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In her political speech on August 9, 1588 to the land forces gathered at Tilbury in Essex, Queen Elizabeth I of England addressed the imminent threat of invasion by the Spanish Armada. Despite England’s economic struggles and ongoing war with France resulting in substantial expenses, Queen Elizabeth expressed her support for pirates who offered financial…

Louis XIV and Peter the Great were two of the most famous absolutism monarchs in Europe. In my point of view Louis XIV did a better job as a leader. In the 17th century the Europe world entered the age of absolutism. After the religious wars, most European people put their attentions back from the…

Though eventually drawn together by a common animosity toward the parent British Empire, the original thirteen U.S. colonies had relatively little in common culturally. In fact, regional differences in culture were quite pronounced. In examining the cultures of Plymouth/Massachusetts Bay Colony, New York Colony, and South Carolina colonies it is clear that while they may…

The absolutist holds (By definition). That there are some kinds of action which are so intrinsically wicked that it would always be wrong to perform such an action whatever the consequences of not performing it it is very clear, then, that absolutism is incompatible with utilitarianism. For whatever the sort of action which is supposed…

From Achilles’ initial callousness and stubborn temper in the first books of the Iliad to his eventual humanization when he interacts with the grieving father of Hector, whom Achilles killed, the Iliad chronicles the maturation of the Greek hero during the brutal battles of the Trojan War. Achilles is a fully-developed heroic character with both…

Napoleon, despite his ability to uphold the fundamental principles of the French Revolution, skillfully infused his own modifications to those ideals when he found them unsatisfactory. Notably, he revisited and revised the previously established constitution, in addition to altering the dynamics between the state and the Church, ultimately establishing France as a predominantly Catholic nation….

Nanking Massacre “What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands,” – Simon Wiesenthal. Genocide is the systematic mass killing of a specific group of people. For an event to be considered genocide, it must have the eight stages of genocide: classification, symbolization, dehumanization, organization, polarization, preparation, extermination, and denial….

Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau-am-Inn, a small village in Austria. His birthplace is also Braunau-am-Inn. Despite being born as a sickly child, young Klara Hitler’s mother, Klara, tirelessly cared for him around the clock. Adolf was raised by his short-tempered father, Alois. He developed into a boy with a thin…

The era commonly referred to as the “era of good feelings” took place following the War of 1812 and was marked by a notable surge in nationalistic sentiment within the United States. It commenced in 1816, shortly before Monroe assumed the presidency, and continued until his term concluded in 1824. Prior to this time frame,…

Overview of Portraiture             Portraiture involves the process of painting, sculpting or photographing a portrait.  It is a process of recording people.   Artists capture an individual’s personality, character, status, the place and time they lived, and the environment in which they lived, through portraits.   Portraiture includes self-portraits and portraits by an artist of other people…