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predominant mindset of manifest destiny that set the stage for the many abhorrent actions that were yet to unfold in Native/White ...

romances, and their association with violence discloses the cultural anxieties about nation-making. Samuels reads the figure of wo...

he is absolute appalled that Sissy does not know the scientific definition for "horse," and that his own children have been tempte...

feature the vivid natural imagery that characterizes her sensuous and deeply passionate works of Romantic fiction. These storie...

the beginning of the novel? Why does Edna not try to follow the same path as her artistic mentor, Mm. Reisz, who lives the indepen...

to move to the back, and when he refused, would go to court. The court essentially ruled against Plessy, rendering segregation val...

not explicitly intended to depict any concrete object or situation, but rather seeks to create a "mood or atmosphere," which elici...

The cultural bias against education for women was so severe in the eighteenth century that Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), note...

is one that ties the two brothers together, although neither one of them realizes it. Each fears his own cowardice and has to ov...

the means of doing so were very circumscribed; it usually meant they had to go into service. Women rarely worked at any sort of oc...

in American culture, despite her pro-immigration sentiments, which were directly opposed to the anti-immigration public feeling of...

Hate their job? Something drove them out of the workforce with inadequate resources, so they will have to determine if they want t...

addition, many women owned businesses; they worked as "apothecaries, barbers, blacksmiths, sextons, printers, tavern keepers and m...

group were extremely poor. Ireland was a land of peasants with a high unemployment rate, and those who boarded the ships for Ameri...

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

and suggests several avenues for further research; it also draws quite a clear picture of the difficulties many of the farm famili...

also examines some possible solutions. Clarkson points out that other writers, in addition to Grada, have been appalled at the fac...

Canada is made up of various regions with different needs and interests. Industries tend to form where there is a need. It would b...

developed, even barbaric (Ferro, 1997). This was true within the then US, there had been the perception of the Native Americans as...

known life without industrialization. At the same time he was a man who reflected the dreams and ideals and hopes of his people fo...

the theory of survival of the fittest (AllPsych, 2003). Basing his thoughts on Darwin, Galton, in 1869, argued "that intellectual ...

took until 1791 for the states to agree on the ten that have endured (Mount, 2005). However, as needs arose, and different concern...

before was not freer to gain access to. The use of moveable types was a move towards homogeneity. McLuhan states; "the world of v...

novel awakens in the future, the year 2000, and at this time Bellamy pictures a utopian state that was achieved by the abandonment...

society as we know it and, furthermore, the end of Western civilization in the process. His vision of the "Death of the West" is f...

This essay pertains to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's nineteenth century gothic novel Frankenstein and the allusions that Shelley m...

This essay offers summaries and comparisons between the autobiographical narratives of African American nineteenth century preache...

This research paper offers a comprehensive overview of editorial cartoons that were published during the late nineteenth and early...

This essay presents the argument that "The Yellow Walllpaper," a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman should be interpreted as ...

This essay pertains to two women characters, Eliza Harris and Marie St. Clare, who are featured in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The wrier ...