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Eighteenth Century Novel Characters Pamela and Fantomina

In six pages the title characters featured in eighteenth novels by S. Richardson and E.F. Hayward are compared in terms of these w...

Johnny Tremain

maturation of the American colonies as they journey toward war and independence. The thematic context demonstrates how it is exper...

Notebooks of Melanin Sun

This writer/tutor does not, of course, have any idea how the student feels on this topic, or, for that matter, the specific course...

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

This essay pertains to Woolf's novel and how the three main characters are presented within the context of the novel's main themes...

Atwood & Bradbury/Best Dystopian Tale

his needs" (Atwood 8). Atwood obviously feared the emerging strength of the religious far-right and saw in its rejection of rights...

Reading Theories and Reading Instruction

text he or she is reading (Abraham, 2000). This requires that the reader not only "decode" the information contained in the text, ...

Feminine Voice in Walker’s The Color Purple

In a novel in which the narrator is recounting the entirety of the action after the fact, the narrator already knows everything th...

Bilingual Reading Studies and Using Multicultural Stories and Literature Circles to Improve Levels of Reading

years, the debate has been waged about the efficacy of bilingual education, bilingual enrichment, immersion programs, ESL (English...

Real Life Situations and Readings' Applicability

In four pages this essay reviews texts on community and education and then applies them to the teaching field in terms of how teac...

Sight Based Reading Programs, Phonics, and Reading Comprehension

In seventeen pages this research study considers the differences that exist between sight based and phonics reading program with t...

Computer-Based Instruction/Effect on Reading Achievement

p. 7 Chapter 2--Review of Related Literature... p. 7 Articles summarizing research ............ p. 8 Studies Students w/langua...

The Need for Hard-Back Books

numbers. Sometimes, those who digitize these books number the paragraphs, but often they do not. Most of the books in Project Gute...

Assessing Reading

recent studies suggest that goal will not be achieved (Manzo, 2005). A Rand report stated that reading has improved in the primary...

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler and the Sci Fi Novel's Issues

In five pages this paper discusses religious and social issues as they pertain to this 1993 novel by Octavia E. Butler. There are...

18th Century Painter Francisco de Goya and His Influence

In fifteen pages this paper explores how Goya's 18th century paintings influenced 19th century Impressionists and 20th century Exp...

History Of Child Rearing Practices

(Hulbert, 1999). More children were attending school towards the middle of the century and the trend in education was away from th...

World History and Ethnic Group Persecution

The main reason why the Huguenots were unpopular with the majority in France during the time period was because they were not of t...

Manuel Castells' "The Power Of Identity" - Literature Review

Castells (1997) perspective and add how the vast majority of the worlds communities look upon globalization as a positive and forw...

Barrington Moore & Immanuel Wallerstein: Main Ideas

immediacy of dissolution the agrarian component experienced as soon as industrialization took its firm hold upon a global society ...

Rise of Modern Art

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

Analysis of Greek Funerary Statue

intended for this statue (Woodford, 1986). The initial response of this writer/tutor to the statue was that I was taken with the...

DEATH, DYING AND AMERICAN CULTURE: 1900-2010

all that terrific. What is wrong with this picture? Why would an elderly man put himself through such discomfort, simply to...

Kurtz in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

central point of the narrative. The company accountant is the first character to refer to Kurtz and he tells Marlow that Kurtz i...

A Satirical Reflection on French Society: Candide

This essay describes the manner in which Voltaire lampooned eighteenth century society in his satirical novel "Candide." Five page...

Austen, Northanger Abbey

this regard. The following discussion of Austens Northanger Abbey will explore the way that Austen depicts the nature of emotion a...

Enlightenment Representation in Candide by Voltaire

and war, which he portrays as contrary to all reason. In the eighteenth century, war was presented to the ordinary citizens as an ...

Nineteenth Century U.S. Labor

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

19th Century US Labor Movement

16). The author goes on to talk about Jacksons Democratic party and the problems it has had. For instance, many policies associate...

The Island of Doctor Moreau and The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

and destiny (Aubrey). While Darwin pictures humanity as consistently evolving toward more intelligence and reason, Huxleys take on...

Progress Disenchantment During the 19th Century

a weekend. Technology contributes to the state of constant activity that so many are used to and many elderly people remember a ti...