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17th Century America and Black Slavery

no sunlight and been fed only enough to keep them alive. This journey, however, was likely just the beginning of the trials and t...

Looking at Empiricism and Rationalism

also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...

Calculus and Sir Isaac Newton

of modern mathematics. The purpose here is to explore Newtons approach to developing calculus. Foundational Work The state...

A Fictional Accounting of a Seventeenth Century Immagrant's Experiences

experienced world traveler. With the knowledge of what had happened to the native peoples of the Barbados, the native peoples tha...

Development by Eras

Child development theories did not really come to fore until the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In fact, the word ‘childhood’...

France and England During the 16th and Seventeenth Centuries

of other lands and consequently the subjugation or at least the exploitation of the indigenous peoples in Africa, Asia and the Ame...

English Law Medical Case Study

to Mrs Jarvis was adequate, this was a treatment to alleviate her condition, but it was also wring, if she were pregnant she was o...

Gender in Beowulf

readers know that despite her monstrousness, Grendels mother is considered to be human (Porter). When Grendel enters the mead-ha...

Ornamental Arts, Fame and Fate in Beowulf

comes to the aid of Hrothgar: "Thou Hrothgar, hail! Hygelacs I, kinsman and follower. Fame a plenty have I gained in youth! These...

John Donne's Seventeenth Century Love Poetry

in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest ;...

Lines 2860-2879 of Beowulf

lays dead. No individual has truly come to help him save for one youth, Wiglaf. In these particular lines we note the following: "...

A Discussion of Christian Elements in the Epic Poem Beowulf, and in the Character of Beowulf Himself

the first great epic poems of English history is thought to have been written around the time of the first half of the 8th century...

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Art by Julius S. Held and Donald Posner Outline

in his career, Bernini occupied himself with church architecture late in life, designing three churches -- "one a Greek cross, one...

Retelling Beowulf in 13th Warrior

In the epic, the threat is supernatural; in the film, the menace is recast as a vicious, cannibalistic tribe who dress in animal s...

China's Seventeenth to Twentieth Century Qing Dynasty

ordered men and to where the Manchu clothing rather than the clothing style, during the Ming Dynasty (Minnesota State University)....

Rights of Third Parties, Privity, and English Contract Law

a contract we can see that this was allowed under Dutton v Poole (1677) 2 Lev 211 (Flannigan, 1987). This is also referred to by D...

Comparing Poems about War to Beowulf

it is essentially the duty of this narrator. Beowulf is a man who sees his duty as that which involves risking his life. He goes...

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...

Seventeenth Century French Absolutism

Clearly, Louis defended his form of absolutism because of the accomplishments it allegedly produced. Under Louis, in many ways Fr...

Storytelling and Emotions in Beowulf

as an adventurous and noble man, and offers us the romance of a story. From this simple beginning we can readily assume that Be...

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century British History and Authors

as one author states, "The medieval church was defeated and the educated classes embraced scientific rationalism. Art, architectu...

The Heroism of Beowulf

turbulent in respect to British history ("Angelcynn" PG). It was a time when England was first created, and the time of King Arth...

van Ruisdael and El Greco's Seventeenth Century Landscapes

In a paper of 5 pages, how the spiritual and as well as physical homes are reflected in van Ruisdael's Wheatfield and El Greco's T...

Overview of the Seventeenth Century Iroquois Fur Trade Wars

In six pages this paper examines the fur trade from an historical perspective in this overview of the Iroquois fur trade wars. Fo...

The Use of Allegory and Symbolism in the Epic Poem Beowulf

Goldsmith, who sees Beowulf as being addressed to the "powerful" and designed to "warn them of the dangers attendant upon power" (...

Rap and the Rap Culture

The writer discusses the connection between the Old English epic poem Beowulf and today's rap culture. The writer argues that alth...

The Court of King Hrothgar in Beowulf

The writer uses a close reading of the Old English epic poem Beowulf, and in particular the events at King Hrothgar's court, to ex...

Christian Dogma in Beowulf

one true God. As this suggests, biblical allusions are plentiful in the Old English epic, particularly in regards to the Old Test...

The Culture of the Beowulf Poem

faith primarily in their thane and in "wyrd," which is a pagan reference to fate or destiny, according to Abrams, et al (1968). ...

Colonial America's Indentured Servitude During the Seventeenth Century

of a servant who has been deemed unruly and insubordinate. The oversight by the Virginia Company was doomed from the beginning b...