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Nineteenth Century Authors James, Davis, and Twain

Smiley, knowing full-well that this would set the old gentleman off on a rant about Jim Smiley and the celebrated jumping frog. Th...

On Germany by Madame Germaine de Stael

writer/tutor reviews Staels text in chronological order, the student researching this topic may wish to contrast and compare the ...

Aesthetics Definition and Modernism

such as slavery, racism, imperialism and World War I (Lavender, 2000). Modernists, in contrast to the Victorians, focused on human...

English Aristocratic Class in The Reason Why The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade by Cecil Woodham Smith

than the military ineptitude without. In fact, the author makes clear that had it not been for aristocratic pride and arrogance, ...

Immigration of Japanese to America

of information about Japanese American immigration which can be found on the World Wide Web. These authors are Stanley K. Schultz...

France of the 18th and 19th Centuries, Radicalism, and Liberalism

deemed it so. In any event, it appears that there is justification for others to rule, despite the inherent encroachment on the ...

Italy, Germany, Reunification and Nationalism

the political community is. Nationalism has existed practically throughout the history of the world but it would eventually becom...

The Development of Great Britain as a Center of World Economy Through the Use of Trade and Finance

the late 19th and early 20th century, these countries had amassed a great deal of wealth through technology. Not only were factori...

Romantic Musical Composer Robert Schumann

life" that Schumann was leading in 1834 and he described this and other works done at this time, collectively, as his "summer nove...

Rebellious Femme Fatales in An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde and The Second Mrs. Tanqueray by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

come in direct conflict with conservative convention (Bennett 219). The so-called new woman became symbolic of what the Victorian...

Showman and Composer Franz Liszt

noted novelist George Sand (women novelists in the nineteenth century often wrote under male pseudonyms). One of his most signific...

'True' Womanhood Visions

who comes to love Mag and he persuades her to marry him. This step, of course, completes Mags ostracism from white society. "She w...

Art History and Orientalism

Egypt in the late eighteenth century. French rule of Egypt ensued, but was soon supplanted by the British. This was the beginning ...

Presidential Elections and the Influence of Lobbying

as soft money and issue advocacy" (Newlin Carney 337). However, pro-reform activist groups are adamant about the issue of raising...

Use of Language in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

this passage, the narration shifts and it is clear that the reader is experiencing the red room from the perspective of Jane as a ...

Nineteenth Century Italian Unification

power would arise to overshadow the papacy (Age of the Sage, 2005). After explaining the background of a fractured Italy, t...

19th Century Industrialism and Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy

Bellamy notes, did not hold much power within society, inasmuch as there was an unyielding sense of control that loomed over the a...

Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Dick and Jane

of this is seen when she passes dandelions on the way to the store. "Why, she wonders, do people call them weeds? She thought they...

19th Century Neoclassicism's Politics

In four pages this paper focuses on France in this overview of 19th century neoclassicism from a political perspective. Three sou...

English Language Learners' Educational Timeline

schools to take "affirmative steps" to overcome language barriers that impeded non-English speaking children from academic success...

Southern Slave Codes

first chapter, Goodell describes slavery as defined by the laws of various southern states; here we read things like this: "LOUISI...

Jane's Behavior Analysis Case Study According to Erikson, Piaget and Freud

to the new challenges." Freud addresses this conflict with his Oedipus complex as a way of explaining certain personality traits ...

'Englishness' and the Occult in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

some contrasting views of Englishness and attitudes about colonialism in their respective uses of the occult/supernatural. One te...

"Around the World in 80 Days" as a Guide to 19th Century Globalization

a deck steward on a tramp steamer. The film points out quite nicely the fact that the book really is a travelogue, with each episo...

New York Tenements and How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis

fate of those who were underneath, so long as it was able to hold them there and keep its own seat" (Riis, 1971,5)....

The 19th Century Buildings

towards the wealthy and powerful as could be inferred through looking at some of the stations. A good website for pictures of famo...

PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD AND ITS ART

Gabriel Rossetti; William Holman Hunt; John Everett Millais; James Collinson; Frederic George Stephens; Thomas Woolner; and writer...

American History: 19th Century

the hopes of finding work (The United States Of America, Part Five, 2007). "As immigration exploded, urban populations surged from...

Kate Chopin/The Storm

A neighbor, Alcee Laballiere, rides up to her home. He asks if he can wait on her porch till the storm abates, but the storm is so...

Foreign Policy in 19th Century United States

United States, and our northern and southern borders were stabilized through treaty negotiations with Canada and Mexico" (Chimes)....