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Land of the Houyhnhnms in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

In five pages this fictitious Houyhnhnms land featured in Jonathan Swift's satire Gulliver's Travels is compared with eighteen cen...

Romantic and Gothic Themes in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

This paper discusses Shelley's novel as it fits into two separate literary styles of the nineteenth century, Gothic and Romanticis...

Ethics, Violation, and Self Esteem in Clarissa by Samuel Richardson

In eight pages the protagonist's motivations in this 18th century classic novel are examined. Three sources are cited in the bibl...

Instruction Levels in Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

In ten pages this paper discusses the intellectual gender perceptions in the 18th century as presented in the novel with the contr...

Analysis of Old Mortality by Sir Walter Scott

In five pages this early 19th century historical fiction novel is analyzed in terms of the freedom struggles of the Covenanters ...

'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...

The Rover by Aprha Behn

In seven pages this comedy from the 17th century is examined with the argument presented that darker libertine ideals belie the se...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Feudalism

In six pages feudalism and its impact upoin decorum, loyalty, and bravery during the 14th century is examined within the context o...

Chinese Changes Affecting a Family in Wild Swans Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

the mean-spirited jealousy of her husbands concubines and family. We now take up the story of Bao Quin, who grew up to marry a ha...

Playwright and Actor Moliere

In ten pages the life and times of this renowned 17th century French playwright and actor are recounted. Ten sources are cited in...

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...

'The Decameron' by Giovanni Boccaccio

In three pages this essay discusses how these tales reflected the changing society of the 14th century as a result of the Black De...

Writing the Future and the Accurate Jules Verne

In four pages this paper examines the accuracy of Jules Verne's technological predictions in such works as Paris in the Twenty Fir...

The Persian Letters by Montesquieu

In five pages this classic 17th century novel by Montesquieu is analyzed as it relates to the Scientific Revolution and the Enligh...

The Persian Letters by Montesquieu II

In five pages this paper examines how the letters point out the differences that existed during the 17th century between France an...

Latin America and U.S. Interventions from 1900 until 1935

In this paper consisting of five pages the reasons behind U.S. interventions in Latin America during the first portion of the twen...

Massachusetts Bay Colony and Puritanism

In five pages this paper examines the Massachusetts Bay Colony of the 17th century and the religious influence exerted by Puritani...

Chivalry and 'Le Morte d'Arthur' by Sir Thomas Malory

King Arthur and his knights of the round table. Regardless of the permutation in which the story appears, it always carries with ...

Economic Decline of Great Britain from 1870 to 1970

In nine pages the reason's behind Great Britain's century of economic decline beginning in 1870 are examined particularly in terms...

Workplace Childcare Facilities

In five pages the increasing practice of childcare in the twenty first century workplace is discussed in order to foster improved ...

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...

European Reformation and Its Significance

In five pages this research paper examines the social and political significance of the 16th century European Protestant Reformati...

Nation States' Rice and Military Revolution's Influence

military power as significant to the subsequent position of these countries as world powers. France The history of the French mi...

Pre European Industrial Revolution Developments

became futile. By the fourteenth century poor diet and over all poor health brought the weakened people of Europe to the grave wit...

Isabel of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon

In seven pages fifteenth century Spain is considered within the context of Ferdinand and Isabel's reign and the unification which ...

Biography of Frederick II

In four pages the 18th century English King Frederick II is the focus of this biographical profile of his life, politics, and reig...

European Changes 1600 - 1700

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

Urban Politics and the Nation's First County Park

A ten page analysis of the creation of the first county park in nineteenth century Newark, New Jersey. The author contends that t...

Drug Trade in Colombia

In thirty pages the political history of Colombia in the twentieth century is examined in terms of the significant role of its dru...

Danish Astronomer Tycho Brahe

In six pages this research paper discusses the 16th century astronomer Tycho Brahe's life and achievements. Eight sources are cit...