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Prince Among Slaves by Terry Alford

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

'Revolutionary' Citizenship and the American Experience

This paper considers how the modern concept of citizenship has been shaped by the American experience and also features a comparat...

The Events and Processes that Led to the Development of Contemporary Archaeology

Contemporary archaeology has been shaped by numerous factors. At one time archaeology was a largely...

Samuel Johnson/Vanity of Human Wishes

a poem of great emotional power, but the emotions that it expresses are also tightly controlled, which conveys the meaning that th...

'First Follow Nature and 'An Essay on Criticism' by Alexander Pope

writes in lines 11 through 14: "In Poets as true Genius is but rare, / True Taste as seldom is the Critics share; / Both must alik...

British Columbia's Modernist Architecture

direction this modern era should take: "While many of the citizens of Victoria cherished and identified with its picturesque archi...

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...

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 ...

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...

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Writers Compared and Contrasted

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

Gainsborough's Eighteenth Century English Portraits

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

Narrative Voice in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

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

A Satirical Reflection on French Society: Candide

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

She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith

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

Satire of Jonathan Swift

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

Terra Nullius and 'New Holland' Myths

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

Rebecca Foster's 1789 Rape

for the entire community provided the basis upon which its historical evidence might be knowingly skewed to help support the notio...

A History of the Magazine in America

other reason may be that they were too expensive for the average household to buy. Documents from that time indicate that the maga...

Increased Crime Rate in England During the 19th Century

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

Singular Theme of Michel Saint Jean de Crevecoeur, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin?

his background/ mindset was initially staunchly European. Consequently, besides being writers who lived during the 18th century, w...

Neville Chamberlain's Policies of Appeasement

This paper examines the pre World War II appeasement policies of British prime minister Neville Chamberlain in tewnty seven pages....

Detroit Michigan's History

In ten pages this report considers the history of one of America's largest and oldest cities dating back to the first years of the...