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artist and a dutiful woman creates conflict and pushes the boundaries set by nineteenth-century American society" (Sparknotes). ...

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

rejection highly influenced Lazaruss "Spagnoletto," which provided Lazarus with the "literary props" to effectively represent the ...

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

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

and suggests several avenues for further research; it also draws quite a clear picture of the difficulties many of the farm famili...

also examines some possible solutions. Clarkson points out that other writers, in addition to Grada, have been appalled at the fac...

Canada is made up of various regions with different needs and interests. Industries tend to form where there is a need. It would b...

known life without industrialization. At the same time he was a man who reflected the dreams and ideals and hopes of his people fo...

In many ways we see, in the painting in the Norton Simon Museum, how there are timeless subjects in the world of painting. For exa...

of society with fewer rights than a woman was a child. Torvald would welcome his wife home from a shopping trip with condescendin...

romances, and their association with violence discloses the cultural anxieties about nation-making. Samuels reads the figure of wo...

Venezuelan border would become a point of contention with Great Britain and ownership of Cuba would become the focus of the Spanis...

in ideology about punishment, there is often changes in types of crimes committed. The most common reason for arrests in the 1800...

In "Sitting Bull and the Paradox of the Lakota Nationhood" author Gary Clayton Anderson details the contradictions which are inher...

history of urban development and city planning is the result of a lengthy evolutionary history. The following discussion relates a...

of Norway. Interestingly, Ibsen observed a year before the completion of A Dolls House in his text Notes for a Modern Tragedy, "T...

"pencil or pen and ink"; however, for her finished pieces, Potter worked primarily in watercolor, adding touches of pen and ink wh...

predominant mindset of manifest destiny that set the stage for the many abhorrent actions that were yet to unfold in Native/White ...

wives of plantation owners, while the majority of them were well educated, rarely left their manicured grounds without their husba...

before was not freer to gain access to. The use of moveable types was a move towards homogeneity. McLuhan states; "the world of v...

the theory of survival of the fittest (AllPsych, 2003). Basing his thoughts on Darwin, Galton, in 1869, argued "that intellectual ...

took until 1791 for the states to agree on the ten that have endured (Mount, 2005). However, as needs arose, and different concern...

there was nothing else to help to that end. Another important thing that occurred is that in Paris, the doctors would begin to qua...

This essay pertains to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's nineteenth century gothic novel Frankenstein and the allusions that Shelley m...

forced removal became known as "The Trail of Tears", an event that proved once and for all that no matter what the Cherokee or oth...

This book review pertains to Anna Sewell's Black Beauty, a novel that describes animal rights abuses in the nineteenth century as ...

This essay presents the argument that "The Yellow Walllpaper," a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman should be interpreted as ...

This essay pertains to two women characters, Eliza Harris and Marie St. Clare, who are featured in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The wrier ...

The Gilded Age was a time of many industrial and sociological changes. Not all of the changes that were ushered in were positive....