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Equal Pay

The past molds and conditions us yet few of us have an understanding of women's struggle for equality. Beginning in the early- to ...

American Liberty, 1820-1877, Overview of Issues

This research paper/essay discusses various issues in American history pertaining to liberty. This includes the factors that led u...

Zora Neale Hurston's 'The Gilded Six Bits' and Alice Walker's 'Everyday Use'

are putting their own histories together, and finding out about who they really are. Mamas relationship with her two daugh...

Self and Suppressing Black Feminist Thought

Jacobs offers a depiction of slavery life that mirrors the inherent struggle women faced at the hands of their while slave owners....

Ancient Kemet and the Role of Women

the concepts of order and harmony rendered ancient Kemet a strong and prosperous society: very long-lived civilization; very prosp...

African American Social Contributions of bell hooks, Alice Walkler, and Betty Friedan

each womans strength is varied among these tales, they share a common thread of power felt from down within ones very being. It i...

African American Writers/On Each Other

"this beautiful/and terrible thing," which human beings find as "needful a air" and as "usable as earth," will finally belong to b...

Analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's Works

indicates, be associated "with the sentimental writers of his time and earlier." When a reader stops to consider how much death is...

Literary Critique: The "Ancient Mariner" and "Great Expectations"

brought there. Pip tells of this meeting in a calm voice, almost serene, but his powers of observation are acute. He describes th...

Deciphering Gertrude Stein

reputation as a modern writer, and her influence was extensive. Stein was profoundly dependent on her brother Leo after their par...

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx and Silas Marner by George Eliot

one way or another, and men who perhaps want something more out of life. With Quoyle we have a man who moves to Newfoundland an...

Women and the Lure of Work During the Second World War

In 7 pages this paper examines the government's campaign propaganda designed to get women into the workplace during the Second Wor...

Order and Chaos in Homer's 'Odyssey' and the Epic of Gilgamesh

In five pages this paper examines the relationship between order and chaos within the context of these two classical literary work...

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe Compared

In six pages these famous literary works are compared. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

Seneca's On Noise and Plutarch's A Consolation to His Wife

that as long as the noise is a sort of general background roar, he can ignore it, but when he can make out individual voices, it b...

Rosie the Riveter and Second World War Working Women

workers were needed during this time and it seems as though men were not willing to do the hard work with little pay. The reasons ...

Sixteenth Century Abandoned Wife Bertrande de Rols

precludes any acknowledgement of anyone outside of the upper classes of any society, however. The "common people" receive little ...

Florida and Women in Power

property holders voted from 1691 to 1780. The Continental Congress debated the woman-suffrage movement question at length, decidi...

Galleries and Wings of a Trip to New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art Described V

An exhibit reaction paper of two pages considers the various African, Asian, Greek, and Roman wings and galleries of NYC's Metropo...

The Civil Rights Era and its Impact upon African American Poetry

endured by Black People during various eras. Research I uncovered focuses much on the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Poets, an...

Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor

This paper consists of five pages and discusses how black women's experiences are captured in Naylor's book Women of Brewster Plac...

James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex Colored Man, Nella Larsen's Passing, and Lynching

married to a very successful doctor who wishes to leave the country and find a place where they are not oppressed. Irene, however,...

Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison and the Use of Linguistics

under the chinaberry tree until its over: "... while inside she knew the cold river was creeping up and up to extinguish that eye ...

Community in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow

in a celebration that includes dances that are a tribute to the "Old People," an annual tribute to ancestors. Avey is deeply moved...

Jesus' Attitude Toward Women Versus Paul's Attitude

their contributions are told in any great detail. Then Jesus began His ministry and it is clear even from the short tales that His...

Marriage in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales -Merchant and Wife of Bath

A paper comparing and contrasting the views of marriage by two of Chaucer's characters in The Canterbury Tales, the Merchant and t...

India's Workplace and Women

This paper on India's workplace considers the discrimination and poor working conditions women face with the Self Employed Women's...

Women's Roles in 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

In 6 pages this paper analyzes how women's roles in these works by Homer reflect the cultural perceptions of women in ancient Gree...

Gender Roles and African Women in African and French Literature

This paper examines the depiction of African Women in Camara Laye's The Dark Child and Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood in fiv...

American Women's Movement and the Impact of the Second World War

women. Working outside the home was not an easy task for married women with children. Mary T. Norton, congresswoman from New Je...