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Geoffrey Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales

This essay delves into the man behind The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer. The author utilizes both an in depth reading of the...

Public Space Function of the American Street

In five pages this paper discusses the evolving function of the American street as a public space and considers how it may not aga...

Life of Flavius Josephus

In five pages the life, works, and historical significance of Flavius Josephus are discussed. Five sources are cited in the bibli...

A History Of The Abacus

This paper addresses the historical significance and development of the abacus, an early counting machine and precursor to the cal...

Soul of America: Documenting Our Past by Robert C. Baron

State or designated part of a State the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thencef...

Perceptual Losses Between the Page and Big Screen

overall projection of the idea or ideas (Cleland http://www. lander.edu/jcleland/HIST306/hist306guidelines%20film%20rev. html). A...

History and Literature

In six pages this paper considers such literary works as Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown,' Sarah Orne Jewett's 'The Whi...

Chapter 2 of Job, Lines 1 Through 10 Exegesis

Like other Hebrew patriarchs, Job lived to be more than 100 years old (see 42:16). His wealth was measured in cattle (see 1:3), an...

The Midwife's Tale The Life of Martha Ballard by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

In seven pages this historical text is critically analyzed through the use of such evaluation criteria as organization, plot, meth...

Sexuality in Roxana by Daniel Defoe

Roxana herself has done," presenting us with a story that is informing the reader about realities as they concern many conditions,...

The Miranda v Arizona Case, Due Process, and Miranda Rights

with empirical studies. But interest in the subject quickly waned, and research in the last couple of decades has been virtually n...

Junichiro Tanizaki's Some Prefer Nettles and Shiga Naoya's Seibei's Gourds

In five pages these texts are examined in terms of their historical significance. There are no other sources listed....

Overview of The Lord's Prayer

In sixteen pages this overview of The Lord's Prayer includes its historical significance and provides an exegesis of the 'lead us ...

Canadian Aboriginal Women

Aboriginal societies. Aboriginal people were first directed away from hunting into the economic order of the fur trade society. Gr...

Cultural Context of Silent Film

This paper addresses the artistic and historical significance of three silent films, The Battleship Potemkin, Metropolis, and, The...

Propaganda and Literature

In five pages this paper examines historical literature in terms of the employment of literary propaganda. Two sources are cited ...

'Coal' by Audre Lorde and 'Her Kind' by Anne Sexton

that is illustrating the power that was possessed by these women, but not the power that the men and women of the time thought the...

Hellenistic and Classical Eras' Achievements in Science, Art, and Literature

say that a great deal of struggle was not taking place during part of the Classical era, but it was a time of ideas and trading an...

Trumpet History

extra devices to alter pitch, and chromatic trumpets, which do have extra devices, such as valves, to modify pitch.4 Essentially, ...

Old Testament Book Of Ruth

(Ruth 1:3). The sons married Moab women but about ten years later, both sons died (Ruth 1:3). Ruth was one of the widows of Naomis...

An American Literature Study

There is no question that Bradford was a Puritan, and as such, offers his religious views and interpretations throughout his writi...

Prebaptism Initiation Rite

and changed Christianity from first a persecuted sect to a tolerated religion and finally to the legal and preferred religion, the...

Elizabeth Film Analyzed

to the personal allegiances of the Royals further ignited chaos and persecution. The fact that the film Elizabeth highlights the ...

Nubia's Ancient World Significance

of the Nubian culture and writing system until 300 A.D. Overall, the Nubian region and people were responsible for much of the eco...

Peasant Fires by Richard Wunderli

this conflict between the peasants and the landed gentry, as well as the church. Historically, what is significant about this b...

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn

writers could persuade the majority of the population to support the Revolution. While critics believe that many historians treat ...

Historical High-Points in Nursing History

also see that she considered the business of nursing to be about reform. In order to achieve the principles that she espoused fo...

Pentateuch as Interpreted by T.E. Fretheim

can be seen as counter-productive: it is necessary to look both at the validity which the compilers accorded to their sources and ...

Defining "Crusade" And "Jihad"

The concept of Jihad has long been at the forefront of controversy in its indignation toward government and strong-arm tactics. O...

Lessons Learned From The Napoleonic Era

who realized the importance of artillery they paved the way for artillery to become a major factor on the battleground and give ri...