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Art of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries and the Representation of the Human Figure

figures themselves seem soft despite the tension within the painting. It is also very romantic looking painting because of its sof...

Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander Smith and Principles of Ethics

(p. 180). The message here is that the people of Botswana find being with people and interacting with them to be the natura...

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

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

Nineteenth Century America

the 19th century that lead us to argue that it was isolationist we look at some of the significant historical events from that tim...

Immigration to Nineteenth Century America in 'The First Great Wave'

of the time were the primary motivators for virtually all of the immigrants to the United States. The example of the Irish serves ...

Labor and Public Activism of Women

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

Nationalism, Conservatism, and Liberalism During the 19th Century

laws, economic structure and political processes all supported maintaining this hierarchy. During the early part of the 19th cen...

19th Century Developments and the Relevance of Social Darwinism

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

Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and Society

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

Lessons From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and The Awakening

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

US Monetary Policy History

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

Nineteenth Century Authors James, Davis, and Twain

Smiley, knowing full-well that this would set the old gentleman off on a rant about Jim Smiley and the celebrated jumping frog. Th...

Nineteenth Century Racism and Native Americans

(through industrialization), rather than a place to keep pristine or clear. The problem was, in his treatise, Turner ignor...

Secession and Issues of Slavery

into the White House (Brooks, 2003). The Brown raid took place in South Carolina, a state where the slave population was higher th...

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 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...

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...

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...

Adam Smith's Ideas and the 2008 Economic Bailout

financial wheeling and dealing (Friedman, 2008). Friedman has a point. Philosophically, money is not real. It is just a concept. T...

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,...

19th Century Boston, Crime, and Punishment

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

Germany of the Late Nineteenth Century

In eight pages the political mass market that emerged in the Germany of the late 19th century is among the topics discussed in thi...

Significance of Nineteenth Century Women

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

Comparing Jacobs and Wilson

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 ...

Native Americans as Depicted in the Art of the Dominant European Culture

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

Business According to Adam Smith

Smith and his beliefs. Reading further, in particular about Smiths ideas of the division of labor, reveals a man who believes that...

U.S. Imperialism During the 19th Century

always rationalized based on diplomatic or human rights objectives. For example, when American politicians wanted trade access th...

Theodore Chasseriau's Andromeda

killed the Gorgon Medusa, rescued Andromeda, slaying the monster. As indicated above, Chasseriaus work has been viewed as a brid...

Nineteenth Century New France

an invasion. This was not an unclaimed and unused continent. Indeed, indigenous peoples not only lived here but rightfully claim...