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Essays 1951 - 1980

21st Century Retrieval of Information

Many patrons can access the information from their home computers so that they do not even have to go to the library to see if a b...

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and the Description of Roles for Women

the means of doing so were very circumscribed; it usually meant they had to go into service. Women rarely worked at any sort of oc...

Candide by Voltaire and Women

(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...

Marie de France, Chretian de Troyes, and Courtly Love

the help of a lion that he rescues from a serpent (Braswell). As this illustrates, the story leaves plenty of room for Ywain to p...

Individualism in Knight of the Lion by Chretien de Troyes

the first prolonged first-person account is given by Calogrenant and tells of how he ventured into the "forest of Broceliane" (De ...

Berceo's Poem about Mary, Miracles of Our Lady

The writer examines the 13th century poem Milagros de Nuestra Senora (Miracles of Our Lady). The writer describes it as a series o...

Immigrants Today and of the Second Wave and a Consideration of Their Financial Status

group were extremely poor. Ireland was a land of peasants with a high unemployment rate, and those who boarded the ships for Ameri...

Was the Barons' Rebellion a 'Deliberate and Enlightened' Revolution?

Provisions of Oxford, the steps which Henry took to avoid conforming to them, and the factionalism which developed amongst the bar...

Shifting Newtonian Paradigms

of a desire to explain this new, more confusing universe. One source writes that many times, small choices can lead to "overwhelmi...

Twenty First Century, Newton's Paradigm, and the Chaos Theory

theory has arisen out of a desire to explain this new, more confusing universe. One source writes that many times, small choices c...

“The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century”

use of both primary and secondary sources are used throughout the book and the message if the interdependent link between imperial...

New England in the Seventeenth Century and Environmental History

native population because "by the marvelous goodness & providence of God not one of the English was so much as sick."3 This sent...

Contemporary Lessons Taught by 16th Century St. Teresa of Avila

prayer and, ultimately, began to experience visions. During those visions she was outwardly the same but inwardly she was filed w...

France and England During the 16th and Seventeenth Centuries

of other lands and consequently the subjugation or at least the exploitation of the indigenous peoples in Africa, Asia and the Ame...

Ideal of the Courtly Love Concept

the romantic saga of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere, wife of King Arthur, as depicted in Chretien de Troyes Lancelot or, the Kni...

Seventeenth Century French Absolutism

monarchy reinforced its monitoring of printing, totally strangling the emerging press" (The Library of Congress, 2005). Even the F...

Janine Brody's Canada National Policy Opinion

Canada is made up of various regions with different needs and interests. Industries tend to form where there is a need. It would b...

Canada's Legal System and How the Female Legal Personality Has Evolved

their exclusion from society, because since they were not accorded legal personalities, this meant "women were not included in the...

Constantinople's Fall

at this point, consisted of little more than the city itself and a small portion of the Peloponnese peninsula (Fall of Constantino...

Carl L. Becker's Rejection of Popular Eighteenth-Century Philosophers

the chance to break free from such constraints. The global society was ready for a tremendous change in direction following the t...

Arena Chapel of Padua, Life of Christ and Giotto di Bondone's Fresco

(McGeary 152). Giotto replaced golden backdrops with hills, meadows and houses, which were familiar to his fourteenth century view...

British Literature of the Seventeenth Century Examined

and women to enjoy each other. The Philosophical Viewpoints We want to relate the conflict and the writings to various philosop...

British and the Zulu Threat During the 19th Century

1998). Shaka died in 1828 and was succeeded by his half brother Dingane who was involved in the assassination with another half b...

US Government's Failure of the Late Nineteenth Century Assimilation of Native Americans

developed, even barbaric (Ferro, 1997). This was true within the then US, there had been the perception of the Native Americans as...

Paul E. Johnson's Sam Patch

known life without industrialization. At the same time he was a man who reflected the dreams and ideals and hopes of his people fo...

Induction Problem and David Hume

Hume was often at odds with other philosophers when it came to his personal perception of human nature and the ways of life....

Working Class of Canada Before 1860

and suggests several avenues for further research; it also draws quite a clear picture of the difficulties many of the farm famili...

Colonists and the First Nations

lead to meetings between the First Nations and the new colonists. Contact between the Europeans and First Nations, as might be ex...

2 Innovative and Traditional Ballets

culture (Lee 214). While Petipas technical vocabulary of movement had made great and creative strikes, "great elegance and dignit...

Nineteenth Century Potato Famine of Ireland

also examines some possible solutions. Clarkson points out that other writers, in addition to Grada, have been appalled at the fac...