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the human body. In Leiden, the first important Vanitas painter was David Bailly (1584-1657), and later Pieter Claesz (c. 1596-166...
society as we know it and, furthermore, the end of Western civilization in the process. His vision of the "Death of the West" is f...
forest, which would later represent the convergence of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina, symbolically depict a convergence of the h...
little was done to assimilate these different cultures and little was done to help the new city population to understand and deal ...
me today?" (Reed 25) His art has been described as being both powerful and extraordinary, and since the Mexican Revolution coinci...
police detective that suspects his department is turning a blind eye to organized crime after refusing to further investigate the ...
in American culture, despite her pro-immigration sentiments, which were directly opposed to the anti-immigration public feeling of...
the help of a lion that he rescues from a serpent (Braswell). As this illustrates, the story leaves plenty of room for Ywain to p...
the first prolonged first-person account is given by Calogrenant and tells of how he ventured into the "forest of Broceliane" (De ...
The ruler was seen as Gods representative on earth and his use of absolute power was justified by his receiving the right to rule ...
(Voltaire Chapter 8). She began living the life of a prisoner of war for the most part. One author notes she was "ill-used by othe...
certain of this opinion with his ideas of flatter organisations and the clover leaf structure he foresaw as meeting the needs of t...
The circumstances behind this revolution are interesting to say the least. By the twentieth century the discontent was at an...
fate of those who were underneath, so long as it was able to hold them there and keep its own seat" (Riis, 1971,5)....
some contrasting views of Englishness and attitudes about colonialism in their respective uses of the occult/supernatural. One te...
the stock market crash of October 1929 that blindsided everyone even though there had been disturbing warning signs surfacing week...
work force and the womens movement. When it comes to a family, society expects that the man and woman will play clearly defined, a...
Provisions of Oxford, the steps which Henry took to avoid conforming to them, and the factionalism which developed amongst the bar...
inherently good or inherently evil. Fragmentation and diversity are seen as positive and there is no conservative or fundamental p...
group were extremely poor. Ireland was a land of peasants with a high unemployment rate, and those who boarded the ships for Ameri...
of a desire to explain this new, more confusing universe. One source writes that many times, small choices can lead to "overwhelmi...
significantly hampering their ability to work beyond the psychological hindrance toward, for example, promotions and raises. What...
the means of doing so were very circumscribed; it usually meant they had to go into service. Women rarely worked at any sort of oc...
this premise had become a common notion and it persisted for centuries, something that would create more areas of persecution ("Pe...
The writer examines the 13th century poem Milagros de Nuestra Senora (Miracles of Our Lady). The writer describes it as a series o...
In fact, this theorist would focus on problems related to the periphery7. The school did focus on structural unemployment and th...
theater environment, that is most often accused of encouraging crime. Then, as now, the majority of the people ignored the naysaye...
most of Spain was united; the exception was Navarre, "which remained separate until 1512" (Reconquista, 2006). Spain, like most c...
A 3 page book review of John Gunther's memoir of his son's illness and death. The title of this book is drawn from John Donne's Me...
that flows. The crashes can result in large levels of wealth being destroyed and the potential for the crash to cause a depression...