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Virginia During the Eighteenth Century and the Contributions of African Americans

In three pages this paper discusses the African American importance to Virginia during the eighteenth century in an examination of...

Debates During the Eighteenth Century Age of Enlightenment

with the fall of man and the origin of sin was metaphorical rather than literal. Not surprisingly, such thinking was considered b...

Eighteenth Century Prostitution and Eroticism in Fanny Hill by John Cleland

In twelve pages this report examines how Cleland presents prostitution and eroticism in his scandalous eighteenth century novel Me...

Nicholas Rowe's Eighteenth Century Play The Tragedy of Jane Shore

In 5 pages an analysis of this 1714 play on Edward IV's mistress is presented. There are no other sources listed....

Eighteenth Century Age of Enlightenment and Politics

out to apply the critical method to the problem of government in The Spirit of Laws (1748). The result was a complex comparative s...

Fourteenth to Eighteenth Century Families of Europe and the Roles of Women

Women's roles in European families from 1300 to 1700 are examined in five pages. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

Literature of the Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries and Women's Debate

In 2 pages the 'debate about women' during this time period are examined in a discussion of Arraignment of Lewd, Idle, Froward, an...

Late Eighteenth Century Haitian Revolution

French Empire. It was during this period that African slaves were brought to work the sugarcane and coffee plantations. In 1791, t...

The Eighteenth Century Novel The Italian by Ann Radcliffe

writes that there was "something too extraordinary in the figure of this man, and too singular in his conduct to pass unnoticed by...

Literature of the Late Eighteenth Century and Humanism

Tales" reflect the fact that these stories were written during a time of tremendous transition in England. As the opening lines of...

American Religion and The Great Awakening of the Eighteenth Century

which occurred in the 1730s and 1740s. It was during those few decades in which we emerged as a religiously based and religiously ...

Eighteenth Century Quaker Woman's Narrative 'Sarah's Journal'

In five pages this first person narrative is examined in terms of its description of quilt making and eighteenth century Quaker me...

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 ...

Reflections of Society in Eighteenth Century Art, Music, and Literature

This paper examines the ways in which Eighteenth Century society is reflected in the art, music, and literature of the period, kno...

Mid Eighteenth Century Free British Fishery Society

In five pages this report considers the Free British Fishery Society of the mid eighteenth century. There is 1 source cited in th...

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century British History and Authors

as one author states, "The medieval church was defeated and the educated classes embraced scientific rationalism. Art, architectu...

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...

Mercury Uses, Iatromechanics and Iatrochemists

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

The Sign for Gersaint's Shop and Departure from Cythera Paintings by Jean Antoine Watteau

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

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...

Stage Objections During the 1700s

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

Morality Tale Vathek by William Beckford

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

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...

Comparative Analysis of Music in the Czech Republic and the US

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

Virginia's Way of Life and American Revolutionaries

were able, through circumstances, to identify themselves with the people. This isnt too far from the campaign run by Bill Clinton ...

3 Canadian History Articles Analyzed

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

The Antebellum Economy of the United States

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

18th Century France's Revolution and Revolt

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

Conjecture of Pierre de Fermat Refuted by Mathematician Leonhard Euler

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

Benjamin West's Artistic Career

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