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Historians on Political Conflicts and Sexuality

such larger societal issues also had a profound impact on more intimate sexual issues and determinants of sexual behavior and atti...

Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg

seen that Gide identifies this novel as a psychological parable. By dramatizing the evil that lurks within Roberts psyche, Hogg of...

Relationship Between Man and God According to Soren Kierkegaard

of what it means to lead a Christian life. Kierkegaard identified three stages, or modes, of life?the aesthetic, the ethical, and...

Post 19th Century Canadian Workplace and the Role of Women

s labor force commitment are difficult to track as few studies have measured s labor force commitment at more than one point in ti...

19th Century France and the Influence of Romantic Author Victor Hugo

This paper considers Victor Hugo's influence on France during the 19th century in an analysis of the significance of his novels Th...

Privilege and Creative Destruction The Charles River Bridge Case by Stanley I. Kutler

The legislature granted the petition to build a bridge over the Charles River on March 9, 1785 and passed an act incorporating the...

Changing Views on Caring for the Mentally Ill

The treatment of the mentally ill has changed drastically since the asylums of the 19th century. This paper examines the historic...

Workers of Nineteenth Century France

In five pages this essay examines France during the 19th century in a consideration of the working class. There are no other sour...

Electron Discovery

skeptical eye upon Thomsons claim, even to the point of questioning whether there was any validity to his discovery whatsoever. W...

Europe During the 19th Century and National Consciousness

its own flavor, identity and special talents. Additionally, leaders want their members to adhere to the rules of the government, a...

Russian History's Inconsistencies and Dichotomies

Great," 2003). Peter the Great was somewhat obsessed with creating a Russia that was separate and apart from Asia as well. His St....

Insider Lending and Banking During the 19th Century

not available, and the decision was one which was reached by consensus, with the use of a lending committee. It can be argued tha...

U.S. History, Quilting, and Quilts

turkey red) on the basis of permanence (Mainardi, 1982). They were creating fine works of art that would be marveled over and app...

Changing Cities and Migration

research also indicates a number of other factors, which include "demographic shocks, the assistance of friends and relatives livi...

Social Science and Religion

acquired even consciousness as well as to have facilitated cultural productions, but excepting religion (2002). Whether Darwins t...

Thousand Pieces of Gold by Ruthanne Lum McCunn

Chinese woman (in the area)," and therefore, she was also "an attraction that (would) bring men, Chinese and white, from miles aro...

Treatment Delivery Systems and Addiction Treatment History

deemed insane but they did try to keep inebriates out of their institutions (2002). Dr. Thomas Kirkbride explained in 1840 why h...

Oregon Trail and Education

(2003). While not formal, the education was something for the children to hang onto. Obviously, the reason why formal education co...

Christianity Expansion

points of doctrine, particularly in regards to controversy over whether Judaic custom was still applicable to Christians. Missiona...

Modern Architectural Movement

the past. Nonconformity now took over as the leading force, with cultural retrospection becoming all but obsolete (Berman PG). N...

Presidential Campaigns and Economic Issues

around monetary issues, there are often other issues such as those that concern social and moral well being. Today, hot campaign t...

19th Century Presidential Campaign Techniques and Tactics

about Jackson and Adams. One tactic that seemed to be used was to make it appear that the adversary was a man of poor character. ...

Pleasure and 19th Century Women in the Paintings of Mary Cassatt

In seven pages this research paper examines the jouissance or pleasure artist Mary Cassatt exhibits in her 19th century Impression...

Samuel Johnson and George Berkeley on Metaphysics

or of material things. Berkeleys philosophical stance of immaterialism or idealism simply denied the existence of matter all toge...

Questions on U.S. Immigration Answered

racism to paint this ethnic group as being less than human and, therefore, worthy of exclusion from the US. 3. Why, according to ...

Men's and Women's Earning Power in America

that these girls and women were paid were considered high at that time. As long as labor was scarce, workers were too valuable to...

English Aristocratic Class in The Reason Why The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade by Cecil Woodham Smith

than the military ineptitude without. In fact, the author makes clear that had it not been for aristocratic pride and arrogance, ...

Cultural and Political Autonomy Preservation Struggles of Native American Leaders

the Europeans who had invaded Native American lands. The English to whom we most often attribute the negativities of history in r...

Italy, Germany, Reunification and Nationalism

the political community is. Nationalism has existed practically throughout the history of the world but it would eventually becom...

Aesthetics Definition and Modernism

such as slavery, racism, imperialism and World War I (Lavender, 2000). Modernists, in contrast to the Victorians, focused on human...