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Western Civilization Historical Periods

was an incredibly powerful and influential time in mankinds history and in the development of Western civilization. Prior to the R...

Push and Pull Phenomena Within the Context of East Germany's 1989 Revolution

degree of change which occurs. The revolution which would break out in East Germany in 1989 was, of course, integrally ti...

Scientific Revolution and the Connection Between Science and Religion

great interest and considerable depth. His ongoing quest was not only to determine the role of religion within social confines bu...

Reaction Essay on Wild Swans Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

her family were forced to abide by Communist principles even - and especially - when they did not condone them from a personal per...

Post 1875 Influence of the West

recognize that United States, being a newly formed country simply did not initially have the capital and credit markets in place w...

Joseph Plumb Martin's Ordinary Courage

the year 1774 arrived. The smell of war began to be pretty strong, but I was determined to have no hand in it. I felt myself to be...

Business History and Management

to improve its efficiency in steel making, or rather in the scheduling of steel making. The company maintained its own mines for ...

Transformation and Seventeenth Century England

In 4 pages, this research paper considers the rapid changes England underwent in terms of religion, economics, and politics, citin...

Reasons Behind Colonial America's Decision to Revolt Against England

Interestingly, however, although we looked to our mother country for that support, little was forthcoming. The early years of the...

Contributions of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo to the Scientific Revolution

Robertson, 2004). Johannes Kepler was another important scientist responsible for the Scientific Revolution (Field, 200...

A Woman Soldier's Own Story: The Autobiography of Xie Bingying A Critique

dominated every aspect of their lives. As a child Xie was not even supposed to play outside with members of the opposite sex, not...

Poetic Explication of 'Dover Beach' by Matthew Arnold

condition by evoking a beautiful, timeless picture of natural beauty. In the second stanza, he uses the sea as a metaphor to con...

New World Colonization by England

to not only stay afloat but to allocate sufficient funding for the identification and colonization of various new lands which were...

French History and the Causes of the French Revolution

young age of five to his death, (1643 to 1715). His mother, however, made the actual decisions regarding the country until her de...

John Locke and the Right to Revolt Against Government Authority

"Natural rights are those rights such as life (from conception), liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Hence, laws and statutes w...

1980s' Revolution in Romania and Poland

TASS to comment approvingly that Polish authorities were "taking necessary measure to restore tranquility" (Johnson 18). Just ei...

Beyond the Industrial Revolution in Urban Design

to make cities healthier, greener, and generally more pleasant. Great Britain, however, would obviously feel this need considerab...

Why China Did Not Have a Scientific Revolution and Europe Did

both "accepted and encouraged the natural philosophy that evolved into early modern science" (Bekar and Lipsey, 2001). Study has...

French Revolution and Documents' Historical Importance

Enlightenment era and one where fruitful writing came about. In exploring revolutionary France, one can say that certain writings ...

Wealth and its History

"common" birth (Defoe). She enlists the help of many aids along the way, and finds money to be an especially interesting and infl...

Life and Work of John Adams

to love scholarship and excelled. Though John did love the church as well, he found there was far too much controversy taking p...

David Hackett Fischer's Paul Revere's Ride

battles of Lexington and Concord: the famous midnight ride is therefore presented in the wider context of the American struggle ag...

China's Revolution and Red China Blues

and Ren Wanding. Despite these accomplishments many continue to fixate on that fact that although Jan Wong looks the part to cove...

Red Azalea and Dragon's Village

had on the rural peasants, and his social reforms introduced the hitherto unknown concept of womens rights. The propaganda of the ...

The Russian Revolution Historical Milestone

centuries. It was an autocracy with Tsar Nicholas II of the Romanov dynasty in command. However, Nicholass reign was beset by in...

Philippines' Revolution of 1986

(Weir, no date). With Aquinos death came a plummet in business confidence, with the equivalent of twelve million dollars in capit...

Political and Socioeconomic Conditions Necessary for a Scientific Revolution

for new ideas to flourish. The two aspects of developing civilisation - socio-historical change and the growth of scientific thoug...

Radical Aspects of the Scientific Revolution

the sun around which our planet revolved, not the sun around the earth as was held by the Church (Meeks, 1997). This assertion al...

Russian Revolution and Its Impact

1969). When news of the executive of the tsars family reached London, there were "few tears shed" (Dukes, 2003, p. 9). However, wi...

Significance of the Neolithic Revolution

However, as Childe (2003) points out, adopting cultivation did not mean that the communitys lifestyle became sedentary,...