James II of England

Stratford-on-Avon, England, in April of 1564. The exact day is unknown but they celebrate his birthday on April 23, which also happens to be the same day that he died in 1616. No other author 's work has been produced as much as Shakespeare 's has. The play Macbeth was composed in late 1606 to early 1607. It is one of Shakespeare 's shortest plays but is considered to be one of his darkest. It is also believed that there may have been more than one author who contributed to the writing of the…

William Shakespeare wrote Hamlet at a time when England was embroiled in debate about the nature of ghosts. The Elizabethan people believed in the existence of spirits. However, there was a discrepancy in how the people believed the spirits interacted and influenced the populus. The conservative held to the old doctrine stating that ghosts were spirits of deceased people and therefore not evil, while the reforming denied the possibility of ghosts in favor of spirits being evil devils. The…

based on that of Nazi Germany and the USSR in the 1940’s, seeks limitless power over an impoverished population by the use of dictatorship. The novel is said to be George Orwell’s dark foreshadowing of the threat to democracy in the tense post-World War II period (Marshall). Set in Oceania, one of three intercontinental super-states dividing the world at this time, the novel follows Winston Smith and his forbidden love Julia through their struggle to rebel against Big Brother. Similar to…

year, our master's students consistently did much better in departmental oral examinations on material they'd studied with Cox than on material they'd studied with me or from our colleagues Woodward, Claytor, and others.During the years of World War II Cox contributed to the war effort by teaching engineering science and war management from 1942 to 1944 and also headed a specialist army training programme from 1943 to 1945. He was promoted to full professor at Howard University in 1947 and…

Her dad was originally married to Catherine Everett and had two sons James and Simpsons Keller. Then he remarried to Kate Adams Keller. After Helen was born she had two younger siblings Mildred and Philip Brooks Keller. When Helen was six she knocked baby Mildred out of the cradle. That’s when her parents realized that they…

England has credit for the discovery of the acetylene. This was made arc between two carbon electrodes that use a battery. Voltaic cell was discovered by Allesandro Volta. This technique is were two different metals can connect and can become a conductor…

It was written by James Madison who had wanted to safeguard the individual liberty of all Americans. As a member of the House of Representatives, he had attempted to re-write parts of the constitution that he felt was excessive. Following this, his write ups were revised…

Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney were who the world was cheering on in the 1930s film world. The gangster film genre was in full swing, and as Robinson and Cagney ascended repeatedly to become kingpins of a given town only to fall back to being nothing again, a hopeful named Humphrey Bogart was just beginning his acting career. Stephen Bogart, the son of soon to be movie star Humphrey Bogart, stated in his book about his father that Humphrey was “not happy playing those parts.” Humphrey…

In 1992, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham addressed the need for greater voice in African American women’s history, naming the limits of white feminist scholarship and theory in its appeal to homogeneous conceptions of “womanhood,” “woman’s culture,” and “patriarchal oppression of women.” Diagnosing how this narrow practice of the field had resulted in an extensive backgrounding of race in the crossings of gender, sexuality, and class, Higginbotham’s critical intervention not only entailed the…

The Impact of Isaac Newton on Modern Science Historical Context Isaac Newton was born into a place and time that situated him in what was the beginning of the age of enlightenment. The mid to late 1600’s were the beginning of a movement that emphasized individualism and reason rather than tradition. Isaac Newton benefitted greatly by being born in this period in time rather than 50 years earlier where the same opportunities he had would not be available and the amount of information available…