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The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

In five pages character analyses of Lucetta Templeman and Michael Henchard as featured in Thomas Hardy's 19th century novel are pr...

Roles of Women and How They Have Evolved

In five pages 20th century women are examined in a consideration of how they have evolved and moved from the domestic sphere into ...

Gender Attitudes About Sex, Chastity, and Marriage in Samuel Richardson's Pamela and Daniel Defoe's Roxana

In nine pages the ways in which these novels reflected gender attitudes of the 18th century regarding chastity, sex, and marriage ...

Intellectuals and the Use of Critical Thinking

The role of critical thinking in American society has taken on greater importance in the 21st century. This paper relates the conc...

Physical Characteristics, Personality, and Physiognomy

In five pages this paper examines these topics within the context of 19th century psychologist Samuel R. Wells' text The Temperame...

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...

The Contributions of Forgotten Mathematician Al-Khwarizmi

In five pages this paper discusses the background and mathematical contributions of algorithms' founder Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn ...

Elizabeth the I of England and Mary Tudor comparing their regimes

This paper looks at the 16th century reigns of Elizabeth I and Mary Tudor with regards to international relations, religious freed...

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...

World of the Twentieth Century and Power Development and Patterns

point in time. Keylor repeatedly makes this point as he illustrates the constant changes in the international power structure of ...

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...

Arts Patronage Changes

This research paper consists of five pages and argues how during the 19th century changes in arts patronage took place especially ...

Lloyd's of London History

This paper discusses the 17th century origins of Lloyd's Coffee House and how it evolved into the Lloyd's of London insurance inst...

Flemish and Dutch Portrait Art of the 17th Century

In five pages paintings by artists de Hooch and Rembrandt are analyzed to explore the importance of portraiture to life in Flemish...

17th Century Social History of China and The Death of Woman Wang by Jonathan Spence

In five pages this paper examines how Chinese society of the seventeenth century is presented in The Death of Woman Wang by Jonath...

A China Foot-Binding History

In this paper of six pages the questions of how and why foot binding is practiced in China are answered and the changes since the ...

Nursing Equality and How It Has Evolved

In seven pages this paper discusses nursing roles, how they have changed, and the status of equality over the past century with pr...

John Dewey and Richard Rorty Philosophical Parallels

our understanding of language, democracy, the individual (self), within both the public and private spheres. Rorty notes, for exa...

Twentieth Century Art and Psychoanalytical Theory

how Charles Baudelaire, Fran?ois Truffaut, and Sigmund Freud, based on their inheritance of lyricism, shaped and perpetuated a cul...

English Language Development from Geoffrey Chaucer to Samuel Johnson

that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was gouernor of Syria) And all went to bee taxed...

20th Century Literature and Its Influential Factors

Most literature of this era tends to ramble around a loosely constructed plot structure, much as the politics of the time did. It ...

Theater Design of Gordon Craig

in the nineteenth century traditional ideas of scenic design were rejected by artists such as Craig, who felt that scenery should ...

Women's Right to Vote Movement Success

status quo in order to embrace her own intellectual redoubt ("The feminism," 1998). In the 1850s, the vote was really the only co...

Business Practices in Early History

resulted from the Spartan takeover of Athenian silver mines; therefore, the need for the minting of replacement, silver-plated bro...

Changing Views on Caring for the Mentally Ill

The treatment of the mentally ill has changed drastically since the asylums of the 19th century. This paper examines the historic...

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Perspectives on Mental Illness

In twelve pages mental illness is examined from the perspectives of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in terms of labels suc...

Capitalist Dynamics According to Joseph Schumpeter and Albert Hirschman

In nine pages this research paper presents a twentieth century assessment of the economic theories of Schumpeter and Hirschman reg...

Major Characteristics of Conservative and Liberal Thought of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

In five pages this paper discusses conservative and liberal thinking of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as each is represe...

Changing Perspectives on Welfare and the US Federal Government

funded job. That was the theory. In practice, the bills drafters (of whom Clinton was one) knew Congress would not be able to...

The Life and Works of Federico Garcia Lorca

This paper examines the works of the Twentieth Century Spanish poet, Federico Garcia Lorca. The author provides a brief biography...