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Nineteenth Century Patriarchy and Kate Chopin

This essay is on nineteenth century writer Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour." The position presented is that this n...

Slavery and Reform in West Africa by Trevor Getz

This book review is on Trevor Getz's Slavery and Reform in West Africa: Toward Emancipation in Nineteenth-century Senegal and the ...

Life of an Ordinary Woman by Anne Ellis

This book reviews is on "Life of an Ordinary Woman," an autobiography by Anne Ellis. The author describes her childhood experience...

Self Through the Ages

This essay offers evaluation of how conceptualization of the self changed over the centuries, using the works of Vergil, Hobbes an...

Christianizing the Roman Empire by Ramsay MacMullen

This book review discusses the motivations described by MacMullen that propelled conversion to Christianity during its early centu...

Prince Among Slaves by Terry Alford

This book review is on Terry Alford's text Prince Among Slaves. which relates the biography of Ibrahima, an African prince who was...

Imagery in Two Short Stories by Kate Chopin

This essay describes how Kate Chopin, a nineteenth century female author ahead of her time, utilized imagery in writing the "Desir...

Modern Women, Feminism, and the Heroines of Madame Bovary, The Scarlet Letter, and Pride and Prejudice

This paper examines the feminist aspects of these nineteenth century novels in a comparative analysis of Emma Bovary, Hester Prynn...

Majority Rule, Tocqueville, Olsen

This essay refers to the writing of contemporary author Theodore Olsen and nineteenth century author Alexis de Tocqueville to argu...

Native American v Puritan Mindset

This paper reviews the seventeenth century accounts by Mary Rowlandson and Increase Mather. Rowlandson was held captive by Native...

"The Story of an Hour," Effect of Patriarchy

This essay pertains to "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin. The writer presents the argument that the principal point that Chopi...

Southern Slave Codes

first chapter, Goodell describes slavery as defined by the laws of various southern states; here we read things like this: "LOUISI...

Movies/Then & Now

theater environment, that is most often accused of encouraging crime. Then, as now, the majority of the people ignored the naysaye...

Changes in Educational Paradigms and Curricula During the Twentieth Century

there is the idea that knowledge underlies the thinking. Rsenick & Hall (1998) explain: "In every field of thought, cognitive scie...

"Around the World in 80 Days" as a Guide to 19th Century Globalization

a deck steward on a tramp steamer. The film points out quite nicely the fact that the book really is a travelogue, with each episo...

Economic Bubbles

that flows. The crashes can result in large levels of wealth being destroyed and the potential for the crash to cause a depression...

“The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century”

use of both primary and secondary sources are used throughout the book and the message if the interdependent link between imperial...

Gunther/Death Be Not Proud

A 3 page book review of John Gunther's memoir of his son's illness and death. The title of this book is drawn from John Donne's Me...

The Growth of the Coca Cola Company

does in its own country. At present, Coca Cola is a company that has locations in two hundred countries ("Coca Cola," 2006). It ...

Tobacco Industry

any number of physical ailments, including halitosis and lockjaw throughout Europe (ASH, 2006; Randall, 1999). Sir Frances Drake ...

The Idea of the U.S. Constitution

(States of human nature). Now lets look at the Constitution. The Preamble sets out the purpose of the document clearly: We the p...

Rauchway/Murdering McKinley

that Roosevelt succeeded in causing the majority of Americans and many historians to forget about McKinley in the wake of Roosevel...

Erasmus/Praise of Folly

has purpose and meaning. The second profession that Folly castigates as they weave "six hundred laws together" in order to contr...

The Development of Libraries

carefulness of life and beauty, isnt that high...

19th Century Ideology and Theater

In five pages this paper discusses theater and ideology of the 19th century. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

The Reconquista and the Spanish Explorers

most of Spain was united; the exception was Navarre, "which remained separate until 1512" (Reconquista, 2006). Spain, like most c...

Early 20th Century Historical Contributions of the Average Female

significant impact from the colonial period forward, and which have actually altered the course of American history, particularly ...

British Industrial Revolution, Its Causes, and Impact

In five pages this research paper makes reference to Industry and Empire by E.J. Hobsbawm in an examination of the late 18th centu...

William Morris and Baudelaire

The two authors Baudelaire and Morris are compared and contrasted in this context of this thoughtful analysis. Social atmosphere a...

American Humor of the Early 20th Century

In five pages this research paper examines the social changes that occurred in America during the early portion of the 20th centur...