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The Plight of Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

This six page essay references two feminist works by authors Rebecca Harding Davis and Anzia Yezierska. The author utilizes passa...

Lilliput, Satire, and Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

This essay consists of five pages and examines the first book of Gulliver's Travels in terms of how Swift satirizes eighteenth cen...

'The Decameron' by Giovanni Boccaccio

In three pages this essay discusses how these tales reflected the changing society of the 14th century as a result of the Black De...

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...

The Thesis of Henri Pirenne

In an essay consisting of five pages Pirenne's thesis that the European economic decline that began in the Middle Ages commenced w...

Italy During the 13th Century

war against the land and country in which they were born. The sense of incessant vengeance and chain of cruelty never ceased to en...

Past Preconceptions Rejected by the Scientific Revolution

In five pages this essay argues that ancient principles were rejected by seventeenth and eighteenth century scientific breakthroug...

'Ode on a Grecian Urn' and a Dissection of John Keats's Prose

In eleven pages this essay explicates Keats' nineteenth century poem in a consideration of life experiences, language, and poetic ...

Sound Liberator Edgard Varese

In five pages this essay analyzed how Varese's sound liberation had a profound effect upon music of the twentieth century with thi...

Rebecca Harding Davis' 'Life in the Iron Mills'

This paper of 7 pages considers how the author considered issues of economic inequality, social separations, and class differences...

Six Records of a Floating Life by Shen Fu

In five pages this essay considers what life was like during the Chinese Manchu dynasty of the 18th century as represented in this...

Contemporary Literature and the Maintenance of Identity

In five pages this essay examines maintaining identity in the first 50 years of the 20th century in a consideration of such litera...

Precolonial Peoplehood Systems in Africa

the speaking of the Bantu language) was carried gradually southward from the Equator. Then by about 20 BC such farmers were makin...

Singular Theme of Michel Saint Jean de Crevecoeur, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin?

his background/ mindset was initially staunchly European. Consequently, besides being writers who lived during the 18th century, w...

Twenty First Century Intellectual Property Rights

experts assert that the ownership and control of information is one of the most important forms of power in contemporary society. ...

Misogyny and Feminism in Learned Ladies and School for Wives by Moliere

Armande and Henriette, sisters and daughters to Chrysale and his wife Philaminte. In this scene, Moliere presents both sides of th...

19th Century Race and Gender in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

In five pages this essay examines 19th century race and gender as it is represented within this slave narrative. Two sources are ...

Use of Characterization in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

In five pages this essay considers how the author used characterization in her accurate portrayal of race relationships in the ear...

Ernest Gaines/Centrality of Racism in His Work

school children to the workplace, from the entertainment industry to the sports world, racial stereotypes are an integral part of ...

Adolphe by Benjamin Constant

narrative. Eventually, however, he rejects her, and the pain of this separation results in her death. Instead of prospering, now t...

The Princess of Cleves by Marie de Lafayette

the end of her days, the Princess abided by societal expectations. For example, when the young heroine first comes to the court,...

India and Christianity

In six pages this essay considers two sixteenth century Western missionaries and their introduction of Christianity to India and h...

20th Century Life Changes

In five pages an essay critically assesses how in the 20th century life evolved due to the changes in daily life, human relations,...

English Lit Questions in 9 short papers

long to feel him next to my skin, next to my heart, which is surely his rightful place. I bare my shoulder and hold him to my brea...

A Review of The Princess of Cleves

An 8 page essay reviewing the novel by Marie de La Fayette. This so called women's novel provides interesing insight into French h...

Gangraena by Thomas Edwards is a Window into 17th Century Life

This essay explores this famous work from the perspective of what it reveals to the reader about the seventeenth century. Edwards...

Chinese Domination on the Open Seas During the Fifteenth Century

and offered the natives beads and strings of coral as items for trade, the Europeans were ridiculed. The natives had products tha...

Carl L. Becker's Rejection of Popular Eighteenth-Century Philosophers

the chance to break free from such constraints. The global society was ready for a tremendous change in direction following the t...

2 Versions of 'To Build a Fire' by Jack London

which is considered to be one of his best (Jack London). The 1902 juvenile version As London intended this version of the story f...

Jean Paul Sartre's 'The Flies' and Aeschylus's 'Oresteia'

Electra, another daughter, lives on with her mother, but despises her for her awful deed. Orestes returns and is goaded by Electra...