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Women had been treated as possessions of their husbands; Islamic law made the education of girls a sacred duty and gave women the ...

However, any hope for a middle-class life died in 1917 with the death of Lewis Ellison (Rogers 12). Nevertheless, the...

that further illustrated many of his theories concerning men and their mothers, which is not a far cry from theories of Jung, sinc...

authenticity of which always must be questioned (Giorgis and Johnson 408). The autobiography is subdivided into thirteen (not coi...

Louis LAmour was born in Jamestown, ND. He left home at age 15 and worked his way around the world. He worked as a...

are powerfully illustrative of the claim that many female writers of the time used the ghost story as a means of examining, indire...

experience" (Owl Eyes). However, he "is best known for The Red Badge of Courage(1895), a realistic look at the Civil War" though h...

things, some of which were not the original intent of Jeffersons vision. Having money has come to be equated with a sense of free...

did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...

to that of a man and saw womens role in society as being purely to serve men. When they were "no longer willing to fill that role,...

be rash and foolish for awhile. If writers, were too wise, perhaps no books would be written at all. Anyway, the force from somewh...

prospect of becoming a photographer became less remote, perhaps even attainable" (Kodak, 2003). Bailey then finished with his n...

This was only the first of many contradictions that would emerge in William Faulkner that would make his life more difficult than ...

Michalowski explains, "Each person also had an additional, personal god" (Szulc, 2001, p. 90). A close interaction with this pers...

his long literary journey in newspapers and journals, becoming a contributor to his brothers Morning Chronicle and publishing his ...

the world. Their identities were constantly negated and they were devalued for nearly everything which they were. Contra...

settlers and encouraged them to irrigate their farms. To this day the Shoshone and Arapaho tribes are still trying to negotiate wi...

overrule her inherent independence as a strong, black woman by telling Phoeby she can "tell em what Ah say if you wants to. Dats ...

of women in medieval society, De Pizan wrote two of her most significant works, The Book of the City of Ladies and The Book of the...

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

a recognized authority on the social setting of the new Testament (Powell, 2002). Although this is a work of fiction, Theissen ass...

creating one of Smiths "insurmountable difficulties" (Hueckel, 2000). Economic growth could not occur until consumers began spend...

beings. Almost from the time humans can walk, they attempt a balance in their lives - little kids play hard, but they also sleep v...

life illustrating how she was truly an American Writer, for she lived America and embodied all that Americans can be, or can wish ...

The Odyssey. In his History, Herodotus (484-425 B.C.) came up with dates for the singer (400 years before my time-and no more than...

minimum wages, and other stipends that directly affect women need to be considered. It is true that in some cases when the milita...

their ages matter in terms of how they reacted? In part, the writer relays the good times. Certainly, as a child, she was an opti...

However, shortly thereafter, they are sent to debtors prison and David sees his chance to escape the oppressive life. He runs to h...

Ambition and a self-made determination, and the freedom to achieve anything that one sets his or her mind to were the basic concep...