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'Revolutionary' Citizenship and the American Experience

This paper considers how the modern concept of citizenship has been shaped by the American experience and also features a comparat...

She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith

This essay focuses on the 1773 play by Oliver Goldsmith, "She Stoops to Conquer," which is an eighteenth century play that is stil...

Prince Among Slaves by Terry Alford

This book review is on Terry Alford's text Prince Among Slaves. which relates the biography of Ibrahima, an African prince who was...

Development by Eras

Child development theories did not really come to fore until the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In fact, the word ‘childhood’...

Conjecture of Pierre de Fermat Refuted by Mathematician Leonhard Euler

to surface and Johann Bernoulli convinced Euler to pursue mathematics full time. As a mathematician, Euler published over 866 book...

18th Century France's Revolution and Revolt

Similarly, in France, there would be drastic change as the people were fed up with the monarchy. They really wanted an enlightened...

Narrative Voice in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

and understood in many different ways. We are not only given one perspective but two that work together in different and powerful ...

Benjamin West's Artistic Career

Francis Hayman for the Rotunda at Vauxhall Gardens during the Seven Years War. Jonathan Tyers, the proprietor of Vauxhall Gardens ...

An Analysis of Three Classic Films From the Mid-Twentieth Century

politics. Gore Vidal wrote the screenplay, as well as the original Broadway play on which the movie is based. Vidal was friends wi...

Eighteenth Century Literature and Religion

can see this is Book IV, lines 32-113. It is perhaps this section that gives us the most intricate look at the theme of religion, ...

1st and 2nd Amendments' Examination and Revision

the Constitution (and its Bill of Rights) is a living document, which was written in such a way so as to fit the times. While this...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Mercury Uses, Iatromechanics and Iatrochemists

introduce the acceptance of new experimental techniques (Porter, 1999). The Iatrochemist was a physician that studies chemical p...

Detroit Michigan's History

In ten pages this report considers the history of one of America's largest and oldest cities dating back to the first years of the...

Europe During the Mid 19th Century and Social Changes

In six pages this paper discusses the socioeconomic changes that occurred in Europe during the middle 19th century in an assessmen...

History of Paris During the Late 18th to the Mid 19th Centuries

In five pages this paper examines Paris history during this time period in terms of growth and the effect of the French Revolution...

Andrew Crumey's Second Novel fitz

fanciful conceits, the same thing that Escher has done with line and image. Interestingly enough, the comparison doesnt stop ther...

American Explorer John Ledyard

In five pages the eighteenth century Pacific explorations of John Ledyard are considered as are his expulsion from Russia after at...

The Mid Nineteenth Century Prejudice Against Chinese Immigrants

In eight pages this research paper discusses Chinese immigrant discrimination from the 1850s through the 1870s with the assistance...

David Hume on Causation and Rational Belief

In three pages this paper discusses David Hume's philosophical belief that causation laid the foundation for rational belief with ...

Eighteenth Century Quaker Woman's Narrative 'Sarah's Journal'

In five pages this first person narrative is examined in terms of its description of quilt making and eighteenth century Quaker me...

Robert Adam, Scottish Architect

In four pages the work and interior design contributions of famed eighteenth century architect are examined. Four sources are cit...

The Introduction of Machinery During the First Industrial Revolution

This paper examines the use of machinery in the production of textiles during the Eighteenth Century. This five page paper has no...

Boston, Massachusetts and the 1721 Small Pox Epidemic

In five pages this epidemic and inoculation techniques developed in eighteenth century Boston are discussed. Four sources are cit...

2 Movie Versions of Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders

In 5 pages this paper examines what the film versions of this novel reveal more about the times in which they were made than the e...

Late Eighteenth Century Haitian Revolution

French Empire. It was during this period that African slaves were brought to work the sugarcane and coffee plantations. In 1791, t...