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Women In Chinese Culture: Historical Analysis

inasmuch as they were "fortunate to live at a time characterized by open-mindedness and liberal ideas" (Jianying, 2001). This exa...

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 ...

15th Century The Second Shepherd's Play

high caliber for semitone to come out of the medieval era and it may best be understood within the environment in which it was wri...

Singular Theme of Michel Saint Jean de Crevecoeur, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin?

his background/ mindset was initially staunchly European. Consequently, besides being writers who lived during the 18th century, w...

Enlightenment Representation in Candide by Voltaire

and war, which he portrays as contrary to all reason. In the eighteenth century, war was presented to the ordinary citizens as an ...

Emma Lazarus' Life and Times

rejection highly influenced Lazaruss "Spagnoletto," which provided Lazarus with the "literary props" to effectively represent the ...

The Island of Doctor Moreau and The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

and destiny (Aubrey). While Darwin pictures humanity as consistently evolving toward more intelligence and reason, Huxleys take on...

Majority Rule, Tocqueville, Olsen

This essay refers to the writing of contemporary author Theodore Olsen and nineteenth century author Alexis de Tocqueville to argu...

Slavery and Reform in West Africa by Trevor Getz

This book review is on Trevor Getz's Slavery and Reform in West Africa: Toward Emancipation in Nineteenth-century Senegal and the ...

Carl L. Becker's Rejection of Popular Eighteenth-Century Philosophers

the chance to break free from such constraints. The global society was ready for a tremendous change in direction following the t...

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...

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...

'Women and Economics A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution,' 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

that females should function in subordinate and often demeaning roles in comparison with men (Readers Companion to American Histor...

19th Century Russia

older brother, Alexander I, died and his second brother, Grand Duke Constantine, refused the crown (Levykin, 1999). His first act ...

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...

Huck Finn and Pudd'nhead Wilson, issues of Racism

This research paper offers a detailed analysis of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson...

Fantasy Woman in Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

In eight pages the 'fantasy' women depicted in Marlowe's 16th century play are discussed in terms of their pornographic characteri...

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...

The Concept of Mercantilism

a significant shift in the way that the supporting military forces were utilized. Prior to the mercantilist period the dominant mi...

Twentieth Century First Ladies

Due to her genial efforts, the position of social secretary was created as a means by which to assist the first lady with various ...

J. Russell's Inventing the Flat Earth The Correction of a Twentieth Century Misconception

In four pages this book is summarized and themes as well as findings' evaluations are provided. One source is listed in the bibli...

Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Canadian Societal Changes

subsistence base to an industrial one set in motion a number of societal factors which had to be dealt with. Masses...

Last 20 Years of the Twentieth Century

In 10 pages this paper discusses how the economy of the last 20 years of the 20th century will affect the next millennium's econom...

Twentieth Century Christian Theology and 'Holiness'

possess it?presumably "attribution of qualities like thankfulness, courage, and chastity" are ruled out (Geach 333). According to ...

Chinese Export Paintings from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries

In eleven pages this paper examines the distinctiveness of Eastern culture as represented in exported paintings from China between...

Twentieth Century Education and the Influence of Jean Piaget

In five pages the four stages of education developed by Jean Piaget are discussed in this consideration of his 20th century influe...

Pre Twentieth Century History of Geology

In seven pages this paper examines the history of geology before the 1900s in an overview of various concepts and theories that ex...

Early Twentieth Century American and Japanese Literature

In five pages this paper compares these two countries' literature during this time period in a consideration of religious, social,...

Chinese Twentieth Century Political Novels of Eileen Chang

both physical and metaphysical." 20th Century Chinese LiteratureAfter Chinas republican revolution in 1911, most Chinese wr...

Literary Evidence of American Society in the Early Twentieth Century

In a paper consisting of ten pages the different perspectives of the texts The City Wilderness by Robert Woods, The Origins of the...