... time as he was writing comedy, he also wrote nine history plays, treating the reigns of England's medieval kings and exploring realities of power still relevant today. The great tragedies "including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth "were written during the first decade of the 1600s. All focus on a basically decent individual who brings about his own downfall ... through a tragic flaw. Scholars have theorized about the reasons behind this change in Shakespeare's vision, and the switch from a focus on social aspects of human activity to the rending experience of the individual. But ...

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... European vessels for a life of slavery in the Western Hemisphere. Many more Africans were captured or purchased in the interior of the continent but a large number died before reaching the coast. About 9 to 10 million Africans survived the Atlantic crossing to be purchased by planters and traders in the New World, where they worked principally as slave laborers in plantation economies requiring a ... directly with slave suppliers who built small trading posts, or "factories," on the coast. European shippers were thus able to circumvent the Trans-Saharan caravan slave trade. The slave t...

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... historical vacuum, poetic language and forms bear the traces of the specific circumstances that have shaped them, and the interpretation of them by different audiences at different times is similarly determined historically. CRITIC: John Dryden (Late 1600s) -He affects the metaphysics, not only in his satire but in his amorous verses, where Nature only should reign; and perplexes the minds of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy when ... all modes of death lead to the next life. Nothing could give Donne quite the same outlook on death as he achieves through this cosmologica...

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... that have lived on the Earth since life first appeared here three billion years ago, only about one in a thousand are still living today. All the others have became extinct usually within ten million years after they first appeared. This in turn has contributed greatly to the current level of biodiversity on the planet. Extinction is the loss of populations of interbreeding ... the human population is the primary reason for the increase in the rate of extinction. Since 1600 about 1100 species have became extinct. The rapid disappearance of species was ranked as one of the planet's grave...

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