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Chantal Ackerman and Her Films Je, Tu, Il and Elle and the Eighties

attitude which pervades most of her works, even today, it can be stated. This is because feminism was asking women to redefine the...

Reconstruction, Progressive, and New Deal Eras and Government's Role

also addresses some of the history of social work. Role of Government in Reconstruction, Progressive, New Deal The years followi...

The Stranger by Albert Camus

1924 to 1932. Incipient tuberculosis put an end to his athletic activities, and the disease was to trouble Camus for the rest of h...

James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man, Nella Larsen's Passing, and Lynching

married to a very successful doctor who wishes to leave the country and find a place where they are not oppressed. Irene, however,...

African American Life of Frederick Douglass

by and watch what he had worked for his whole life dissipate in front of his eyes. Douglass was not the typical African...

Plantation Economic Impacts of Slave Women's Work

ramifications (Jacobs). Consider all of the white women who would discover their husbands having affairs with slave wome...

Life, Literature, and Criticisms of James Joyce

to death, illustrating, as mentioned, how his life was not necessarily strange or completely outrageous. The second half of the pa...

The Americans with Disabilities Act

with interpreters free of charge under Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (Knight, 2003). Yet, that is just one smal...

Pride and Prejudice, Candide, and the Important Things in Life

being respected. She begins to see that it is nobility and integrity which provide the foundation for a worthy individual. This is...

Great American Author Ernest Hemingway

first publish Three Stories & Ten Poems in 1923 in Paris ("A Chronology" PG). In 1926 , the well known work The Sun Also Rises wou...

Book Review of Rosalind Rosenberg's Divided Lives, American Women in the Twentieth Century

to be the homemakers, the wives, the mothers, the caregivers. Women were alternately placed on a pedestal and held in subservienc...

How C Minor Provides a Commonality for Many of Beethoven's Works

Three sonatas make up Opus 10 and mark a move by Beethoven toward new musical territory (Lockwood, 2003). These strongly contrasti...

Comparing Alice Walker's 'Everyday Things' with Eudora Welty's 'Why I Live at the Post Office'

it clear that there are many unsolved frictions between the two sisters, frictions which include the fact that the youngers husban...

'Unexamined Life' Philosophy of Socrates

In six pages this paper analyzes the contention of Socrates that an 'unexamined life is not worth living' as this view is represen...

Greatness and Marie Curie

as a whole, do not necessarily have to like an individual to admit that they were great in one way or another. The point seems to ...

Analyzing U.S. Labor Unions

the government was concerned, there was much less power upon industry, and the combination of these factors entirely changed the e...

A Study of the American Theater

- the nation then being confined largely to the east coast" (Theatre History, 2003). The four largest theatre towns were Philadel...

Robert Altman and Jean Luc Godard

Altman dusted Mr. Marlowe off and brought him back, but his vision was very different from the earlier films. This Marlowe was a d...

Personal Essays and Cultural Backgrounds

Ivan Turgenev (1818-1883) was a Russian novelist who passionately portrayed the ongoing class struggle between the peasantry and t...

American Dream Represented in Literature by Homes and Houses

are proud. The main character, however, although she wants to own the house someday, is embarrassed by the house because she feels...

Article 'The Dictionary of Disorder' by Spiegel Summarized

could say that he reinvented it. DSM existed, but it was Spitzer who implemented important changes. For example, it is noted that ...

Literature, Naturalism, and the Works of Frank Norris and Rebecca Harding Davis

are more things in common with these two works than the simple fact that both deal, in a sense with the railroad industry....

The Antebellum Economy of the United States

until the outbreak of the War Between the States during the middle of the century), the country almost seemed to be two polar oppo...

Lobbyists and Their Role in Presidential Elections

an active part in politics and even to help change laws or create new ones. For this reason, AARP - whose "current top national l...

Biography of 19th Century British Romantic Poet William Blake

begin studying engraving and it would be here that his genius would find a purchase. As a young man, some biographies state,...

Beat Generation 'Filmographer' Robert Frank

viewer to simply glance at the picture and walk away. This Abstract Expressionism was not typical of the average snapshots of the ...

Hansberry Family and the Impact of Racism

In ten pages this paper discusses the effects of racism on African American activist Carl Hansberry and his daughter Lorraine, awa...

Portrayal of Men in Seven Guitars and Jitney by August Wilson

going, but "if that dont work, I guess Ill just run the bus line until something else happens" (Quoted in Shannon 62). Doub is a ...

Showman and Composer Franz Liszt

noted novelist George Sand (women novelists in the nineteenth century often wrote under male pseudonyms). One of his most signific...

Virginia's Way of Life and American Revolutionaries

were able, through circumstances, to identify themselves with the people. This isnt too far from the campaign run by Bill Clinton ...