Gestational age

Throughout A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens uses symbolism to create meaning in the story and to establish a point. One of the most prominent and important symbols that is woven throughout the novel is the motif of the “echoes of footsteps coming and going” (103). However, these footsteps signify different ideas dependent upon where Lucie and the family are. In London, England, the footsteps are merely echoes of people who could someday enter the family’s lives, while in Paris, France, the family…

The buildings of the Italian Cisternians consisted of a central hall for the crowds to gather, side aisles, and apse. With rectilinear forms challenge the French architecture, also with small windows, one example is the magnificent, Basilica of San Francisco, located in Assisi. The fresco painting on the walls was also an important characteristic of this period. Also, its desire to evoke the Franciscan connection with poverty influenced the architecture. Simply but magnificent is the definition…

French word rebirth. This word perfectly sums up the Renaissance because this was a time period where people wanted to bring back the glory of the Roman Empire, which meant bringing Europe out of the hardships brought by the Black Death and the Middle Ages. Three events played a major role in the Renaissance’s glory. These events were the Scientific Revolution, Protestant Reformation, and the Art and Architecture of the Renaissance.…

Following the French Revolution of 1789, political ideologies began to surface as a result of an increased chance to engage in political discourse, something that was rare outside of the Monarch’s court. As ideas of liberalism, an ideology with a focus on individual human rights began to surface, conservatives with the desire to maintain the Ancien Regime retorted with anti-nationalistic sentiment. In his speech “What is revolution?”, delivered in 1852, conservative Friedrich Julius Stahl…

Throughout human history, different era’s have developed among societies, progressing mankind towards what it currently is today. Characterized by their many different newfound ideologies, these era’s show growth in the ability to think, act, and feel both as an individual, and also as a society. Topics such as religion, government, the economy, and philosophy were all stated, contested, and then evolved repeatedly, defining what people were like all throughout the different time periods. Two…

Clarke employs the metaphor of childhood to illustrate the naivety of mankind in the face of the great technological progress and intellectual ferment during Clarke’s age. Utopia in this context is a vehicle for critical commentary on the complications that arise from a utopia, namely, artistic stagnation, the depreciation of creativity, boredom leading to moral depravity, and the ultimate elimination of evolution. ‘Childhood’s…

The setting is 1930s Mexico, religion is outlaw in the state, more specifically Catholicism. Priests have fled to not receive punishment like persecution. The society is rampant with violence, alcohol, sin, and corruption. Police believe priests are just as corrupt and they dismiss the poor. There is some truth to this statement with priests disobeying the ways of Catholicism. The protagonist of this story is a lost priest who is struggling find his way and escape the authorities. First, the…

John Hancock was a revolutionary, he was the first person to sign the declaration of independence, and he was one of the wealthiest people in massachusetts. He also got to name the United States of America, the act he was inspired by was the Tea Act. John hancock was best known as the first person to sign the declaration of independence, but there are also many things people did not know about him like he was one of the wealthiest people in massachusetts, when John was little his father…

Two big social events happened that pushed the colonies in America towards the Revolutionary War, the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening. The Enlightenment that happened in the colonies stemmed from the Enlightenment that was also occurring in Europe, which was a movement to place a human’s capacity for reason above other factors of social status (Schultz, Mays, & Winfree, 2011). To basically summarize what was happening, at the time the Enlightenment as occurring the popular belief in…

The Gilded Age was a time period of industrial growth in the United States that took place in the late nineteenth century. Its name derived from Mark Twain’s book, “The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today.” In it, he emphasized that the country was not experiencing a “Golden Age” full of success and prosperity, but rather a Gilded Age. Meaning that there was a thin gold sheet masking the corruption actually going on. During this time period immense wealth was earned by individuals who were business…