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Settlements in North America: Spain, France, England and Holland

Spain in the mid-1500s, privately owned French ships - pirates in the eyes of the Spanish - attacked Spanish ships and ports in th...

Dutch and Italian: Art and Culture

the Church to be displayed or created in the Church (Albany Institute of History and Art, 2007). 2) How does the Dutch...

Treatment of Women/17th Century New England

sanctioned as proper for women, Bradstreets work did not go against the norms of Puritan society. However, they do often emphasize...

Time, Conflict, and Pleasure in the Poetry of the 17th Century Poetry

really being asked here is who made the Devil the way he is. This actually is a theological question, and the answer to it depends...

Religion and Its Influence on Man

In four pages this paper evaluates whether or not man is positively influenced by man in a consideration of the negative influence...

The Persian Letters by Montesquieu

In five pages this classic 17th century novel by Montesquieu is analyzed as it relates to the Scientific Revolution and the Enligh...

The Persian Letters by Montesquieu II

In five pages this paper examines how the letters point out the differences that existed during the 17th century between France an...

Playwright and Actor Moliere

In ten pages the life and times of this renowned 17th century French playwright and actor are recounted. Ten sources are cited in...

Atlantic Slave Trade Mortality and Profits

In five pages this research paper discusses the 17th and 18th century Atlantic slave trade and how profitability was affected by h...

Concepts of Punishment, Justice, and Crime in The Crucible by Arthur Miller

In five pages this paper discusses how this play is not a commentary on 17th century religious issues but deals instead with compl...

Analysis of Puritan Period Witch Hunts

gain greater understanding of the motivation behind these witch hunts, one must first consider the Puritan society of the late 160...

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...

17th Century Women in Death of Woman Wang by Jonathan D. Spence

was by no means typical of Chinese marital experience, the repressive conditions which made it possible were the cultural portion ...

The Flea vs. To a Coy Mistress

Donne takes a similar view in that he feels the ladys insistence on being concerned about honor is highly illogical, but he goes a...

2 Poems by Robert Herrick Analyzed

of the seasons, which have been going on their course throughout all of history. "And Titan on the eastern hill / Retires himself,...

Nation States' Rice and Military Revolution's Influence

military power as significant to the subsequent position of these countries as world powers. France The history of the French mi...

Massachusetts Bay Colony and Puritanism

In five pages this paper examines the Massachusetts Bay Colony of the 17th century and the religious influence exerted by Puritani...

The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton

was discussing the other. No one would readily accuse him of slandering them because to do so would be admitting that the descript...

Errand Into the Wilderness by Samuel Danforth

In five pages this sermon of the 17th century is examined in terms of its complexity of function as both an allegory and Jeremiad....

'Prayer' by George Herbert, Structure and Metaphor

In 5 pages this paper examines the sonnet structure of this 17th century poem and considers its use of religious metaphor. There ...

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...

New World Huguenots

In six pages this paper examines the French Huguenots and considers why they left for America in a discussion of their 17th centur...

Studying Gases in Terms of Nature and Experimentation

In five pages vacuums and gases and how they have been studied since the 17th century are the focus of this paper that includes ex...

Female Psychology in the Plays of Tirso de Molina

de Molina). Tirso showed direct hostility toward the "culterianismo" in plays such as Amar por arte mayor and La Celosa de si mi...

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...

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...

Woman Holding a Balance Painting by Jan Vermeer

to hearth and home. Her expression is one of serenity, and reminds one of the Madonnas expression. In this respect, then, women we...

Windows of G.W. Leibniz

that requires the transmission or transposition of the parts of those beings (1998). However, substances are simple unextended ent...

Interaction Between the Body and the Mind According to Baruch Spinoza

also saw mind and body as two separate substance. The Descartes position on the mind-body problem combines the idea of substance d...

17th Century Dutch Paintings' Vanitas Style

situation is shown through the inclusion of some element out of place, in Beyerens case, a small mouse. Beyerens use of th...