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'Ardo e scoprir' Madrigal by Claudio Monteverdi

tonal. However, there is also no denying that this tonality differed from what would come later (Chafe xv). A mode is a specific p...

Chinese Painters of the 17th Century Shi T'ao and Kung Hsien

In five pages this paper examines these two Chinese individualist painters of the 17th century in terms of how life and artistic s...

German Composer Heinrich Schutz and His Music

In five pages this research paper considers the music of Heinrich Schutz, often regarded as the greatest 17th century German Baroq...

Comedy Ballet Le Bougeois Gentilhomme by Moliere

outburst which has done much to mould French genius of more recent times. The latter part of the century, which has been called t...

17th Century Heroic Scientists

assumptions came to predominate Western cultural thought (Olson 18). Prior to this era, during the medieval period, the proper a...

The Age of Exploration and Onwards - Social and Economic Development

new and more efficient shipping routes. The combined might of the Portuguese and Spanish holdings claimed during the Age of Explor...

17th Century World History

Ghana, Dahomey on the Ivory Coast, and Shama on the Ghana coast, were locked into a complex cultural and economic exchange which g...

Errand Into the Wilderness by Samuel Danforth

In five pages this sermon of the 17th century is examined in terms of its complexity of function as both an allegory and Jeremiad....

17th Century Social History of China and The Death of Woman Wang by Jonathan Spence

In five pages this paper examines how Chinese society of the seventeenth century is presented in The Death of Woman Wang by Jonath...

Fur Trade and Iroquois' Fur Trade Wars of the 17th Century

warfare. Complicated system of alliances Political alliances among the Iroquois were divided into two categories: historical and ...

Military Rations in Burma During the 17th Century

In 5 pages, these rations are explained not only in terms of the effects of the physical environment but also in an economic, poli...

Aphra Behn's 17th Century Literary Works

Indies, and lived an adventurous life of slave rebellions and observed Indian tribal rituals which would later appear in her works...

17th Century America and Black Slavery

no sunlight and been fed only enough to keep them alive. This journey, however, was likely just the beginning of the trials and t...

Spanish Theater in the 17th Century

his numerous plays we see that they are love stories, farces, depictions of society, adventures, "moralizing pieces, tragedies, an...

17th and 18th Century America and White Slaves

German child sold as a mulatto" (Talty, 2000). There was even a case...

England and France During the 17th and 18th Centuries

was played out by their government. It has been contended that English land was a critical element in most all of the...

Online Researching of John Donne's 17th Century Poetry

In eight pages this paper discusses how to conduct Internet research on this topic with a consideration of the websites to be used...

Gangraena by Thomas Edwards is a Window into 17th Century Life

This essay explores this famous work from the perspective of what it reveals to the reader about the seventeenth century. Edwards...

17th Century Puritan Clergyman Ralph Josselin and His Family Life

In five pages this paper discusses the family life of Puritan moderate minister Ralph Josselin as chronicled in his diaries....

17th Century Life of Sor Juana de la Cruz

In eight pages this paper examines the life of what may well have been the first feminist in the Americas. Five sources are cit...

European Scientific Revolution of the 16th and 17th Centuries

in the numbers of scientists and "practitioners" (cartographers), instrumentmakers, navigators, and so on), and the consequent cre...

17th and 18th Century European Military Education

In twelve pages European military officer training during this time period is examined in a discussion of informal British approac...

Development by Eras

Child development theories did not really come to fore until the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In fact, the word ‘childhood’...

McWhorter/Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

Another feature that is unique to English is the way in which English uses the that "-ing thing" (McWhorter 2). In English, the pr...

'Black English' in an English Dialect Study

fricatives (three pronounced as tree and the pronounced as do), and the monophthongalization of /ay/ and /aw/ dipthongs find an...

The Evolution of Black American English

a mountain range, etc., that has served historically to keep two populations apart also serves to create differences in speech (R...

Is Black English Vernacular a “Real Language?”

This idea, she says, is not hypothetical; the grammar and syntax peculiar to Black English Vernacular have been known for several ...

Spoken English and its Sociocultural Components

In eight pages this paper examines how language development is influenced by culture and society in a consideration of its effects...

Qualitative Research Talk

The question for the study being discussed is: "How effective is the new ESL curriculum in helping student improve English languag...

A History of the English Language

This paper examines four different variations of the English language, ranging from Old English to current English. This eight pa...