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William Faulkner Biography

Murry Falkner was interested in railroads, hunting and drinking, not necessarily in that order. Alcoholism was the Falkner family...

Film Noir Techniques in the Film, Gilda

what the audience is viewing with his own subjective observations. In his consideration of film noir, Jon Tuska (1984) noted that...

The Way to Wealth and Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin and Journal by John Woolman

version of self-fulfillment and the American dream. Morality and the Conduct of Business Keeping in mind Woolmans deep Christian ...

'Nation' and State of Germany

For example, German nationalism represents the desire for a change in political and administrative structure. It has followed a d...

E.C. Deloria's Waterlily Analyzed

Dakota Sioux during the 19th century is as different a life from our current society as one could imagine. And yet, Deloria has t...

David Hume and Immanuel Kant on Freedom of the Will

event has a cause; and, second, an immortal soul exists distinct from the body. Therefore, freedom of the human will serves as an ...

Boston's and New York's Orphan Trains

well, but the number of children from these other cities were minuscule when compared to those that shipped out of New York. It in...

The Landscapes of Thomas Gainsborough

and returned to Sudbury, but later moved to Ipswich for seven or eight years. His success as a portrait artist, however, came in 1...

English Families During the Middle Ages

Protective Services on her. Spanking or any other type of corporeal discipline is frowned upon by most child experts. And when a w...

Urban France and the Role of Women in Revolts for Social Change

French military setbacks in 1646 and after it became apparent that the Spanish war would go on despite negotiations to bring peace...

State of Texas is More Western Than Southern

simply because it was one of the nations most important cattle producing states. This was not a state that caused people to thi...

Individuality and Liberty According to John Stuart Mill and Henry David Thoreau

respond to and voice his opinions regarding the political events and developments of his time in England, but with a vision for th...

Petrarchan Love Poetry of Lady Mary Wroth and John Donne

The first lines of "The Canonization" read: "For Gods sake hold your tongue and leg me love/ Or chide my palsy, or my gout,/ My fi...

Everyday Life in Traditional Japan by Charles J. Dunn

alone could carry the long swords (Dunn, 1977, Sellen, 2002). Dunns appreciation of some of the key elements of the classes explai...

Age of Extremes by Hobsbawm

placed on governmental ideologies such as communism and socialism and he goes through the rise and fall of those. He at the beginn...

Contemporary Application of the Ideal Leadership Theory of Niccolo Machiavelli

Machiavelli had been imprisoned by the opposing Medici and he saw how the conflict between politicians can destroy what issues are...

Contemporary American City Development

and the turn of the nineteenth century, there would not be any significant economic policies, although it helps to remember that t...

1900 to 1921 Foreign Policy of the US

came to be the inciter of "a series of huge blows" (1995, PG) that would endanger the very presence of capitalism as it existed in...

Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson and Plight of Native Americans

during the nineteenth century they had been regarded as little more than an obstacle in the American quest for land and its resour...

Definition and Role of European Feudalism

of the peasants), monasticism (an organization of the churchmen), and feudalism (the institution of the aristocracy) (Nelson, 2002...

François de La Rochefoucauld and Blaise Pascal

pessimistic about human beings and their propensity toward self-love. He thinks of virtually all human relationships as being driv...

The Concept of Manifest Destiny as it Applies to Early Life in California

Yankee settlement. Only two days after the American flag rose in the center of town in July, 1846, More than two hundred Mormon s...

Historical Importance of the 1930s' Dust Bowl

the Dust Bowl was an area of land that had been so depleted of its natural resources that it dried up and turned into dust that no...

Culture, Identity, and Roots in the Writings of Louisa May Alcott, Herman Melville, and Harriet Beecher Stowe

society as a whole had become better educated by the mid-19th century, a new market presented itself for stories, regional sketche...

The Impact of World War I on Australian Art and Artists

to the gracious host to the worldwide event known as the 2000 Summer Olypmics. Art, Wartime and the land "Down Under"...

Ideologies of Machiavelli, Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle on Democratic Rule

of the United States. Without the philosophies of those that lived in the centuries prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence...

Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror

Crusades, insurrection, the Schism of the Church, and massacres of Jewish people were but part of the horrors of that century. Th...

England's Civil Wars and Their Possible Causes

King Charles II, the quashing of remaining rebellions in Ireland and Scotland and the installation of parliamentarian Oliver Cromw...

Literature and Evolution Theory

a theory that was unmarred by economics. (Hartman, 1999). In essence, Peirce appears to have been saying that nineteenth century...

Lombroso and Criminal Behavior

a sensation with his book that was published in 1876 ("Cesare," 2001). In the work, the doctor utilized Darwinian principals of ev...