Essays on Medieval Europe

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The Protestant Reformation and Its Influence in Shaping The Future

3 pages / 1193 words

The Protestant reformation (more accurately known as the Lutheran upheaval) is the product of the observance of a ridiculous amount of corruption amongst the highest ranking officials within the Catholic Church. Yet despite its origins, its events, people and publications left a lasting impact on...

The Protestant Reformation

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The Implications of The Protestant Reformation on Matters of Church and State in The Period 1500-1700

4 pages / 2013 words

The Protestant Reformation was primarily instigated by Martin Luther in 1517 as a result of the publication of his ninety-five theses, which divulged unconventional ideologies regarding religion, catholicism, and the church and state of Europe during the 1500’s which was condemned as heresy by the...

The Protestant Reformation

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The Life and Government in Plymouth Colony During The Protestant Reformation

4 pages / 1791 words

The Protestant Reformation, which erupted after the great Martin Luther published his Ninety-Five Theses in 1517, plunged Europe into religious turmoil. Lasting throughout the sixteenth and into the seventeenth century, resulting in the Thirty Years War and French Wars of Religion. After these wars, religious...

The Protestant Reformation

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Robert Millikan and His Oil Drop Experiment

1 page / 639 words

A scientist can truly be viewed as revolutionary when their di Robert Andrews Millikan was born on the 22nd of March in 1868 as the second son of Reverend Silas Franklin Millikan (Father) and Mary Jane Andrews Millikan (Mother) in the town of Morrison, Illinois....

Electricity Oil Scientific Revolution

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The Impact of American and European Imperialism in The Course of World History

2 pages / 747 words

The late 19th and early 20th century was widely regarded as the Age of Imperialism. During this time, Europe and America aggressively expanded their influence around the world. This was done through methods such as America’s “white man’s burden”, and Europe’s economic need due to...

Imperialism World History

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The History of Imperialism in Africa

2 pages / 1167 words

From the fifteenth century to the nineteenth century, only ten percent of Africa had been colonized by European powers. This ten percent of colonies were typically located on the coast of the continent in order to be used in the slave and ivory trade. The...

Imperialism

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Imperialism in Europe and Effects of The Policy on European Nations

2 pages / 828 words

Imperialism refers to the state of a nation superimposing its political, economic and social life over another state. It is known to have various effects on the target group. European nations are known to have practised imperialism for a long time with the age of...

Imperialism

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Political Cartoons on Imperialism

1 page / 330 words

The political cartoon portrays the country that was the most aggressive to extend its authority over other nations. The huge character that probably is in a tailoring shop is a representation of the United States of America while the other characters who are angrily watching...

Imperialism

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Humanity of Christ in "The York Play of The Crucifixion"

2 pages / 1136 words

In the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, there was an emergence of creativity and imagination. These ideals were portrayed throughout the fields of human inquiry — artwork and entertainment being especially affected. A powerful example of such a newly creative dramatic style is the...

Humanity Literature Review Renaissance

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The Wordsworthian Child: a Symbol for Romantic Idealism in "We Are Seven" and "Intimations of Immortality"

6 pages / 2856 words

The turn of the 19th century was a morbid, dark time period: death was a common visitor, as plagues and diseases diminished the children, and the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars diminished the overall population. In response to such loss, humans became relegated to a...

Poetry Romanticism

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The Romantic Era: Imagination as a Rebellion Against Rationalism

2 pages / 1124 words

In an era driven by rationalism and logic, the poets and authors of the Romantic era sought to defend what they understood as a more natural system of values. Among the themes prevalent throughout the era, the theme of the imagination’s power is definitely central,...

Poetry Rebellion Romanticism

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Back to The Future: Wordsworth’s "Ode to Duty" and "Elegiac Stanzas"

4 pages / 1612 words

A past attitude is reverted to and revised in Wordsworth’s “Ode to Duty” and “Elegiac Stanzas.” Employing geographic metaphors, both celestial and earth-bound, the poems climb over rocky Wordsworthian terrain that details his reconciliation between past and present and implications of the future. Though vastly...

Poetry Romanticism

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Two Interpretations of "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal"

2 pages / 1079 words

William Wordsworth’s poem “A slumber did my spirit seal” compels different interpretations with different readers. In this case, two critics, Cleanth Brooks and F.W. Bateson, analyze the poem and produce two contrasting interpretations. For the most part both critics focus on examining the same facts...

Poetry Romanticism

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Primary and Secondary Nature in Wordsworth’s "The Thorn"

2 pages / 739 words

It is not often that one would consider gossip, rumor, fear, and slander to be a part of nature, and yet it is; at least, of human nature. And as William Wordsworth is a poet of nature, one might ask of which form of nature?...

Poetry Romanticism

433

"Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"

3 pages / 1343 words

Wordsworth’s pastoral poem “Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey” eloquently expresses the poet’s feelings of ambivalence regarding maturation, nature, and modern society. The poem is formatted in a distinct approach that serves to highlight the poet’s own conflicting emotions. Wordsworth initiates the composition...

Poetry Romanticism

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Wordsworth: The Young and The Wise

3 pages / 1143 words

“Resolution and Independence” and “Lines Written Above Tintern Abbey” respectively illustrate the difference between a young and nave poet-wanderer to a traveler who has found wisdom through time and nature. Furthermore, the two poems are also able to elucidate dissimilar types of acquired wisdom through...

Poetry Romanticism William Wordsworth

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How Learning Leads to The Sublime in The Works of William Wordsworth

3 pages / 1476 words

For Wordsworth, it is the human imagination and potential to not just observe, but comprehend, nature that ascribes the sublime meaning. Without human cognizance, the objects and elements of the sublime are just physical tokens. Man’s finite existence and the sublime’s apparent totality appear in...

Poetry Romanticism William Wordsworth

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Comparison of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's and William Wordsworth's Literary Style

3 pages / 1222 words

In their Lyrical Ballads, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth experimented with traditional forms by interpreting them in a fresh manner. Although they garnered little attention upon their publication, the Ballads stepped outside of the established boundaries concerning not only meter and form but subject...

Poetry Romanticism

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Victorian, Romantic and Modernist Literature: Style as Cultural Commentary

3 pages / 1150 words

Tony Harrison’s “A Cold Coming,” William Wordsworth’s “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey,” Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights and George Orwell’s 1984 each display distinct sensibilities that reflect the time from which they emerged. Modernist manifestos differentiate the Modernist movement from previous ones through...

Poetry Romanticism