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Was Couture Clothing As Popular In The 19th Century As It Is Today?

also known as haute couture - plays an historical role in the manner by which fashion has come to reflect an individuals social, p...

Ondaatje and Lee, Immigrant Experience

in the only way that is culturally significant, as he would link her present to that "golden chain of male to male" (Lee 31). As...

Hawthorne/Scarlet Letter/Critical Perspectives

but while she wears a scarlet A, she changes the nature of this symbol with her needlework. She makes this A from- ...fine red clo...

Magdelena and Balthasar by Steven Ozmet and Religious Controversies

Redeemer" (Ozment 14). As a result, Magdalena and Balthasar not only put their faith in good health in the various medical remedi...

Differences in Gender in the Peasant Residences of Central Europe and Southeast Asia

tended to marry much earlier in Europe than in Asia. Both peasant groups seemed to have grown grain crops: rice in Asia and whea...

Twentieth Century Women's Changing Roles

This paper considers 20th century women's changing social roles with employment and family position among the topics discussed in ...

Yugoslavian Cultural, Political, and Social Conflict

incorporated Serbs, Croats and Slovenes - three different ethnic groups, but a country in which the Serbians formed the dominant c...

IRA Actions in Great Britain and Terrorism

are made define an abstract concept, there will always be some groups who are able to find exceptions to the definition because of...

Analysis of Greek Funerary Statue

intended for this statue (Woodford, 1986). The initial response of this writer/tutor to the statue was that I was taken with the...

Paul Kennedy's Preparing for the Twenty First Century

general. Kennedy does an admirable job of demonstrating how the population explosion that the world is currently experiencing is i...

Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House as a Reflection of 19th Century Social Issues

In four pages this paper examines how the playwright represents social issues in this 19th century dramatic play....

Early US Penitentiaries and 3 Concepts

In three pages this paper examines 3 concepts on 18th century penitentiaries with Pennsylvania and the Quaker influence the primar...

'Absalom and Achitophel' by John Dryden and Honesty

17th century way of saying "God told him to do it." But one of Davids progeny stood out, this being the brave...

Peace, Power, Leadership, Vladimir Lenin and Mohandas K. Gandhi

In five pages this paper discusses the obvious differences but also notes surprising similarities between these 20th century leade...

John Stephens' Incidents of Travel in Yucatan

This 19th century text is analyzed in ten pages. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

Historical Significance of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad II

In five pages the twentieth century relevance of Heart of Darkness is considered in this historical perspective of Joseph Conrad's...

Lincoln And Sumner: Equality

the fundamental purpose for doing so. While Sumner places governmental involvement with the quest for equality at the bottom of t...

The Appeal Of Howard Stern

and political components have had upon the masses is more than superficial according to Stern; rather, this power has rendered soc...

U.S. Intervention in Central America

over the world-Iraq is merely the latest in a long list of interventionist adventures-but hes one of the most articulate. Chomsky ...

Multiculturalism and the Curriculum

demands that change should take place in order for all students, regardless of ethnic or racial background, to feel that they are ...

Federalism, Elitism & Pluralism

a result of such exclusion was meant to maintain complete control over all the respective districts political and economic decisio...

Women as Battlers of Change Since the U.S. Civil War

love that was considered scandalous at the time.1 Woodhull boldly declared in a lecture she delivered in 1871, "I have an inalien...

Foreign Policies of Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan: Fighting Communism at the Expense of Freedom

us against them mentality that usually enabled the President to secure public support for any military action presented as promoti...

America’s Founding Fathers, the First Amendment of the Constitution, and the ‘Separation of Church and State’

increasingly marginalized from public and private spheres. Once upon a time, prayer was permitted in public schools, and no one t...

Deborah Tannen, "Fighting for Our Lives"

necessary and desirable. In making this point, Tannen refers to her experience with the media in regards to her previous books as ...

'Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror' by Richard A. Clarke

of the Bush inner circle was as unaware of the existence of Osama bin Ladens al Qaeda as Americans were prior to 9/11, remarking, ...

Reasons Behind Colonial America's Decision to Revolt Against England

Interestingly, however, although we looked to our mother country for that support, little was forthcoming. The early years of the...

Latin America and Obesity

of food, and while in some instances that is true, it is not characteristic of obesity. While many people know when they are obes...

TV's Role in School Violence

Bandura points out that the emotions an individual experiences over a particular tasks can be predictors of their ability to accom...

Social Welfare, Capitalism, and Social Darwinism

and order and to a very limited degree, certain property rights (Boland, 1995). While there are a number of definitions and persp...