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

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

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

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

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

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

In many ways we see, in the painting in the Norton Simon Museum, how there are timeless subjects in the world of painting. For exa...

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

ignorant -- country heroine. Likewise, Sheridan paints a similar, if more exaggerated picture, of aristocratic arrogance when he s...

Evelina Evelina was Burneys first and most successful novel (Description of Evelina, 2002). It is a story in which Burney...

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

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

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

In five pages Lefebvre's and Mousnier's views on what contributed to the French uprisings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centur...

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

and existed to do good. Therefore, he sermonized, citizens should obey not just for fear of punishment but for consciences sake. "...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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, ...

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

version of self-fulfillment and the American dream. Morality and the Conduct of Business Keeping in mind Woolmans deep Christian ...

event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...

and returned to Sudbury, but later moved to Ipswich for seven or eight years. His success as a portrait artist, however, came in 1...

but rather is focused more on his efforts during a time in Perus history when Americans sought high offices and the discrimination...

the expense of building the latest craze in architecture -- "...to punish awkward pride,/ Bids Bubo build, and send him such a gu...

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