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

owners of the factories were convinced that there was "no other way in which Society could get along, except that many pulled at t...

63). Through incremental decrees, the Meiji government moved toward creating a highly centralized, bureaucratic government. Duri...

that still labored in the homes and fields of the Southern slaveholders. Abolitionists even tirelessly transported illegal cargo....

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...

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

Darwinism. Old ways were questioned but there was a caveat. Suddenly the mainstream had an excuse for their past and present bruta...

duties of men" (Craik 5). Craik argued that women already had a position, a role, and a work-based duty, that was the underpinnin...

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

slave, she was not fortunate enough to belong to the middle class and to have the social connections that come along with that cla...

theories behind monetary policy debates and these are the theories that provide people in politics with support for their position...

feature the vivid natural imagery that characterizes her sensuous and deeply passionate works of Romantic fiction. These storie...

the Union. It was Lincoln who had endorsed the Reconstruction plan, but Congress was far more cautious. Congress determined that...

much stayed on one plot of land for much of their lives, passing the land to the children when they died. Then the children grew u...

for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as me...

had children to raise on my own and my financial situation was not dire, but I had to earn a living and I turned to writing. Alc...

central point of the narrative. The company accountant is the first character to refer to Kurtz and he tells Marlow that Kurtz i...

seeking to do business in the area. These included restrictions, such as not being allowed to learn Chinese, only being able to li...

and borrower (Edwards "The Currency"). During this era, huge deposits of silver were discovered in Nevada, which greatly increas...

"Death on the Pale Horse (1802), oil sketch on canvas, Allstons analysis relates something of his own romantic vision. He writes t...

the jury will find for the defendant (Walker v. Brown). The court is asked to decide the issue of whether or not the plaintiff s...

While this fact does not indicate that the author of Genesis intentionally used the word "yom" to indicate the passage of billions...

times, Washington endeavored to alleviate the fears of the white majority by emphasizing that black people were not a threat to th...

single location" (Francis Lowell, 2001). Contemporary commentary on the way in which Lowells first factory seemed to spring up ov...

in his review of Maggie, vented his "frustration at realism," as he complained that realism "seemed written from the outside" (Gol...

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...