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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...

Changing Chinese Women in Death of Woman Wang by Jonathan D. Spence

In five pages this paper contrasts seventeenth century Chinese women with their female counterparts and the changes that have take...

Mary Rowlandson's "Sovereignty and the Goodness of God" and Religion's Role in the Text

numbers. However, early on, they read more like a church sermon that Mary had been conditioned to recite from early childhood. I...

Orgon is a Fool in Moliere’s Tartuffe

in the characterization of Orgon. He unequivocally believes everything Tartuffe tells him, and would likely purchase Florida swam...

The Scientific Revolution and the Protestant Reformation

held by the Church. This refutation of long held religious beliefs was something that turned on end the way people thought. It c...

Eastern Indonesia, Commerce and Poverty

In seven pages this paper discusses Eastern Indonesia of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in a consideration of economics a...

American Literature Overview

In five pages this research paper examines American literature from the late 18th century through the 20th century with such autho...

Portrayal of Chinese and German Women During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

In five pages the ways in which Chinese and German women were portrayed during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are contras...

Gangraena by Thomas Edwards is a Window into 17th Century Life

This essay explores this famous work from the perspective of what it reveals to the reader about the seventeenth century. Edwards...

Literary and Historical Meaning of Boris Godunov by Alexander Pushkin

In five pages this report discusses the historical tragedy that was inspired by the ill fated czar of the late sixteenth and early...

Comedies of the English Restoration

entertainment. This particular period of English history (1642-1660) had been called the Interregnum." Morality was closely moni...

1692 Salem Witch Trials

Salem, but our proposed question allowed the possibility of a number of factors influencing the trials and ergot poisoning was ju...

'Hedda Gabler' and 'Phaedra'

In this 5 page paper, the heroines of the respective works are compared and contrasted particularly in terms of how they depict wo...

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century French Battles According to George Lefebvre and Roland Mousnier

In five pages Lefebvre's and Mousnier's views on what contributed to the French uprisings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centur...

Long and Short Term Causes of the English Civil War

The English Civil war was also not strictly English, involving as it did Ireland and Scotland as well. The conflict, in fact, orig...

Obesity Community Health Intervention

factor in childhood obesity is the fact that television viewing tends to be accompanied by the consumption of high-calorie, high s...

Comparing the Movie 'Elizabeth' with 'New Worlds, Lost Worlds The Rule of the Tudors 1485-1603' by Brigden

preface of her book, author Susan Brigden confesses to the broad nature of her book "New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudo...

Seventeenth Century Spain's Decline

a modest decline from such a high could be defined as decline (Luck, 2002). Furthermore, it is the nature of Empires to rise and ...

Mughal, Persian, and Ottoman Muslim Empires Compared

As this empire grew in influence, they expanded into southeastern Europe, particularly the Balkans and Greece (The Ottoman, Safavi...

Seventeenth Century English Levellers Reformers

seen within the context of the "new" Protestant message which emphasized the equality of all men before God. John Lilburne address...

Review of the Seventeenth Century Text A Narrative of the Captivity & Removal of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

her experience offers rare insight into the feelings of Puritans regarding the Native Americans and their relationship with the wh...

Seaver: “Wallington’s World”

him apart from other artisans; his extreme sensitivity and intensive, relentless introspective self-examination also seems unusual...

British Columbia's Modernist Architecture

direction this modern era should take: "While many of the citizens of Victoria cherished and identified with its picturesque archi...

1979's Sale of Goods Act and British Law

Goods Act 1979 requires goods sold by traders to be of satisfactory quality" (Anonymous Representation in the United Kingdom, 2002...

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’...

20th Century British India

but it pays to note also that other things would occur to render the necessity of government help. As a result, it is found that o...

Sir Edwin Lutyens and Building a Perfect Legacy

Lutyens left at the age of thirteen to absorb the lush Surrey countryside, with only a pencil and sketchpad for company. He drew ...

Analysis of the 19th and 20th Century Charity Organization Society Movement

In twelve page this research paper examines the American and British COS movement that took place in the late 19th and early 20th ...

Increasing Significance of Long Distance Migration

In four pages this paper examines the increases in migrating long distances since the sixteenth century in a consideration of Amer...

1st Amendment and Hate

In five pages this paper examines the ongoing conflict between the protection of free speech as guaranteed by the 1st Amendment an...