… Era Romanticism is a literary and artistic movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that placed value on emotion or imagination over reason, on the imagination over society. Some sources say Romanticism started in reaction to neo-classicis…

… quiet after his years of law school until he embarked on a seventeen year expedition through Europe in 1815. During his travels, he met he English writers who would be most influential on him and his writings. The group consisted of Joseph Addison,…

… Heisenberg, born in the dawn of the twentieth century became one of its greatest physicists; he is also among its most controversial. While still in his early twenties, he was among the handful of bright, young men who created quantum…

… to war. Siegfried Sassoon detested war and so in 1917 started a crusade against fighting. He said ‘I can no longer be a party to prolonging those sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.' This sums up his whole feeling that…

… how serious was it? Queen Elizabeth ruled England from 1558 until her death in 1603. Many historians (such as Penry Williams)see her reign as the start of England becoming a great power. Throughout her reign Elizabeth was faced with many challe…

… mostly for their style of writing. The art and beauty of the retrospective narrative is when a writer depicts a significant event and / or place from their own personal experience. For instance, E. B. White's One More to the Lake is masterful in taking…

… Island, N.Y., died March 26, 1892, Camden, N.J. He was an american poet, journalist, and essayist whose verse collection Leaves of Grass is a landmark in the history of American leterature. EARLY LIFE Walt Whitman was born into a family that…

… and Chief of the German police. In this capacity, he was responsible for the implementation of the Final Solution - the extermination of the Jews - as ordered by the Führer, Adolf Hitler. He was born in Munich on October 7, 1900. His father was…

… the sixteen and seventeen hundreds an enlightenment was taking place. An American enlightenment. During this enlightenment people began to view things differently. They began to ask questions like how and why. People instead of looking…

… depression more often than men do, but the reason for this gender difference has not been clear. A new study, published in the November 1999 issue of the American Psychological Association's (APA) Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, provides…