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2. Three Hundred Ramayanas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on ...

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   Three Hundred Rāmāyaṇas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on Translation" is an essay written by Indian writer A. K. Ramanujan for a Conference on Comparison of Civilizations at the University of Pittsburgh, February 1987. The essay was a required reading on Delhi University's syllabus for history undergraduates from 2006–7 onward. On ...

3. Essay - Wikipedia

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   A history essay sometimes referred to as a thesis essay describes an argument or claim about one or more historical events and supports that claim with evidence, arguments, and references. The text makes it clear to the reader why the argument or claim is as such.

4. An Essay on the History of Civil Society - Wikipedia

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   The Essay was critically acclaimed upon publication with a wide readership for about thirty years after it was published. [5] Voltaire praised Ferguson for "civilizing the Russians" as it was being taught in the University of Moscow. [6] David Hume, a friend of Ferguson's and an admirer of his earlier Essay on Refinement (1759), disliked the ...

5. Introduction (writing) - Wikipedia

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   In an essay, article, or book, an introduction (also known as a prolegomenon) is a beginning section which states the purpose and goals of the following writing. This is generally followed by the body and conclusion.

6. Five-paragraph essay - Wikipedia

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   The five-paragraph essay is a form of essay having five paragraphs: one introductory paragraph, three body paragraphs with support and development, and; one concluding paragraph. The introduction serves to inform the reader of the basic premises, and then to state the author's thesis, or central idea.

7. What If? (essays) - Wikipedia

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   The World's Foremost Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, is an anthology of twenty essays and fourteen sidebars dealing with counterfactual history. It was published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 1999, ISBN 0-399-14576-1, and this book as well as its two sequels, What If? 2 and What Ifs? of American History, were edited by Robert Cowley.

8. Historiography - Wikipedia

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   The Allegory On the Writing of History shows Truth (top) watching the historian write history, while advised by Wisdom (Jacob de Wit,1754). Historiography is the study of the methods used by historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension, the term historiography is any body of historical work on a particular subject.

9. The Significance of the Frontier in American History - Wikipedia

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   The essay summarizes Turner's views on how the idea of the American frontier shaped the American character in terms of democracy and violence. He stresses how the availability of very large amounts of nearly free farmland built agriculture, pulled ambitious families to the western frontier and created an ethos of unlimited opportunity.