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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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

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...

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...

David Hume on Causation and Rational Belief

In three pages this paper discusses David Hume's philosophical belief that causation laid the foundation for rational belief with ...

War Culture of Europe Until 1700

In seven pages this paper examines Europe's war culture and chronicles its development until the dawn of the eighteenth century. ...

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...

America's Constitution and the Views of the Anti Federalists

In three pages this paper examines the eighteenth century debate of the U.S. Constitution's structuring from the anti Federalist p...

American Explorer John Ledyard

In five pages the eighteenth century Pacific explorations of John Ledyard are considered as are his expulsion from Russia after at...

Robert Adam, Scottish Architect

In four pages the work and interior design contributions of famed eighteenth century architect are examined. Four sources are cit...

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...

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...

America's Revolutionary War and Women

in 1620. Between 1628 and 1640, the Massachusetts Bay Colony was established. By the time of the revolution strong communal valu...

English Asylums and Neoclassicism

In five pages this paper traces England's early asylums to seventeenth and eighteenth century neoclassicism. Two sources are cite...