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Sociopolitical Analysis of Tartuffe by Moliere

In six pages this paper presents a sociopolitical analysis of Moliere's seventeenth century play. Two sources are cited in the bi...

Education and Bureaucracy

In five pages this paper examines the increasing bureaucratization of education in America since the seventeenth century. There i...

Social and Domestic Abuse in Death of Woman Wang by Jonathan D. Spence

-- and did his society support his right to do so? In order to answer this question, we need to look at the background of Chinese...

17th Century Social History of China and The Death of Woman Wang by Jonathan Spence

In five pages this paper examines how Chinese society of the seventeenth century is presented in The Death of Woman Wang by Jonath...

'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...

Aphra Behn's 17th Century Literary Works

Indies, and lived an adventurous life of slave rebellions and observed Indian tribal rituals which would later appear in her works...

England's Civil Wars and Their Possible Causes

King Charles II, the quashing of remaining rebellions in Ireland and Scotland and the installation of parliamentarian Oliver Cromw...

Impact of Isaac Newton and That Apple Tree

the notion of gravity. Although its uncertain if the story is true (Newton was known for observing the fall of apples from his mot...

Aphra Behn's Oroonoko

could also speculate that it was her involvement in the policy of intrigue that gave her a view of the underbelly of society that ...

Holland, Surrounding Countries, and Seventeenth Century Art

land and the pastimes of the Dutch people who were an increasingly prosperous merchant middle class" (Anonymous Dutch Baroque Peri...

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...

The Letters of Madame de Sevigne

This paper examines the seventeenth century correspondence between Marie de Rabutin-Chantal and Madame de Sevigne. This five page...

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...

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...

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...

Myne Owne Ground by T.H. Breen and Stephen Innes and Race Relations

In four pages this paper examines seventeenth century race relations as presented in Breen and Innes' text. There are no other so...

Seventeenth Century Love in Poetry

celebration of Gods love, as well as a poet that addressed the purity of a love for a woman. In better understanding this we discu...

Seventeenth Century Courtly Culture of France and Women

as well as what occurred at other levels of the social scale. For example, literature and the arts represented a great part of Fr...

François de La Rochefoucauld and Blaise Pascal

pessimistic about human beings and their propensity toward self-love. He thinks of virtually all human relationships as being driv...

Everyday Life in Traditional Japan by Charles J. Dunn

alone could carry the long swords (Dunn, 1977, Sellen, 2002). Dunns appreciation of some of the key elements of the classes explai...

Belshazzar's Feast by Rembrandt Van Rijn

on the boundaries between the Christian world and the largest Jewish community in Holland (Internet source). Kren and Marx (2002) ...

Female Independence and Seventeenth Century Restoration Comedies

up every day / Some new unheard-of fool for us to play" (Internet source). The prologue alone suggests that Etherege was offering ...

Underwear Since the Seventeenth Century

wear. There is obviously no physical reason why anyone needs to wear a girdle so the point of the girdle then, is for the woman t...

US Public Education

in their efforts to educate all Americans without fear of financial loss or discrimination. History of Public Education Since the...

Christopher Hill's Century of Revolution, 1603-1714

of the text we can see that Hill is taking the reader on a very structured journey which examines the turmoil in 17th century Euro...

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...

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...

Business Practices in Early History

resulted from the Spartan takeover of Athenian silver mines; therefore, the need for the minting of replacement, silver-plated bro...

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...