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Eighteenth Century Prostitution and Eroticism in Fanny Hill by John Cleland

In twelve pages this report examines how Cleland presents prostitution and eroticism in his scandalous eighteenth century novel Me...

David Hume on Causation and Rational Belief

In three pages this paper discusses David Hume's philosophical belief that causation laid the foundation for rational belief with ...

American Explorer John Ledyard

In five pages the eighteenth century Pacific explorations of John Ledyard are considered as are his expulsion from Russia after at...

Late Eighteenth Century Haitian Revolution

French Empire. It was during this period that African slaves were brought to work the sugarcane and coffee plantations. In 1791, t...

The Military Revolution Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800 by Geoffrey Parker

the "civilized" world. It appears that Parker understands that those merchants, in turn, petitioned their governments to pay for t...

Major Characteristics of Conservative and Liberal Thought of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

In five pages this paper discusses conservative and liberal thinking of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as each is represe...

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Perspectives on Mental Illness

In twelve pages mental illness is examined from the perspectives of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in terms of labels suc...

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...

Colonial Fashions and How They Evolved

In six pages this paper discusses the seventeenth and eighteenth century evolution of Quaker men's and women's fashions and how th...

The Introduction of Machinery During the First Industrial Revolution

This paper examines the use of machinery in the production of textiles during the Eighteenth Century. This five page paper has no...

2 Movie Versions of Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders

In 5 pages this paper examines what the film versions of this novel reveal more about the times in which they were made than the e...

Boston, Massachusetts and the 1721 Small Pox Epidemic

In five pages this epidemic and inoculation techniques developed in eighteenth century Boston are discussed. Four sources are cit...

Mercury Uses, Iatromechanics and Iatrochemists

introduce the acceptance of new experimental techniques (Porter, 1999). The Iatrochemist was a physician that studies chemical p...

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Writers Compared and Contrasted

work, Candide, is a direct commentary on the search for lost spirituality and humanity, which typifies the eighteenth century writ...

The Sign for Gersaint's Shop and Departure from Cythera Paintings by Jean Antoine Watteau

painter of Louis XVs mid-18th-century France, the very paradigm of all that was best in a style of sensitive artifice coming after...

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...

Italian Baroque Ceiling Paintings of the 18th Century

which was a term used by philosophers during the Middle Ages to describe an obstacle in schematic logic" (Wallbank, 1992). As such...

Stage Objections During the 1700s

film had prompted someone to commit heinous crimes. The other side claims that the society is violent and people want to see viole...

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...

3 Canadian History Articles Analyzed

when someone relocates to another country, should he or she support the old homeland, or should they side with the new, chosen cou...

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Labor Unions and Women

Hate their job? Something drove them out of the workforce with inadequate resources, so they will have to determine if they want t...

Labor Movement and Women's Involvement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

addition, many women owned businesses; they worked as "apothecaries, barbers, blacksmiths, sextons, printers, tavern keepers and m...

Candide by Voltaire and Women

(Voltaire Chapter 8). She began living the life of a prisoner of war for the most part. One author notes she was "ill-used by othe...

Comparative Analysis of Music in the Czech Republic and the US

in the new land, combining instruments and styles for a new sort of folk music. In relationship to the most classical type of mu...

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Crises in the Constitution

took until 1791 for the states to agree on the ten that have endured (Mount, 2005). However, as needs arose, and different concern...

Trade and Exchange as Stimulus for Change in England

we can argue there were some major influences and drives that shaped the industrial revolution and the development of the cotton g...

Transitions During the Enlightenment Period

secular tone ("The Enlightenment," 2006). The eighteenth century would begin the Age of Reason where there was intellectual discov...

Samuel Johnson/Vanity of Human Wishes

a poem of great emotional power, but the emotions that it expresses are also tightly controlled, which conveys the meaning that th...

The Events and Processes that Led to the Development of Contemporary Archaeology

Contemporary archaeology has been shaped by numerous factors. At one time archaeology was a largely...

Prince Among Slaves by Terry Alford

This book review is on Terry Alford's text Prince Among Slaves. which relates the biography of Ibrahima, an African prince who was...