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This book review is on Terry Alford's text Prince Among Slaves. which relates the biography of Ibrahima, an African prince who was...

people believed that America, and being American, were incredible realities that spoke of freedom and a bright future. In unders...

Hate their job? Something drove them out of the workforce with inadequate resources, so they will have to determine if they want t...

addition, many women owned businesses; they worked as "apothecaries, barbers, blacksmiths, sextons, printers, tavern keepers and m...

(Voltaire Chapter 8). She began living the life of a prisoner of war for the most part. One author notes she was "ill-used by othe...

after the Revolution, of course, the focus became the design and implementation of a new form of government1. The fledgling state...

in the new land, combining instruments and styles for a new sort of folk music. In relationship to the most classical type of mu...

took until 1791 for the states to agree on the ten that have endured (Mount, 2005). However, as needs arose, and different concern...

with the Iroquois in the seventeenth century and the Thirteen Colonies in the eighteenth."3 This author also indicates that a larg...

until the outbreak of the War Between the States during the middle of the century), the country almost seemed to be two polar oppo...

when someone relocates to another country, should he or she support the old homeland, or should they side with the new, chosen cou...

film had prompted someone to commit heinous crimes. The other side claims that the society is violent and people want to see viole...

work, Candide, is a direct commentary on the search for lost spirituality and humanity, which typifies the eighteenth century writ...

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

Sarah Siddons was a well known personality of the age, perhaps the most famous actress. This presence of character is represented ...

painter of Louis XVs mid-18th-century France, the very paradigm of all that was best in a style of sensitive artifice coming after...

also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...

which was a term used by philosophers during the Middle Ages to describe an obstacle in schematic logic" (Wallbank, 1992). As such...

introduce the acceptance of new experimental techniques (Porter, 1999). The Iatrochemist was a physician that studies chemical p...

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...

Francis Hayman for the Rotunda at Vauxhall Gardens during the Seven Years War. Jonathan Tyers, the proprietor of Vauxhall Gardens ...

can see this is Book IV, lines 32-113. It is perhaps this section that gives us the most intricate look at the theme of religion, ...

to surface and Johann Bernoulli convinced Euler to pursue mathematics full time. As a mathematician, Euler published over 866 book...

Similarly, in France, there would be drastic change as the people were fed up with the monarchy. They really wanted an enlightened...

and understood in many different ways. We are not only given one perspective but two that work together in different and powerful ...

In eleven pages this paper considers the crime increase in England during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the crime re...

opposites."1 Art is perhaps the most obvious place that one can envision the true nature of this balance as presented by the Chine...

government. Political dissent and conflict were thereafter more or less continuous in Alta California except for a temporary resp...

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

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