Catherine II of Russia

Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont (hereinafter “Chevalier d’Eon”, “d’Eon”, or “D’Eon”), was born on October 5, 1728 to a noble family that held various military and political offices throughout France. Given D’Eon’s noble heritage, his opportunities for a career and advancement in both the military or politics were practically limitless, and he took full advantage of his status, graduating with a doctorate degree in law as well as becoming a master of fencing.…

Adolph Hitler, a dictator of World War II, was once an artist. Despite his artistic skills and passion towards art, he was continuously rejected by art academies, and therefore, came to be an unsuccessful artist. This was one of the main causes of the Degenerate Art Commission, also called the Nazi art theft. Hitler’s personal antipathy towards modern art created the Degenerate Art Commission which destroyed and concealed thousands of modern artworks (Allsop). Starting from 1937, the looting…

These countries, rather than directly supporting the colonial revolution, instead opposed Britain and this was due to Catherine the Great of Russia’s Armed Neutrality. After the war, the ideas during the American Revolution simply didn’t disappear. Neutrality, free trade, freedom of the seas and globalization were ideas that would eventually play huge roles in nations foreign…

The Enlightenment, the proliferation of rational ideas throughout the 18th Century, has a dualistic political legacy. The paradoxes it produced were liberalism - emphasising political freedom and representation - and authoritarianism, imperialism and independence. Religion, instead of being displaced by reason, remained to influence and reflect the Enlightenment’s political legacies. Kant may stress “Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed nonage” from Christianity but…

in trade just like the British. China was forced to sign yet another document, the Boxer Protocol. The Protocol demanded China to pay the Japanese and Europeans reparations. They also owed them an apology. The Russo-Japanese broke out in 1904 and Russia was kicked out of Manchuria. They established a sphere of influence and became elevated, now seen as a world power and imperial…

art because it’s not something the United States is known for. If asked, most people would only be able to name Mikhail Baryshnikov, a Russian dancer who reached his height of fame in the 1970s. Although ballet is most popular in and associated with Russia, it is still a worldly-known art and thousands of people practice it everyday. Even though the well-known names come from it’s history, ballet is not a dying art, and today’s ballet dancers dedicate much of their lives to continuing traditions…

Attending the world's largest erotic art museum has encouraged me to view sexuality with a more opened minded perception. Sexuality is very diverse for instance, in the way sexual acts are performed and carried out. Historically, individuals are biologically and genetically programmed to seek out sexual behaviors with others. Either for means of reproduction or their personal pleasure, but one thing is very evident, and that is that sex is pleasurable and enjoyable for most. However, cultural…

Elssler who danced La Gypsy and Italian Ballerina, Carlotta Grisi. It was George Balanchine a ballet choreographer who brought ballet to America and not a lot of people realized it. There was a small misunderstanding, people thought ballet came from Russia. To fix this misunderstanding a man named Kirstein published an essay called “Blast at Ballet”. Balanchine and Kirstein then formed the Ballet Society in the year 1946, it captured the attention of the director of New York City’s Centre who…

Work Cited Lu, Catherine. "World Government." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford University, 2006. Web. 15 Dec. 2016. "Government, World." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, edited by William A. Darity, Jr., 2nd ed., vol. 3, Macmillan…

Born Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum to a Jewish family in Tsarist Russia, Ayn Rand was surrounded by pogroms aimed at the Jewish and anti- semitism increased after the assassination of Tzar Alexander II in 1881. There were two younger sisters in her family: Natalia, known as Natasha, and Elanora, known as Nora. Her mother was Anna Borisovna née Kaplan and they had a mutual dislike of each other as Rand thought she was a social climbing, unprincipled conformist and Borisovna thought her daughter did…