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Identity and Gender Reflections in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and Kate Chopin's The Awakening

it threatened who she was as a member of the white race and the upper classes. Therefore, it can be seen that Ednas desire to pa...

Bleak House by Charles Dickens and the Supernatural

In five pages this paper examines how supernatural and ghosts were perceived by society during the 19th century in an analysis of ...

Mid 19th Century Japan

boom in both economic and political strength. As the twenty-first century began, Japan had new and stifling issues to deal with: ...

Nineteenth Century European Urbanization

so overpowering, that many cities could not keep pace with the demands and problems such as "lack of sanitation, accumulation of s...

Horror Cinematic Genre

horror film, according to director Elias Merhige, "The horror film transforms itself, adapting to our fears, to the things that we...

Adolphe by Benjamin Constant

narrative. Eventually, however, he rejects her, and the pain of this separation results in her death. Instead of prospering, now t...

'Women and Economics A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution,' 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

that females should function in subordinate and often demeaning roles in comparison with men (Readers Companion to American Histor...

Economic Dependence and Latin America

true, several attempts to colonise the countries of Latin America through military intervention: however, since these were for the...

American and Apache Wars

lived by hunting and fishing; they diversified into many different climatic regions and separated into a number of discrete societ...

US Catholic Revivalism

Dolans work is particularly concerned with looking at Catholic history from a standpoint which does rely solely on a narrow eccles...

Romantic Fiction's Gothic Genre

are generally seen as common to the Gothic novel, including a medieval or pseudo-medieval setting, a solitary protagonist and a se...

Lombroso and Criminal Behavior

a sensation with his book that was published in 1876 ("Cesare," 2001). In the work, the doctor utilized Darwinian principals of ev...

The Historical Context of All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

poetry, essays, stories and novels from men who had never envisioned themselves as literary artists. From their painful wartime e...

South Africa's Development and the Impact of the Boer Wars

and the British Empire - black people were also involved at all levels of the war and this in itself had a salient effect on the w...

Piano's Development

loud" (History of the Piano...Grover). In its shape and general construction, it resembled a harpsichord, however, there were ma...

Literature and Evolution Theory

a theory that was unmarred by economics. (Hartman, 1999). In essence, Peirce appears to have been saying that nineteenth century...

Expansionism of the U.S., Italy, and Germany During the 19th Century

there was considerable fractionation between the people. The young United States also faced the problem of enlarging her territor...

Classical Themodynamics Topic Critique

more extended its range of applicability. Therefore the deep impression which classical thermodynamics made on me. It is the onl...

19th Century Race and Gender in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

In five pages this essay examines 19th century race and gender as it is represented within this slave narrative. Two sources are ...

Whitman, Emerson, Thoreau and American Individualism

printed word. He said that, "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it." This may not speak well to the concept of cur...

Early Modern Great Britain and Violence

In seven pages this paper discusses the marked increase in violent crime in 19th century Great Britain. Five sources are cited in...

Books on Catholic Revivalism Contrasted

In five pages this research paper compares and contrasts Madonna of 115th Street by Robert Orsi and Catholic Revivalism by Jay P. ...

19th Century Latin America Involvement of Russia

The Latin American trading colonies established by Czarist Russia during the 19th century are examined in 10 pages with the impact...

Nineteenth Century Imperialism and the Global Impact of the Industrial Revolution

by private individuals, who naturally placed their own needs over those of their workers. Kevin Reilly (1989) observed in his tex...

Colonial Powers and Gender Differences

outwards. When we look at this time we can see that there was already a change, the loss of colonial power was...

Ninteenth Century Women in Anton Chekhov's 'The Lady With the Dog' and Kate Chopin's 'The Story of an Hour'

by curiosity, I wanted something better" (Chekhov). However, the better life that she imagined did not materialize with her marria...

Alice Cary's 'The West Country' Poem

"The West Country" from an operative structure standpoint, it is perhaps even more useful to analyze this poem from a thematic sta...

Dark Suspense Elements in Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Cask of Amontillado'

Dark suspense elements are the focus of this comparative analysis of two 19th century great American short stories in five pages. ...

19th Century America Racial Issues and the Chinese Exclusion Act

the impact which this had upon Chinese immigrants, in terms of both race and gender, it is useful to look briefly at the history o...

Overview of Political Machines and Immigrants

As a matter of a fact, for a time, it did appear that a new age might be dawning for the political machine because of the dire nee...