A Stately Pleasure-Dome Decree:: Coleridges Critique of
Few ideas are more known than the obtaining of wealth and power, but in Kubla Khan, Coleridge presents the two opposing ideas of materialism and imagination. Coleridges poem is one of the best known from the Romantic era, and it sends a simple message through the intricate use of complex rhym....
Africain Spirituals
It seems almost impossible to state when the first spirituals were created, most speculate that these songs flourished near the end of the 18th century and during the last few decades leading up to the end of legalized slavery in the 1860s. During this long period of active music making, Americans....
Romanticism Style in La Belle Dame sans Merci
The Romantic period in Literature is believed to have begun in 1798 when Samuel Coleridge and William Wordsworth published a book of poems called Lyrical Ballads. Romantic writers emphasized imagination and emotion (Romanticism 457). Romantic writers use medieval subjects and settings in the....
Samuel Colt
Samuel Colt (July 19, 1814 January 10, 1862), born in Hartford, Connecticut, was the inventor of the Colt revolver, and founder of the Colt Firearms company.
Colt's father owned a textile mill, where the young Colt learned the principles of machinery. His work in the mill led to being a shipping....
Technology
Introduction: Technology What Is It? General term for the processes by which human beings fashion tools and Machines to increase their control and understanding of the material environment. The Term is derived from the Greek words tekhne, which refers to an art or craft, and logia, Meaning an area o....
The Colt Six-Shooter - Sam Colt
The colt six shooter will always be a legend to Texas. Whether you know it as an accurate, cowboy, Texas Ranger, gun-slinging, out West, corral gun, or as a little protection, the colt will never be forgotten in Texas. Sam Colt is known as the inventor of the first rev....