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Royall Tyler/The Contrast

fianc? was away, Maria restricted her social contacts, read a great many books and focused on letters from Dimple. Letitia explain...

The Position of Women in "Hamlet" and "To the Lighthouse"

Ramsay is not really a monster, but he is an autocrat who is cold and so detached from his family that he doesnt seem to realize h...

"A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell

This essay pertains to Susan Glaspell's " A Jury of Her Peers." The writer argues that Glaspell provides a scathing social critiqu...

Classical Greek Polis and Women

In five pages this paper discusses the Greek polis, gender ideals, and changes that led to the Hellenistic era as described by a b...

Housework and The Role of Women

the amount of time spent on household and family chores, which remained twice the level of the men (ABS Australian Social Trends, ...

Language as a Key to Inner Landscapes

another persons mind and perception. We each live isolated lives with only language as a bridge to understanding the worldview and...

Queen Gertrude and Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet

thrown into chaos. The roles of Gertrude and Ophelia within the plays construct were painstakingly designed by the Bard to reflec...

Gender, Women, and 2 Plays by William Shakespeare

the perspective of the other characters, they are acting as men, not women. This scenario is intriguing for its points out, within...

Octavia Butler's Dawn, Xinogenesis

In five pages this science fiction novel is examined in terms of the relationships between genetically altered aliens and the huma...

Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan

as adjuncts of male society, defined through the male gaze and the male cultural perspective....

Gawain & Green Knight/Wife of Bath

the entirety of those present that one of them should strike the Green Knight with the ax, which he has brought as a gift, and tha...

Romance in the Sense of Medieval Debt and Obligation

of the debt and obligations that put opposing pressures on it, sending it reeling toward its inevitable conclusion--calamity. ...

Medieval Italian History and Literature

points out that "communal Italy" is "historians shorthand for the high urbanized areas of Lombardy and Tuscany between the twelfth...

Medieval Art: The Arch Angel Michael Diptych

sculptures that were produced during this time, none were more magnificent than The Archangel Michael as he was depicted on a sixt...

Role of Paul in Early Church/Early Russian History

is primarily tied to their being a Slavic people. The author indicates that the Slavs settled "beside the Danube, where the Hungar...

Why Bilateral Talks Should Resume Between the United States and North Korea

upset about the war and foreign policy on the whole. But there had been another way of looking at things. One view which is someth...

Art and the Civil War Era

they played no role in politics. Middle class and wealthy women, particularly married middle class and wealthy women, however, pl...

Art and Recruitment: World War I, Flagg, and Christy

This was all before he had received any formal training in the arts other than his studies at the Art Students League in New York ...

Changes in America, 1877-1900

the cities were no longer small enough to be "walking cities" (Chapter 19, 2005). In addition, in a move that we still see today, ...

Medieval Women

"bodily integrity" on women are simply not present. Likewise, in regards to formal written statutes that pertain to the possession...

Jacksonian Era Congressman James Israel Standifer

In five pages the tremendous influence exerted by this little known congressman during the Jacksonian era is examined. Three sour...

Women's Rights in America

This paper examines women's rights in America during the antebellum and progressive eras in a contrasting and comparison of Declar...

Analysis of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and Its Impact Upon Colonial America

In five pages this paper discusses the legal and political effects on America during the colonial era as a result of Great Britain...

Mythology and Women

represent the important roles of women. The contrast between mythological women and mythological men represents the complexity of...

A Summary of The Song of Roland (Chanson de Roland)

it is possible that the poet telling "The Song of Roland" was using the character of Charlemagne to represent Christianity as it m...

Free Black Men and the Reconstruction in South Carolina

if the South were to win, those in the Confederate states would succumb to the ongoing imprisonment of slavery. It appeared as th...

Marriage Medieval Style in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

In five pages this paper compares how medieval marriage and women's roles were depicted in 'The Nun's Tale,' 'The Wife of Bath's T...

A History of Jews in America

She corresponded with Grace Aguilar, a Jewish British theologian; Fanny Kemble, a British actress; Catherine Sedgwick, an American...

The Progress of Love by Jean Honore Fragonard

In seven pages this paper examines Fragonard's life and times and considers how he uniquely depicted the rituals of courtship that...

The Unvanquished by William Faulkner and Perceptions of Southern Women's Roles

Northerners make such a big deal out of something that wasnt originally a big deal to Southerners at all. Bayards Granny, like man...