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Native Americans/Preserving Independence

did improve British relations with Native Americans, the colonials were irate, as they saw the entire point of the French and Indi...

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...

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...

The American Revolution is Still Underway!

after the Revolution, of course, the focus became the design and implementation of a new form of government1. The fledgling state...

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 Landscapes of Thomas Gainsborough

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

The Way to Wealth and Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin and Journal by John Woolman

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

David Hume and Immanuel Kant on Freedom of the Will

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

Mark A. Burkholder's Politics of a Colonial Career Jose Baquijano and the Audiencia of Lima Reviewed

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

Gender in Classic Literature

of a womans time. However, the student will want to state, if one reads Eves apologie closely, then one can begin to see the femi...

Eighteenth Century British Literature and Women

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

Immigration of Hispanics into the United States

government. Political dissent and conflict were thereafter more or less continuous in Alta California except for a temporary resp...

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...

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...

Roxana and Bold Strokb by a Wife in Reference to Capitalism and Women

her protestations of reform, Roxana does not regret in the slightest the amount of income which she has garnered over the years as...

American 'Palefaces' and 'Redskins' in Literature

In five pages this report discusses the 'pale face' or 'redskin' literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth century with the 'pal...

Andrew Crumey's Second Novel fitz

fanciful conceits, the same thing that Escher has done with line and image. Interestingly enough, the comparison doesnt stop ther...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Eighteenth Century Literature and Religion

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, ...

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...