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Women in Athens During the Fifth Century

dilemma for his children, Orestes and Electra, who have to choose between not avenging their father and murdering their mother (18...

La Double Inconstance by Marivaux

who has been abducted from her home and taken to the local palace, is arguing with a servant, Trivet, the Princes factutum. This ...

Writers of English Prose

assist Bacons advancement" (Abacci Books). Yet, despite that all he had accomplished, and despite all that Essex had provided him,...

Aesthetics Definition and Modernism

such as slavery, racism, imperialism and World War I (Lavender, 2000). Modernists, in contrast to the Victorians, focused on human...

Examining Agamemnon by Aeschylus Within the Context of History

same standard as was Clytemestras during that era because Agamemnons unfaithfulness did not threaten the integrity of the family, ...

1st and 2nd Amendments' Examination and Revision

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...

Looking at Empiricism and Rationalism

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

France of the 18th and 19th Centuries, Radicalism, and Liberalism

deemed it so. In any event, it appears that there is justification for others to rule, despite the inherent encroachment on the ...

17th Century American Economic Thought

The sole reason for a colony (in the eyes of the sponsoring Nation at least) was to provide greater wealth to the mother country. ...

Germans of the Twentieth Century and the Attractiveness of Nazi Concepts

provide the salve for that discontent. Evans (1998) notes: "What really needs explaining is...

Gordon S. Wood's The Radicalism of the American Revolution

more democratic, liberal and capitalistic visions of the 19th century (Wood 95). With republicanism we see that such things as ine...

The Conflict Theory of Karl Marx and Views of Terrorism

since history was first recorded (OConnor, 2004). Acts of terrorism can be found in the Bible and they are recorded in Roman histo...

Twenty First Century Childbearing Practices of African Americans

ultimately gave rise to modern-day sameness when it comes to childrearing. Particularly evident of this is how attitudes of...

17th and 18th Century America and White Slaves

German child sold as a mulatto" (Talty, 2000). There was even a case...

Calculus and Sir Isaac Newton

of modern mathematics. The purpose here is to explore Newtons approach to developing calculus. Foundational Work The state...

Twentieth Century British Experimental Literature

Two significant examples of writers who broke away from traditional forms well before the end of the millennium are Virginia Woolf...

Mercury Uses, Iatromechanics and Iatrochemists

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

Three Robber Barons

financial gods (Himick, 2004). According to Himick, Morgan had such power over wealth, if he said someone had money, that person h...

Spanish Theater in the 17th Century

his numerous plays we see that they are love stories, farces, depictions of society, adventures, "moralizing pieces, tragedies, an...

The Distinctly American 'Best Essays Of The Century'

of racial struggles. In one of her most well known pieces - I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Angelou addresses the concept of op...

Arizona System of Criminal Justice and the Twenty First Century

by and large, remove a good deal of the criminal element from the streets. However, it can be said that while the criminal element...

19th Century Physicist Albert Michelson and Basic Physics Principles

with those of Michelson) continue to have application even today. Michelson did not contend that new discoveries would not ...

America and Free Labor of the Nineteenth Century

slave and freeman who work for nothing has about the same amount (1840, 368). Interestingly, a bit later, Karl Marx would remark t...

Italian Baroque Ceiling Paintings of the 18th Century

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

Love Canal and Hooker Chemical

at using the site for urban expansion. When the city forced the sale of the site through "imminent domain," Hooker added a disclai...

Letters of Dames Madeleine and Catherine Des Roches

to take on a work, apologies for the lateness of a manuscript, etc.; however, the majority of the letters demonstrate the erudite ...

Nineteenth Century Anti Semitism

Jews were not the only ones affected by anti Semitism. In the nineteenth century not only they but Cristians, Catholics in partic...

Enlightenment Ideals and Military Theory

In twenty five pages this research paper examines how late 18th century military theory was profoundly influenced by the Enlighten...

Literary Depiction of Women During the 19th Century

light. But still, few heroes emerged from literature or non-fiction of that century to truly portray the strong women who did exis...

Global Politics and Realism's Strengths and Weaknesses

personal and global. Continuing forth in the devastating manner in which humanity has approached such critical components such as...