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Life of an English Commoner from 1800 to 1850

In ten pages an English commoner's life as it was lived during the first half of the 19th century is considered with original test...

An Introduction to Sixteenth Century Anabaptism

This five paper paper reviews the book The Anabaptist Story An Introduction to Sixteenth Century Anabaptism by William R. Estep. T...

The Social Construction of Gender in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

This paper examines Shelley's novel as a metaphor for social issues of the nineteenth century. This five page paper has one sourc...

Charlemagne, Different Biographical Perspectives

Charlemagne has been interpreted differently by different writers over the centuries. Those differences in interpretation are app...

La Religieuse by Denis Diderot

She pressed me in one place and then another. In a soft and low voice, she asked me to increase my efforts, and I did so." Again ...

U.S. History, Labor, and Equality Questions

who threatened the racial caste system for that matter (747). When threats failed to yield results, planters could call upon the p...

Contemporary Literature and the Maintenance of Identity

In five pages this essay examines maintaining identity in the first 50 years of the 20th century in a consideration of such litera...

Fukuzawa Yukichi's Influence

This of course would serve to weaken the state, thus giving the Western nations a way to step in and take control of Japan. As h...

God's Existence and the Argument of Saint Anselm

In five pages the eleventh century argument of Anselm regarding God's existence is examined as presented in Monologium. One sourc...

The History of African Americans

trader exchanged his cargo of Africans for food in 1619. The Africans became indentured servants, similar in legal position to man...

Christine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies

In six pages this landmark fifteenth century feminist text is analyzed in terms of how the author portrayed the connection between...

Spiritual Development in Historia Calamitatum by Abelard

Spiritual development in European religious orders during the 12th century are discussed in an overview of Historia Calamitatum by...

John Demos' The Unredeemed Captive and Intercultural Relationships

In ten pages this paper examines intercultural relationships as featured in the text's portrayal of early 18th century Native Amer...

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and Themes of Destiny and Choice

In six pages 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and 'The Knight's Tale' are discussed in order to examine how the themes of destiny and cho...

Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror

Crusades, insurrection, the Schism of the Church, and massacres of Jewish people were but part of the horrors of that century. Th...

Peasant Fires by Richard Wunderli

this conflict between the peasants and the landed gentry, as well as the church. Historically, what is significant about this b...

'Yvain, the Knight of the Lion' by Chretien de Troyes and Reciprocal Relationships

the time when the Christian movement was beginning to gain headway in England. Most of the rural areas were still pagan believing ...

Environmental Awareness

enjoy. This is just to illustrate the key point again: that physical environment affects people in deep and fundamental ways and i...

Aphra Behn, Restoration Author

or her audiences perceptions of those locales. This discussion will demonstrate that the father Apha Behns work moves from her Lon...

19th Century American Reforms

virtues, and some held that the best way to achieve this was to withdraw from traditional society and establish small communities ...

Lincoln on Government

Presidency of the United States of America on March 4, 1861, seven southern slave states had already succeeded from the Union form...

Roman Society in the First Century

20:9-16. Slave gangs were often used by large landowners. The author points out that this custom would have existed during Jesus l...

The Performance of the Economy in Brazil during the 2008/9 Global Recession and Impact on the Retail Industry

improvement, and as such it is likely to be an increasing market, and it appears that there is a recovery underway in 2010, the IM...

History of the Hebrews

author points out, it would be impossible to spend as much time on each and every event and person mentioned in the Old Testament....

The Nebraska Prairies in Cather’s O Pioneers

the cat down) and how to do it (she coaxes it). When that fails, she immediately forms another plan, to get help from someone else...

Avant-Garde and Readymade

the changes in any given society so with some chaos and change came more chaotic art. In truth, defining and keeping track...

Life of a Factory Worker Compared with Life of a Slave

students of history shudder to read the horrible human rights abuses that were inflicted upon slaves in the antebellum South. Howe...

19th Century American History

slavery, a trend which leads towards the development of Sectionalism in the Southern states. 1830s: Southern states begin to seek ...

Judaizers in the First Century

by Jewish law or the like.4 One of the specific issues brought up was circumcision, which was required under Mosaic Law. it was on...

Strategic Decision-Making at Virgin Blue

to the US (Virgin Blue, 2010) When assessing the companies strategy and the way that they undertake strategic planning there can...