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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...

Discovering the work of Bradbury Thompson

The writer examines the life and work of Bradley Thompson, a graphic artist whose work has appeared on the covers of some of the 2...

Political Practices, Women's Suffrage and Changes in California

5 pages and 8 sources used. This paper provides an overview of the political environment of California in the early 20th century ...

Right and Wrong According to Philosophers W. David Ross and Thomas Hobbes

In five pages this essay considers right and wrong from Hobbes' 17th century perspectives and Ross's 20th century vantage point. ...

'Libation Bearers' and 'Manchurian Candidate'

This is a paper that is 5 pages in length and draws parallel's between Aeschylus's work in the fifth century and the twentieth cen...

Making America by Carol Berkin

The writer analyzes Carol Berkin's book Making America: Changes at the Turn of the Century, and relates such events, eras and peop...

Moral Philosophies of Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill

In five pages this essay compares and contrasts Immanuel Kant's 18th century moral philosophy with that of John Stuart Mill's 19th...

Ancient History of Mali

Mali trade centered not only around agricultural products, however, but also included ivory, and gold (Library of Congress Country...

Movies and African American Males Bad Guys and Buddies

Fifteen films are discussed in this report of fifteen pages to consider how African American males are depicted and how they are t...

The Transformation of Attitudes about Death and Dying

11 pages and 11 sources. This paper provides an overview of the transformation of views on death and dying in the 20th century. ...

'The Interesting Narrative' by Olaudah Equiano and 'Things Fall Apart' by Chinua Achebe

they do not inflict slavery upon the people, they do inflict oppression that is very similar to slavery. In the first chapter o...

France's King Louis the Fourteenth and His Absolutism

was an absolute ruler, he kept his nobles living at court and as such their power base was impotent as they lacked independence an...

Egyptian Architecture and Art and Their Modern Art Influence

the attention of the fashion-setting upper class. Free-standing obelisks were constructed around England, the first, which is stil...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Middle East Economic and Social Differences During 9th and 19th Centuries Compared

century (Stowasser PG). The economic structure on the time period was extremely dependent on the kinship relationships, and the s...

Scientific Revolution of the 17th Century

In six pages this paper examines how the Western world of the 20th century was affected by the scientific breakthroughs of the 17t...

Nineteenth Century Romantic Literature

In five pages this paper examines h ow 'The Vanity of Human Wishes' by Samuel Johnson and William Wordsworth's 'Ode Intimations o...

Charles Baudelaire's Poetry

In eight pages this paper examines the 20th century modernist influence wielded by the 19th century French poet Charles Baudelaire...

The Cultural Movement of 20th Century China

10 pages. This paper provides an overview of early 20th century philosophies in China, including those of Ch'en Tu-Huiu and Hu Sh...

China's Eighteenth Century Economic Growth and Imperial Power

In four pages the eighteenth century Chinese Qing Dynasty is examined in terms of imperial power transformation and economic growt...

Future Sustainability and the Twentieth Century Population Explosion

This paper consists of five pages and discusses the Earth's future sustainability within the context of the twentieth century's po...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a Gothic Masterpiece

This paper discusses various elements of Shelley's novel that classify the work as Gothic, one of the nineteenth-century's literar...

American Presidents Who Were the Most Influential

In five pages this paper explains why Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan were the most influential of the twen...

A Policing and Police History

This is an informational research paper consisting of ten pages in which policing dating back to the ancient Egyptians and Sumeria...

Barings Bank's Collapse

In six pages this paper discusses the collapse of the more than two centuries' old Barings Bank as a result of Nick Leeson's activ...

The Life and Work of Twentieth Century Architect Louis Isadore Kahn

This paper examines the personal and professional life of Louis Kahn, one of the Twentieth Century's most influential architects. ...

Alexander the Great's Images

In five pages this essay considers two artistic images of Alexander the Great a woodcut print from the 16th century, 'The Three Go...