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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...

Horror Cinematic Genre

horror film, according to director Elias Merhige, "The horror film transforms itself, adapting to our fears, to the things that we...

21st Century Significance of COBOL

(2002). In 1985, ANSI went on to create another revised version that contained new features, but that was not the end of it as t...

Roberto Clemente

of his own family. Clementes natural athletic gifts were apparent at an early age, and by 17, "Momen," as he was called by family...

The History of COBOL in American Business

COBOL is a high-level programming language developed decades ago. Once the standard for dealing with masses of complex data, it is...

Women Doctors

and early 1900s found it a particularly difficult career to pursue because of the prejudice against a woman doctor. She seems som...

American Immigration Theories

(Handlin 75). This was also the reason, although Handlin doesnt state it as such, that immigrants tended to feel more comfortable ...

Increased Crime Rate in England During the 19th Century

In eleven pages this paper considers the crime increase in England during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the crime re...

Capitalism and Europe in the 20th Century

barbarism. Capitalism was at the forefront of crisis during this catastrophic period. Of the primary players that subjecte...

Teens and Negative Influence of Music

from this close, intact family, there is certainly a lack of discipline. The lax attitude towards the children is indicative of a ...

Maria Izquierdo, Mexican Painter

children (Farris 149). However, maintaining home and hearth did not provide sufficient stimulus for a passionate woman like Maria...

Free Trade and Cuba

mineral base which includes cobalt, nickel, iron ore, copper, manganese, salt, timber, and silica(Cuba, 2002). Most of what is exp...

Nora Helmer in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen'

more of a servant to her husband than a partner. Policies, both domestic and economic, were set by the husband, and the wife acte...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Conflict Between Man and God

up in a "freethought household" (Madigan 48) and her mother had already written about womens rights while her father "a noted Util...

The Transformation of China in Modern Times

for China to modernize, inasmuch as the fundamental essence of modernization is to improve upon what has existed in the past. The...

The Pope's Elephant by Bendini

were reaped. There did seem to be an exercise of wealth and power due more to the consequence of their trading empires in non-Eur...

Alexander Pope's 'Epistle to Burlington'

the expense of building the latest craze in architecture -- "...to punish awkward pride,/ Bids Bubo build, and send him such a gu...

Nineteenth Century Actors Edwin Forrest and Edwin Thomas Booth

plays. "In the Midwest from 1800 to 1840, Shakespeares plays were more frequently staged than those of any other dramatist. After ...

Child Abuse History and Definition

Journal of Psychohistory, deMauses story tells a story of thousands of years of crimes against children, ranging from infanticide ...

Dante Alighieri's Inferno Canto X

who retained power in Florence under Frederick II decided to expand their society, incorporating the merchant or middle class, kno...

Racial Inferiority Concept

are more characterized by segregation than by integration in their natural state. It is only when we introduce the formal organiz...

Indians by Arthur Kopit

putting on a play for the President and the First Lady is obviously designed to make the viewer angry (i.e. this is the "most piss...

World Music of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

common between music of the world. The student can, for example, quote musicologist Bruno Nettl and his works, that basically stat...

British Imperialism and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

of it was wiped out during the 1800s and 1900s. Things Fall Apart is the story of Okonkwo, an ambitious...

'Women and Economics A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution,' 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

that females should function in subordinate and often demeaning roles in comparison with men (Readers Companion to American Histor...

Economic Dependence and Latin America

true, several attempts to colonise the countries of Latin America through military intervention: however, since these were for the...

Hamlet's Dilemma and the Audience's Response

three types of characters - one who to be killed, one to kill, and one to avenge the killer (89). For audiences during the early ...

Teens and Music's Influence

Manson is perhaps the most controversial performer today, with his flaunting of sexuality and attention to violence. Manson is ...

Microwave Invention

by Dr. Percy Spencer of the Raytheon Corporation to have the capability of melting certain objects (UCSB, 2002). When Dr. Spencer...

Concept of the Divine Right Of Kings

to Grotius more humane perspective was that of Jacques-Benigne Bossuets, who "reinforced medieval notions of kingship in his theor...