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With the Mid-nineteenth century potato famine in Ireland, hundreds of Irish fled here. Although they received a less than hospitab...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

North. The business this family chose to engage in, at least eventually, was education. They started a school. The school would be...

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

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

publishing of magazines or stationary (Tawa, 1990). The main method of distribution involved composers approaching the publishers...

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...

slowly and the next major developments moving towards the modern financial markets was the increased use of the corporate status,...

predominant mindset of manifest destiny that set the stage for the many abhorrent actions that were yet to unfold in Native/White ...

"pencil or pen and ink"; however, for her finished pieces, Potter worked primarily in watercolor, adding touches of pen and ink wh...

wives of plantation owners, while the majority of them were well educated, rarely left their manicured grounds without their husba...

forced removal became known as "The Trail of Tears", an event that proved once and for all that no matter what the Cherokee or oth...

of slavery, as she was not free by any definition of this term and she was treated as property, in a manner that is equivalent to ...

contended to be even more misleading. The infatuation with Native Americans is, however, particularly obvious when one considers ...

romances, and their association with violence discloses the cultural anxieties about nation-making. Samuels reads the figure of wo...

in ideology about punishment, there is often changes in types of crimes committed. The most common reason for arrests in the 1800...