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early 19th centuries, Spain was perhaps the most powerful nation on earth. It has established colonies in the New World, and treas...

52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...

(May 2007: 106). Cooper felt that the struggle of black women for social justice was an inherent element in the "wider struggle fo...

"pencil or pen and ink"; however, for her finished pieces, Potter worked primarily in watercolor, adding touches of pen and ink wh...

wives of plantation owners, while the majority of them were well educated, rarely left their manicured grounds without their husba...

history of urban development and city planning is the result of a lengthy evolutionary history. The following discussion relates a...

in ideology about punishment, there is often changes in types of crimes committed. The most common reason for arrests in the 1800...

of Norway. Interestingly, Ibsen observed a year before the completion of A Dolls House in his text Notes for a Modern Tragedy, "T...

problems, but refugees are perhaps most at risk, since many of them "come from areas where disease control, diagnosis and treatmen...

romanticism prevents her from seeing Charles realistically prior to marriage and her failed expectations cloud her perception of h...

the beginning of the novel? Why does Edna not try to follow the same path as her artistic mentor, Mm. Reisz, who lives the indepen...

he is absolute appalled that Sissy does not know the scientific definition for "horse," and that his own children have been tempte...

turned into many as the protest continued for almost 6 months.5 In addition, it sparked many other protests throughout the South a...

not explicitly intended to depict any concrete object or situation, but rather seeks to create a "mood or atmosphere," which elici...

The cultural bias against education for women was so severe in the eighteenth century that Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), note...

is one that ties the two brothers together, although neither one of them realizes it. Each fears his own cowardice and has to ov...

feature the vivid natural imagery that characterizes her sensuous and deeply passionate works of Romantic fiction. These storie...

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...

had children to raise on my own and my financial situation was not dire, but I had to earn a living and I turned to writing. Alc...

seeking to do business in the area. These included restrictions, such as not being allowed to learn Chinese, only being able to li...

the jury will find for the defendant (Walker v. Brown). The court is asked to decide the issue of whether or not the plaintiff s...

and borrower (Edwards "The Currency"). During this era, huge deposits of silver were discovered in Nevada, which greatly increas...

publishing of magazines or stationary (Tawa, 1990). The main method of distribution involved composers approaching the publishers...

"Death on the Pale Horse (1802), oil sketch on canvas, Allstons analysis relates something of his own romantic vision. He writes t...

While this fact does not indicate that the author of Genesis intentionally used the word "yom" to indicate the passage of billions...

times, Washington endeavored to alleviate the fears of the white majority by emphasizing that black people were not a threat to th...

single location" (Francis Lowell, 2001). Contemporary commentary on the way in which Lowells first factory seemed to spring up ov...

in his review of Maggie, vented his "frustration at realism," as he complained that realism "seemed written from the outside" (Gol...

that still labored in the homes and fields of the Southern slaveholders. Abolitionists even tirelessly transported illegal cargo....

North. The business this family chose to engage in, at least eventually, was education. They started a school. The school would be...