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NJ Railroads' and How They Originated

did have ties to the railroad industry ("NJ Governors," 2003). South Orange is another example of a long-established suburb whos...

The Body Project by J.J. Brumberg

counterparts. Rather than a lack of information about their bodies and sex, a situation that was common in the nineteenth century,...

Interaction Between the Body and the Mind According to Baruch Spinoza

also saw mind and body as two separate substance. The Descartes position on the mind-body problem combines the idea of substance d...

French Composer Charles Gounod's Life and Music

1937). Gounod was equally gifted in art and for a time seemed torn between the two but a musical epiphany he had at age 13 would ...

Gangs of New York Film and New York Gangs of the Nineteenth Century

gangs" ("Gangs," 2003). Rival gangs include the Irish and the Natives, two groups that were usually present, but again, not the on...

Female Artists of the 19th Century

was considered to be an essential component of every young artist training. Some critics at that time actually argued that no grea...

Women of the 19th Century and the Issues That Confronted Them

with a mind of their own -- and the will to abandon social stigmas without a backward glance -- indicated a loose fiber in the pat...

Nineteenth Century Great Britain, Middle Class and Working Women

self worth and capabilities that remained in the forefront of their adult lives. For nineteenth century British working cla...

Comparative Analysis of the Paintings of Claude Lorraine and Joseph Mallord William Turner

along with the request that his "Dido Building Carthage" and "Sun Rise Through Vapor" be displayed alongside Claudes "Seaport with...

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and Social Reform Mechanisms

a time of many contrasts. While many history books prefer to remember it as a time of self-help, entrepreneurial spirit, laissez-...

Overview of Political Machines and Immigrants

As a matter of a fact, for a time, it did appear that a new age might be dawning for the political machine because of the dire nee...

Snow White by the Brothers Grimm

tales have circulated for so long their origins are in ancient Egypt, others made their way to Germany via France (Zaleski, 2001)....

Colonial Powers and Gender Differences

outwards. When we look at this time we can see that there was already a change, the loss of colonial power was...

Dark Suspense Elements in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado'

Dark suspense elements are the focus of this comparative analysis of two 19th century great American short stories in five pages. ...

Ninteenth Century Women in Anton Chekhov's 'The Lady With the Dog' and Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an Hour'

by curiosity, I wanted something better" (Chekhov). However, the better life that she imagined did not materialize with her marria...

19th Century America Racial Issues and the Chinese Exclusion Act

the impact which this had upon Chinese immigrants, in terms of both race and gender, it is useful to look briefly at the history o...

The Socioeconomic and Cultural Impacts of Apartheid in Africa

that was operative in the time of the lynchings during the 1800s and 1900s. Rather than seeing a group mentality or a societal ...

Aesthetics Definition and Modernism

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

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 ...

Assimilation, Identity, and Jewish History

consistent throughout the centuries of the Diaspora. In order to remain Jewish, individuals could not adopt the customs of their h...

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 ...

20th Century Politics and the Media

medias so-called "flaw" is therefore a relatively recent arrival on the political scene. There is no questioning the fact t...

The Influence of Cultural Developments on Visual Art, from the Mid-19th to the Mid-20th Century

early twentieth centuries established themselves. What this means in terms of how those great philosophers looked at the broader ...

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 ...

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...

First Half of the 19th Century and the Phrenology Controversy

this was seen as indicative that the brain shape would reflect the development of the different cerebral organs, meaning the devel...

Addressing Family Concerns

opportunity to concentrate on the task of child rearing. However, as Scwartz and Scott (2003) indicate, this stereotypical ninetee...

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...