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that is, as more closely comply with white standards of beauty are regarded with more favor by both whites and blacks, such as the...

a political fundraiser with a blind man named Bovanne. She shocks her daughters by behavior they regard as unbefitting for a woma...

It does not necessarily make men evil or bestial, but it does recognize that we live in a patriarchal society and that the structu...

that could otherwise not be expressed merely by literary methods; rather, photography helps the world understand more about itself...

who flatly refused to accept the mundane. These two characters, both centers of nineteenth century American literature, each made...

In fourteen pages the Middle Ages are considered in terms of iconography and Christian symbolism's influence. Ten sources are cit...

55). The appeal of this dream attracts the interest of both Crooks and Candy, who would also like to be part of the dream, as it...

novel The Awakening provides insight into the marriages of Edna Pontellier and her friend Adele Ratignolle. Examination of these m...

She was viciously attacked for her frank depiction of a woman who broke her marriage vows, despite the fact that the book is a psy...

accident in 1855. According to biographer Emily Toth, subsequent photographs of Katherine OFlaherty Chopin reveal an individual t...

society and no one wants to talk about it, much less have it in the backyard. The solution here is to offer the clinic as a direct...

In a paper consisting of 5 pages the ways in which the author portrays the lacking maternal instincts of protagonist Edna Pontelli...

In seven pages the ways in which the author develops the theme through character conflict are discussed. There are 3 sources in t...

Both works focus on an important racial figure as a primary element in the development of the plot. The relationship between Huck...

In five pages this essay examines a Time magazine article on the short life and murder of Bill Cosby's only son Ennis....

than matron, she needed to attach a descriptive label to herself which belonged to her alone, and to no one else. It becomes evid...

century and also well into the twentieth, what historian Barbara Welter refers to as the "Cult of True Womanhood" characterized ho...

his arms. She was a revelation in that dim, mysterious chamber; as white as the couch she lay upon. Her firm, elastic flesh that w...

whom she falls in love, but she begins to branch out and experience life on her own terms, focusing on her own desires. She learns...

incredibly natural and part of the environment so to speak. Or, as Zimmerman states, "If observation from nature imprints upon his...

but had no clue how to engage in interpersonal relationships with members of the opposite sex. For him, the Bible was a way for h...

and traumatic childhood (Taylor and Fineman 35). Edna longs for some sort of meaning and transcendence in her life. In Mademoise...

and some of the verses were sung. It was explained to me later that the members of the congregation that perform this part of the ...

at the piano" but it may well have been the "first time she was ready, perhaps the first time her being was tempered to take an im...

In six pages these two female protagonists are contrasted and compared with their respective self images also considered. There a...

it threatened who she was as a member of the white race and the upper classes. Therefore, it can be seen that Ednas desire to pa...

is almost always away on business, and the only permanent residents, in addition to the governess and the children is the stern an...

Twelfth Night, the eve of Epiphany which is defined by Joyce as a sudden shining down of reason and awareness, a "sudden spiritual...

no avail. Her father explained that the antidote would actually kill her, but she did not want to live being poisonous anyway. The...

official. The letter has been stolen, and the police feel that they know who stole it -- a man who is referred to as "Minister D" ...