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artist and a dutiful woman creates conflict and pushes the boundaries set by nineteenth-century American society" (Sparknotes). ...

laws, economic structure and political processes all supported maintaining this hierarchy. During the early part of the 19th cen...

for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as me...

the 19th century that lead us to argue that it was isolationist we look at some of the significant historical events from that tim...

of the time were the primary motivators for virtually all of the immigrants to the United States. The example of the Irish serves ...

duties of men" (Craik 5). Craik argued that women already had a position, a role, and a work-based duty, that was the underpinnin...

when the bankers there allegedly established free banks in hard-to-reach locations - locations "where the wildcats roamed" (Dwyer,...

Americans from the land). In addition, during the early part of the century and by Congressional Act, the U.S. forbid fore...

the Union. It was Lincoln who had endorsed the Reconstruction plan, but Congress was far more cautious. Congress determined that...

much stayed on one plot of land for much of their lives, passing the land to the children when they died. Then the children grew u...

In many ways we see, in the painting in the Norton Simon Museum, how there are timeless subjects in the world of painting. For exa...

gender, class and historical events, and few women were given the opportunity to travel ... Traveling, for women, has been forever...

known life without industrialization. At the same time he was a man who reflected the dreams and ideals and hopes of his people fo...

Canada is made up of various regions with different needs and interests. Industries tend to form where there is a need. It would b...

of society with fewer rights than a woman was a child. Torvald would welcome his wife home from a shopping trip with condescendin...

rejected this kind of philosophical process. In Chapter 27, Forster wrote: The chief point was that God lives inside the sun,...

and suggests several avenues for further research; it also draws quite a clear picture of the difficulties many of the farm famili...

also examines some possible solutions. Clarkson points out that other writers, in addition to Grada, have been appalled at the fac...

novel awakens in the future, the year 2000, and at this time Bellamy pictures a utopian state that was achieved by the abandonment...

society as we know it and, furthermore, the end of Western civilization in the process. His vision of the "Death of the West" is f...

before was not freer to gain access to. The use of moveable types was a move towards homogeneity. McLuhan states; "the world of v...

took until 1791 for the states to agree on the ten that have endured (Mount, 2005). However, as needs arose, and different concern...

the theory of survival of the fittest (AllPsych, 2003). Basing his thoughts on Darwin, Galton, in 1869, argued "that intellectual ...

Hate their job? Something drove them out of the workforce with inadequate resources, so they will have to determine if they want t...

addition, many women owned businesses; they worked as "apothecaries, barbers, blacksmiths, sextons, printers, tavern keepers and m...

group were extremely poor. Ireland was a land of peasants with a high unemployment rate, and those who boarded the ships for Ameri...

the means of doing so were very circumscribed; it usually meant they had to go into service. Women rarely worked at any sort of oc...

use of both primary and secondary sources are used throughout the book and the message if the interdependent link between imperial...

to move to the back, and when he refused, would go to court. The court essentially ruled against Plessy, rendering segregation val...

personal morality were simply accepted, not questioned during their lives. Because American society as a whole had become better...