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Myne Owne Ground by T.H. Breen and Stephen Innes and Race Relations

In four pages this paper examines seventeenth century race relations as presented in Breen and Innes' text. There are no other so...

1692 Salem Witch Trials

Salem, but our proposed question allowed the possibility of a number of factors influencing the trials and ergot poisoning was ju...

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...

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...

'Hedda Gabler' and 'Phaedra'

In this 5 page paper, the heroines of the respective works are compared and contrasted particularly in terms of how they depict wo...

Aphra Behn's 17th Century Literary Works

Indies, and lived an adventurous life of slave rebellions and observed Indian tribal rituals which would later appear in her works...

Social and Domestic Abuse in Death of Woman Wang by Jonathan D. Spence

-- and did his society support his right to do so? In order to answer this question, we need to look at the background of Chinese...

Salem Political Order and Witchcraft

In eight pages this paper examines how the witchcraft that characterized Salem, Massachusetts of the seventeenth century was actua...

Education and Bureaucracy

In five pages this paper examines the increasing bureaucratization of education in America since the seventeenth century. There i...

Improving Rene Descartes' Psychology Limitations with the 'Conscious Mental State' of William James

In two pages this paper examines how William James sought to improve upon Descartes' seventeenth century psychological philosophy ...

'Tis a Pity She's a Whore' by John Ford and the Madness of Giovanni

In seven pages this seventeenth century work is examined in an analysis of Giovanni's mental disintegration. There are no other s...

Russia's Industrial Development from 1689 Until the Romanov Dynasty

In sixteen pages this paper discusses Russia's industrial revolution that began in the seventeenth century and continued until the...

New Jersey's History

In five pages the seventeenth through nineteenth century history of the state of New Jersey is discussed with the Lenni Lenape tri...

English Asylums and Neoclassicism

In five pages this paper traces England's early asylums to seventeenth and eighteenth century neoclassicism. Two sources are cite...

Sociopolitical Analysis of Tartuffe by Moliere

In six pages this paper presents a sociopolitical analysis of Moliere's seventeenth century play. Two sources are cited in the bi...

US Lutheran Church and its History

Church (Royce 05B). The history of the conventional Lutheran Church date back to the sixteenth century when Protestant reformer M...

Past Preconceptions Rejected by the Scientific Revolution

In five pages this essay argues that ancient principles were rejected by seventeenth and eighteenth century scientific breakthroug...

God and Nature According to Baruch Spinoza

In seven pages this paper examines the perspectives of this seventeenth century philosopher in terms of man's natural existence an...

European Changes 1600 - 1700

In 5 pages the changing attitudes of people in seventeenth century Europe is considered including increased individual decision ma...

Femininity in Seventeenth and Nineteenth Century Art

This paper provides a reading of two articles discussing the topic of femininity in seventeenth and nineteenth century art. The a...

Visionary Work Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton

whether it is the latest news from Yugoslavia, or how to do something on a computer. Explanations and curiosities are a way of li...

Changing Chinese Women in Death of Woman Wang by Jonathan D. Spence

In five pages this paper contrasts seventeenth century Chinese women with their female counterparts and the changes that have take...

Seventeenth Century Works of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

no father to pay a dowry, few choices were available to her. Juana could be the wife of a poor man, the mistress of a rich man, or...

Seventeenth Century Cavalier and Metaphysical Poetry

In twelve pages this paper contrasts and compares the cavalier and metaphysical approaches to seventeenth century poetry in a cons...

Velazquez/Los Borrachos

the figure of the mythological god. Bacchus is looking away from the young man in front of him, his eyes shifted to the side, with...

Beowulf & Aeneas

past, which is now gone, and his son is the future (the founding of Rome), and he is the transitionary figure destined to bring th...

Gunther/Death Be Not Proud

A 3 page book review of John Gunther's memoir of his son's illness and death. The title of this book is drawn from John Donne's Me...

New England in the Seventeenth Century and Environmental History

native population because "by the marvelous goodness & providence of God not one of the English was so much as sick."3 This sent...

Seventeenth Century French Absolutism

monarchy reinforced its monitoring of printing, totally strangling the emerging press" (The Library of Congress, 2005). Even the F...

Gangraena by Thomas Edwards is a Window into 17th Century Life

This essay explores this famous work from the perspective of what it reveals to the reader about the seventeenth century. Edwards...