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represents often empowers citizens into believing their nations and peoples are the best and brightest in the world. It is believ...

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

little time for themselves, or to think about doing anything rather than staying ahead of what needed to be done. Because ...

pain and trying to find herself as she divorces herself mentally from her poor beginnings when she was married at fifteen to a hor...

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

not explicitly intended to depict any concrete object or situation, but rather seeks to create a "mood or atmosphere," which elici...

to move to the back, and when he refused, would go to court. The court essentially ruled against Plessy, rendering segregation val...

is one that ties the two brothers together, although neither one of them realizes it. Each fears his own cowardice and has to ov...

feature the vivid natural imagery that characterizes her sensuous and deeply passionate works of Romantic fiction. These storie...

group were extremely poor. Ireland was a land of peasants with a high unemployment rate, and those who boarded the ships for Ameri...

the means of doing so were very circumscribed; it usually meant they had to go into service. Women rarely worked at any sort of oc...

would become his own trademark. This film, along with Obsession (1976), further developed De Palmas expressive use of cinematogra...

use of both primary and secondary sources are used throughout the book and the message if the interdependent link between imperial...

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...

he is absolute appalled that Sissy does not know the scientific definition for "horse," and that his own children have been tempte...

romanticism prevents her from seeing Charles realistically prior to marriage and her failed expectations cloud her perception of h...

the rights of plants: "And when we call plant stupid for not understanding out business, how capable do we show ourselves of under...

would rise up and overthrow the bourgeoisie (property owners), in order to establish a socialist state. As this suggests, the po...

63). Through incremental decrees, the Meiji government moved toward creating a highly centralized, bureaucratic government. Duri...

that still labored in the homes and fields of the Southern slaveholders. Abolitionists even tirelessly transported illegal cargo....

owners of the factories were convinced that there was "no other way in which Society could get along, except that many pulled at t...

group of KKK members (DuPont, et al). The film ends with snapshots of the men indicted for the murders of the three Civil Rights w...

The God of the Waning Year is associated with the sacrificial victim, whose death was believed necessary in order for the earth to...

seeking to do business in the area. These included restrictions, such as not being allowed to learn Chinese, only being able to li...

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

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...

publishing of magazines or stationary (Tawa, 1990). The main method of distribution involved composers approaching the publishers...

and borrower (Edwards "The Currency"). During this era, huge deposits of silver were discovered in Nevada, which greatly increas...

the jury will find for the defendant (Walker v. Brown). The court is asked to decide the issue of whether or not the plaintiff s...

single location" (Francis Lowell, 2001). Contemporary commentary on the way in which Lowells first factory seemed to spring up ov...