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Essays 1831 - 1860

Literary Portrayal of the Aboriginal

believed that the Puritans were more organized, unified, visionary and disciplined certainly had not done a great deal of study of...

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and the Portrayals of Violence

in school show happy white children. Pecola surmises that happiness comes from being white, or acting white. Being beautiful meant...

American History X Film and Portrayal of Group Norms

commit violence on anyone who is not white and protestant for any small reason. They will deliberately instigate events so as to d...

Feminine Mystique of Betty Friedan and Changes in the Women's Rights Movement

mothers, others were determined that women would now enter the workforce. This struggle continued for at least a decade, subtly ma...

Voltaire's Candide, Misogyny, and Gender Bias

his audience, and this is something that will probably change the world for the better. He wants to display evil in such a way tha...

A Review of The Pardoner's Tale

extremely outspoken. One of his strongest skills it seems is public speaking. In fact, he is a performer! These characteristics ...

U.S. Culture and Society as Determined by Women's Economic Role

of the novel, traces the life and times of a midwife during the late 1700s to the early 1800s. Through her diary entries one can s...

Comparative Analysis of Daisy Buchanan in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and the Title Character of Henry James' Daisy Miller

ensuring that Winterbourne knows that she has plenty of male friends in New York, giving him "lively eyes and...light, slightly mo...

Japan and Gender Differences

were related to religion. Certain scripture regularly challenged women to disprove that they were inferior-to not agree was heres...

Critical Views of Geoffrey Chaucer's Wife of Bath

makes the point that although Alisoun has been defined as trying to eliminate authority altogether, in the sense that she seems to...

Poetry and the Voice of Women

politics of the New Democratic Party of Canada after the Second World War, and she maintained a feminist perspective throughout he...

Sex Crimes, Blame, and Perceptions of Society

Understandably, such an action might be interpreted as a willingness on her part but in reality this action, even though Arnold ne...

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

other nations, acting in commercial or diplomatic positions (The Literature Network). Then in 1385 he apparently lost his job as w...

'The Wife of Bath's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer and Themes of Women's 14th Century Social Position

discontent with societys lopsided gender scale. The tale begins with Queen Guinevere pondering the fate of a knight who has been ...

Gendered Issue of Domestic Violence

independence and her equal partnership in marriage, is very much the exception rather than the rule. For the most part, women were...

Women's Rights and W.E.B. Du Bois

noble nature against the blighting American cast prejudice". (Ferris, 1913, pg. 599). DuBois recognized...

Society and Women

writes this in the 1950s when things were quite different. De Beauvoir examines women through the ages and how they have been seco...

Recovery from Addiction and Inner Child Therapy

In seven pages this paper examines a woman's recovery from anorexia and alcoholism and also considers inner child concepts. Five ...

Role of Women in Three Norse Sagas

This paper discusses the role of women in three Norse sagas. The writer argues that "Njal's Saga" and "Laxdaela's S...

Historical Perspective on Women's Workplace Fashion

the social elite where the yuppies of the 1980s went quite the opposite way, showing off their designer suits. Steindorf suggests ...

French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen and Women's Condition Changes

The same situation followed women for much of the next two centuries. It persists today in even the most developed nations; still...

Carol Gilligan's 'In a Different Voice …'

This paper consists of 5 pages and considers women's moral development when contrasted with the masculine justice ethic as hypothe...

Slapstick Masters Woody Allen and Charles Chaplin

machine. The idea is that this feeding machine will cut down on the time needed for lunch breaks and, thereby, make the factory mo...

Women's Issues and Racism

In 6 pages this paper considers the Reconstruction era until the 1930s in a discussion of how changes affected women's issues and ...

The Role of Man in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

has been much experimentation with creation. Test tube babies somehow evolved into the concept of designer babies and couples tryi...

The Bible and Women's Roles

In fifteen pages this paper examines women's roles in the Bible. Thirteen sources are cited in the bibliography....

Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and Women's Role

Christian religion is being discussed. In Catholicism and the Lutheran faiths, women are not allowed to be priests or reverends. I...

Portrayals of Satan and Adam in Paradise Lost by John Milton

divine company but all too suddenly succumbed to temptation and became the gatekeeper of Hell -- a place of consequence where one ...

Disillusioned Characters in Brave New World

this brave and controlled new world. Happiness is a mass illusion in this new world order, and as is the case with most widesprea...

Comparative Analysis of Heart of Darkness and Ancient Mariner

instead about the ancient mariner and his tale of woo. This is where the Mariner story and Heart of Darkness begin to draw s...