Essays on Seventeenth Century

There is no doubt that there have been several women writers who have not been awarded a justified position in the so-called “canon” of English literature. There are names such as Margery Kempe, Marie de France, Lady Jane Grey, Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Mary Queen of Scotts, Aemilia Lanyer, Elizabeth Cary, Mary Wroth, Katherine Philips, Margaret Cavendish, and many more who challenge an equivalent share of fame, with the labors of their classical male contemporaries because of their prestigious works. The prime focus of the paper is to discuss Margaret Cavendish, a writer from the 17th century and presents a ...

In Parts one and Two of Volume One of Michael Foucault’s Philosophy on Sexuality, he analyses and distances himself from what he calls “Repression Hypothesis,” using our desire to analyze and investigate the “science” of our sexual behavior, our need to confess what we deem sexual immorality, and the productive nature of the relationship of sex to power and knowledge, as the key elements of his argument. A definition of “Repression Hypothesis” is necessary for us to understand further why Foucault rejects it. According to American philosopher and University of California, Berkeley professor of Philosophy, Hurbert Dryfus, and ...

Since the adoption of the Patriot Act 2 on October 2001, strict measures such as the detention of foreigners suspected of a security breach, electronic surveillance of individuals through databases, authentication identities through biometrics, technologization border controls, among others, are presented in political discourse of the USA. The US security and media are the latest techniques in the fight against terrorism. Most Americans feel that these measures are contemporary to the fight against terrorism. In fact, this impression is the product of the effects of language games made by the administration and the media as the rhetoric and imagery ...

Interatrial Relationships in America

Before the Civil War Interatrial Relationships in America Before the Civil War The film industry has presented extreme pictures of the treatment of slaves in America. On the one hand films like Gone with the Wind present images of the idyllic plantation, with paternalistic owners and happy loyal slaves eager to serve their masters. On the other hand, films like Twelve Years a Slave presents the brutal treatment inflicted upon slaves in southern plantations (Brook, “Slavery on Film: What is Hollywood’s Problem”). These extreme representations of the treatment of slaves fail to capture the varied conditions under which ...

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For many years, people have associated Shakespearean plays with racial prejudices, mabe in an effort to determine whether Shakespeare was a racist or not. Shakespeare’s use of characters of color has raised controversies an curiosity on what role does race contributes to his plays. It should be noted that racism or the belief that one’s race is superior to another was already observed in 16th century Europe. It was during this time when Europeans become increasingly engaged with people of different racial origins through greater trade with Asia and Africa and the discovery of the ...

The thirteenth century to the seventeenth century can be considered a period of ascendancy as there are many examples of dominance and the fight for superiority between various groups and empires: most notably through the Mongol Empire, the destruction of the Abbasid Empire, and the consolidation of the Ottoman Empire. In the thirteenth century, Mongol invasions were rampant all over Asia, leading through the Middle East and into Europe. They were sent by the Mongol Empire to gain territorial expansion across Eurasia and the Middle East. Mongol armies led by Genghis Khan invaded Iraq and Iran beginning in the ...

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Impact of European on the Native Americans European invaders came along with deadly ailments against which the Americans Natives had no protection. Contagious diseases like chicken pox, typhus, and smallpox which were less deadly among the Europeans, proved dangerous to the natives. Such diseases were the main reason for a drastic fall in the human population of the Native Americans. Indian people lacked the necessary measures to curb themselves against Europeans viruses which caused the ailments. Such outbreaks among the Americans’ history called the “virgin soil epidemics” led to a drastic population reduction of nearly ninety percent which was ...

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Decoration of the porcelain

The Chinese have created different styles, plans and systems of enhancing porcelain since their assembly. The porcelains went from family rice dishes to vessels utilized as a part of magnificent customs. The Cloisonné was first not well known to local people as it was considered to have no taste and disgusting. As time advanced, the Chinese started to like the Cloisonné and it developed to be extremely well known, it was portrayed by glossy, enhancements, which were multi shaded, it was embraced for use in the sanctuary and royal residences. Metal vessels were utilized to deliver The Cloisonné ...

