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European Middle Ages Architecture, Art, and Classical Antiquity

In five pages the influence of classical antiquity on the architecture and art of the European Middle Ages are considered in the a...

Overview of the United States Virgin Islands

John is largely a national park. St. Thomas boasts a deepwater harbor. St. Croix has rolling hills. All three are special touri...

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...

Compare and Contrast: San Francisco and Saint Louis

of Asia within San Francisco. One finds themselves, a few short blocks from the business district of the city, smack dab in the mi...

Robert Altman and Jean Luc Godard

Altman dusted Mr. Marlowe off and brought him back, but his vision was very different from the earlier films. This Marlowe was a d...

Western History and the Divine Nature of God

of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...

Slave Owners in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Tom rescues his daughter (Little Eva) from a drowning death. St. Clare is one who believes in paying his debts and, in fact, promi...

St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

Vol. 2. Boston, MA: Ginn, 1906. Hanover Historical Text Project. http://history.hanover.edu/texts/barth.htm (accessed May 18, 200...

Creating a Saint

ages. In fact, both accounts contain detailed descriptions of the deaths, which are very similar. In addition, throughout both acc...

L'attente de Vladimir sur Godot

continuellement interrompu par Estragon. Il ne finit jamais lhistoire. En dautres termes, il doit continuer ? attendre Godot, o? G...

US Societal Values and the Progressive Era

since the latter 1800s facilitated greater and greater industrialization. With that industrialization the ethic of hard work beca...

Protection Offered by the Constitution

Few rights protected in the U.S. Constitution are harder to define and agree on than the right to free speech. This paper focuses ...

Views of St. Augustine and Jean Jacques Rousseau on Nature and Human Nature Compared

Human nature and nature are contrasted and compared in the Confessions of St. Augustine and the Second Discourse of Rousseau in a ...

Humility and Benjamin Franklin

of his accomplishments, many of which are successful. One of the problems in the writings of a man outlining his own accomplishme...

Black Abolitionists by Benjamin Quarles

many different organizations, all the while also illustrating and supporting the truth that so many of the African Americans suppo...

de Tocqueville and Crevecoeur

However, as Lauter (2004) points out, Crevecoeurs perspective that all nations were represented and that these were being transfor...

Book 24 of 'The Iliad' by Homer

Achilles grief offends the gods. Hera argues that since Achilles is the son of the a goddess, he deserves more honor than Hector,...

Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer

semblance of order and productivity. He did not resign himself to mingling among his fellow Europeans in this vast new world, ins...

Book XXII of 'The Iliad' Extracts

we see Hector awaiting his battle with Achilles and again there is a strong indication of the emotion which drives and influences ...

Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards

on that he believes in the Presbyterian concept of Predestination -- "From my childhood up, my mind had been wont to be full of ob...

Self Made Man Ideology

It was his lecture "Acres of Diamonds" that brought him to riches, though (Center for History and New Media, 2002). He was on a na...

New Republic of the Eighteenth Century, Women, and Marriage

this child is not identified in the book (Fairbanks, 2002). It seems as if in this book he doesnt necessarily chastise himself fo...

Eighteenth Century Writers' Spiritual and Worldly Interests

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them ...

Analysis of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

in his youth. While Franklin is a firm advocate of hard work, he never advocates work merely for works sake. He disliked his fathe...

Invention of Electricity

In eight pages electricity is discussed as the most important invention with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison's contributions i...

Franklin and Douglass

men and the student or this writer/researcher. In relationship to the importance of these two individuals, in the history of the...

"The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin" - Leadership

a pertinent example of Franklins (1996) fundamental attitude for meeting a challenge. Hard work, he contended, was the lifeblood ...

Benjamin Franklin and James Madison

far less celebrated figure. He was a prot?g? of Thomas Jefferson and considered to be a "legislative workhorse" who enjoyed a mast...

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

is writing his memoir is conversational, which indicates that he tailored his account to appeal to a broad audience. The tone is ...

The First American by H.W. Brands Reviewed

all fire breathing radicals like Samuel Adams (Review of Brands, "The First American, 2004). And...