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the growth of slums and a lack of social welfare which led Carlyle to criticise the leaders of society for their obsession with ma...

were destroyed. The Los Angeles riots were unique, according to the author, because the African American community targeted the Ko...

alone could carry the long swords (Dunn, 1977, Sellen, 2002). Dunns appreciation of some of the key elements of the classes explai...

kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by o...

obviously keenly intelligent, and it is clear that, if he applied himself, he could have achieved any goal to which he might have ...

rivals. In retrospect, many have said that Chaplin was the better director but some critics "consider Keatons work as less pretent...

does not love and who is better than twenty years older than her. Then, his son goes into the future son-in-laws bank and manages ...

researchers have dealt with over the course of time. To answer the question "Do basic building blocks of matter exist, and if so, ...

One of the main themes in this Dickens novel is that of disillusionment, and we see this theme emerge on many different levels wit...

for journalism and suspicious attitude towards unjust laws. His sharp ear for conversation helped him reveal characters through th...

nearly 70 percent and that it can be seen to be directly related to the existence of the "criminal underclass" (pp. 34). He believ...

Protective Services on her. Spanking or any other type of corporeal discipline is frowned upon by most child experts. And when a w...

therefore, is a nonentity in all ways that do not pertain to business (Adrian, 1984). Dickens uses the interior of his home to con...

Hard Times. Coketown as it appears in Dickens Hard Times, is also painted as a rather dismal environment and in fact, some...

However, shortly thereafter, they are sent to debtors prison and David sees his chance to escape the oppressive life. He runs to h...

Carstone, to attempt to solve the generations-long Chancery suit of Jarndyce and Jarndyce (Dickens). There is little that is myste...

is filled with allegorical references to the time of chivalry and has been described as an allegorical epic. As outlined in the i...

their reactions. For example, Josiah Bounderby is the mill-owner and principal villain in Hard Times. Bounderby is so unremittin...

those who are less fortunate. When Pip sees a group of starving and shackled convicts, he is appalled by their plight. One convi...

between people and between the individual and society in general. These contrasts are all intricately detailed in the work of Cha...

of the novel and are mentioned because of their value in understanding the conflict between Pip and Estella. Chapter 1 Dicke...

impoverished class lacked proper legal or parliamentary representation. It was a bitter indictment against a system dominated by ...

away. He stands as a man of a higher social class who has integrity. His mother, however, represents all that is bad in the upper ...

and understood in many different ways. We are not only given one perspective but two that work together in different and powerful ...

leans on her heavily for advice and help in maintaining the farm after her fathers death. In fact, Ruby helps Ada take care of her...

epic is a rendition of the ancient flood narrative that predates that of the biblical Noah. The Babylonian flood narrative pictu...

not known, although the effects still influence the way we use language nowadays. It was a huge change in the way that English vow...

been misrecognized for so long that they often feel that they are unworthy. "They have internalized a picture of their own inferio...

doing whatever one wants, with no regard to law (Krause, 2000). If independence must be sacrificed in order to achieve political ...

all of his lessons come into play and culminate to create a powerful epiphany. We note some of this in the following excerpt: "Spi...