Ghent College Essays Samples For Students

The Second War for American Independence

The title of this essay is the name attributed by some historians and others to the conflict between the United States and Britain and their (Canadian) Indian allies. The background to this almost three-year war (1812-1815), had been various actions by Britain or British interests that had caused growing provocation and annoyance in America, culminating in the fourth American President, James Madison, declaring war on Britain on June 18th 1812. According to Kelly (n.d.) in his article “American History Timeline - War of 1812”, these were some of the events leading up to that declaration of war:

1803-1812: The British forced circa 10,000 Americans to work aboard British vessels;

1806: British ...

History of America

America was discovered in 1492 by the Spanish. Since then Americans have faced many difficulties. America arose to a position, at which it is today, by a lot of hard work and determination of most of its leaders. American history is enriched with a series of events taking place at different times. In the late 1700s to the mid 1800s its leaders such as Jefferson, Madison, Adams, and so on worked towards developing America and making it a better state. Following are some of the events which took place during this time period.

Federalists were against Jefferson. As quoted by Jefferson, “I own ...

The works of the artists, Jan van Eyck (c.1390-1441), Caravaggio (1561-1610) and Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) represent almost the entire span of the Italian Renaissance period which occurred from the 14th to the 16th Centuries.
Van Eyck was a Flemish painter who painted naturalistic portraits and religious painting on oak panels. Considered to be the leading painter of his day, his works differed from other great Early Italian Renaissance works in that his works recorded his faithful observation of nature , an influence of the Renaissance in the north, rather than the classically idealized works characteristic of the Early Italian ...

13th to 14th century European Art (Proto-Renaissance Art/Byzantine Influence)

Bonaventura Berlinghieri, Saint Francis Altarpiece. Tempera on wood. Circa 1235. San Francesco, Pescia, Italy.
Giotto di Bondone, Lamentation. Fresco. Circa 1305. Arena Chapel, Padua, Italy.

Art in the 1348 at the time of the Great Plague

15th century Northern European Art (Greco-Roman Revival)
Hubert and Jan van Eyck. Ghent Altarpiece. Oil on wood. Circa 1432. Cathedral Ghent Belgium.
Petrus Christus. A Goldsmith in His Shop. Oil on wood. Circa 1449. MetMuseum.

Renaissance in Europe.

18th century: The Baroque and Rococo Art Movements (Elaborate and Gaudy Designs to Neo-Classical Motifs)
Jean Honore Fragonard. The Swing. 1766. Oil on canvas. Wallace Collection, London.
Adelaide Labille-Guiard. Portrait with Two Pupils. 1785.

The Romantic Period in the 1800: The Fear of the Subtle

Theodore Gericault. The Raft of ...