Charles X of France

Eugene Delacroix was a magnificent painter from the day his first painting strived to when his life ended, he was known for creating the Romantic style but not only was his art beautiful it strived throughout France and he became important. Eugene Delacroix was born April 26, 1798 and was the most important French romantic painters. Delacroix started his education at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. While attending Louis-le-Grand he won many awards for his drawings. Eugene Delacroix kept up with his…

“John Calvin is generally regarded as the leading Protestant reformer of the sixteenth century after Martin Luther. Born in 1509 and raised in France, the product of a humanist education, he became a Protestant in the 1520s and was exiled from Paris. Calvin then went to Switzerland, eventually settling in Geneva, where he became the leader of the Protestant movement there. After being driven out…

On Dec. 7, 1941, radios buzzed with the news that several hundred Japanese planes attacked a U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, killing more than 2,400 Americans as well as damaging or destroying eight Navy battleships and more than 100 planes. Though it would be some time before people learned the full scope of the damage, within days a once-distant war in Europe and the Pacific became a central part of life in the United States, affecting politics, business, media, and entertainment.…

Commencing in the early eighteenth century, the Romantic era sought not only to transform the essence of human experience through challenging the unyielding and judicious constraints in the social and political realms of neoclassicism but also to introduce revolutionarily eccentric ways of thinking, whilst provoking the ideals and notions of the period through movements in arts and literature. Mary Wollstonecraft’s earliest work of feminist philosophy “A Vindication in the Rights of Women”…

Schism” or “Papal Schism” during the year of 1378. During this time there were three Popes who believed they were the one true Pope. Before the beginning of the schism, there was power of the papal in Avignon, France. Gregory XI, had wanted to return the papacy to Rome, and no longer have it in France (Gonzalez, The Story of Christianity 402). However he passed away and the Cardinals of Avignon had gathered in Avignon to elect a new leader, but those in Rome had argued that the new leader…

Analysis of the Renaissance and the Middle Ages Stefan Rayburn Western Governor’s University Analysis of the Renaissance and the Middle Ages The humanities have shaped the culture of the world to what it is today. Cave paintings would tell a story of a conquest or an adventure otherwise untold. World wonders would be marveled and envied over for countless years to come. However, without the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the humanities would not be as robust and advanced as…

Since Pope Urban II sold the first indulgence, a “ticket” out of purgatory, in 1095, the Catholic Church has been overrun with corruption and malfeasance. Popes and priests took advantage of this broken system, in which they would profit at the expense of the common man. It was not until 1510 when Martin Luther, a devout Catholic monk who was having trouble with his faith, visited the holy city of Rome that change truly began. Instead of finding a holy city, he found ubiquitous greed, corruption…

King Henry VIII Journal Entry#1 1509 Journal, I’ve decided to call you Bartholomew because I can’t just keep calling you journal. Today I am to marry Catherine of Aragon; she is the daughter of the Spanish King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile (Biography.com Editors). No doubt she is a rightful and good match for a man such as me. She was my brother’s wife; I gravely tell you that it has been a few years since his death. The poor lady was made a widow only after a few…

The period of the Italian Renaissance, immediately following the Middle Ages saw a great rebirth of interest in the classical learning and ancient Greco-Roman values. In a society with strong political stability and growing prosperity, there was a development of new technologies–including the printing press, a new approach to astronomy and the continuous discovery and exploration of new continents–was followed up by a flowering of philosophy, literature and especially art. The new styles of…

Social Contract Theory A lot of people have differences and usually find it hard to concur with each other. The greater good is the word applied in order to illustrate a term that is both agreeable to the two parties. This study will aim to analyze the social contract theory using different views as well as the incorporation of the authority systems. The following provision will tackle the social contract theory. Social Contract Theory The importance of social contract theory demonstrates the…