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Major Female Characters in Mohicans and Van Winkle

Women had few meaty roles in early American literature. This report deals with Cora and Alice Munro from The Last of the Mohicans...

George Eliot and Great Britain

In five pages the history of the United Kingdom from 1819 until 1880 is discussed in terms of such issues as political attitudes, ...

Colonial Peru and Women's Roles

In three pages women's roles during Peru's colonial era are considered in a summary and analysis of Daughters of the Conquistatore...

Overview of Female Writers from the Post Colonial Era

In six pages this research paper considers post colonial women writers in a discussion of Rosario Ferre's 'The Youngest Doll' and ...

Igbo Culture, the British, and Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

of hot yam which its mother puts in its palm" (Achebe 47). In other words, Achebe portrayal of African culture has more nuance t...

Two Decades of India Under Colonial Rule

The generation of 1920 through 1940 marked the end of British colonial rule in India. This paper deals with the independence movem...

Colonialism and Feminism as Seen in Ngugi and Head

This paper examines the Twentieth Century authors, Ngugi and head. The author specifically addresses the contributions of the fem...

Spanish and English Approaches to Colonial Slavery

Spain and Portugal were the first nations to reach the shores of the "New World". Their arrival preceded that of other major colo...

U.S. Political System and Business Interests

In five pages the evolution of ideologies dating back to Colonial America to the present time are examined as they pertain to the ...

Mexico's Zapista Movement and the North American Free Trade Agreement's Influence

In fifteen pages this paper examine's NAFTA's involvement in the Zapista movement during which '2000 indigenous guerrillas had tak...

West Africa, West Central Africa, and Slavery's Consequences

names which come up when talking about slavery. These coastal areas certainly seemed to suffer. A larger chunk of Africa suffered ...

Jean Rouch's 1954 Film Les Maitres Fous

Accra's Hauka community during colonial rule as depicted in Les Maitres Fous by director Jean Rouch is the focus of this paper con...

An Analysis of The Blood Knot

A 22 page analysis of the play by Athol Fugard. The emphasis is one the various aspects of identity that permeate the play. The ...

Colonial to Romantic Period American Literature

In five pages this paper examines how American literature evolved from he colonial times of Jonathan Edwards, John Winthrop, Benja...

Colonial Latin America and Social Hierarchies

imperialism of the past 500 years. Social Hierarchy The social histories of nations throughout Latin America provide important i...

Colonial Art of John Singleton Copley

the people in the portraits are from particular backgrounds. Of course, one may speculate that anyone who commissioned an artist ...

1560 to 1890 European Dominance

process several centuries before. We can argue that one of the first influences was the development of the use of gunpowder and h...

History of Europe

due to lack of support from the homeland and the natives, whom the Vikings did battle with. Centuries later the English decided to...

What it Means to be an American

to think of themselves as true Americans. One can debate the concept today, and consider the American Indian. There are ar...

Colonial Rule by the Portuguese and Spanish

In twelve pages this research paper discusses the territories ruled by the colonial governments of Portugal and Spain. Six source...

Puritanism and the English Civil War

be fired (Crossby, 2002). Upon a discovery that the Scots had been making plans with the French he again decided attack wit...

Capitalism Growth and European Explorers

character that had not been seen with the Roman empire (Hooker, 1996). The Europeans in medieval times basically learned about mer...

1775 to 1840 Legal Status of Native Americans and African Slaves

bequeathed to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783 came much sooner" (Holt, 2002). In 1787, the Northwest Ordinance m...

Marriage from a Colonial Perspective

writes in Marriage to a Difficult Man: The Uncommon Union of Jonathan and Sarah Edwards, "The Puritans loved robustly and gave mar...

1930s' Decline of Great Britain

Imperial rule of the colonies was being demonstrated, perhaps over confidence following the 1857 mutiny which had been put down, w...

Colonial Oppression in Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy

arrived in America to enter a new life, a life which differs greatly from that she lived in Antigua. In America she will be an na...

Singapore's Accounting Framework

In five pages this paper examines Singapore's accounting framework, its colonial influence, and how standards of accounting have b...

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and an Intertextual Comparative Analysis with Francis Ford Coppola's Film Apocalypse Now

in binary opposites, most commonly represented symbolically, in contrasts of light and dark, black and white, culturally in civili...

Indonesia's Colonial History

In eight pages the Dutch colonial history of Indonesia is examined in a consideration of short and long term effects. Seven sourc...

An Examination of Pocahontas

met John Smith in 1608 and between that time and the time she married another gentleman in 1614, she was kidnapped and raped by th...