Great Plague of London

1. Rowlandson, Jane. Women & Society in Greek & Roman Egypt. New York, NY. Cambridge University Press, 1998. Rowlandson talks about the complexity of the culture of women in the Middle Ages. She tells of the history of every aspect of a women’s life. Family matters, laws, economics, everything that would affect how she lived her life. I found it interesting that royal women had a fairly big part in leadership and religion. We often assume that women were similar to slaves, which can be true,…

of the story this is proved when author gives us an account of José Arcadio’s family and also his wife’s. In the beginning of chapter 2 one reads: “WHEN THE PIRATE Sir Francis Drake attacked Riohacha in the sixteenth century, Úrsula Iguarán’s great-great-grandmother became so frightened with the ringing of alarm bells and the firing of cannons that she lost control of her nerves and sat down on a lighted stove”(One Hundred Years of Solitude…

was born on October 2nd of 1869 in Porbandar, India and was unfortunately killed on January 30th of 1948 by a Hindu fanatic in New Delhi, India. As a young man he studied in three different places one of them being Law at the University College in London (Gandhi Timeline). In addition, during his lifetime he accomplished many incredible things that we still learn about today in school. At only thirteen years old Gandhi was forced to get together with Kasturba Makhanji who was also his age,…

The famous novel, Oryx and Crake which was written by Margaret Atwood was published in 2003 and acclaimed a great success among the critics and general readers. The novel was first published in 2003 by Mcclelland and Stewart. In the same year, the book was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the next year for the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction. This novel is the first part of MaddAddam Trilogy. Though some classify the novel as science fiction, Atwood claims that this novel can be called as…

because no one had ever tried it. “Both France’s proximity to England and America’s political relationship with England mean that ideas about revolutions, in either locations, impacted England” (Tale 1). Even across countries, ideas pass on like the plague. The novel focuses on…

The Hale family, though not of the working class, also relocates to the dreary and smoke filled city of Milton. Margaret’s father, a former vicar of England “[suffers] for conscience’ sake” and can no longer fulfill his religious duties. They arrive in Milton, and are met with the reality of factories being over saturated with not only men, but some women and children too. The city's true forthcomings originally leave Margaret, and especially that of her mother, distraught; but once she makes…

Early European motives for expansion and colonization of the New World sprouted from explorations into the West in search of a better, safer trade route to the Orient. After finding the New World by accident, several different explorers set up settlements in various states such as Virginia, Maryland, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. Monarchs saw value in the exotic spices and other things, such as fabric and dyes, coming from Asia. But the Muslim occupation of the Eastern trade routes made…

Before the industrial revolution, most families were living in small villages. They were either working in agriculture or as skilled craftsmen. Families worked by hand as a family. In the early industrial revolution era, three-quarter of workers was living in the countryside and farming was a predominant occupation. The one-quarter of Britain’s population was industrialised however, everything started to slowly change. The new laws now meant that people had to pay for their own fencing and…

The country went through decades of plague. It was called the Black Death. 4. The reign of Marie Stuart After years of unsuccessful kings in Scotland, the dynasty of the Stuarts became the ruling family. Marie Stuart is the most famous. In addition to being a catholic Queen of a protestant…

At the death of Elizabeth, England departed politically from the continent, starting thereafter a different direction. Much earlier, political observers such as Commynes and Fortescue had emphasized the distinctive character and superiority of insular institutions; But these were not strong enough to withstand Mary Tudor, so the work had to be started again. It was restarted, in the old style, appealing to tradition and precedents. And when it seemed that such criteria were not entirely…