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Essays 1771 - 1800

Secession and Issues of Slavery

into the White House (Brooks, 2003). The Brown raid took place in South Carolina, a state where the slave population was higher th...

Women in Athens During the Fifth Century

dilemma for his children, Orestes and Electra, who have to choose between not avenging their father and murdering their mother (18...

Twentieth Century Fashion Evolution

barriers. Hem lines rose and corsets were discarded, with women enjoying the increased feeling of freedom. Dresses were short and ...

20th Century and its 'Dismal State' Captured in Text

this once desirable state of affairs. Indeed, the twentieth century saw fights in terms of the legalization of drugs and alcohol, ...

Motherhood According to Caryl Churchill's Top Girls and Kate Chopin's The Awakening

and traumatic childhood (Taylor and Fineman 35). Edna longs for some sort of meaning and transcendence in her life. In Mademoise...

19th Century America's Economic Developments

majorities in terms of the Senate and the intermittent control of the White House, change was not significant (2000). The desire t...

A History Of Holy Communion

and to the communal life, to the breaking of the bread and to the prayers" (NAB, Acts 2:42). "The devoted themselves to the apostl...

Arab World Renaissance of the Nineteenth Century

against oppression in the early 19th century, many reformers began to inundate the Islamic world, thus inserting many pivotal beli...

Morality Tale Vathek by William Beckford

indicative of a disdain for authoritarian institutions. Vathek is a powerful man who indulges in vast excesses. Beckford makes it ...

Light Skinned Blacks 'Passing' Themselves Off as Whites in America

In order to enjoy the better things in life, it was better to deny ones heritage, while reclaiming ones heritage, while noble and ...

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century New York and Paris

impressionism, a movement in painting that concentrated on the effects of light and color" This was a movement that originated in ...

Gainsborough's Eighteenth Century English Portraits

Sarah Siddons was a well known personality of the age, perhaps the most famous actress. This presence of character is represented ...

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...

Change and Continuity During the Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries

war between France and Austria and Prussia, prices increased dramatically, and food shortages occurred" (Analysis of the French R...

Post 19th Century Indian Women and How They Have Progressed

a degree. Indian women too, however, are slowly gaining momentum in terms of equal rights. While in nineteenth century Ind...

Germans of the Twentieth Century and the Attractiveness of Nazi Concepts

provide the salve for that discontent. Evans (1998) notes: "What really needs explaining is...

A Century of Progress for Women from 1890 to 1990

attempt to attend Womans Medical College in Pennsylvania further supports the notion that there were areas of society in which Jan...

The Sign for Gersaint's Shop and Departure from Cythera Paintings by Jean Antoine Watteau

painter of Louis XVs mid-18th-century France, the very paradigm of all that was best in a style of sensitive artifice coming after...

Gordon S. Wood's The Radicalism of the American Revolution

more democratic, liberal and capitalistic visions of the 19th century (Wood 95). With republicanism we see that such things as ine...

Duluth Lynching of 1920

Jackson and McGhie were not performers in the circus, however. They were cooks and simple laborers Clayton, Jackson and McGhie. ...

Immigration of Japanese to America

of information about Japanese American immigration which can be found on the World Wide Web. These authors are Stanley K. Schultz...

European Cinematic Depiction of Gender from the 1920s to the Twenty First Century

story, mise-en-scene, editing, and music, they collectively provide a common theme that speaks of the uniqueness of the feminist e...

The Conflict Theory of Karl Marx and Views of Terrorism

since history was first recorded (OConnor, 2004). Acts of terrorism can be found in the Bible and they are recorded in Roman histo...

17th Century American Economic Thought

The sole reason for a colony (in the eyes of the sponsoring Nation at least) was to provide greater wealth to the mother country. ...

Looking at Empiricism and Rationalism

also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...

France of the 18th and 19th Centuries, Radicalism, and Liberalism

deemed it so. In any event, it appears that there is justification for others to rule, despite the inherent encroachment on the ...

Twenty First Century Childbearing Practices of African Americans

ultimately gave rise to modern-day sameness when it comes to childrearing. Particularly evident of this is how attitudes of...

Italian Baroque Ceiling Paintings of the 18th Century

which was a term used by philosophers during the Middle Ages to describe an obstacle in schematic logic" (Wallbank, 1992). As such...

17th and 18th Century America and White Slaves

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

Calculus and Sir Isaac Newton

of modern mathematics. The purpose here is to explore Newtons approach to developing calculus. Foundational Work The state...