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Denis Diderot/Rameau's Nephew

as being different sides of the authors true character and argues that in "literature as in life, we must choose" (Brans 437). T...

Working Conditions and the Industrial Revolution

any attempt to better their conditions was seen through direct contact with officials, rather than mill owners. With those realiti...

Ainsworth/Attachment Theory

following discussion of attachment theory, which particularly focuses on the contributions of Ainsworth, offers an overview of it...

Yinka Shonibare/A Flying Machine for Every Man, etc.

of Shonibares characters via their clothing. While Victorian in style, the design for the wax fabrics originated in the Dutch colo...

Changes in the View and Practice of Profit Maximization in the Global Economy

the firm as a profit maximizing entity. The concept of the firm to maximize profits may appear to be the most likely role of ...

The History of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century

there was nothing else to help to that end. Another important thing that occurred is that in Paris, the doctors would begin to qua...

Allegory and Exemplum in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

are knit by Chaucer into a complex tapestry in this allegorical tale, illustrating the instability of lifes joys, but also the sam...

Thomas Becket: A Biography

Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12...

The Cherokee and the Trail of Tears

forced removal became known as "The Trail of Tears", an event that proved once and for all that no matter what the Cherokee or oth...

Epitome of the Iconoclastic Seventh Synod

is attributed to Christianitys roots in Judaism, which adheres to the Second Commandment injunction, "Thought shall not make unto ...

Ageism and the 2008 Presidential Elections

differing by only around a decade or so. Grover Cleveland was President in 1908 and he was 47 years old (Scholastic.com). William ...

Contextual, Cultural, and Historical Influences on Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 Social Drama, A Doll’s House

of Norway. Interestingly, Ibsen observed a year before the completion of A Dolls House in his text Notes for a Modern Tragedy, "T...

Proper Nutrition And Good Health: Culinary Cause And Effect

being; changing the way people eat by introducing them to more bioavailable food sources is but one of many aspects inherent to cu...

The Scientific Revolution and the Protestant Reformation

held by the Church. This refutation of long held religious beliefs was something that turned on end the way people thought. It c...

Children's Book Illustrators

"pencil or pen and ink"; however, for her finished pieces, Potter worked primarily in watercolor, adding touches of pen and ink wh...

Separate Spheres and Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Benita Eisler’s The Lowell Offering

wives of plantation owners, while the majority of them were well educated, rarely left their manicured grounds without their husba...

An 18th Century American

a great deal of fur trading to be had, although both French and English were involved in fur trading and dealings with the Natives...

Social Bias

particular group, ethnicity or other social connection by virtue of the behavior or situation of only some in that population. Bla...

Mark Edmundson's "On The Uses Of A Liberal Education" - Argument Against His Point Of View

virtually impossible to have critical thinking present without the benefit of decision-making or to experience the decision-making...

Marvell/To His Coy Mistress

20). The lyricism and imagery in this opening section are romantic, seductive and certain to appeal to the ego of any woman. Howev...

City Beautiful v. Urban Reform Movements

history of urban development and city planning is the result of a lengthy evolutionary history. The following discussion relates a...

19th Century Russia

older brother, Alexander I, died and his second brother, Grand Duke Constantine, refused the crown (Levykin, 1999). His first act ...

Parsons and Bourdieu

social behavior solely in terms of social classes, Bourdieus writing refers to the concept of fields, which he defined as specifi...

Response/Reaction To Global Warming Article

to benefit from such a boon - as is the case with any sort of social improvement - the vast majority was able to bask in the up-an...

Reform Movements of the 19th Century: Frederick Douglass

a free man prior to the Civil War and it was during the Civil War that he began to work alongside Abraham Lincoln in many ways, al...

Evolution of Women’s Roles in Society

for the most part they were not really considered citizens and were truly at the mercy of men for their survival. It was not rea...

Islamic Influence on Medieval European Women

Europeans were studying at Muslim universities, located mostly in Spain, by the 13th century (The Islamic world to 1600). Even aft...

The Reformation

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

“The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century”

use of both primary and secondary sources are used throughout the book and the message if the interdependent link between imperial...

Shifting Newtonian Paradigms

of a desire to explain this new, more confusing universe. One source writes that many times, small choices can lead to "overwhelmi...