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Metacom of the Wampanoag: Changing Perceptions Over Time

predominant mindset of manifest destiny that set the stage for the many abhorrent actions that were yet to unfold in Native/White ...

Nineteenth Century U.S. Labor

Workers included men, women and children. The fact that children worked in incredibly dangerous situations and conditions furthe...

Saint Teresa of Avila By Herself

she suffered a paralyzing illness - her illnesses were depicted not as physical in nature but as her souls struggles against tempt...

Tutorial on Prostheses and Latest Developments

changed from leather to plastic. This made the prosthetic a great deal lighter (Fox, 2001). Advances continued to be made in pros...

Mercury Uses, Iatromechanics and Iatrochemists

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

Letters of Dames Madeleine and Catherine Des Roches

to take on a work, apologies for the lateness of a manuscript, etc.; however, the majority of the letters demonstrate the erudite ...

Absolute Sovereign Power According to Thomas Hobbes

as this being the basis of the way than man will then behave as a result of the toughs Hobbes attention turns to human nature. C...

Change Through War

Years War, the French Wars of Religion and the Thirty Years War (Cunningham and Grell, 2000). The fact that warfare was such a p...

'The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality' by Bernard Williams

almost visceral, level. Whether or not the student agrees or not will generally be based on a personal belief system, ideology, re...

Increasing Significance of Long Distance Migration

In four pages this paper examines the increases in migrating long distances since the sixteenth century in a consideration of Amer...

Boris Yeltsin from a Machiavellian Perspective

to order--cruelty, deception, and force were all justified in his view if these forces accoplished the desired goals. In wielding ...

Justice in The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser

In eight pages this report considers the presentation of justice as the universal principle of governing in his sixteenth century ...

Mathematician Girolamo Cardano

In eight pages sixteenth century mathematician Girolamo Cardano and his Ars magna work are examined in a sentence outline with Car...

Philosophical Perspectives on Passion and Human Happiness

In fourteen pages this paper examines how passion and human happiness were perceived from various philosophers spanning the sixtee...

Literary and Historical Meaning of Boris Godunov by Alexander Pushkin

In five pages this report discusses the historical tragedy that was inspired by the ill fated czar of the late sixteenth and early...

A History of Performance Art

it still has a "middle," or whether we can contemplate that it will have an" end." According to Jack Bowman (1993), "1. A perform...

Cortez' Lover Dona Marina

In five pages the woman who was both interpreter and lover of Cortez is examined in terms of her varying interpretations that incl...

Eastern Indonesia, Commerce and Poverty

In seven pages this paper discusses Eastern Indonesia of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in a consideration of economics a...

Diaz del Castillo/The Conquest of New Spain

and pride of race, a lust of gold and a blind faith in their religion, together with an absolute contempt for that of other men we...

Dangerous Beauty Film and Roles Based on Gender

In five pages this 1998 movie is considered in a discussion of gender based roles and how sixteenth century Venetians managed to c...

The Journey to the West Sixteenth Century Novel by Wu Cheng'en

heaven, the Monkey King was happy to visit until he discovered why they had invited him. As a result, he flew back home and revol...

The Military Revolution Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800 by Geoffrey Parker

the "civilized" world. It appears that Parker understands that those merchants, in turn, petitioned their governments to pay for t...

Jesuits and St. Ignatius of Loyola

In nine pages this paper examines St. Ignatius of Loyola's life, religious conversion, and founding of the the sixteenth century J...

Perfect Society Concept and Utopia by Thomas More

In 5 pages this paper discusses whether or not contemporary society would regard More's Utopia as perfect in a consideration that ...

The Affectionate Shepherd by Richard Barnfield

old man fall helplessly in love with the fairy queen. As Kenneth Borris points out in his analysis of this work, much of the poem...

The Many Impacts of the Reformation

Up until the Reformation, the Protestant Revolution of the sixteenth century, to contradict the teachings of the Catholic Church w...

Venice, Italy

be seen both across the expanse of water and reflected in it (Lauritzen 12). San Marco is constructed so as to catch the light. Th...

Symbolism In the Terze Rime of Veronica Franco

freedom and lack of subornation to men that was facilitated by her position as a courtesan (Adler, 1988). The symbols are both d...

Reformation Concepts of Skepticism and Faith

ways. The year that Luther proclaimed his differing religious beliefs, the year of 1517, was the year in which Magellan and his f...

Richard Wunderli's Peasant Fires The Drummer of Niklashausen

In five pages this paper discusses Hans Behem's peasant story as it is presented in this fifteenth and sixteenth century German hi...