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Thoreau/Nature Essays

imposed boundaries. He asks, "What sort of a country is that where the huckleberry fields are private property? When I pass such f...

A History of Women's Suffrage

he should remember the ladies (Adams, 2003). Of course, the term "ladies" would be discarded down the road as being derogatory. To...

Tocqueville/His Views of Blacks

of servitude that slaves adopted as indicative of their true feelings, rather than as a behavior adopted for self-protection. He s...

Constitutional Amendments and Their Significance

Many people will find personal significance in terms of the fourth amendment. One does not have to be a criminal to receive this p...

US and a History of the Women's Suffrage Movement

movements, such as slavery and temperance3. Following the Civil War, womens rights leaders hoped to receive universal suffrage, an...

Edgar Allan Poe/Theme of Insanity

manages to resurrect herself momentarily from her entombment before falling dead upon her brother, causing his death also. The hou...

Imperialism & Conrad's Heart of Darkness

complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves" (Bowers 91). Marlow is discouraged by other Europeans who work for the enigm...

Sense and Sensibility/Novel v. Film

mother, Elinor and Marianne (who are both young women) and younger sister Margaret, by beginning with the death of Henry Dashwood,...

Esteban Echeverria/The Slaughter House

to its "underlying political statement" and purpose, which is to underscore the brutality of the Rosas political regime. One of ...

E. Patricia Tsurumi's "Factory Girls" - Social And Historic Conditions Of Women In Japan And The United States

been done. From the early modern age, Japan has maintained a strong sense of uniformity when it has come to the cultural foundati...

Removal of Children from the Parental Home: A Comparison of Policies for Seriously Violent Juveniles vs Nineteenth Century Native American Children

environment and an individuals propensity to engage in criminal activity. Juveniles often follow in the footsteps of their parent...

Social Commentary In Late Nineteenth Century White Minstrelsy by Robert Toll, The Octoroon by Dionysius Lardner Boucicault, and Widow Ranter by Aphra Behn and Indian Images

What it meant to a Native American Indian through these three stories was a time of constant suppression and overwhelming conflict...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs and Family Ties

In five pages this paper considers the impact of slavery upon family ties. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

Verses 1 through 6 of the Nineteenth Psalm

Song of Songs deal with verse that reads as poetry and praises the God of the tribe of Judah (http://www.ramnet.co.za/the_bible.ht...

African American Slave Resistance

In four pages this research paper discusses African American resistance to slavery during America's antebellum period. One source...

Place in Sapphira and the Slave Girl by Willa Cather

In five pages the representation of place with regards to the time period's social hierarchy is discussed and includes an explorat...

Gregory J.E. Rawlins' 'Slaves of the Machine'

A paper that consists of a 5 page book summary and considers that the computer is the master of the human mind despite being man m...

The Attic in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

In five pages this paper examines the attic or tiny crawl space in which the author was forced to hide for 7 years to escape abuse...

Exotic Dancers, The Ultimate Feminists, or Gender Slaves

the sociological elements that have supported the subjugation of women, and the perspectives offered by women who support the righ...

Three Views of the Slave Trade in Africa

and time period under discussion. Eric Williams Williams begins his argument by pointing out that "unfree labor" in the New Worl...

Analysis of Narrative in the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

on the period of slavery in the United States. When one reads of the life of this chattel, he or she is forced to see the total i...

Slave Cultures and Gerald W. Mullin's Flight and Rebellion

In five pages this paper discusses the views expressed in Mullin's book and compares them with those featured in works by David Wa...

American Colonies and Lives of Slaves

In nine pages this paper considers what slavery was like in the American colonies with North and South differences duly noted alo...

Slaves of the Mastery (Book Report)

The character development is somewhat light as there is little attachment to many of them with the exception of Krestel and perhap...

Overview of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

In six pages this novel's style and themes as well as literary criticism are examined in this overview. Three sources are cited i...

Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

In five pages this text is compared with Olaudah Equiano's novel and analyzed in terms of answering questions pertaining the audie...

Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball

In five pages Ball's text is the subject of a book review with the author's relevance also evaluated. Four sources are cited in t...

Who Freed The Slaves

that affirmation. McPherson uses Vincent Hardings book "There is a River..." as a source. Harding argued the slaves freed themselv...

Self Sufficiency Among Ex-Slaves

off the coast of South Carolina served as the location of the Port Royal Experiment. Although it was not planned to occur as it d...

Scripture and Owning Slaves

author explains, based on this belief, "slavery of Africans became religiously justifiable."iii Proslavery advocates based their c...