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Enclosure and Revolution, 2005.
This paper examines whether Enclosure in Britain led to the agricultural revolution and looks at evidence for both points of view.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 8 sources, $ 26.95
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This essay discusses whether the Enclosure of open fields in eighteenth century England led to the agricultural revolution. The writer maintains that the answer is that it both did and did not, depending on how one defines the terms. The writer points out that it did not necessarily lead to greater efficiency - at least not right away. However, the writer concludes that Enclosure did change farming, and this change eventually led to the agricultural revolution.
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"In popular usage, when we say that something is an 'academic question', the term is vaguely critical. We are implying that the answer to the question depends entirely on how we choose to label certain concepts, and whether the answer is negative or affirmative based on these terms makes little practical difference. It seems as though the question of whether Enclosure in Britain led to the agricultural revolution is an academic question in this sense. We can find evidence for both points of view, and neither significantly changes the facts. That is, the efficiency of agricultural output did or did not increase sharply following enclosure depending on how we define 'efficiency'. Output in other countries also increased."
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Enclosure in Tudor and Stuart England, 2005.
This paper examines the social significance of enclosure in Tudor and Stuart England.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 7 sources, $ 80.95
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This paper refers to several articles on the history of English agriculture after the late 16th century. The writer discusses the importance of enclosure, in relation to agrarian business orientation and looks at its social effects. The paper also explores Marxist versus research based approaches, favouring the second, as enclosure developed piecemeal, not in the sweeping way that Marxists claim it changed the countryside and all class relations.
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"Marxist historians have made much of the effects of enclosure and engrossment in British agrarian history that resulted in much movement of the rural population, in the later 17th and early 18th century to towns that would offer employment with the advent of the Industrial Revolution. As Mark Overton explained, rural wages altered greatly in England through the 18th century, in irregular wage levels in the north, and then in the south, that were affected by the extent to which enclosure had taken form, and also, competing sources of wages in the towns.
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The Enclosure Acts, 2002.
An examination of the farming changes resulting from the Enclosure Acts that helped bring about an Industrial Revolution in 18th-century England.
1,417 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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This paper discusses how, in the mid to late 18th century England, changes made to agricultural practices throughout the land sped the country towards the Industrial Revolution. It looks at how the Enclosure Acts bought about the consolidation of parcels of land and how common land was then allocated among land barons and the wealthier farmers. It analyzes how these parcels of land aided the technological advancements being made at the time and evaluates whether, overall, they were beneficial to the general population of 18th century England.
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"Obviously, the way the Enclosure Acts were implemented was unfair. Without money and political influence to back them, the poorer members of the parish were, time after time, given the short end of the stick. The concept behind the Acts may have been one of efficiency and efficacy, and their implementation did increase food production, however, greed spoiled the purpose. Peasants no longer had access to communal lands that their families for ages had used. They no longer were able to gather food after harvests that would normally sit in the field and rot. The land they were given to farm was of poor quality, unsuitable for crop production. And, the requirement of expensive fencing and gating made it impossible for the poorer farmers to keep what little land they were given."
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The Communication Commons, 2005.
This paper discusses the enclosure of public communication versus a right to communicate.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 3 sources, $ 71.95
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The paper offers a response to a fixed thematic question involving the impact of globalization's communications on rights of expression, democracy and the ideal of the communications commons that may or may not be aided by the current climate. The paper discusses the 'enclosure' of communication vs. the democratic capability attached to Internet communication. This critical position is taken in view of temporal nature of "All Change;" the need to wait to see what is happening in the political economy in relation to the communications theory.
From the Paper
"This paper addresses debate on the enclosure of public communication versus a right to communicate that is seen as essential in our day. As is explained, the solution to a changed realm of communication and its limitation is thought to lie in a guaranteed right to communicate. In an almost sinister way, our day is one in which this right may be impossible to realize, even in developed democratic societies. As Boyle notes, issues of enclosure as opposed to the 'right' to information, knowledge, or communication are now much debated."
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?Moby Dick?, 2002.
Examines the strong element of allegory in Herman Melville's novel.
