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Audrey Hepburn’s Holly Golightly: The Power of the Femme Fatale in the Film Breakfast at Tiffany’s

successes in Roman Holiday, for which she won an Academy Award, and Sabrina. This was exactly why Audrey Hepburn was perfect for ...

Gary Nash/Race and Revolution

his Preface, indicating his regard for him as a "seminal thinker" (Nash ix). Also, he acknowledges that he adopted his stance rega...

The American Revolution in Fiction and in Film

to the settlement of the American frontier, Drums Along the Mohawk. It is the story of farmer Gil Martin and his privileged bride...

Slavery and the South

to agriculture and of course slavery. One author notes, in relationship to their essentially power due to slavery, "Slavery formed...

How the Civil War Shaped and Defined Abraham Lincoln

necessary institution but also as a just one. They took the stance that white slave owners were entitled to own slaves as a part o...

Chaucer’s Version of the Reeve

choleric reeve, 2000). The reeve must also be exceptionally trustworthy because he collects rents (in services and goods) from tho...

Gender Issues and Media Interrogation

open for great debate. It seems that often thousands of years, gender is still an allusive reality for most of us. Today, we live ...

Slavery and the Kansas-Nebraska Act

the concept of popular sovereignty issues such as slavery were viewed as being justly determined by the people of Kansas themselve...

The African American Dream of Equality

and essentially left the white population of the nation still ignoring the impact of history concerning the African American peopl...

Slavery in Brazil

that a police investigation into the distinctive practices of slave prostitution" that ultimately involved more than 200 women in ...

The Honor Code of the Old South

relatively inconsequential. For those interested in the Old South, however, the book provides an insight that is not so easily ma...

Thomas Jefferson and the Slavery Question

people smoke cigarettes and eat buttered popcorn today even though they know these things are bad for human health. Similarly, Jef...

Hong Kong Portrayal by Director John Woo in the 1989 Film The Killer

In five pages Woo's portrayal of Hong Kong is the focus of this examination of The Killer film. Four sources are cited in the bib...

Colonial To 1877 Slavery Effects

traditional culture and faith as a means by which to survive. Clearly, black men and American culture have long existed as a syne...

Mexican American War/Lincoln's Slavery Position

soldiers attacked a US patrol, and Taylor sent a message to Polk that read "Hostilities may be considered commenced" (Zinn 151). M...

James Oakes, Slavery and Liberal Capitalism

the playing field level" (Zimmerman). This idea is still alive today, proposed by progressives who feel that everyone should get a...

Would Black Reparations be Redistributive Justice?

our current system of redistributive taxation follows a set pattern that is characterized by an inherent inequality between those ...

Slavery: Frederick Douglass

the physical oppression of the slaves. Douglass work illustrates many ways in which slaves were imprisoned and oppressed, and also...

No Justification for Slavery

that the Chesapeake was good for growing tobacco, which is a labor-intensive crop, and more labor was needed for the plantations (...

Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and What They Mean to the United States and the World

of the Vietnam War and Malcolm spent considerable time in Africa during the last years of his life to observe the economic hardshi...

Education and Frederick Douglass

instruct me further, telling her, among other things, that it was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read. To use hi...

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" - Kesey's Use of Gender and Race

Chief Bromdens mother, whom he remembers as continuously emotionally abusing his father, "emasculating" him (Kesey 1963). This had...

Slavery as Impacted by Western Expansion

well, however. Some believed that the southern states were involved in a conspiracy to destroy northern liberty. By the ninetee...

Life of a Factory Worker Compared with Life of a Slave

students of history shudder to read the horrible human rights abuses that were inflicted upon slaves in the antebellum South. Howe...

Slavery A Precipitating Factor in the Civil War

While it certainly wasnt the only reason, slavery...

19th Century American History

slavery, a trend which leads towards the development of Sectionalism in the Southern states. 1830s: Southern states begin to seek ...

Prison Labor in the United States: Capitalism or Slavery?

roots. Prison labor offers a way for prisoners to earn money while learning a trade, but with these prisons profiting on such chea...

Portrayal of Women in Two Play by G.B. Shaw

that there is little, if any, true relationship or familial feeling between the two women, as Vivie tells Mr. Praed, "I hardly kno...

Sexuality, Society and Slavery

move if her husband is transferred; that she will even be willing to give up her career entirely if doing so is better for him. Th...

Horton & Horton/In Hope of Liberty

on history that shows how blacks of the Revolutionary War era perceived the issues pertaining to liberty that served to captivate ...