Charles II of England

American history is filled with ups and downs. First you have the settlement era where very clueless and scared individuals move across the world to live in a very unfamiliar place. Then you have the enlightenment era were people change up their philosophies and start to take more about nature and science. It continues all the way to the era we are currently in, postmodern era where we write more freely. American literate styles changes as time goes on. These styles change because of historical…

provided the ability for a gradual conversion from trading presence to political presence in locations such as the Indian subcontinent, the slave coast and the gold coast. The East India Company was granted a charter in the 1600’s, however in 1670, Charles II allowed them…

Whenever a revolt occurs in American History, there are complex motives for these acts to trigger violence or open confrontations with the government. The Bacon’s Rebellion was one of the most famous uprisings in the 1670s and the outcome was the defeat of the rebels. Nathaniel Bacon, who was a Virginia settler, instigated the issue and wanted to oppress the Native Americans. William Berkeley, who was the Governor of the Virginia Colony, was very easy-going about the situation and wanted no…

biggest sports in the U.S and all around the world today, and it has greatly impacted our lifestyle and records are broken every day. How was the sport of basketball created? Basketball was invented in the 1890s in the YMCA corporation in New England (“Basketball : A”). The YMCA corporation was looking for…

and demoralized people in these countries were desperately seeking an escape to their stiff culture. Just as the dance innovator did a great service to her country with her performance, Whitman did similar service in the United States after World War II. With his devotion to his writing, he really influenced the world and made a…

around Salem that heightened the colonists’ fear and anxiety; in addition to this constant sense of fear, Salem residents were also under a great deal of stress during this period due to a number of factors. One major factor was that in 1684, King Charles II revoked the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s royal charter, a legal document granting the colonists permission to colonize the area (3). All these factors combined painted the perfect setting which made the Witch Trials possible. Fueled by…

Rubens was even knighted by many kings during his time alive. First knighted by King Philip IV of Spain and knighted by King Charles the I. Rubens was also a diplomat during war time. He would send paintings to the enemy as a gift and a peace offering. Some of Rubens most famous work are his Constantine paintings and his drunken Hercules painting. Rubens died at age 63 to heart…

Black Americans were the only racial or ethnic group brought to America against their will. Africans came to be captured and sent to the Western Hemisphere as slaves (Sowell 184). They were submitted to forced labor and had no human rights. They were the property of their masters, an object that could be bought, sold, given or mortgaged according to their masters will (Maameri 125).Colonial America depended on agriculture and the near- decimation of the native Indians by warfare and diseases…

Shakespeare et le genre Aphra Behn was born around 1640 and died in 1689, thus living in a period called the Modern Age when people focused on going back to the roots of Christianism hence considered both religion and social life. The rise of public fear and domestic fear was the result of a huge backlash both social and economical for women. Joan Kelly, a prominent historian who wrote Did women have a Renaissance? tackled the rise of conduct books for women, sermons and local justice as the…

Charles Percy Snow, also known as C.P. Snow, was a British scientist and novelist who in 1959 delivered a lecture at Cambridge called “The Two Cultures”. This lecture was later on made available in book form. C.P. Snows main purpose was to explain the divide in western society, as he saw it, into two groups. The first group being the culture of the intellectuals and the other being the culture of science. “The Two Cultures” is about the difference of opinions of people in the humanities and…