Essays Tagged: "sweeping"

Hamlet's Treatment of Ophelia and Gertrude

t consider how Hamlet treated his mother. A characteristic ofHamlet's personality is to make broad, sweeping generalizations and nowhere is thismore evident than in his treatment toward women. Very ea ...

(6 pages) 293 1 3.5 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet

The reign of Edward VI saw a definite hardening of religious policy. Do you agree?

erset the changes involved merely creating a Protestant facelift, and only under Northumberland did sweeping radical changes emerge. However, policy never hardened enough, or became accepted enough, t ...

(8 pages) 48 0 4.0 Jan/1995

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

Bulgaria 1945 - 1996

criptOver the course of the past two months, January and February 1997, Bulgaria has undergone some sweeping political changes and its economy has deteriorated into further collapse. The following is ...

(2 pages) 41 0 4.5 Jan/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening.

x ten years later in 1740. What exactly was the Great Awakening? It was a wave of religion revivals sweeping through New England that increased conversions and church membership. The beginnings of the ...

(6 pages) 188 0 2.8 Nov/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Biography of Stephen Spielberg

ively imprinted his brand name on the films and the culture of his time, or had such a decisive and sweeping impact on both the industry's and the public's notion of what movie going is supposed to be ...

(9 pages) 110 0 4.0 Dec/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Directors

Umbrian holiday: A descriptive essay about my family's vacation in Umbria, Italy.

rn) was over 100 years old and wasperched on the top of the highest hill in the area. It afforded a sweeping view of thesurrounding countryside. Being from the American Midwest, I had never seen anyth ...

(3 pages) 204 1 4.4 Dec/2002

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays > Travel Descriptions

An article on the AIDS epidemic in Africa

caThese are just some of the frightening statistics on the AIDS epidemic in Africa. This disease is sweeping across Africa like the plague in the Middle Ages. Many people in Africa refuse to believe o ...

(2 pages) 75 1 2.8 Dec/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Elitism in the UK university system.

acies were even chosen from the ones who could afford to apply in the first place. Without making a sweeping generalisation, this has carried on through the centuries with mainly the middle and upper ...

(3 pages) 75 0 4.3 Jan/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

This essasy explores the controversial world of the Jacksonian Era and tries to explain the reasoning behind president Andrew Jacksonian's many bias's.

The 1820s and 1830s in America were times of sweeping change. Jacksoniandemocracy brought more power to common citizens, and engendered ideals of ...

(3 pages) 75 0 3.2 Jan/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents

Vietnamese New Year.

he preparation and cleaning process. The house must be thoroughly cleansed from inside and outside. Sweeping and scrubbing is done in advance as tradition discourages cleaning during the holiday itsel ... rages cleaning during the holiday itself. It is considered bad luck to start the New Year cleaning. Sweeping the floor is like sweeping the good fortunes away elsewhere. Families paint their homes to ...

(4 pages) 62 0 4.1 Jul/2003

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Why there was stalemate on the Western Front by December 1914.

nexpectedly by strong Belgian resistance, taking the Germans two weeks to take Brussels. Instead of sweeping around in a wide arc and approaching Paris from the west, the Germans found themselves head ...

(4 pages) 57 0 4.8 Jul/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

A report on the foundations on why someone should study history.

ites about how our citizens are losing our memory of our history. He says that it is like a disease sweeping across the nation. He then says 4 out of 5 college seniors will be unable to pass a basic H ...

(2 pages) 53 1 3.7 Aug/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Psychology and me.

not believe that I am a very difficult person to understand. My life is based upon two very simple, sweeping philosophies: pragmatism in actions and idealism in thought. Thus, with these two attitudes ...

(3 pages) 78 1 3.4 Sep/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Who were the Vikings and what was their life like?

girls are helping theirmothers, who are doing various chores around their houses.Several girls are sweeping the dirt floors of theirlonghouses, others are doing wash in a spring. The dogs arechasing ...

(9 pages) 76 2 3.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

How has globalisation affected the world economy?

estment across international boundaries and in this way becomes a predominately economic phenomenon sweeping the world. Throughout which, what were formerly national companies become international con ...

(11 pages) 423 0 3.7 Oct/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Discuss the view that consolidation rather than expansion was the prime objective of Roman foreign policy between 69 and 211 A.D.

tudying Roman frontier policy, it seems clear that the image of the Roman army as great conquerors, sweeping through vast areas of the known ancient world, is a view which is probably more typical of ...

(7 pages) 32 0 1.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > Roman History

Fine Balance.

rom India, who moved to Canada in 1975 when Indira Ghandi declared a State of Emergency and assumed sweeping powers, we just aren't prepared for the moment when his narrative of life in Indira's India ...

(3 pages) 28 0 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Anime/Manga 101. Anime Genres, difference between Anime and Manga, art styles, and recommendations...

(obviously)... Anime and Mangas are everywhere these days... They're the hottest things with pages sweeping through the school and the nation and yet what are they a few of us may wonder? What is Ani ...

(3 pages) 59 0 4.5 Jan/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

The title: Killing Joanne. A short story written in the styles of Roald Dahl about a husband planning to murder his wife...with a twist at the end.

.Then he met Colleen. She moved in across the street and it was as if a gust of wind came with her, sweeping away the heavy air that had settled around his being. She was beautiful, intelligent, and f ...

(7 pages) 25 0 0.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Halfway There

d chicken legs.As we made our way past the ticket counter the automatic doors whooshed open, nearly sweeping us away in a blast of icy air. It was January in Wisconsin, which means one thing: cold. Th ...

(3 pages) 19 0 0.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays