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

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

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

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

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

have deleterious effects on the health outcomes of the residents in these areas. Many researchers have arrived at the same conclus...

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...

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

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

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, ...

period in time, that logic, reason, and perhaps personal enlightenment regarding society as it involved reason and logic were the ...

It is important for the student working on this project to understand that European imperialism was about political and national c...

of land in the area and with whom Pope considered his family belonged. When Robert, Lord Petre had cut off a lock of Arabella Ferm...

one can take from this article is a one-sided story told from the point of view of the Native Americans. However, this...

"Tell" by First Degree The D.E., who is also known by birth name, Michael Cohen, offer a contemporary indictment against racism. L...

society, this history, into which he was born, stating "This was the culture from which i sprang. This was the terror from which I...

felony, the law implies that it shall be punished with death, viz., by hanging as well as forfeiture: unless the offender prays th...

became a variety of vampire lore which abounded. Interestingly enough, however, the basic idea that this entity was the undead, ca...

As this empire grew in influence, they expanded into southeastern Europe, particularly the Balkans and Greece (The Ottoman, Safavi...

This essay describes the manner in which Voltaire lampooned eighteenth century society in his satirical novel "Candide." Five page...

husband, Ephraim were well respected members of the community of Hallowell. Martha was a midwife who had made over 816 deliveries ...

This essay focuses on the 1773 play by Oliver Goldsmith, "She Stoops to Conquer," which is an eighteenth century play that is stil...

This essay looks at representative works of William Blake, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde in relation to the eras in which they w...

the mind" then "no physical thing exists outside the mind" (McGreal 252). Third, primary qualities such as solidity, extension, sh...

he mocks. It is after all a story of a lock of hair stolen while a young woman sleeps. What can be simpler? What can be less impo...

five senses; "whatever the truth may be" (Ballis). In the "Proverbs from Hell", the Devil speaks wise statements in regards to t...

or excited by his account because overall he states that "I believe there are few events in my life, which have not happened to ma...

is mocking our hopes, and at the same time the teasing promise of Spring is false. With the coming of this Spring we can also envi...

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

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