2,363 words (approx. 9.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 72.95
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Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" is a novel constructed as an allegory, with different representations of entrapment and imprisonment delineating man's place in the universe. The paper shows that these also have a spiritual element as the Pequod represents all mankind adrift on God's sea, beset by dangers on all sides and constantly tested for spiritual strength. The paper describes how images of death are also found throughout the book, foreshadowing the death of the ship and all its crew except the outcast, Ishmael, who survives to tell the tale by holding onto a floating coffin. Ishmael is free as he holds onto the ultimate prison, the prison that holds the dead.
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Introduction
Allegory and Moby Dick
Images of Entrapment and Enclosure
C. The Pequod as an Enclosure for the Crew
II. The Novel
A. Motivations for Different Crew Members
1. Ishmael
2. Ahab
3. Stubb and Starbuck
B. Symbolism
1. The Pequod
2. The Sea
3. The Crew
4. Symbolic Chapters
C. Relationship Between the Pequod and the Whale
D. Imagery of the Whaleman's Chapel
E. Theme of Isolation
F. Death and Entrapment Intertwined
1. The Ship
2. Ahab
3. Queequeg
III. Conclusion
From the Paper
"Melville makes much use of symbols in Moby Dick, and many objects stand as symbols of other entities. The Pequod is one of the main symbols, and the ship becomes a symbol of the world, self-contained and moving across the sea. The crew represents all of humanity. The voyage itself has symbolic meaning, as a representation of the journey from birth to death. Queequeg's coffin becomes a symbol of death and then ends up as a symbol of life with Ishmael clinging to it after the Pequod goes down. In different chapters there are symbols that are explored at length, such as Chapter 60, "The Line," in which a rope attached to a harpoon represents all the things that bind people, tie them down, and pull them through life."
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Architecture, 2005.
A discussion of the concept of the envelope of architecture, according to Tschumi and Cheng.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 5 sources, $ 62.95
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This paper discusses the idea of the envelope of architecture, a boundary between the public sphere and the private sphere, and how this is less and less a boundary and more a porous enclosure. This concept is discussed according to the views of Tschumi and Cheng, in the text edited by them.
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"An interesting aspect of the theoretical elements found in the text edited by Tschumi and Cheng (2003) is made explicit by Colomina (2003), who writes, "The line between public and private no longer coincides with the outer limit of a building" (p. 68). This comment is reflected in different ways in other essays in the text, and it also helps explain some of the direction of architecture today and also traces back to earlier times when clearly the separation between public and private was much more rigid. Colomina also states that architecture always followed medicine, which is why the envelope of architecture corresponds more to the human body than to functional programs. However, Colomina also says that it might be that "the envelope is longer to be found on the outside but has coiled itself up within an imaginary body" (p. 68)."
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"The Deserted Village", 2002.
A review of Oliver Goldsmith's "The Deserted Village".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper shows that Oliver Goldsmith was concerned about the effects of the agricultural revolution then in progress, which were being hastened, by "Enclosure Acts or Laws."
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The Great Mosque of Samarra, 2002.
This paper describes the Great Mosque of Samara (in present-day Iraq) on the Tigris River, which is the largest mosque in the Islamic world.
1,080 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 37.95
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This paper explains that despite the Koran's strictures against sumptuousness and grandeur, the mosques are built with opulence and splendor. The author points out that early Islamic art offers a striking contrast to Christian art and architecture by the avoidance of religious symbolism found in Christian churches and art. The paper relates an additional feature of the Great Mosque at Samarra: the ziyadas, an outer enclosure or extension common to early Islamic mosques which surrounds the structure on the north, east and west sides but not on the qiblah wall (the wall in the direction of Mecca which Muslims face in prayer).
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"On the north side of the Great Mosque stands a single, large minaret, a lofty tower surrounded by one or more projecting balconies from which the summons to prayer is cried by the muezzin. Yet with this particular minaret, the builders decided to shape it in the form of a ziggurat, a stepped, truncated pyramid based on Assyrian architecture reminiscent of ancient Mesopotamia. But the minaret at Samarra was most probably inspired by a certain kind of spiral tower of unknown purpose found in Sassanid, a dynasty of the Persian kings of the third to the seventh centuries in present-day Iran."
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