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The Lowell Offering Writings by New England Mill Women, 1840-1845 by Benita Eisler

In nine pages this report considers the lives of women who worked in fabric mills in Lowell, Massachusetts during the mid nineteen...

Slavery and Freedom

In nine pages this paper examines slavery within the context of the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and a 'free' mill ...

Lowell System

single location" (Francis Lowell, 2001). Contemporary commentary on the way in which Lowells first factory seemed to spring up ov...

Robert Lowell/Skunk Hour

farmer/is first selectman in our village;/shes in her dotage" (lines 4-6). As these lines indicate, the poem is in free verse. B...

Labor Protests and Women's Contributions

In five pages this paper examines the 1820s' and 1830s' New England labor protests in Lowell, Massachusetts and Dover, New Hampshi...

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 Dinner Party by Amy Lowell

11). After this section the dinner party clearly moves to the Drawing-Room wherein a woman who sits with fire reflecting her jewel...

Questions and Answers on Early Nineteenth Century English History (1800-1840)

resulted in a huge public outcry against the King. Reformers and radicals alike encouraged dialogue regarding gender oppression a...

Symbolic Women in the Perspectives of John Stuart Mill and Melinda Vadas

In five pages this research paper assesses John Stuart Mill's attitudes about women as expressed through his writing and then disc...

Analysis of Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett

have fallen upon hard times. She does this with her first view of Dunnet Landing, as she describes it as a "coast town . . . more ...

Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by Which They Forced Her Gates by Peter Ward Fay

seeking to do business in the area. These included restrictions, such as not being allowed to learn Chinese, only being able to li...

Reshaping Everyday Life/Jack Larkin

football matches" and the fact that Mr. Bleaney apparently liked betting on the away games in football pools (Day 9). As this in...

Showalter, Culture and Literature

formalist-structuralist critics have evaded the issue of sexual identity entirely or dismissed it as irrelevant and subjective" (S...

Observation of a Mall

to the music, as well as some people who are actually shopping, offer a cross-section of Durhams population. For example, there ar...

Writing Exercise: Autobiography

like an angel because she was so caring and helpful, and I couldnt get her, or nursing, out of my mind. I soon realized that nursi...

Althol Fugard/Valley Song

choir. However, she ahs peered through neighbors windows and caught glimpses of singers on television, realizing that her talent c...

The Concept of Virtue

distinguishes between the activities of the practical and intellectual virtues, with the activities of political virtue having a s...

Quantity v. Quality in Utilitarianism

This 5 page paper analyzes John Stuart Mill's theory of Utilitarianism, how it works and how it evaluates actions, both quantitati...

Thai Women in the Global Labor Force by Mary Beth Mills

In five pages this paper summarizes and analyzes M.B. Mills' text on rural Bangkok women that examines similarities between them a...

Women's Voices on Africa, Patricia Romero

This book review is on Women's Voice on Africa: A Century of Travel Writing, which is edited by Patricia Romero. This text offers ...

Immigrants, Slaves, Tejanos and Power

lies almost exclusively in the hands of white men. The same thing can be seen throughout history. This paper considers ethnicity a...

U.S. Social Fabric Up to 1840

the country (Abrahamson, 1990). This sharp upsurge in the number of immigrants put a great fear into those who were born on...

Cherokee 'Trail of Tears' and Expansion of the West

It was then that a constant infiltration of European settlers were making their way onto the territory in their quest to move inla...

Western Perspectives on Imperial China Through Photography

In five pages this paper discusses how photography between the years 1840 and 1930 served to represent the perceptions of the Euro...

Great Britain and Impact of the Industrial Revolution

be done in one cottage, the brushing of the wool to separate the fibers (carding of the wool) might be accomplished in another cot...

Canadian Social Development Periods

Upper and Lower Canada as the Province of Canada (Francis, Jones & Smith, 2000, Origins). In addition to uniting Upper and Lower C...

Cotton Mather, John Smith, and the Writing of History

In five pages history writing is considered in a contrasting and comparison of Captain John Smith's A Description of New England a...

Robert Lowell and Bob Dylan

began to write what came to be called "confessional poetry," which is defined as "an undisguised exposure of painful personal even...

Liberal Government and Utilitarianism According to J.S. Mill

ideas about economic theory and in doing so, he arrived at the conclusion that "conventional economic analysis could not show that...

War's Realities and Poetry

be born of patriotism and love for their country, as there are few things that would inspire the soldiers to put up with such bad ...