Essays about: "Henry Every"
Found 5 essays containing the words Henry Every.
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1. The Discipline of the Seas: Piracy and Polity in England, 1688-1698
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religionAbstract : This thesis is a study of the changing legal and political climate surrounding piracy in England in the years 1688-1698, between the Glorious Revolution and the passing in parliament of the Piracy Act 1698. During this time views of piracy changed in London where pirates were no longer seen as beneficial, but instead as obstacles to orderly trade. READ MORE
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2. Den naturliga människan - en undersökning av naturens roll för det mänskliga känslolivet, sett genom Henry David Thoreaus Walden
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoriaAbstract : The purpose of this study is to examine how the American nature writer Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) writes about nature, and natures role for the human emotions. The study takes basis in one of the writer’s most famous works – Walden; or, Life in the woods, from 1854, which he wrote after he had been living in a small cottage in the woods around walden pond for over 2 years. READ MORE
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3. Visualising Interval-Based Simulations
University essay from Högskolan i HalmstadAbstract : Acumen is a language and tool for modeling and simulating cyber-physical systems. It allows the user to conduct simulations using a technique called rigorous simulation that produces results with explicit error bounds, expressed as intervals. READ MORE
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4. Humanity Dehumanized: Fordian and Freudian Models in Huxley’s "Brave New World"
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : This essay deals with major topics in Huxley’s Brave New World, the concepts of production efficiency applied to every day’s life, psychology and psychoanalysis. These concepts, which came to the public’s general attention in the beginning of the 20th century, are in the novel taken to the extreme, thus becoming instrumental in the fictionalized controlled society: the figures of Henry Ford and Sigmund Freud are assimilated to one, divine person. READ MORE
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5. Racial Conflict in the United States of America : A Deconstructive Perspective on Native Speaker by Changrae Lee
University essay from EngelskaAbstract : Written about the time of the Golden Venture incident, Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker makes a particular reference to that incident, whereby implying that particular immigrants, on the grounds of their racial identities, are mistreated and considered as aliens by some Americas. While some whites discriminate against immigrants, there is widespread ethnic tension between Korean Americans and African Americans. READ MORE
