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Innovation and Structure in 'Astrophel and Stella' by Sir Philip Sidney

In eight pages this paper examines the sonnet structure and poetic devices Sidney employed in this 16th century poem. There are 7...

Danish Astronomer Tycho Brahe

In six pages this research paper discusses the 16th century astronomer Tycho Brahe's life and achievements. Eight sources are cit...

Heliocentric Theory Controversy

In nine pages this paper examines 16th and 17 century controversies over the heliocentric theory developed by Kepler, Copernicus, ...

Themes of the Mona Lisa Painting by Leonardo da Vinci

In five pages this paper discusses how this painting represents the 16th century European treatment of women in a consideration of...

Go West The Migration to the State of California

10 pages and 4 sources. This paper provides an overview of the events and factors that led to the migration to California. This ...

Ambivalent Conquests by Clendinnen

In three pages this book on the 16th century Yucatan is summarized and critiqued. There are no other sources listed....

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

virtue. Niccolo Machiavelli lived between 1469 and 1527 (Hutchinson Dictionary of World History, 1998). Born in Florence h...

St. Peter's Complaint by Robert Southwell

In five pages this paper discusses this text by 16th century religious poet Robert Southwell. Three sources are cited in the bibl...

Doctor Faustus Play by Christopher Marlowe and Religion's Role

In sixteen pages this famous 16th century play is considered in an examination of religion's role in it. Five sources are cited i...

Fantasy Woman in Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

In eight pages the 'fantasy' women depicted in Marlowe's 16th century play are discussed in terms of their pornographic characteri...

Lazarillo de Tormes in New York City

yours. Stand still, shut your eyes, and wait." I did, and something began to happen. The air began to hum.. I tried to open my ey...

Comparing Utopia and The Prince

This 6 page paper compares and contrasts Thomas More's book Utopia with The Prince by Machiavelli. The writer considers what More'...

Ideologies of Machiavelli, Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle on Democratic Rule

of the United States. Without the philosophies of those that lived in the centuries prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence...

South America and the Population Impact of Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century Silver Mining

also set a precedent with regard to the extent of South Americas extended reach into new and previously uncharted territory. O?at...

English Weddings of the 16th Century

Despite their integral cultural connection to the rights of passage associated with weddings, the great wedding celebrations of si...

Historical Causes of the 16th Century Protestant Reformation

In six pages this paper examines the 16th century Protestant Reformation in an overview of its causative factors. Three sources a...

Elizabeth the I of England and Mary Tudor comparing their regimes

This paper looks at the 16th century reigns of Elizabeth I and Mary Tudor with regards to international relations, religious freed...

The Black Plague: The Roman Empire and Europe

truly a mystery to them, and thus incredibly frightening. Both cultures, or time periods, were possessed of cultures that were v...

The Reformation

Reformers to disseminate information so quickly (Kreis, 2007). That dissemination include the Bible translated into native languag...

Sixteenth Century Literature and Parody

quest as being somehow representative of the times in which he lived. Through the use of exaggeration, Cervantes is basically say...

The Pope's Elephant by Bendini

were reaped. There did seem to be an exercise of wealth and power due more to the consequence of their trading empires in non-Eur...

Castiglione's The Courtier and Machiavelli's The Prince

also been associated with seriousness and intelligence, however, a man who realized that in order to accomplish a goal one had to ...

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...

Energy Crises Past and Present

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the energy crisis. Comparisons are made between the current crisis and that faced b...

'Ovid's Banquet of Sence' by George Chapman

his argument to the priestess who taught him mysteries in his youth, Diotima of Mantinea. Attributing his words to Diotima, Socrat...

Johannes Kepler and His Contribution to Astrology

advantage of an education and as such was able to afford himself a level of intellectual snobbery, but this is more that snobbery,...

Assimilation, Identity, and Jewish History

consistent throughout the centuries of the Diaspora. In order to remain Jewish, individuals could not adopt the customs of their h...

Sixteenth Century Keyboard Instruments

the strings.6 The tangents were inserted into the key levers at the lower end, and the top end was flattened for contact with the...

Text Analysis of 'Evil in Modern Thought An Alternative History of Philosophy' by Susan Neiman

in Modern Thought points to two cataclysmic moments in history that were responsible for altering the contemporary perceptions of ...

Sixteenth Century Art Marketing

sort of introduction. While an artist could paint portraits, murals or landscapes, or sculpt busts, figures or funeral statuary, t...