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Essays 1711 - 1740

Politics/Aristotle

This essay is on Aristotle's "Politics" and how he saw the role of the city in human life. The writer relates his political thinki...

Mary Rowlandson's Narrative

This essay pertains to Mary Rowlandson's seventeenth century account of her capture by Indians. The writer discusses its contempor...

Agricultural Considerations Location Location Location

This paper contends that a crops location is perhaps the most important factor deciding its success or failure. Location is interl...

Effects of Colonization on South Africa

This research paper presents a short history of colonialism in South Africa. The writer focuses on slavery as a primary effect of ...

Societal Criticism, Browning and Swift

This essay pertains to Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," published in 1729, and Robert Browning's poem "My Last Duchess, Ferra...

Bacon and Plato - An Analysis

In a paper of thirteen pages, the writer looks at classical texts by Francis Bacon and Plato. The allegory of the cave and the fou...

Weakened Human Interaction and Technology

This paper discusses the views of Anna Akbari and Andrew Sullivan pertaining to the issue of how technology has altered the nature...

Democratic Governance and Maintaining Morality

This research paper/essay presents an argument that maintains that it is necessary to go beyond a perspective that focuses solely ...

Patrick Henry and Statesmanship

This research paper/essay pertains to the life of Patrick Henry and how this Founding Father consistently exemplified the qualitie...

Eradicating Silos of Care

This research paper points out that, historically, practitioners have worked independently within their particular "silo" of care ...

Houses That Change the World by Wolfgang Simson

This book review is on Houses That Change the World by Wolfgang Simson. This author argues for a return to the house-churches desc...

A Private and Public Faith by William Stringfellow,

This book review is on William Stringfellow's A Private and Public Faith. The writer recounts Stringfellow's criticisms of contemp...

20th Century and Gothic Horror - A Comparison

In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at "The Call of Cthulhu" and "Dracula". Comparisons are drawn to examine the differenc...

Jazz and Blues

This research paper describes the relationship between blues and jazz within the context of the history of these genres. The write...

Majority Rule, Tocqueville, Olsen

This essay refers to the writing of contemporary author Theodore Olsen and nineteenth century author Alexis de Tocqueville to argu...

Public Schools' Founder Horace Mann

empowered to appoint a secretary to carry out its mission and Mann accepted this position (Eakin, 2000). Although Massachusetts ...

Contemporary Relevance of the UN

on June 26, 1945 and went into effect on October 24 of 1945. The purpose of the UN is "To maintain international peace and securit...

Astronomy's Modern Era and Famous Astronomers

the great discoveries of the twentieth century. What this discovery led to was the theory that black holes are not really black, ...

Abstract Expressionism and Elaine de Kooning

go to composition or content. Just as some artists today are embraced while others struggle, this has always been the case. Not al...

A 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone' Excerpt

remember the dream he had been having. It had been a good one" (Rowling 19). Contemporary Children First and foremost, we note...

Schools and Technology Uses and Misuses

Continued advancements in technology have fundamentally changed the way we work and live. Todays educators have unlimited opportun...

High Rate of Unemployment and What It Means

naturally take its course. A decade later, unemployment was not a concern. The rate had been low during the nineties and in fact,...

Chronic Illness and Public Health

This research paper pertains to the shift of focus that has taken place in regards to public health policy and practice, has it ha...

Faked News Coverage

This paper pertains to the fact that fake news reports are prevalent in contemporary society. Nine pages in length, ten sources ar...

Article Analysis of Sherry Turkle's Article 'Cyberspace and Identity'

can present themselves as plain. The online experience gives individuals the opportunity to express unexplored aspects of their pe...

Women's Roles in 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Wife makes it clear that she has always enjoyed sex and this verifies the Churchs depiction of women as licentious. In fact, t...

Family, People, the Contemporary World, and the Effects of Technology

most profound technological change can be the quietest. Personal computers seemed to exist only in the world of hackers until one ...

Imperialism Impacts in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Pope Leo XIII May 15, 1891 "Rerum Novarum" we see that the vast majority of the European peoples were not content in their current...

Contemporary Life and Science

see that science has emerged from the beginning of time itself, and has over the years transformed nearly every aspect of our worl...

Criminology Foundations

the components which make up the "ruling class domination" in regards to crime and why some criminal actions come to the attention...