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Industrialization and Its Social Impacts at the End of the Nineteenth Century

The Gilded Age was a time of many industrial and sociological changes. Not all of the changes that were ushered in were positive....

Medea, An Overview

This essay presents an overview of Medea in Greek mythology, referring to scholarly assessment of ancient sources and also the way...

Immigrants and Minorities in Editorial Cartoons

This research paper offers a comprehensive overview of editorial cartoons that were published during the late nineteenth and early...

A Critique of Marriage, Gilman's "Yellow Wallpaper"

This essay presents the argument that "The Yellow Walllpaper," a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman should be interpreted as ...

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 ...

Education Reform and the Decline of Moral Education

Starting with the common school movement of the nineteenth century, the author of this paper discusses how the emphasis on moral e...

The Century of the Detective by Jurgen Thorwald

This book review is on "The Century of the Detective," a classic text by Jurgen Thorwald. The writer presents an overall view of t...

Defining Equality

This paper explores the words of key nineteenth century Americans like William Graham Sumner, Chief Joseph, and Frederick Douglass...

Developmental Psychology, Its History

This research paper presents a thorough overview of developmental psychology's history. The writer begins with the discipline's or...

Tale of the Heike, An Overview

This essay pertains to the "Tale of the Heike," which is a warrior tale from medieval Japanese literature. This narrative recounts...

"Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin

This essay asserts that in order to comprehend the motivation and action portrayed in Kate Chopin's short story "Story of an Hour,...

Medieval Norms, Politics, Religion Aspects

This paper refers to Penny Schine Gold's The Lady & the Virgin, Image, Attitude and Experience in Twelfth-Century France and Ken F...

Income Inequality and the American Dream: A Loss of Opportunities

This 3 page paper provides an overview of Howard Brick's critique of the American Dream and its inaccessibility in the 21st centur...

Christianity, the Early Roman Perception

This essay draws upon three writings from the second century to discuss the way in which Roman authorities perceived Christianity ...

Nineteenth Century Evangelists, Foote and Lee

This essay offers summaries and comparisons between the autobiographical narratives of African American nineteenth century preache...

African International Relations

International relations in Africa have been heavily influenced by their colonial history, a history that still impacts on internat...

African International Relations

International relations in Africa have been heavily influenced by their colonial history, a history that still impacts on internat...

Muckraking and Yellow Journalism

This paper is on "yellow journalism" and "muckraking," which are styles of journalism that were popular in the late nineteenth/ear...

How Some Government Mandates are Paid For

This paper provides a summary of one article by Joyce McKnight entitled "Public Funding of Human Services from the "Poor Laws" unt...

Christianizing the Roman Empire by Ramsay MacMullen

This book review discusses the motivations described by MacMullen that propelled conversion to Christianity during its early centu...

Prince Among Slaves by Terry Alford

This book review is on Terry Alford's text Prince Among Slaves. which relates the biography of Ibrahima, an African prince who was...

Modern Women, Feminism, and the Heroines of Madame Bovary, The Scarlet Letter, and Pride and Prejudice

This paper examines the feminist aspects of these nineteenth century novels in a comparative analysis of Emma Bovary, Hester Prynn...

Majority Rule, Tocqueville, Olsen

This essay refers to the writing of contemporary author Theodore Olsen and nineteenth century author Alexis de Tocqueville to argu...

'Revolutionary' Citizenship and the American Experience

This paper considers how the modern concept of citizenship has been shaped by the American experience and also features a comparat...

Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

This book review is on Stacy Schiff's fascinating biography of Cleopatra, which relates the life narrative of a woman who was an i...

Chapters from Two Apocalyptic Books

This essay focuses on Daniel 7 and 1 Enoch 46 and 48. The Book of Enoch is not part of the canon and, in fact, was lost for centur...

Dahl, Williams and Pediatric Patients

This essay refers to narratives by Raoul Dahl and William Carlos Williams that relate pediatric examination experience in the earl...

Erosion of the Exclusionary Rule Protection

This paper examines cases dating back to the nineteenth century as the author considers the meaning and application of the exclusi...

Self Through the Ages

This essay offers evaluation of how conceptualization of the self changed over the centuries, using the works of Vergil, Hobbes an...

Nineteenth Century Patriarchy and Kate Chopin

This essay is on nineteenth century writer Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour." The position presented is that this n...