We live in a world where toys are color-coded blue for boys and pink for girls. TV commercials for certain products food included are focused on men on one hand and others target women. Women have been cultured to be fond of “chick flicks” which are predominantly romantic comedies whereas men are meant to watch action movies and soccer. Roles and plays have been highly gendered. These cultural assumptions have been in existence since time immemorial. Therefore, the thesis by which this paper is guided is two-fold: there is a direct causative relationship between the cultural assumptions on gender ...

Statement of historical question

Consumption of coffee in the America. What role does Starbucks play in the American coffee culture? Thesis Statement The evolution of the American coffee culture traces its origins from the seventeenth century. Over the years, the country would grow to become the largest consumer of coffee in the world. It is corporations such as Starbucks have served to spread this culture across the globe.

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William H. Urke. All about coffee. Newyork, Newyork the tea and coffee trade Journal Company 1922, Retrieved Apr 13, 2016 from http://ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/2/8/5/0/28500/28500-h/28500-h.htm Urke was an author in 18th and 19th centuries that focused primarily on ...

The forcible removal and transportation of millions of African men and women to the Americas took place for over three centuries starting in the mid 1400’s and ending in the late 1800’s. The importation and enslavement of Africans resulted in great economic growth as well as a resettling of the American Continents. An estimated 6.5 million people came to the Western Hemisphere. 83 percent of the people arriving were African slaves. The slave trade sets the precedence for capitalism. This was because the labor of the slaves generated great wealth for businesses in America and Europe. The ...

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In the last few centuries, our understanding of universe has grown by leaps and bounds. Before seventeenth century, people generally believed that the Earth is at centre of the universe and all heavenly bodies move around the Earth. Galileo challenged the idea and published his papers in support of Copernican heliocentric theory that the Earth and other planets move around the Sun. Our understanding of universe grew further. We realized that the Sun is not unique and there are hundreds of billions of stars in the galaxy, which are brighter ...

Introduction

Jury nullification is a highly researched and discussed concept, where a jury in America has the rights to give mercy in criminal trials where they find that a defendant is legally guilty but is morally upright. The nullification power is basically an integral part of the jury’s rights and therefore regardless of the evidences and law, nullification cannot be questioned in any case.[ CITATION Hor08 \l 1033 ] The above explanation is strong enough to raise certain questions based on the justification of this power, and there is a lot of consistent debate about the fact whether this power is used ethically or if ...

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People all over the universe do have different alienations culturally. Different cultures do have varying works of art associated with them. The works of art of the different groups of people try to identify people with their respective cultures. For the case of the metis, the assumption that each culture had its own corresponding art was hard to validate (Levy, pg72). This was because many of the works found in this region could not be proved to be of metis origin. Two scholars however, found that the metis had work of art which could be identified as their own. ...

Introduction

Anne Bradstreet, is a big name in the world of poetry, she received a lot of attention with the kind of work that she had produced during the later half of the seventeenth century. Bradstreet’s most of the poems are lyrical, and the presence of craft in them is exquisite, she ensures that in all her poems she immerses herself into the glory of life and lives it to the fullest. In this paper we will look at few works from Bradstreet and our focus will be to analyze them from the various perspectives to deduce that the basic themes ...

Ukiyo-e is an artform which dates back to the seventeenth century. It was a major part of Japanese life for many years and, even today, is still an important element of the country’s culture. The Japanese art of ukiyo-e, which translates as "pictures of the floating world", was born in the metropolitan culture of Tokyo (Johansson, 2007). The dazzling and warmly attractive art of the Ukiyo-e woodblock print is certainly the most commonly known of all Japanese arts. This specific style of art thrived in Japan from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century (Ukiyo-e). The word ...