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Women's Suffrage and the 19th Amendment

In five pages this paper examines the women's suffrage debate both in support and opposition and how the movement eventually led t...

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...

Florida and Women in Power

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

Standardized State Educational Testing Issues Confronting a High School Principal

In seven pages this paper examines such issues as standardized testing preparation criticism, pressure to raise student scoring, a...

2 Contemporary Issues Confronting Our Country

just too large a bureaucracy to be able to deal with the myriad problems the people face today that cause them to turn to drugs or...

Formidable Issues Confronting Kenya's Constitution

be accomplished through a land commission; * Establish courts that operate on Christian and other non-Muslim religious principles ...

New York Tenements and How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis

fate of those who were underneath, so long as it was able to hold them there and keep its own seat" (Riis, 1971,5)....

'Englishness' and the Occult in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

some contrasting views of Englishness and attitudes about colonialism in their respective uses of the occult/supernatural. One te...

Yellow Wallpaper & Female Marginalization

century and also well into the twentieth, what historian Barbara Welter refers to as the "Cult of True Womanhood" characterized ho...

Southern Slave Codes

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

"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...

Prison and the Problems Confronting Women Who Are Incarcerated

the same degree of health care as is the rest of the community. The article focuses on a prison medical care study that was done b...

Comparative Analysis of the Paintings of Claude Lorraine and Joseph Mallord William Turner

along with the request that his "Dido Building Carthage" and "Sun Rise Through Vapor" be displayed alongside Claudes "Seaport with...

NJ Railroads' and How They Originated

did have ties to the railroad industry ("NJ Governors," 2003). South Orange is another example of a long-established suburb whos...

Nineteenth Century City Planning

which commenced in July 1909 with over three hundred principal citizens taking the position, was created as a means by which to "e...

Capitalism Perspectives of the 19th Century

(2002) demonstrates what capitalism is all about as it portrays the rising form of government in this brilliant novel. The protago...

Abraham Cahan's The Rise of David Levinsky

was very young, so young in fact that he had only a couple of fleeting memories of him. His mothers life was hard yet she managed...

Thousand Pieces of Gold by Ruthanne Lum McCunn

Chinese woman (in the area)," and therefore, she was also "an attraction that (would) bring men, Chinese and white, from miles aro...

Europe During the 19th Century and National Consciousness

its own flavor, identity and special talents. Additionally, leaders want their members to adhere to the rules of the government, a...

Treatment Delivery Systems and Addiction Treatment History

deemed insane but they did try to keep inebriates out of their institutions (2002). Dr. Thomas Kirkbride explained in 1840 why h...

Oregon Trail and Education

(2003). While not formal, the education was something for the children to hang onto. Obviously, the reason why formal education co...

Modern Architectural Movement

the past. Nonconformity now took over as the leading force, with cultural retrospection becoming all but obsolete (Berman PG). N...

Christianity Expansion

points of doctrine, particularly in regards to controversy over whether Judaic custom was still applicable to Christians. Missiona...

Paris and London: Late 19th Century Urban Planning

cramped conditions had lead to many social ills. The changes were not made over night, but the aspects of change can be seen in th...

French Composer Charles Gounod's Life and Music

1937). Gounod was equally gifted in art and for a time seemed torn between the two but a musical epiphany he had at age 13 would ...

Gangs of New York Film and New York Gangs of the Nineteenth Century

gangs" ("Gangs," 2003). Rival gangs include the Irish and the Natives, two groups that were usually present, but again, not the on...

Women's Right to Vote Movement Success

status quo in order to embrace her own intellectual redoubt ("The feminism," 1998). In the 1850s, the vote was really the only co...

Minority Men and Women and the Obstacles That Confront Them

the still stringent attitude society takes in relation to minority women in the workplace. The rumblings of gender inequity were ...

The Socioeconomic and Cultural Impacts of Apartheid in Africa

that was operative in the time of the lynchings during the 1800s and 1900s. Rather than seeing a group mentality or a societal ...

Late 19th Century European Imperialism

see how there were many commonalities. Many of the gains made by Britain were focused on the African continent. The desire...