rational‚ yet lavish‚ the disciplined‚ yet reckless‚ and the undeniably esteemed Madame Emilie du Chatelet. Her expansive interests and unquenchable desire for knowledge spread her paints far and wide upon the bare canvas of women’s influences in the 18th century. Emilie du Chatelet widely contributed to the
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ethnically diverse of British colonies in North America during the 18th “We are a nation of communities... a brilliant diversity spread like stars‚ like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.” --------- George H. W. Bush The United States of America has reputation as a country of freedom and diversity ever since the early time of its history- the colonial period. However‚ it is not until around 17th- 18th century that the British colonies in North America became the most ethnically
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Augustan to Gothic period 1713-1789 Introduction The 18th century in English literature can be divided into two periods: THE AUGUSTAN AGE (The Age of Pope) - 1700-1745 and THE AGE OF SENSIBILITY (The Age of Johnson) - 1745-1785. This was the period of heavy colonizations of the new world and the time when cities rise. Various inventions‚ as well as the Industrial and Agricultural Revolution‚ influenced manufacturing and the British trade with the rest of the world; both of which grew tremendously
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know began in New York in the early 19th century. "Reformation" was the goal of the founders of the system. During the colonial period and in the early years of the nation‚ long-term imprisonment was not a common form of punishment in prison. Instead‚ execution was the prescribed penalty for a wide range of offenses. People who committed less serious offenses faced public punishment such as pillorying‚ whipping and maiming. At the beginning of the 19th century‚ imprisonment had replaced public punishment
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Triangle Trade: a trading system between the Americas‚ the gold coast of Africa‚ and the West Indies. For example‚ liquor would be traded for slaves‚ which would be brought over the West Indies. There‚ he would trade the slaves for molasses‚ which he would bring to New England to be turned into rum. Great Awakening: A religious revival in the 1730s and 1740s. First started in Massachusetts by pastor Jonathan Edwards. He proclaimed that believing in salvation through good works and affirming the
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Through six days of armed conflict in an all-encompassing citizen uprising‚ Irishmen and Irishwomen alike led their own people to freedom from an outside power. This came to a compromise in the form of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic‚ which gave the Irish freedom‚ while stopping the assault of innocent British. While the Irish followed in the revolutionary footsteps of the Americans‚ they blazed their own trail for other nations such as India to follow and learn from. The Removal of Home
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Chesapeake Bay The Chesapeake Bay is murky. It is polluted by chemicals and litter pollution. As the community that lives in the watershed‚ we must clean up the pollution and to stand up to the pollution and making it stop. The bays water quality has deteriorated and dropped significantly because of the pollution. Special species have disappeared because of all of the pollution. In my opinion‚ the Bay’s water quality would improve if everyone participated in a water clean-up and prevented future
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The War of the Spanish Succession was a war over the succession of the Spanish kingdom. Conflict started when Charles II had died on November 1st‚ 1700 but had no obvious male heirs to the throne. However there were candidates within the Austrian and French kingdoms. The countries battled over who is going to take the kingdom. During the war‚ countries had used privateers who are privately own armed ships who are commissioned by the government to fight or harass other countries on the sea (Privateer
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In the 21st century we have millions of people living with the constant uncertainty of waking up tomorrow. They are not dying of old age - their life has just begun‚ they are not living with cancer – their life expectancy is much shorter‚ but they are amongst the 27 million men‚ women and children involved in the impoverished slave trade. As an ambassador for anti-slavery‚ I Emma Smith‚ do not need to argue the wrongfulness of slavery for‚ as stated by Fredrick Douglass in 1852‚ “there is not a
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written by the British poet and engraver William Blake. It has 4 quatrains with alternative lines rhyming. Written in iambic pentameter‚ the poem is beautifully rhymed. London deals with the dreadful scene in the industrialized London in the 18th century. In the first stanza‚ Blake gives an overview of the city and successfully creates the gloomy‚ dark and suffocating atmosphere. Blake applies varied rhetorical devices in the poem‚ of which the most striking and significant is repetition. For example
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