Portuguese Empire

Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote sonnet 43 in a series of sonnets titled Sonnets from the Portuguese. Although the individuals in the poem ‒ the narrator and the lover ‒ are ambiguous, there is a strong correlation between Barrett Browning's love life and the complex love of the sonnet. Even though there can be an argument made that sonnet 43 is not Barrett Browning’s husband, I will be using the assumption that Barrett Browning is the narrator and her husband is the lover. The theme that…

The articulations of custom, tradition and culture have been posited against discourses of rights in terms of British Colonial rule in India. These distinctions emerged alongside the British ‘civilizing mission’ in which the question of rights came to the forefront of the discourse and were matched with the invention of culture. Edmond Burke’s analysis of rights in the context of the French revolution reveals that natural rights are inherited and passed down from generation to generation, as…

The short story “Federigo's Falcon” by Giovanni Boccaccio and the poem “How Do I Love Thee” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning both develop the theme of love in their own ways. “Federigo's Falcon” develops the theme of love by telling the story of a man who gave up his most prized possessions twice for the woman he loves. “How Do I Love Thee” develops the theme of love by having the narrator detail how much they love their partner and by describing their unconditional love. Both pieces of writing…

Context plays a significant role in portraying values of the composer triggered by time and place. ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’ (1845) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning is a reflection of her personal experiences in the context of the Victorian era’s gender issues and female expectation in a Petrarchan form. Similarly F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ (1926) centres of the failure and tragedy of the American dream in the Roaring 20's. Both texts explore the positive and negative effects of…

Imperialism is defined as when a stronger nation dominates a weaker one, socially and economically. As once Edward W said: “Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate." Here Edward is trying to say that many nations/countries may want to be the superior and alpha one of another, they say it’s for the better rule and to take away control just to put more control. Europe only…

influences and not by China 's own growth ambitions, because the British needed to boost their own economy with expansion. The British Empire was always seeking to grow and acquire new territory and expand their trade routes encountered a flourishing Chinese Empire that had many goods for trade. The British demand for these goods outgrew their own financial resources of the empire, allowing for an eventual take over by the British of the Chinese economy. This would eventually lead to a British…

and seventeenth centuries were years of growth for the great empires of Europe. Two of these empires, the Portuguese and the Spanish, looked to expand their territories and power while seeking land not only throughout Europe, but also across the Atlantic in the Americas. Both empires commenced their expansions by sending conquistadors to discover and colonize land in the New World. Once they arrived, both the Spanish and Portuguese conquistadors, with the help of the native people, began to…

era that created the largest and influential empire of that millennium. Their empire reached all the way to Eastern Europe and it was the Mongols that brought regions together into a single interacting network. The Comparing and contrasting of two expansive cultures will provide us with a better understand of how their connection pushed us into the global integration of the modern era. The Mongols had a very different approach to controlling their empire…

The Benin Empire was a pre-colonial empire situated in the western Africa country known as Nigeria in the forest region. Nigeria is located along the south west of Africa, surrounding countries are Niger, Benin, and Cameroon. This empire was located near the south west of Nigeria close to the coast. In summary the Benin Empire can be dated back to 1180-1897 C.E. the fall of the Empire is the result of the British Empire coming in and burning down the empire after the King of the empire grew…

introduce the concept of global politics to the study of the Age of Exploration and early modern Ottoman history. Giancarlo Casale is currently a professor at the University of Minnesota and specializes in the history of the early modern Ottoman Empire. Casale main purpose in this text was to provide a cohesive narration of the Ottoman Age of Exploration. Casale makes the important distinction that the European age of exploration was not the only significant narrative to be examined for this…