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"The House of the Spirits": Magical Realism and the Feminist Perspective

a clairvoyant young woman who ends up marrying a man named Esteban Trueba, an industrialist with a penchant for mistreating the pe...

THE BLACK HISTORY OF AMERICA’S WHITE HOUSE

white house, to the slaves that actually built it, through generations of servants, aids, activists who worked there, all the way...

House of Mirth

"Make connections between a movie and...the culture" (Corrigan 7). In this novel, and film, costumes, or clothing, was a very impo...

Houses in Literature and their Symbolic Value

and symbolic value. The novel tells the story of a British military officer, Charles Ryder, who in the course of his military duty...

HOMELESSNESS AND INHERENT HUMAN RIGHTS

Safe and secure housing is but one of many rights withheld from those whose circumstances – whether through mental illness, financ...

Ibsen and Shakespeare/Doll's House and Much Ado About Nothing

in order to obtain the loan. At this point in the nineteenth century, married women were not allowed to own property or carry out ...

Outsourcing and In-House Services - Contemporary IT Infrastructure

patents led to the establishment of Riordan Plastics, Inc. in 1991. At first, the company did no manufacturing, but only sought to...

Huck, Emma & Asher Lev/Misfits

expected of young women in British society during this era. In Potoks novel, Asher Lev is a twentieth century boy raised in the Ha...

The Importance of Location in "Vanity Fair"

first thing we are told about Lord Steynes house is that it "stands in Gaunt Square, out of which Great Gaunt Street leads" (Thack...

House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus

In relationship to Kathy, it would be important to discuss her alcoholism and perhaps her past with her ex-husband whose delinquen...

Interesting Facts about House Finches

are year-round residents throughout most of their range, but the "eastern population, unlike its western counterparts, has develop...

Refocusing Housing Public Policy: An Environmental Impact Study

A 17 page paper discussing environmental justice, policy and environmental law as the concepts apply to Altgeld Gardens, a low inc...

Major Themes in "A Hazard of New Fortunes" and "The House of Mirth

opportunity to exercise their intellects--they went away to college, and if they were not encouraged to enter business or a profes...

Character and Setting in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

her shell, showing her intelligence and her need to be independent and the fact that her husband will not accept and appreciate wh...

The Work of Jane Addams and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

living arrangements (Clinton & Barker-Benfield, 1998). In fact, a student writing on this subject notes that these women were call...

Nora and the "Wonderful Thing"

her husband, but she commits fraud when she signs her fathers name to the bond (Ibsen, 2004). (We can assume that her father was w...

Security In Hospitality For The Guest

being paid to privacy and significantly more to protection. "Some privacy concerns went out the window after September 11. But, t...

Mozart/The Appeal of Don Juan

While "Figaro" ends with marriage substantiated and the framework of society intact, "Don Giovanni" threatens that world with indi...

How To Improve U.S. Poverty Level In 2008

There have been various modifications and accommodations for students with special learning needs. Included in these are special ...

Rewriting the Ending to the Book of Acts

version of history must be selected. Therefore, the following "addition" to Acts is based on scholarship in the Catholic Encyclope...

Book Report on 3 Books

one down. It is a story of hope in a world where there is hunger and darkness. It is an uplifting book because Oliver goes through...

The Fall of the House of Usher by Poe

for him, lift his spirits, and perhaps bring him a bit of distraction and joy as he descends. This narrator is very powerful and...

The Portrayal of Women in Biggers “The House Without A Key” T

assessment of the likelihood of her return "And was there any chance that his strong-minded relative would take the hint? Not one ...

Storytelling in Two Native American Novels

Jimmy thinks back to his childhood. At any rate, it is a startling introduction to life as Jimmy and other Indians live it. It al...

20th Century Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

both sides of the border throughout the Southwest. Here, the boxcar is a solid black shape that fills almost the entire area of th...

Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Vermeer

concepts of the South and North" (Strickland 50). In the case of Vermeer he was clearly, and strongly, a Dutch Baroque art...

Conversion: Momaday, Robinson and Vizenor

unto itself in many ways and in light of this the characters all differ in these subtle ways. But, at the same time each work is...

Point of View: Momaday and Robinson

physical eye. This eye is not really something that is symbolic in relationship to standing as a cultural icon or something else, ...

Nora in A Doll’s House

her husband. She has little identity and really does not seem interested in finding much of an identity. However, as the story evo...

Female Sexuality in House of Bernarda Alba

collective unconscious (Allen 175). Therefore, Maria Josefa expressing her desire to marry a "handsome male on the shore of the oc...