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Questions and Answers on Early Nineteenth Century English History (1800-1840)

resulted in a huge public outcry against the King. Reformers and radicals alike encouraged dialogue regarding gender oppression a...

The History of the Financial Markets

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

Walker v. Brown, 1862

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...

William Jennings Bryan/Reformer

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

The Dissemination and Marketing of Music from Tin Pan Alley to the Modern Day

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

Developments in Medicine during the latter part of the Nineteenth Century

that it did was that it would give physicians a direction in which to focus as they looked for the etiology of various illnesses (...

Louisa May Alcott, Kate Chopin on Equality

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...

Kurtz in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

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

Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by Which They Forced Her Gates by Peter Ward Fay

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

Metacom of the Wampanoag: Changing Perceptions Over Time

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

Children's Book Illustrators

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

Separate Spheres and Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Benita Eisler’s The Lowell Offering

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

The Cherokee and the Trail of Tears

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...

The History of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century

there was nothing else to help to that end. Another important thing that occurred is that in Paris, the doctors would begin to qua...

Contextual, Cultural, and Historical Influences on Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 Social Drama, A Doll’s House

of Norway. Interestingly, Ibsen observed a year before the completion of A Dolls House in his text Notes for a Modern Tragedy, "T...

The Nineteenth Century Ghost Dance Era

In "Sitting Bull and the Paradox of the Lakota Nationhood" author Gary Clayton Anderson details the contradictions which are inher...

City Beautiful v. Urban Reform Movements

history of urban development and city planning is the result of a lengthy evolutionary history. The following discussion relates a...

US Imperialism: The Transition Between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Venezuelan border would become a point of contention with Great Britain and ownership of Cuba would become the focus of the Spanis...

Significance of Nineteenth Century Women

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

Civil Rights in the Nineteenth Century

to move to the back, and when he refused, would go to court. The court essentially ruled against Plessy, rendering segregation val...

Impressionism/Music & Art

not explicitly intended to depict any concrete object or situation, but rather seeks to create a "mood or atmosphere," which elici...

The Seven Sisters/Women's Education

The cultural bias against education for women was so severe in the eighteenth century that Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), note...

Chopin/The Awakening/Suicide as Closure

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...

Wier/Tehano

is one that ties the two brothers together, although neither one of them realizes it. Each fears his own cowardice and has to ov...

Comparative Analysis of Kate Chopin’s ‘The Storm’ and ‘The Awakening’

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

Dickens/Utilitarianism & Hard Times

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

Butler & Eliot

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

Trade Unions, etc.

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

Flaubert/Emma Bovary

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

Bellamy/Looking Backward,

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