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The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony by Pamela Paul

principal reasons that Paul gives for starter marriages failing is that couples focus on the wedding and reception, with little or...

Slave Owners in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Tom rescues his daughter (Little Eva) from a drowning death. St. Clare is one who believes in paying his debts and, in fact, promi...

Leadership and Character

self and applies a moral message to his way of being in the world. Others may not agree with this moral message, but a man of cha...

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Character Development

adventurous spirit that is within man, and certainly within Huck, that allows him to pursue adventure with such fervor. Of course,...

The Hours by Michael Cunningham and Feminism

the one of the "waves" of feminism in the twentieth century. The first wave of feminism is associated with the womens suffrage mov...

Lucy in the Heat of Despair by Jamaica Kincaid

even "seeing" that in marrying a man, Lucy would not be happy (81). Lucy understands then that her mother is only concerned with L...

Review of Cotton Belt to Sun Belt by Bruce Schulman

in Southern states, rather than Northern ones). But Roosevelt wasnt helping the South out of the goodness of his heart - h...

Billiards at Half Past Nine by Heinrich Boll

owe it to my contemporaries not to ruin my legend" (89). He doesnt even like the cheese anymore, but he continues to follow his r...

D.H. Lawrence's 'Horse Dealer's Daughter' and the Character of Mabel

she goes about her work and the family talks around her. As one author notes, "None of the sons address the sister as they do each...

Comparative Analyis of Thomas Jefferson and Mark Twain's Hank Morgan in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

matches, books and pens and become known as a man more powerful than the great Merlin (A Connecticut Yankee, 2002; Twain, 1979). T...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Rappaccini's Daughter'

isolated as a result. In many ways, it is the men...

Characters of Blanche Du Bois and Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

see a subtle hint that Stanley, while something of a macho male, is one who is not ignorant about the ways of people. He sees thei...

Guy Johnson's Standing at the Scratch Line

the stage for the entire story. Leroi is sent off to the military rather than prison, and we note a sense of understanding that cl...

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and Social Reform Mechanisms

a time of many contrasts. While many history books prefer to remember it as a time of self-help, entrepreneurial spirit, laissez-...

Kindred by Octavia Butler and the Influences of the Past and Present

less skilled because she is temporary. Another parallel is that most of the workers there do not want to get close to her or make ...

Societal Welfare in Henry Fielding's Shamela and Samuel Richardson's Pamela

ends up marrying her, presenting us with a sense of maintaining the health of a family and the individual. While the novel is made...

Cotter's England by Christina Stead

be at odds with the prevailing stereotypes concerning lesbians at this time. In the same letter, Stead writes, "I detest Lesbians;...

Magdelena and Balthasar by Steven Ozmet and Religious Controversies

Redeemer" (Ozment 14). As a result, Magdalena and Balthasar not only put their faith in good health in the various medical remedi...

Differences in Gender in the Peasant Residences of Central Europe and Southeast Asia

tended to marry much earlier in Europe than in Asia. Both peasant groups seemed to have grown grain crops: rice in Asia and whea...

Sinclair Lewis's Character George F. Babbitt

in a job where capitalism and the desire for material goods is perceived as a priority in life. In this era, the success of an ind...

Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day and Silence

who were in service to the aristocratic families came to define themselves through their identification with those families, to th...

Yossarian in Joseph Heller's Catch 22

in a most hideous way, Yossarian pleads with Doc Daneeka to ground him on the basis of insanity. Doc Daneeka replies that Yossaria...

Bronte's Jane Eyre and Female Emancipation

her intellectualism, Bertha is a victim of her own sexual desires. Bronte tried to provide a useful guide to women of her time in ...

The Diviners and Women's Role

born on July 18, 1926 and died on January 5, 1987 (Margaret Laurence). Laurence was married in 1947 and then moved to London with...

Social Principles Revealed in Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

with an ideal society of the time. "The novel focuses on the romantic affairs of the two sisters. When Marianne sprains her ank...

Late Nineteenth Social Darwinism, Realism, and Racism Commentary of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

and superstitious. Although Huck may not be racist himself, he no doubt has been raised in an environment of extremely racists ind...

Don Quixote Character Analysis

servant and friend, Sancho Panza, he experiences successes and times of humiliation until he is finally forced by defeat to return...

The Parallels Between the Progressive Era and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

the bosses, the police, the politicians, and a myriad of other players. Sinclair reveals a dream which is interlaced by theft, pr...

Aspects of Doctor Zhivago

a patch in the icy crust on one of the windows. The light seemed to look into the street almost consciously, as if it were watchi...

Willa Cather's O Pioneers! and Love

emotional release. This may be seen as giving the different types of love a balance. This book was published in 1913, a...