuasion. It discusses the roles of the...

The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes 16th Century Painting by Tintoretto

In 7 pages this paper discusses the Mannerist techniques featured in Tintoretto's 16th century painting The Miracle of the Loaves ...

More Than a Century and a Half of Contributions by Women to the Labor Movement

This paper considers how since the nineteenth century women have contributed to the labor movement and the workforce with African ...

Analyzing Dream Worlds Mass Consumption in Late Nineteenth-Century France by Rosalind H. Williams

In thirteen pages this paper features a chapter by chapter book analysis on William's examination of how the evolution of consumer...

Towneley Cycle's Wakefield Mystery Plays of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

eventually became an annual summer feast and dramatic event. "The Towneley Cycle proclaimed in its genesis a belief in the Christi...

18th Century Education and Samuel Johnson's Poem 'The Vanity of Human Wishes'

Lines 135 through 177 are the focus of this poetic explication of 'The Vanity of Human Wishes' by Samuel Johnson consisting of fiv...

The Retailer of the Century: Wal-Mart

undermine a great deal of what Sam Walton had hoped to create with his original stores with "down home" feeling. Wal-Mart Weakness...

Secession and Issues of Slavery

into the White House (Brooks, 2003). The Brown raid took place in South Carolina, a state where the slave population was higher th...

Writers of English Prose

assist Bacons advancement" (Abacci Books). Yet, despite that all he had accomplished, and despite all that Essex had provided him,...

1st and 2nd Amendments' Examination and Revision

the Constitution (and its Bill of Rights) is a living document, which was written in such a way so as to fit the times. While this...

Motherhood According to Caryl Churchill's Top Girls and Kate Chopin's The Awakening

and traumatic childhood (Taylor and Fineman 35). Edna longs for some sort of meaning and transcendence in her life. In Mademoise...

Morality Tale Vathek by William Beckford

indicative of a disdain for authoritarian institutions. Vathek is a powerful man who indulges in vast excesses. Beckford makes it ...

Aesthetics Definition and Modernism

such as slavery, racism, imperialism and World War I (Lavender, 2000). Modernists, in contrast to the Victorians, focused on human...

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,...

Comparative Analysis of Military Power's Role Throughout History

all-hearing media leech that hovers over some of the most vital - yet dangerous - decision-making processes, broadcasting to the w...