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A Tale of Amazonian Adventure

writer for "The New Yorker", David Grann becomes caught up in the legendary tale of renowned British explorer Colonel Percy Harris...

The Warrior Culture of Beowulf

it clear that the most important societal relationship is between a warrior, the "thane," and his liege lord (Donaldson 32). This ...

19th Century American History

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

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...

Energy Crises Past and Present

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at the energy crisis. Comparisons are made between the current crisis and that faced b...

Women's Voices on Africa, Patricia Romero

This book review is on Women's Voice on Africa: A Century of Travel Writing, which is edited by Patricia Romero. This text offers ...

Shelley's Frankenstein, Adam Imagery

This essay pertains to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's nineteenth century gothic novel Frankenstein and the allusions that Shelley m...

Colleges and Busineses

Universities and industry have been collaborating for more than a century. In fact, there have probably been collaborative relatio...

War in Ancient Times

During the first several centuries, war was a constant state of being in different parts of the world. This essay focused on war i...

Environmental Awareness

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

Excalibur, A Cinematic Representation of Arthurian Legend

his sword and kneels commanding that his enemy should knight him. Overcome with Arthurs bravery, as the noble could just as easily...

Racism and its Relation to Misperceptions

There are, unfortunately, many reasons for societal discord. Often as not these reasons revolve around the misunderstandings and ...

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...

Death Becomes Her, An Exhibition at the MMA

This essay pertains to the Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The write...

She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith

This essay focuses on the 1773 play by Oliver Goldsmith, "She Stoops to Conquer," which is an eighteenth century play that is stil...

Uncle Tom's Cabin, Eliza and Marie

This essay pertains to two women characters, Eliza Harris and Marie St. Clare, who are featured in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The wrier ...

A Primary Source Analysis: Genesis and American History

This essay analyzes the Book of Genesis and then discusses its impact on the worldview of Europeans during the sixteenth century a...

Mary Rowlandson's Narrative

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

"Everyman," Theme of Death

This essay asserts that "Everyman," the fifteenth century morality play, offer a perspective on death that is very analogous to th...

Its Past, Police Discretion and Juvenile Justice

This research paper pertains to the history of juvenile courts and describes how it has changed over the course of the twentieth c...

Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries' English Feasting History

at the high table (The Table & Table Manners, 2005). This particular table was actually much higher than, or rather raised above, ...

Women's Rights and the Impact of Technology

little time for themselves, or to think about doing anything rather than staying ahead of what needed to be done. Because ...

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century History, Europe, and the Norton Simon Museum

In many ways we see, in the painting in the Norton Simon Museum, how there are timeless subjects in the world of painting. For exa...

African American Imagery in the Nineteenth Century

or by those whose paintings are still recalled and researched. It indicates that although some struggles to free African Americans...

Early 20th Century Unions

large the models are at opposite ends of the spectrum. The IWW was dead set against capitalism and all it stood for (2001). The ...

Rise and Collapse of Socialism and the Theories of Mark Pittaway

realize that when the reunification took place, East and West Germany were not on an even footing. There had been something occurr...

The Cultural Movement of 20th Century China

10 pages. This paper provides an overview of early 20th century philosophies in China, including those of Ch'en Tu-Huiu and Hu Sh...

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...

Scientific Revolution of the 17th Century

In six pages this paper examines how the Western world of the 20th century was affected by the scientific breakthroughs of the 17t...