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Major Female Characters in Mohicans and Van Winkle

Women had few meaty roles in early American literature. This report deals with Cora and Alice Munro from The Last of the Mohicans...

Comparative Analysis of Leila Abouzeid's Return to Childhood and Elizabeth Fernea's Guests of the Sheik

In a paper consisting of six pages Abouzeid's autobiographical account of the French colonial Morocco of her childhood is compared...

Colonialism of the Belgian Congo and its Legacy

In six pages this paper examines the colonial legacy in the region of the Belgian Congo and describes its both positive and negati...

Crime and Punishment in American History by Lawrence Meir Friedman

In five pages this comprehensive American history text is examined in terms of the author's detailed consideration of the U.S. cri...

Two Literary Examples of Colonial Attitudes Towards Natives

An essay comparing and contrasting colonial attitudes towards natives in both Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would be King and Edga...

Sugar Production in Colonial Cuba and its Effects on Slavery and Business

This paper presents an overview of sugar production in Cuba during the country's colonial era. The author notes the various impac...

Colonial Rule by the Portuguese and Spanish

In twelve pages this research paper discusses the territories ruled by the colonial governments of Portugal and Spain. Six source...

Colonial Latin America and Social Hierarchies

imperialism of the past 500 years. Social Hierarchy The social histories of nations throughout Latin America provide important i...

West Africa, West Central Africa, and Slavery's Consequences

names which come up when talking about slavery. These coastal areas certainly seemed to suffer. A larger chunk of Africa suffered ...

Colonial Art of John Singleton Copley

the people in the portraits are from particular backgrounds. Of course, one may speculate that anyone who commissioned an artist ...

Indonesia's Colonial History

In eight pages the Dutch colonial history of Indonesia is examined in a consideration of short and long term effects. Seven sourc...

An Examination of Pocahontas

met John Smith in 1608 and between that time and the time she married another gentleman in 1614, she was kidnapped and raped by th...

What it Means to be an American

to think of themselves as true Americans. One can debate the concept today, and consider the American Indian. There are ar...

An Analysis of The Blood Knot

A 22 page analysis of the play by Athol Fugard. The emphasis is one the various aspects of identity that permeate the play. The ...

Colonial to Romantic Period American Literature

In five pages this paper examines how American literature evolved from he colonial times of Jonathan Edwards, John Winthrop, Benja...

Cultural Changes in Early America

than it was in the former. Likewise, women actually had more rights in indigenous American cultures than they did in European cu...

Jean Rouch's 1954 Film Les Maitres Fous

Accra's Hauka community during colonial rule as depicted in Les Maitres Fous by director Jean Rouch is the focus of this paper con...

Latin America and Land Reform

for mining purposes" (Human Rights in Brazil, PG, 2001). LAND REFORM MOVEMENTS In Latin America although there have been many la...

History Since Colonial Times and Differences in Ethnicity and Race

not though of as such, was the black slaves from Africa. They too had distinctive cultures, and although they were brought here a...

Colonial Women of Latin America

Because of this, the family changed from being the focus of both production and consumption toward a paradigm in which it was simp...

Strong Colonial Frontier Establishment

grow and produce goods they found themselves with great products worthy of selling overseas. In addition, the East Coast was a coa...

King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild and Imperialism

Western European nations and the US condone imperialism, in the first place; however, the people, at the time, who supported King ...

First Canadian Settlers

morning activities were done with the use of candles for the most part, though some likely had oil lanterns as well. Any candles t...

American Workers, Colonial Power

of 3,450 Filipina/os, roughly 3,200 were men (Fujita-Rony, 2003, p. 134). This is not surprising, as it was a pattern for Asian m...

African American Education Throughout History

years later, in 1775, Ben Franklin founded the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery (Socialist Equality Party, 1997)....

Derek Walcott's 'Omeros' Theoretically Studied

spiritual awakening. CHARACTERISTICS OF AN EPIC POEM: Epic poems all share similar characteristics which define them as such. Fo...

American Colonial Regional Comparison of Two Areas

the North and South but there are many differences as well. A student writing on this subject may want to compare and contrast ...

Possible Scenarios for Settlement in Colonial America

settled the Chesapeake the reasons were not so simple or peaceful. One author provides us the following in relationship to the rea...

Power Justification

The ruler was seen as Gods representative on earth and his use of absolute power was justified by his receiving the right to rule ...

A Review of Season of Migration to the North

more. The narrator is returning from an extended trip to Europe where he studied in European schools and became conversant with E...