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Characters of Helen and Annie in Ironweed by William Kennedy

This paper contrasts and compares these female characters and their life experiences described by William Kennedy in Ironweed in t...

Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and Characters of Lily Briscoe and Mrs. Ramsay

In five pages these two female characters are compared. There are no other sources listed....

Nineteenth Century U.S. Labor

Workers included men, women and children. The fact that children worked in incredibly dangerous situations and conditions furthe...

Hawthorne's "Birthmark"/Lee's Mockingbird

possible defect" causes him dismay, as it is a "visible mark of earthly imperfection" (Hawthorne 1021). Alymers disdain for the bi...

Hawthorne's "Birthmark"/Lee's Mockingbird

possible defect" causes him dismay, as it is a "visible mark of earthly imperfection" (Hawthorne 1021). Alymers disdain for the bi...

Rise of Modern Art

(Modern Art Movements, 2008). Impressionist painters, such as Manet, Claude Monet and Edgar Degas, preferred to paint outside, w...

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen and Nineteenth Century Marriage

put before us, is a father who "trusts" everything will be fine, because at least there may be some land acquisition in the final ...

Japan, Contrasting Views

Japan's emergence as a modern power has been chronicled as a major tale of the 20th century. This paper compares Kenneth Pyle's Th...

A Feminist Reading of Shakespeare's Hamlet

conflict, whereas Gertrude and Ophelia are blatantly constructed to subordinate and to submit to all of the whims and desires of t...

Emily Grierson in William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Phoenix Jackson in Eudora Welty's 'A Worn Path'

did not try to respect her or help her, indicating they merely thought she was odd. No one bothered to try to understand her neces...

Nigerian Characters in Two Novels

commanding warrior, whose exploits had become legendary among the Igbo villagers. Unfortunately, Okonkwo was more successful on...

A Policing and Police History

This is an informational research paper consisting of ten pages in which policing dating back to the ancient Egyptians and Sumeria...

Legacy of Conquest/The American West

the conquest era continue to shape current realities. Limericks text shows that the history of the American West is rooted primari...

Historical Development of Prisons

accompanying technological advancement changed society to such an extent that people felt they had no guidelines for how to behave...

Comparative Analysis of John Keats’ Poem ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ and Bob Dylan’s Song ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’

ship" (Dylan). Though phrased differently, each poet is illustrating how inspiration can take the artist away to different places...

'The Interesting Narrative' by Olaudah Equiano and 'Things Fall Apart' by Chinua Achebe

they do not inflict slavery upon the people, they do inflict oppression that is very similar to slavery. In the first chapter o...

Women Doctors

and early 1900s found it a particularly difficult career to pursue because of the prejudice against a woman doctor. She seems som...

E.C. Deloria's Waterlily Analyzed

Dakota Sioux during the 19th century is as different a life from our current society as one could imagine. And yet, Deloria has t...

Females in the American Political Process

The years spanning the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were an interesting time in regard to the progressive role of...

The Seven Sisters/Women's Education

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

Chopin/The Awakening/Suicide as Closure

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...

Latin America and Female Travelers During the Nineteenth Century

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

Jane Eyre as a reflection of changing society

This paper looks at the perspective of English society in the nineteenth century which is presented in Charlotte Bronte's novel. I...

Louisa May Alcott, Kate Chopin on Equality

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...

Imagery in Two Short Stories by Kate Chopin

This essay describes how Kate Chopin, a nineteenth century female author ahead of her time, utilized imagery in writing the "Desir...

Parr, Sutherland, and Bullen Article Analysis on Urban and Rural Children's Labor and Economic Responsibilities

or wages in order to sustain the family lifestyle. In all cases, middle and upper class children who do not have the same labor ob...

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare and the Characters of Portia and Calpurnia

A lioness hath whelped in the streets; / And graves have yawnd, and yielded up their dead; / Fierce fiery warriors fight upon the ...

Immigrant Experiences and Angel Island

Before actually describing the art and poetry that came out of detainees from Angel Island, a look at the locations history would ...

Female Protagonists in Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

In five pages each female character's questions about happiness are contrasted and compared. There are no other sources listed....

Uncle Tom's Cabin, Eliza and Marie

This essay pertains to two women characters, Eliza Harris and Marie St. Clare, who are featured in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The wrier ...