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Hunger in California in Texts by Maria Ruiz de Burton and Josiah Royce

Harvard. In this text, Royce combines romance and storytelling with an historical subtext that denounces, rather than romanticize...

19th Century America and the Effects of Communism

wealth and property should be distributed equally, or alternatively that the state would hold the property collectively and then w...

Twentieth Century Literature and Gender

and large, the wealthy is a class of leisure. This upper class mentality is expressed in Whartons (2000) House of Mirth. The nov...

Late Nineteenth Social Darwinism, Realism, and Racism Commentary of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

and superstitious. Although Huck may not be racist himself, he no doubt has been raised in an environment of extremely racists ind...

Butler & Eliot

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

Twentieth Century Immigration in America

Spanish-language rhetoric on the radio and in the cafes" (29). In addition to conveying the flavor of Latin-American life, Tobar ...

Trade Unions, etc.

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

Flaubert/Emma Bovary

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

The Advent of Aids at the End of the Twentieth Century

for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. First, it should be said that IDS or Immune Deficiency Syndrome is something that is caus...

Dickens/Utilitarianism & Hard Times

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

Chopin/The Awakening/Suicide as Closure

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...

Civil Rights in the Nineteenth Century

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

The Seven Sisters/Women's Education

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

"Obasan"

work on a road gang, where his frail health will ultimately doom him, the girl is raised by her aunt and uncle, and it is this aun...

Canadian Government/Pro & Con on Centralization

statement that "Canadian federalism has more advantages than disadvantages" (Atlantic Canada). As the term "federalism" refers to ...

Twentieth Century Leaders

1994). Hitler proved an able and courageous soldier in World War I, winning the coveted Iron Cross twice. He was blinded temporar...

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and Social Secession

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

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century History, Europe, and the Norton Simon Museum

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...

Latin America and Female Travelers During the Nineteenth Century

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

Emma Lazarus' Life and Times

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

Assessment of Early Childhood

trying her best to pay attention. Results and Interpretation Motor Domain In the area of muscle control, which assesses a chil...

An Overview Perspective of Quebec

leading traders of the north even before European contact (Canada and the World Backgrounder, 1995). Utilizing their strategic lo...

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Crises in the Constitution

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

Paul E. Johnson's Sam Patch

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

Nineteenth Century Potato Famine of Ireland

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

Twentieth Century and the Culturally Conflicted Media

cultural influence and at times, military advantage for the country. At the same time, the various forms of mass media have deve...

Psychology and its Historical Evolution

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

Nineteenth Century Perspectives on Wealth

novel awakens in the future, the year 2000, and at this time Bellamy pictures a utopian state that was achieved by the abandonment...

French Canadians at the End of the 19th Century

"the aspirations of the people themselves. The controlling idea of the French Canadian is to retain...

Canadian Policy and Racism

the effect was similar in that the vast majority of immigrants arriving in Canada prior to the 1960s were from the British Isle o...