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to take up arms; they are not compelled as are the men. They are also encouraged to strive professionally and intellectually and c...

with the color of Oz, which is lush and green. In Oz, Dorothy has many adventures, but keeps working to find a way to get back ho...

and upper-class Germans, yet even those tales were traced from India and the Middle East (Schulte-Peevers). They were passed down ...

- Chapter 4 - The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Fiction). Poe seemed to regard society and the Industrial Revolution in particular ...

It is this "darling," who, according to Chekhov, "could not exist without loving" (Chekhov, 2002). She falls in love with Kukin, w...

felt a sense of liberation she had never known before. She could support herself and write about the subjects she felt passionate...

obviously keenly intelligent, and it is clear that, if he applied himself, he could have achieved any goal to which he might have ...

meant to illustrate the dichotomy between and among all the interwoven traits attributed to a girl of her age. On the one hand, s...

women throughout history. In these respects we see how Genji is attractive. Genji seems to know what women feel, how they think,...

or purchased by her ancestors. For example, she notes the rugs that her mother and her grandmother made in her house that was buil...

most minute of clues. (After all: "There is no vehicle save a dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you sit...

like Poe: "TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe NA). The narr...

not take a sedate woman? That would be more fitting than a little skittish thing of a girl." However, Ronan could not be stopped, ...

of the protagonist that Poe sets up the terror inherent in the story. The sheer madness of his thought processes are chilling, bu...

him an hour just to move his head into the room. The protagonist exclaims, "Ha! Would a madman have been so wise as this?" which i...

that instead of continued efforts toward gender equality, the social "pendulum" might actually carry society backward in regards t...

brother and sister, were split, with Edgar being taken in by John and Frances Allan of Richmond, Va. (Poe Chronology). His sister,...

her husband in their youthful days. She loves Polixenes as a brother because he is the best and oldest friend of her husband. In t...

remainder of the text, both literally as well as figuratively speaking. According to the narrator, Bailly "cut such a figure, all...

songs and lays had been the product of his youthful years, and that he acquired a reputation for songs as well as jocular tales (P...

the contractors were building shoddy buildings, and nobody was getting reported for any of it. Of course Guttierez had no knowled...

his mother dies he was over six feet tall and with his blond hair was an imposing figure, he used the money to set up his own busi...

an integral part of the travelogue. These obstacles are met and either overcome, or the obstacles serve as catalysts to propel th...

perform verses women and the social differences which existed at that time between the two sexes. Ballards writings unveil ...

with immediate commercial success, however, it was later transferred to screen with a film adaptation, indicating the real value t...

that there is always a tidy or satisfactory resolution to the womens dilemmas. In fact, in the case of the intentionally ambiguou...

Tales" Numerous examples of satire exist throughout The Canterbury Tales. In fact, each of the tales and each of the characters o...

The illuminated first page of "The Knights Tale" can be viewed at http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/knightel.jpg. The student resea...

and hoor; /Thanne is a wife the fruit of his tresor" (Chaucer 55-58). At this point, it is not certain that Januarie sees, as ce...

tells him of what she has promised. He tells her that she must keep her promises and that he will respect her for doing so. But, a...