Essays on Ghent

1. I would have joined Tecumseh's confederation because Tecumseh attempted to unite disparate and warring Indian tribes in the fight against the common threat. I agree that "we must be united; we must smoke the same pipe; we must fight each other's battles "(historyisaweapon.com). I would support him in the fight because I understand that the Governor of Indiana William Henry Harrison cheated Indians, concluded many unprofitable contracts on land use. Tecumseh was a trustworthy leader of the Indians of North America. He planned to create a federation of tribes and stop the advance of the whites. It was ...

The following is the critique of the research article titled: “Measuring the nursing workload per shift in the ICU”.

Research problem/purpose: The purpose of the study is to evaluate the differences in nursing workload between consecutive shifts, using a nursing workload measurement tool. The aim of the study is to measure the workload of nurses between two consecutive shift using the Nursing Activities Score (NAS). This study is designed to solve a common problem related to handling of nursing manpower in the ICU. The research is in line with existing knowledge about man power placement and workload. This research addresses an important issue pertinent to managing the global problem of nurses man power shortage and finding ways to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle

Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel, The Jungle, covers numerous subjects centered on life in Chicago, focusing on the corruption and collusion rampant during those years between industries such as the meatpackers, the politicians, and criminal underground. It describes the squalid and hopeless living conditions of working-class families, especially the immigrants, the fights and failures of unions, and presents an alternative and negative view of capitalism as well as arguments for socialism. The book became a best seller but not for the reasons Sinclair hoped, its socialist message overshadowed by the graphic and sickening descriptions of working conditions in the meat ...