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Essays 1651 - 1680

Contemporary Application of the Ideal Leadership Theory of Niccolo Machiavelli

Machiavelli had been imprisoned by the opposing Medici and he saw how the conflict between politicians can destroy what issues are...

Hunger in California in Texts by Maria Ruiz de Burton and Josiah Royce

Harvard. In this text, Royce combines romance and storytelling with an historical subtext that denounces, rather than romanticize...

Immigrant Experiences and Angel Island

Before actually describing the art and poetry that came out of detainees from Angel Island, a look at the locations history would ...

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) ...

Scientific Revolution and How It Evolved

place (Meeks PG). With the advent of the Copernican theory that the sun, not the Earth, was the center of the universe people wer...

Gender in Classic Literature

of a womans time. However, the student will want to state, if one reads Eves apologie closely, then one can begin to see the femi...

The Parallels Between the Progressive Era and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

the bosses, the police, the politicians, and a myriad of other players. Sinclair reveals a dream which is interlaced by theft, pr...

Literacy and Religion

their function was only to labour. As Wood (2002) points out, historians tend to measure levels of literacy by the percentage of a...

Beuys and Warhol, Two Different Artists

The life of Joseph Beuys began as a very conservative one as he was the only child born in a Catholic middle class family in Krefe...

The Immigration of Arabs to the U.S.

this period of time came from Syria, which includes those territories that we know better today as Jordan, Israel, and Lebanon(Naf...

Film Noir Techniques in the Film, Gilda

what the audience is viewing with his own subjective observations. In his consideration of film noir, Jon Tuska (1984) noted that...

William Faulkner Biography

Murry Falkner was interested in railroads, hunting and drinking, not necessarily in that order. Alcoholism was the Falkner family...

Copernicus and Astronomical Theories

constructions called the eccentric, the epicycle and the equant. In the eccentric, the Earth is placed just outside of the center ...

A Consideration of Adverse Possession

the statutory period of twelve years is sufficient to confer rights of possession, would no longer obtain. The proposals are desig...

Late Nineteenth Social Darwinism, Realism, and Racism Commentary of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

and superstitious. Although Huck may not be racist himself, he no doubt has been raised in an environment of extremely racists ind...

'Justice as Fairness' and the Theories of John Rawls

Rawls, these individuals have what he calls "two moral powers" and explains these in the following manner: (1) One such power is t...

The Way to Wealth and Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin and Journal by John Woolman

version of self-fulfillment and the American dream. Morality and the Conduct of Business Keeping in mind Woolmans deep Christian ...

'Nation' and State of Germany

For example, German nationalism represents the desire for a change in political and administrative structure. It has followed a d...

E.C. Deloria's Waterlily Analyzed

Dakota Sioux during the 19th century is as different a life from our current society as one could imagine. And yet, Deloria has t...

David Hume and Immanuel Kant on Freedom of the Will

event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...

Boston's and New York's Orphan Trains

well, but the number of children from these other cities were minuscule when compared to those that shipped out of New York. It in...

The Landscapes of Thomas Gainsborough

and returned to Sudbury, but later moved to Ipswich for seven or eight years. His success as a portrait artist, however, came in 1...

English Families During the Middle Ages

Protective Services on her. Spanking or any other type of corporeal discipline is frowned upon by most child experts. And when a w...

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...

State of Texas is More Western Than Southern

simply because it was one of the nations most important cattle producing states. This was not a state that caused people to thi...

Individuality and Liberty According to John Stuart Mill and Henry David Thoreau

respond to and voice his opinions regarding the political events and developments of his time in England, but with a vision for th...

Three Artistic Masterpieces Compared

However, the light strikes each man in varying degrees of intensity. This becomes the means by which Caravaggio penetrates the "su...

Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson and Plight of Native Americans

during the nineteenth century they had been regarded as little more than an obstacle in the American quest for land and its resour...

Definition and Role of European Feudalism

of the peasants), monasticism (an organization of the churchmen), and feudalism (the institution of the aristocracy) (Nelson, 2002...

Petrarchan Love Poetry of Lady Mary Wroth and John Donne

The first lines of "The Canonization" read: "For Gods sake hold your tongue and leg me love/ Or chide my palsy, or my gout,/ My fi...